JacksonGariety

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by JacksonGariety 6y ago
Keep in mind that Zizek has placed the word 'postmodern' in heavy scare quotes here. When I read this passage (it's from Ticklish Subject, I think?) I understand Zizek to be critiquing the pseudo-permissiveness of neoliberali
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Jacques Derrida on American Attitude(youtube.com)
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by JacksonGariety 6y ago
This is super helpful! I really think you're onto something. Thanks. :)
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by JacksonGariety 6y ago
Isn't OkCupid for dating? Bumble has a mode specifically for finding friends.
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by JacksonGariety 6y ago
> Do you have anyone in your life that you could ask for feedback? Unfortunately, I don't. It's a catch-22. > It's also worth considering if there are other groups of people that you may not be coming in to contact with
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by JacksonGariety 6y ago
I have high-functioning autism. Does anyone have some suggestions for making and keeping friends? When I meet a friend, things seem to go really well at first, and then my friend seems to slowly get bored of the interactions we have, and af
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by JacksonGariety 6y ago
The idea is that they will accept significantly lower pay and do the job well enough to get by. Then again, what's wrong with that? Theoretically it just levels the playing field. The real inequality is higher up the food chain anyway.
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by JacksonGariety 6y ago
But in most cases depression is a natural response to the difficulties of life. It's like when your immune system triggers an inflammatory response to infection. It's painful but natural; and the cause is external. Willpower can
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by JacksonGariety 6y ago
> "and you can't change society, so you're stuck like this" I think OP meant that psychologists/psychiatrists don't recognize the social nature of mental illness at all. Just because you can't change so
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by JacksonGariety 6y ago
It's called black and white thinking. This side is good, and that side is bad. The hallmark of a weak intellect.
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by JacksonGariety 6y ago
Fair point.
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by JacksonGariety 6y ago
The purpose of the quarantine was to prevent the hospitals from being overwhelmed, right? In my state we now have more than enough resources. Why are we still locked down as if it were day 1? I really don't get it at all.
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by JacksonGariety 6y ago
Aren't a lot of people profiting off of coronavirus? Zoom, Nintendo, Netflix, etc.? And what about viral apocalypse movies like 'Contagion'? This stuff helps people cope with stress.
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by JacksonGariety 6y ago
It's kinda interesting that color, sound, and space all have three dimensions. What are some other fundamental three-dimensional things?
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by JacksonGariety 6y ago
Why not just serve up a disclaimer video exposing the flaws in 'Plandemic', and require users to watch that video first? That way, the people who watch this sort of stuff will be able to learn to think for themselves by resolving
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by JacksonGariety 6y ago
Absolutely this. The news + internet is driving a new form of polarization that's distinctly different from its historical antecedents.
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by JacksonGariety 6y ago
Love this comment!
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by JacksonGariety 6y ago
Rather anti-climactic > look, you're not just empty space > just kidding! yeah you are
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by JacksonGariety 6y ago
This calamity is ripping apart the social fabric of the entire world. The the enormity of cascading consequences is beyond imagination.
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by JacksonGariety 6y ago
Perhaps the greatest document addressing this question is Plato's "Sophist." Therein, Plato demonstrates that the ability to reason well amounts to knowing which of the most general classes of things go together. He compares
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by JacksonGariety 6y ago
This is 50% fake news.
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by JacksonGariety 6y ago
No matter how seriously you value your life, no matter how seriously you take the quarantine, you simply cannot overlook the fact that all of this looks exactly like every other recent TV sensation: it comes out of nowhere; the media capita
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by JacksonGariety 6y ago
I will
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by JacksonGariety 6y ago
> They're positioned as a percentage of the parent element. Why annotate percentages instead of elements? When you go to add an annotation, it should highlight the element like chrome dev tools ("select an element in the page
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by JacksonGariety 7y ago
or just turn you keyboard off?
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by JacksonGariety 7y ago
The nuclear reactor is a very good example of the bizarre contrast between human achievements and the natural world from which we evolved. Thank you :) I see your point about the inevitability of humanity's technical achievements. But
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by JacksonGariety 7y ago
When I first read the title, I understood it more philosophically. As in––why is most of outer space just endless, indistinguishable dust, while here on Earth there's just so much _stuff_! There's nothing simple about reality at a
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by JacksonGariety 7y ago
True. But DNA is also to some degree shaped by the choices we make in life, no?
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by JacksonGariety 7y ago
Hopefully we are able to use our willpower to bring about personality change over the course of our life.
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by JacksonGariety 7y ago
Totally agree. This is the "fuzzy overlap" to which I referred in my OP. I use the word 'fuzzy' because we just don't know how nature and nurture affect each other.

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