AntiImperialis2

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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
> the view seems quite unhinged when read together, but really I would view it as one misstep/lack of step on the way to interesting truth. Why "unhinged"? I don't know philosophy and English is not my language but I
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
>There is absolutely a solid sense of morality baked into (at the very least) primate brains. No, there isn't. > Give this a read. The science is solid: https://righteousmind.com/ "The Righteous Mind: Why G
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
> Emotions are how we humans do morality. First of all, there is no such thing as "morality". It's just a way for elites to control commoners so that they behave in predictable ways. Emotions are responses that help us le
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
In everything it does? Most poor people vote liberal but NONE of the leaders are poor. Knowing this, it makes political sense for them to keep the people poor. What will their priorities be when data shows that people who get out of poverty
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
No they aren't. More new religions and sects are being created than ever before. Also, just because you believe your set of looney beliefs is not a religion does not mean that it's any different from any other religion.
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
I'm sure they've made some contributions but I'm not sure if they've done "wonders". But thats the beauty of the BSD license. Not only do you have freedom to use the software, you also have freedom to not give
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
Except everything is "poison" in a big enough dose if ingested.
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
Committed experts are basically activists, they are people with grandiose delusions who think that particular thing is so important that they committed their lives to it. Our bodies are full of "toxins". For example, our bones are
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
YT premium is free of ads that Google serves. But most YouTube shows are funded by other ads embedded in the shows themselves. I wish Ad Blockers could remove them. How hard would it be to implement an ad blocker browser extention to do it?
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
I don't remember if I've seen a coke ad in the last year but I'm pretty sure I bought at least 100 litres of it.
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
That's true. GPL2 is better for commercialization than GPL3 is. However, BSD, MIT, Apache are much much better than any GPL version, including AGPL.
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
Have you tried using OLEDs? I can't imagine how eInk would be different from an OLED on grayscale and low brightness settings... other than the fact that OLED will be better in terms of availability, refresh rates, response times, reso
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
Those traits persisted in us through all these hundreds of millions of years of evolution because those were the traits that helped us survive.
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
Because that would be against the site guidelines.
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
If you're building a hardware and have to ship it with an OS, Linux is the obvious choice for most... but the GPL licensing makes it very difficult for a lot others. There's a reason a lot of open source in recent years have avoid
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
So, you're discriminating against deaf people? Boy, you're going down big. You have no idea.
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
You can, if you wait long enough.
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
> Cooking is useful, rewarding and attractive. Not so much if you don't enjoy it. I love cooking occasionally. For example, I will spend a week trying to perfect a dish I just learned. I do it over and over everyday, trying differe
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
The reality that they have created for Foxconn workers is that they have a job that they would die than quit. It's that important to them. Why do you assume that it has to be Apple's fault that China is fucked up?
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
Remember folks, - Eating them: bad - Mutilating their genetials so that they behave well and you can call them your friend or child: good
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare-metal_server
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
Bare-metal refers to running on hardware directly (vs. running on VMs or the cloud). I'm interested to know what you thought it was.
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
That's true. Younger people seem to lean left. As they grow older, a lot of them start to lean conservative. My hypothesis is that when they are young and underdeveloped, they have incomplete understanding of the world, are prone to be
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
The closing line of the article: > Use the primitives that are there, when possible. Write what is simple, and natural, and human. I agree with this very much, but most of this article doesn't support this statement. Let's sta
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
> Why would vaccination increase the likelihood of new mutations, or mutations surviving better? Our immune systems are general enough to face a wide variety of viruses, infections and strains. When one is vaccinated, it gets prepared f
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
The strains being transmitted the most are likely to keep the host the most healthy for the longest time. However, this is only true in the LONG RUN, when different variants have played out for a while. In the short term, there could be a h
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
I suggest reading (or listening to) How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan. It's about psychedelics. I've gotten back the experience you're talking about when microdosing psilocybin... and it's not just limited to pro
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
I love how you're being downvoted here, for having a different opinion. My primary account got auto-shadow banned because I got so many downvotes that my karma went a lot below zero. With the risk of this account going the same way, I
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
You're looking at it from a very individualist perspective. In reality, genes don't belong to the individual, or a tribe or species for that matter. Genes belong to the ecosystem i.e. genes favor behavior which is good for the fit
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by AntiImperialis2 6y ago
> How does this not apply to other vaccines, which have clearly saved an astonishing number of lives, and have, almost without exception, not produced the kind of long-term existential threats to humanity you seem to be hinting at. It d

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