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by _yb2s 2y ago
I am curious where you are coming from- are you a religious person that feels like my distinction between religious and objective truth undermines your beliefs, or are you a non-religious person that dislikes the idea that religion may stil
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by _yb2s 2y ago
That seems like a very forced theory. By the time shellfish is bad enough to present a health risk, it smells, looks, and feels repugnant, one doesn't need a religious system to know not to eat it. Shellfish are susceptible to harmful
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by _yb2s 2y ago
The comic isn't saying this is the main point of religions, it's only saying it's one thing that happens within religions. For example, religious communities have their own social norms that are fundamental to the religion, a
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Sure, the analogy is loose, but as a sailor myself, I think it fits the fundamental ethos- one works the natural forces against each other to get where they are trying to go- wind, tides, and both aerodynamic and hydrodynamic lift. The fact
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Look at Wikiquote for some of St Augustines most well known quotes with what I am saying in mind- if you can’t see a dozen examples you’re not going to agree with a specific one I point out either. I am refusing to give a specific example f
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It is because they are permitted to operate with a total upper limit of kills for certain protected species. They have to continually monitor, and if they hit the limit they need to seek further approval to keep operating.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I'm not a scholar of Christian literature (or a Christian), and I don't speak Latin, so it would hardly be appropriate for me to pull out a specific quote and insist "this is what they really meant." In truth, my origina
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by _yb2s 2y ago
It's no great conspiracy for a religion to have tiers of understanding and nuance reserved for people more intelligent and dedicated in practice- that is one key purpose of having a distinction between lay people and monastics. The mys
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by _yb2s 2y ago
It's no trick, it's a spiritual path that can't be understood without following and practicing it- the path very much leads to something real that cannot be experienced or explained any other way. Everything Christianity teac
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by _yb2s 2y ago
A lot of PTSD is also not from combat all all- childhood emotional trauma alone can cause it. This is recognized now, but it took a while because initially it was discovered in war veterans and categorically excluded other groups- eventuall
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Religious “truths” are not factual truths- they are better thought of as psychological technology or techniques, and are “true” if they work for the intended purpose. Many conflicting religious “truths” are all “true.” Even calling them tru
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by _yb2s 2y ago
HN ethos is to assume good faith, but my imagination is failing me here as to how you might be sincere and not trolling- can you please share more info to help me out? What makes you think people have experienced clinically diagnosed or dia
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by _yb2s 2y ago
If this is so stupid and obvious, why does apparently 99.99% of software designed by professional engineers seem to be designed by people completely oblivious to these ideas and considerations? Following these philosophical principles thems
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by _yb2s 2y ago
So I asked- and they said (1) when the facility is large enough, which many are, you can randomly sample locations and if they died from injuries elsewhere these will still end up in the sample; (2) they do a lot of separate experiments to
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by _yb2s 2y ago
You’re very wrong, it can be caused by different things to different people- as the causes are emotional it requires severe emotional trauma, which does not have to happen through a specific category of event- a lot of different types of tr
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Equating outrage to PTSD is absolute nonsense. As someone that lives with a PTSD sufferer, it is an extremely severe and debilitating condition that has nothing to do with “outrage” and can’t be caused by seeing people kiss.
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Thanks- most people that are researching this are doing so because they care about birds and/or alternative energy- in most cases both.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I remember WAP was very popular in the summer of 2020. From what I remember the “authentication protocol” wasn’t very “secure.” A 3rd party “gym hat” type device is typically recommended.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
What about Apple Automator and Applescript?
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by _yb2s 2y ago
You misunderstood what I was trying to say. I closely know people that do this work with the specific personal goal of protecting bird populations. They are confident they are able to do so, and I have faith in their level of competence bas
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by _yb2s 2y ago
There is no reason to assume that a behavior that activates the reward system is categorically less harmful than a molecule that activates it directly. In both cases it can completely overcome someones will such that it destroys their life
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by _yb2s 2y ago
It ends up consuming all of a persons time and energy, and they stop doing everything else that is important or essential- maintaining their own career, friendships, family obligations, and health. They lose the ability to feel joy or engag
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Indeed, I am not qualified to answer that question and don’t have the answer, I am not planning on publishing research in this particular field anytime soon. I am personally satisfied that this is being done by people that do deeply underst
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I’m certain these studies are able to estimate those other deaths and consider factors beyond just carcasses on the ground, because I am personally close to a biologist that works on this, but I don’t know exactly how they do it. The author
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by _yb2s 2y ago
This author has no idea what they are talking about- we have extremely high quality data on bird kills from wind farms. Teams of wildlife biologists literally walk the farms everyday identifying kills, and they have other teams that plant f
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Not too long ago music fans were pretty much all agreed the record labels were mostly rent seekers stealing from artists. It seems wild to me that people are now angry that music streaming services are disrupting that and paying artists dir
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Exactly- It seems pretentious to say it’s “filler” or not real music if people are happily listening to it, on a platform that provides any music you ask for.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
But they do! The (sort of) analogous second medium is gravity. You can “sail upwind” with a solar sail by angling it to reduce your orbital velocity.
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MDMA has little addiction potential- for one it isn’t really just an unhealthy escape from negative feelings, but helps people process traumatic experiences and negative emotions by temporarily lowering anxiety and fear, and may be close to
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I get that is what they are doing, I still don’t see the problem. Hopefully they will gradually cut out the record labels entirely, and pay the artists the full cut directly that is currently going mostly to the record label. People can lis

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