Using ICE to SWAT your MAGA neighbors. Sounds appealing. Also, a sentence that made no sense 20 years ago.

Add a fountain pen! You’ll enjoy it.

Was it MapInfo?

Hey. Thanks for checking in.

Back in March, I got a job at an AI company. Really great benefits. Paying my bills. I work with great people.

A future that never was.

Scale. BBS users numbered in the dozens at best. Usenet boards had up to a hundred or so. Etc.

That this doesn’t happen is proof that we never invent time travel.

I have an old surplus QNAP. I love it. Very capable, easy to setup, easy to use it and forget about it. Mine is set up for RAID5.

Be certain to get a reliable UPS for it. And have a spare drive on hand.

Far too often, “deep talk” online devolves into an ideological slugfest. What has become rare is Listening and Empathizing. Asking a question that illustrates a certain perspective becomes a debate point and then a bitter disagreement. It’s civility that’s in decline. IMO.

“I am ignorant and combative. Debate me.”

This is a plot point in Neuromancer. The AI recruits the Rastafarians by playing a “righteous dub”.

Back to Solipsism. Anything can be argued in the ways you mention, eliminating all possible knowledge of both self and reality. A non productive dead end of philosophy.

The OP was asking for personal reasons for believing what we believe. And that exact reasoning is what brought me out of panpsychism. Just my truth and not a commentary on yours.

The sun can be a large lamp. That’s still real.

My point is that if universal personal experience doesn’t prove something, you may be in the philosophical weeds.

Good on you. I’m happy that you’re happy.

I’m over 60. I’ve explored many belief systems. Eastern and Western, including panpsychism. I came to believe that reality is what is shown to be real. That inventing additional unseeable and unprovable forces and aspects only complicate my reverence for the “Is”. But age and experience are not indicators of truth. I’ve also learned that much. So I continue to listen and offer guidance to those that may be aided. If I offend, it is unintentional.

I really don’t care how you reach your morals. Only that they lead you to respect others (even in their folly) and breed kindness.

Namaste.

You are correct and don’t deserve the down votes.

Also, The God Delusion.

It’s only one more small step to atheism. By looking at how tortured the language you use is. And realizing that the effect is the same with less steps.

Plus real honesty and good intentions.