MadSudaca

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by MadSudaca 3y ago
Not to mention geographically gifted, all neighbors are placated, and #1 place to immigrate too.
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
The article states that two consistent causes of societal collapse are the impoverishment of large sections of the population and overproduction of elites. This two things remind me of one a passage from the Tao Te Ching, translation by Jan
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
There's plenty of fields where nonsense gets published on a regular basis. Just look at this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair . Maybe ChatGPT will help accelerate the rate at which nonsense ge
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
It’s tough. Presumably, your parents or grandparents didn’t have to raise their kids in an environment where they were constantly barraged with horrific news stories such as these.
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
I'll grant you that it's not a random sample and that there will be some skewness in opinions. But ignoring the wider context of the journey that these people must have made, and considering the nature of totalitarian governments,
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
It's possible a lot of people would like to leave but can't. Also, some people would like to return, missing the cultural aspects of the country they left behind or their families, but can't because they're unable to sus
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
Or how we like to call them, caudillos. The most latin-american thing after cumbia music and empanadas.
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
You’d say the opinions of people back home would presumably be different?
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
What would happen?
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
The first TTC manuscripts date to around 300 b.c. and there’s evidence that some of the poems have a rhythmic structure, which could mean some verses were transmitted orally prior to that. So there’s a good chance that it was known prior to
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
This looks great, thanks for sharing!
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
It's like courting a woman. If you're too direct in your communication, you will lose. When trying to make your philosophy expand, if you're too direct in your communication, there won't be anything to speculate about, m
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
Another interesting aspect is that it was created as a manual for rulers during the Spring and Autumn periods of China. A time where the country was divided in many little states fighting for consolidate their power. Many philosophies arose
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
Fair question. I think it’s similar to the art of war by Sun Tzu, very abstract principles that one can still use for strategic guidance on conflict situations. The main value of Sun Tzu’s book was the realization that deception is one of
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
I recently created my own translation with annotations based on chatgpt. It’s hard to state what is the “most accurate” translation, as there’s several ancient versions of the Tao Te Ching. The most popular one is from a guy named Wang Bi.
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
Fertility rates going down, divorce rates going up, and young people finding it harder to navigate dating and relationships. To the latter point, soon most new relationships will start through dating apps, and these have their share of prob
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
It's interesting that you've gotten so many downvotes. The sad thing is that as things are progressing in the west, a large number of people won't have families or communities to lean on.
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
It might bring down all the bridges the internet helped build. Also, it will make the world more centralized, having to trust more on big names and institutions. As a libertarian, this is the opposite direction I’d like the world to go in.
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
This assumes that everyone on the planet has something interesting to say.
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
How does it turn out in practice? I don't think the central banks are as independent as it's thought. At least not in most countries.
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
I don't think it's globally far less effective. I think it's particularly less effective when you need constant communication, say being next to your teammates throughout the day, or when the people are really unmotivated and
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
I mean, how do you know it's still not after you, waiting for the right moment to get you... When you least expect it.
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
How do you know it moved on?
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
Extremely unfortunate. You have to deal with your spouse's death and as an extra, you get thrown in jail and ostracized by your community. The article doesn't say anything of what happened afterwards, but I hope the man had his re
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
Yes, that's what I understood and why I said that maybe the author just doesn't like Ed Sheeran's music.
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
Maybe he was just trying to communicate indirectly his dislike for the new album.
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
Let's say establishing policies to reduce the use of TikTok in the population is the right move. What policies would you suggest?
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
it’s paradoxical but the opposite might be true as well… code you’d be happy to hear was replaced because you were not particularly proud of it, turns out to live on for a long time having people maintaining it without understanding it very
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
It's funny because I'm basing my statement on history, all sort of human-made institutions become corrupted, endure for longer than they should, collapse when the situation becomes unsustainable, then a new system necessarily take
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by MadSudaca 3y ago
To me, the this is just a corollary of the fact that any human system is susceptible of becoming corrupt. Therefore, human systems should be created with a built-in self-destruct function, so that once they have lived past their initial pur

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