I agree, it could be a last resort when things like ghostery or such fail, but otherwise there's enough crap saturating the wires, no need to artificially inflate that

I like the theory where (one of) the "great filter(s)" is just the likelihood of a technologically advanced civilization emerging from a greedy society is just way more likely than from a complacent society. So at some point some creature somewhere gets some critical mass of tech fueled by greed, this leads to global domination (humans over animals, as well as europeans over their colonies).

Without the greed, there would not have been the technological advantage, but due to this same greed we now have weapons of mass destruction strong enough to wipe any semblance of intelligent life from the planet.

Of course this theory is very black and white (not to mention capitalistic). Perhaps a curious society is also an option to reach technological advantage but not global domination, but would such a society manage to become a Kardashev type I civilization by sharing rather than conquest?

So to directly answer your question: I think it's likely that someone would have enslaved most of the earth somehow, (which absolutely does not excuse it). It's surprisingly good that humans on average dislike the idea of slavery and colonisation now, so maybe we can build on top of that a society of curiosity and progress instead of one of war and a (literal) dead end.

Please elaborate?

YYYY-MM-DD gang rise up!

Re your latest edit "The fact none of you are able to give a 'yes or no' answer" is due to your shitty phrasing mostly. Especially the title "did you" is pretending that Ukraine lost already, and in general you're projecting a false dichotomy between Russia taking Ukraine or Ukraine taking everything back, while not losing against Russia is already winning (which is what Ukraine is doing)

That's weird

What does anatomically correct mean here? Should I switch to my alt account before searching?

I think it strongly detracts from the post. I basically skipped right to the comments without clicking the link because I'm assuming it's AI slop, and I'm hoping the comments are interesting.

Which is a colour named after the fruit iirc

Which is equally insane, no?

Fuck, imagine your kids dying from some (at that point) unknown and undetectable genetic disease, and getting thrown into jail on top of that.

All of these are intentionally inverted