"Dead" is an adjective, modifying the antecedent of "he", not an adverb modifying "is".
Contrast "he is well", where "well" modifies "is" as an adverb vs. "he is good" where "good" is an adjective modifying "he". There's no grammatic signifier which is which beyond the modifying word itself, so you need to see whether it's in adverb form or adjective form.
"he died" describes an action
"he was dead" describes a condition / state / quality
I'd abandon the growth mindset as actively hostile to both society and the environment and instead focus on quality, efficiency, and sustainability.
The best defense is avoidance. To that end, a personal time-travel / prognostication device that could both predict danger and chronoport you back to before danger was imminent would be the ultimate defense, though suppose not strictly a "weapon".
"Wrong" can mean so many things.
Removing misinformation isn't censorship, for example. Similar with removing off-topic threads or comments.
Removing illegal content is censorship if the law is unjust (eg. political dissent restrictions) but not if the law is just (eg. CSAM removal).
Removing immoral content is way dicier, because morality is not fully mapped, and what one person thinks is immoral might seem perfectly moral to another (eg. blasphemy or profane language). I personally would not removed content I found immoral unless it violated community standards, and would consider such removals an overreach but not censorship unless it was selectively targeted at an individual or group.
I guess by my lights to be censorship it has to be:
subjective
unjust
systematic
Removing something objectively incorrect or in the wrong place is not censorship. Removing something justly proscribed is not censorship.
Removing a thread when one viewpoint or group posts about it but not when another posts about it IS censorship.
"The buck stops here."
I feel like music, film, comedy, visual art, literature, all just keep getting better and better. I haven't seen anything I'd call a "peak".
We can set avatars for profiles? I don't even see avatars.
Are... are there people who think of that time as a cultural peak?
If that's the bar, then yeah, we've had at least one since then and are due for another soon.
muhummara - it's a dip, Syrian in origin, made from roasted red peppers enriched with walnut paste and sweetened with pomegranate molasses
it's amazing on fresh bread
I put some on a pita for my seven-year-old and told him it was pizza, he devoured it and asked for more
"urban" means city, not town
I did consider it in that light. This analysis is from the perspective of an observer, not the presiding body. Since the presiding body's reasoning cannot be known, we observers just look for patterns of removal to determine whether censorship is occurring. These are the pattern-markers I look for.