Johnjonjoan

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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
Thanks for explaining this so concisely
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
Usually if everyone around you would say you're one of the happiest people and you think you're also one of the saddest you are depressed. "Happiness has nothing on the overcompensations for misery" - Huxley If you'
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
To be human is to have something an incredible number of other species have?
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
I would argue that when Huxley said that realising all is each is all he didn't intend you to lose your ego. In my opinion he intended you to realise that there is power in the self and that everyone has a self and therefore there is a
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
Of course technology made us who we are today.
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
I didn't mean to imply that all technology is "dehumanising" but I'd argue that most if not all that influences you has done something to your humanity/technology balance. Fully human being is very hard to explain.
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
I think the more that technology influences our decisions the less human we become in our actions. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing but that we are definitely diluting our humanism with other stuff.
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
Sure. I wouldn't say the decisions they influence affect our humanity a great deal though.
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
I disagree. Human beings as you say are products of their circumstances and one circumstance that seems very pervasive is technology. We are no longer fully human beings. Technology had changed what it is to be human even in Huxley's t
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
I've studied this quote a lot and I do think it's very hard to realise who Aldous is talking about, but I don't think he's talking about those in distress. Rather those that gave in to this world and can live with willfu
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
No. However you would probably still be able to talk about them on your social media in five years. I'm genuinely curious if posts relating to China's treatment of Uyghurs are already meeting censors on tik tok.
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
There's no good way of combating it that doesn't end in war. Sanctions will lead to more Chinese public support for that war. Perhaps this leads the CCP to become complacent and fight us before they can win. That's probably t
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
Acidity will increase if there is more carbon. Ocean acidity is believed to be behind the greatest marine extinction we know about. 90% extinction iirc.
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
Hand washing is a must. German studies have found people infected each other passing salt shakers and lighters. Whilst we can't tell what vector the virus took, the lighter incident happened outside AFAIK, so likely it was from hand co
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
I think as a civilisation we should be putting 20% of global resources into energy research. Every leap we've made has been preceded by increased energy. Whether that's the tools that allowed us to be more efficient with energy wh
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
Without Britain I don't think Germany would be required to transfer resources from ship building to the land campaign. As far as I'm aware Wilhelm was very serious about developing a navy and they were fairly close to parity with
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
Britain joined to stop Wilhelm making a blue water navy that could rival the royal navy. I don't think it's a given British hegemony would have lasted as long without joining ww1.
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
I'm sorry but the Uyghur birth rate in Xingjiang has dropped 83% year on year. The Uyghur people are being exterminated and you're more interested in a conspiracy about who is behind us caring about it. FYI you don't have a d
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
I wonder if the limiting fact to cargo capacity is weight or volume. If it's weight then perhaps the additional freight offsets those costs rather than saving fuel.
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
I read something recently that gave the impression browsers didn't allow this and they could only modify the clipboard? I'm not saying this is true, rather asking if I got the wrong impression.
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
When I look at the fake colour videos of the early 1900s I'm in awe. The connection to the past is so much more personal than in black and white. I would hazard a guess this is due to the ability to see subtle body language or facial e
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
Honestly it's the sterilisation programs that have typed me over the edge. There's a socially acceptable Holocaust in Xingjiang right now.
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
I'm doing it. I'm boycotting China. From now on I will do my best to ascertain any relations potential purchases have to China and if there is one not buy it. I know it won't be perfect, I know it will harm innocent Chinese c
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
If you asked someone two centuries ago they would tell you that you believed in magic. How do you know reality isn't a simulation?
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I'm unsure, the only contradictory point to my proposition was that there was no designer. "in biology nothing is private or even in a class because in biology there is no designer, so there is no need for encapsulation." How
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
I'm curious why you're so sure there isn't a designer.
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Biology is more like a class where everything's private and there was no documentation on the public methods (for us)
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
You literally said the only thought process that went towards the order to fire was that they were military age males. As I pointed out this was not the case and is still not the case irrespective of if he peeked the corner. I'm genuin
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
(I'm presuming you're talking about the widely circulated video of an Apache crew firing upon the Reuters? crew. Disregard my comment if you are not.) Yes it has nothing to do with a patrol taking fire from that area and confusion
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by Johnjonjoan 6y ago
I'm glad to hear it mate. :)

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