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by 0134340 6y ago
>A comment is not 'propaganda'. If you're going for intellectual honesty, "a comment can be propaganda." But in this case it has been as propaganda if going by the typical definition of "the systematic propa
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>When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.” That quote is deceptive though and and it's sometimes used, as in your case, to push religious pr
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>fill the void left by the lack of traditional societal structures that people used to find meaning in life Or maybe they're finding meaning in the void that traditional structures couldn't fill.
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Autonomous cars do so when you're in a public space. And by pixels, you could make that same reductive argument when violating anyone's private space via digital or physical, that it's only pixels, bits, molecules, etc. Don&#
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by 0134340 6y ago
>symmetry of time Time isn't symmetric. "Since the second law of thermodynamics states that entropy increases as time flows toward the future, in general, the macroscopic universe does not show symmetry under time reversal.&quo
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Dorion Sagan (Yes, Carl Sagan's son) also covers this in his book Into The Cool. That life is only a force multiplier in increasing it universally, basically.
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>"Everything just always was" Or it wasn't and came into existence with a 'big bang'. So how did it come into existence? There's no scientific or religious answer for it. You'll still be skirting the qu
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>then there must have been a time where it went from zero to non-zero. Take a step towards the door. On the next step, take half that step. Keep taking half the step as before and you'll never get to the door. Perhaps the multi&#x2F
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Recessions aren't "normal times". Despite externalities, whether economic abnormalities, pandemics and so on, it still hits the savings account the same and worth comparing for history's sake.
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by 0134340 6y ago
Ah, google and their hapless hardware updates accidentally spying on users, killing my friend's and others Nexus phones as well as my own Nexus Player (oops!). No more Google hardware for me.
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by 0134340 6y ago
That immediately came to my mind also. Apparently it's due to a variation of the MC1R gene which according to what I've read here, fourth paragraph [0], both developed independently of one another. Fascinating. 0) https:/&#x
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by 0134340 6y ago
This also happened with many people's Nexus Players, a Roku/Firestick competitor, myself included. It's co-developed by both Google and Asus. Of course after the update bricked them Google tried to blame Asus and put it on th
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>For that time in history, it could be argued that the decision made sense. Japanese subs did shell the US mainland, and Japanese-Americans in Hawaii did help a Japanese aircrew try to escape after Pearl Harbor. Japan planned to return t
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You may not legally be held liable though in many cases you can. It's a common trope within law and I'd guess derived from common sense that if you host illegal content then you are therefore bound to scrutiny for potentially enab
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by 0134340 6y ago
Someone correct me if wrong but I think phone co's can get away with it as they're deemed an information carrier instead of a host. Besides, calls and texts are rather benign, it's visual media that tends to attract the most
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by 0134340 6y ago
Really, even though the platform you're using voluntarily chooses what you're allowed to post, as with almost all online platforms? Besides that, you're framing this wrong. If I host a platform as I host you in my house, I ha
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by 0134340 6y ago
Bernie isn't trying to solve a problem, more correct it. Why fault the people for trying to correct a problem that's more to their advantage when hospitals, to this day, still haven't tried to correct the problem of expenses.
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by 0134340 7y ago
>does this not put a pretty big nail into reductionist scientific worldviews It's just generalized enough to be vaguely descriptive, not prescriptive, at least not yet. And I don't think it ever will because just as we have bio
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by 0134340 7y ago
I don't disagree with the proclamation here but can't say I agree with the result. The economy is tied to productivity and without productivity we're doomed to be stuck on an earth that will eventually stop existing, no matte
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by 0134340 7y ago
That sounds similar to what I arrived to when I became somewhat obsessed with the topic yet admittedly lacking much knowledge about it. Lookup hormesis (basically life needing some amount of chaos to keep it strong) or 10th man rule, there&
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by 0134340 7y ago
Probably no more dangerous than free will beliefs because as with some determinist beliefs, it's moderated by thinking life is dictated by a greater order, see Calvinism or the many determinsts who aren't "dangerous" as
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by 0134340 7y ago
I agree with most of your reply but imposing a contentious philosophy upon others wouldn't go well nor would I want to condone it. I'm not very determined to believe in determinism but I do and it doesn't change my views on p
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by 0134340 7y ago
Speaking as someone who used to worry about people so much, even those large degrees from my circle, that I'd drag myself down to very depressive episodes, I can see how some amount of psychopathy would be selected evolutionarily. Besi
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Sigur Ros is like magic. Bon Iver almost has that same effect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T0cHQb39GY
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by 0134340 7y ago
I get that music can be calming but also agree, I've had the issue before and I've heard it called 'relaxation anxiety' or something. Like a baby trying to fight their sleep, when things feel too calm it can be unnerving
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by 0134340 7y ago
>So even though Neandertals had a more advanced brain I'm aware that it's accepted Neandertals might've been as capable in many areas of survival, however I'm not aware that it's been accepted they had more advan
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by 0134340 7y ago
>Unlike computers, cells like to do their own thing As an ex-repair tech, I can't applaud this comment.
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>Posting information about someone One of the biggest problems is that anyone can make up the same username anywhere online and use it in false flag attempts to harm someone's reputation and the dramaqueens at Kiwifarm don't ca
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by 0134340 7y ago
One advantage they don't discuss is perhaps lack of toxicity. I used to do Carpentry during summer break and sometimes we'd burn scraps for heat. I was advised not to throw treated lumber into the pile as it's toxic so this w
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by 0134340 7y ago
Which was created by work and the by-product of that work is more entropy if not locally but elsewhere in the system. The laws of thermodynamics yield for no one. At least not yet.

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