The politicians are always talking about killing innocent people via wars, so I don't see the big difference
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So have horses
I agree, my anarcho-communist polycule is fun. And very queer.
There's probably more gen z here than you think
Yes, but at least European countries have more than 2 parties, making them more resilient. It also makes it easier to kick the fascists out of power after they got in.
Fascism is very much growing in Europe as well, but the situation is not as dire.
Or maybe it's time for realism, when USA is about to become a dictatorship?
It's like saying to "I'm sure you can find something to be optimistic about" when Hitler seized power in Germany. It's not really the right place or time.
It was never ridiculous, people just weren't able or willing to look into the future far enough. If someone said this would happen back in 2016 you'd be ridiculed.
And now look where we are.
The reason metric makes sense is because its standard, and 90% of the world uses it. Being the odd one out just causes problems in the long term, especially as we move towards a more globalized world.
I think it's fundamentally interesting to see other biology. Just look at us trying to catalogue every possible life on earth, no matter how mundane.
The thing is, out of a population of trillions (or even quadrillions as you say), you only need a few thousand to travel to the stars to colonize another planet. With how large the population is, that is bound to happen. Just like there were bound to be pioneers travelling to the new world to settle it, despite how dangerous the journey was. And how there will be pioneers to settle the moon or mars or further out.
And a civilization like that would absolutely send stuff to other star systems, if only for science, so most of the research for the journey would already be done. And this is assuming that a civilization wouldn't want ever greater quantities of resources for ever greater projects, or access to other star systems for reasons we cannot fathom today (maybe neutron stars or black holes have some incredibly tempting uses? Or maybe there's some useful resources out in the galaxy that we have yet to discover?)
Basically, a successful civilization like that is bound to spread out, it's difficult to see scenarios where a successful civilization would be so homogenous in thought as for that to not happen. Amd then it's before we even get to sending AI probes to "colonize" space and gather data.
Because we see no evidence of a 4th spatial dimension. So if there is a fourth dimension, our universe doesn't seem to have access to it.
Once everything is set up properly it just works tbh. Meanwhile in windows updates broke something every other time.