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by Inu 6y ago
Remember when Noam Chomsky argued for allowing Holocaust deniers to lecture at universities, so that students could make their own judgement and disproof absurd theories? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faurisson_affair
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by Inu 6y ago
>The closest I've found to making and keeping friends has been the FBI interrogation manual, which explains how police officers who would normally scare a suspect can get them to disclose intimate details of crimes. Sorry, but this
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A Short History of the World by H.G. Wells(bartleby.com)
1 points by Inu 7y ago|0 comments
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by Inu 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
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by Inu 7y ago
Anyone can break up a showing of an enemy propaganda film by putting two or three dozen large moths in a paper bag. Take the bag to the movies with you, put it on the floor in an empty section of the theater as you go in and leave it open.
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Transcendental Whistling(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by Inu 7y ago|0 comments
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Similarities between Neon Genesis Evangelion and Gravity's Rainbow(cydeweys.com)
6 points by Inu 7y ago|0 comments
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by Inu 7y ago
Well, here's how Karl Marx put it: "What, then, constitutes the alienation of labor? First, the fact that labor is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore, he does not
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by Inu 7y ago
One shouldn't forget that some practices that appear pseudo-scientific from today's point of view made sense historically: "It made perfect sense for ancient man to believe in astrology. The influence of sun and moon on earth
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by Inu 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17399340
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by Inu 7y ago
I'm 99% sure that I read an interview in which Anno said that he included the Christian symbolism simply because he thought it looked cool. Of course, that doesn't exclude the possibilty of it still making sense somehow.
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by Inu 7y ago
A different perspective: "Björnsson describes how Ok shrank rapidly during the 20th century, as shown by its area on various maps: 38 sq. Km. in 1901, 15 in 1910, 5 in 1945, and under one Km. in 2016. Most of this was before anthropog
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by Inu 7y ago
They already tried this kind of thing in the late 18th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk
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by Inu 7y ago
One shouldn't underestimate the intelligence of stupidity. It can have its own utility, strength and creativity within certain parameters.
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by Inu 7y ago
As others have pointed out, the original article features an ideological undercurrent that remains mostly implicit. I referred to another article of the same author which makes those ideological assumptions explicit, thereby clarifying his
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by Inu 7y ago
The author's answer to the question 'How do mainland Chinese feel about the protests in Hong Kong on the extradition law amendment?': https://www.quora.com/How-do-mainland-Chinese-feel-about-the...
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by Inu 7y ago
The rise of secularism probably is a factor. The social function of religion was to create a link between people and to regulate and control their coexistence. It provided a set of collective rituals, customs, festivities. Take that away an
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by Inu 8y ago
> I don't think anyone has considered Nietzsche a Nazi for a long time. A recent example would be Steven Pinker: "It’s easy to see why his sociopathic ravings would have inspired so many repugnant movements of the 20th and 21st
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by Inu 8y ago
Might sound good in theory, but in effect it means that some low ranking Facebook employee will have to decide whether Jordan Peterson is allowed to publish on Facebook or whether he is to be categorized as a white supremacist, a decision t
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by Inu 8y ago
"Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're really in favor of free speech, then you're in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you're not in f
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by Inu 8y ago
Reminds me of Raymond Chandler's technique: "Raymond Chandler and I discussed this once, and he admitted to the most bitter reluctance to commit anything to paper. He evolved the following scheme: he had a tape recorder into which
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by Inu 8y ago
Maybe a case of the Cotard delusion? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard_delusion
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by Inu 8y ago
I detect traces of Jordan Peterson. ;)
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L. E. J. Brouwer: Life, Art, and Mysticism (1905) [pdf](projecteuclid.org)
3 points by Inu 8y ago|0 comments
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Jack Parsons (rocket engineer)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by Inu 8y ago|0 comments
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by Inu 8y ago
> One of Napoleon's great gifts was in compartmentalizing pieces of his life. His tumultuous and frankly soul-crushing personal life (which affected him deeply) with Josephine never got in the way of his military victories. I wonder
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by Inu 8y ago
So the author joined the CIA in 1951 and "spent the next 24 years working with the Directorate of Operations." [1] That means that he probably participated in some of the disastrous covert operations of that era. [2] I don't
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by Inu 8y ago
> UFO‐spotters, Raelian cultists, and self‐certified alien abductees notwithstanding, humans have, to date, seen no sign of any extraterrestrial intelligent civilization. [...] If large telescopes, NASA satellites, and omplicated mathema
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by Inu 8y ago
"And never choose Times New Roman or Arial, as those fonts are favored only by the apathetic and sloppy." Why? Can someone explain this?
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by Inu 8y ago
I think the general danger with computers is falling into a trap of repetitive behavior. In the age of letters you'd check your letter box maybe once a day. Now everywhere we have systems of immediate responses. It creates these loops

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