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Finding the Freedom in Free Will(psychologytoday.com)
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by adriand 5y ago
> I don’t buy that we cannot understand nature I don’t think anyone is saying that, but in pondering this issue, I remembered how in Spanish there are two verbs for “to know”, “saber” and “conocer”. That latter verb is often explained in
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by adriand 5y ago
I'm curious whether you would agree with me that the article is muddled when, for instance, it includes this portion: ------- A hearing researcher at House Ear Institute is concerned that the loudness of new albums could possibly harm
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by adriand 5y ago
I read somewhere that quantum mechanics is the most tested of all scientific theories. And it has been shown to be right, every time. Hawking espoused this idea he called “model dependent realism”. The idea is that every human understanding
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by adriand 5y ago
One theory, which I find quite plausible, is that there are many universes, all of which have variations on these constants. And the reason our universe is the way it is, is because we are here to observe it - given that most other configur
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by adriand 5y ago
"Loudness War" is a bit of a misnomer and this Wikipedia article is rather incoherent in its treatment of the phenomenon (which is real, but poorly explained here). What controls how loud a piece of recorded music is playing at? T
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by adriand 5y ago
Plastic bags are the worst for potato storage. If the potatoes look fresh, rip large holes in the bag and lay flat in a dark place. If they aren’t really fresh, remove them, wash them and put them in something with good airflow like a colan
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by adriand 5y ago
Seeing this really makes me sad. We rightly stand in solidarity with Ukraine, but ordinary Russian people will also suffer enormously because of this. Imagine living somewhere where your future just got vaporized and if you speak up about i
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by adriand 5y ago
Which do you believe, that there is no problem, or that there is no solution to it? I believe there is a problem, and I also believe it is possible to solve it in a way that upholds democratic values. If you don’t think there is a problem,
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by adriand 5y ago
I have no issue with free access to Internet discourse! In fact, I wish we had more free access to Internet discourse. What I object to is the commodification of attention, the deployment of sophisticated algorithms intended to drive clic
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Social media is such a problem in Western nations, has sapped our attention and divided us so immensely, that I honestly wish we would also regulate and crack down on it. Not because we don’t want people to learn about what’s happening in t
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by adriand 5y ago
Good for you. Keep at it! I became a vegetarian a year ago, at the age of 42, when my eating habits were firmly established. I loved meat and seafood of all kinds, and was the sort of carnivore who was proud of eating the weirdest and blood
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by adriand 5y ago
Banks were instructed to unfreeze accounts on Monday, Feb 21 ( https://www.wsj.com/articles/canada-instructs-banks-to-unfre... ). The Emergencies Act that kicked off the account freezes was enacted a week earlier, on Mon
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The Essential Pandemic Reduced to One Chart(ekospolitics.com)
2 points by adriand 5y ago|0 comments
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by adriand 5y ago
Protesters blocked multiple international borders between Canada and the US, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars per day ($300 million/day for the Windsor/Detroit crossing alone). There is no "civil liberty" tha
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by adriand 5y ago
> It is utterly amazing to me that despite all of human history being filled with stories of egregious human rights violations, lies, and propaganda coming from governments all across the political spectrum and world that people still tr
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by adriand 5y ago
I agree that this needs to be taken very seriously. However, the author overstates his case significantly when he writes: > Doing this to someone—a small business owner in BC, a public servant in Winnipeg, a student in Halifax—who made a
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by adriand 5y ago
I totally agree with others that costs for childcare and healthcare can easily eat into even large incomes. And for anyone who is making less than six figures and has a family, yes, you have to manage your finances pretty carefully. However
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by adriand 5y ago
I'm having trouble understanding if you are arguing in good faith here. Surely you are not suggesting that men die younger than women because women have worked to create a society with greater gender equity? Of the list of factors for
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by adriand 5y ago
Feminism isn’t about putting women ahead of men though. It’s about creating equity. Feminism is needed because of the ongoing power imbalance between the sexes. There are still very few arenas in which men do not enjoy the advantage. The me
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by adriand 5y ago
Right. It’s our fault, that is, men’s. We live in a society in which we we have disproportionately had the power. And this is the result. But I don’t think it’s really a gender thing, I think it’s a power and money thing. That is, I don’t t
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by adriand 5y ago
> tell Women painfully stupid stuff they want to hear If you are looking for a reason for your travails, here it is. If you started out with this level of contempt, it’s no wonder you’ve been unsuccessful. If you became embittered due to
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by adriand 5y ago
> But it’s an incredibly hard sell to the public who won’t except a negative impact on their quality of life. The idea that solving the climate crisis would have a negative impact on people's quality of life is one that has been suc
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This is one of the many reasons that causing plant and animal species to go extinct is bad for humans. We really have no idea how many potentially live-saving/health-enhancing/etc. medicines we are annihilating!
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by adriand 5y ago
> I'm not saying experience doesn't matter at all, just saying that it's a poor marker for seniority. In many contexts seniority is literally defined as years of service. I take your point to mean that experience isn'
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by adriand 5y ago
Because a knee injury has prevented me from running, which was my go-to exercise previously (and because it’s too cold and snowy right now to cycle), I purchased a kettle bell on a whim. I find working out with it is much more enjoyable and
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by adriand 5y ago
This is exactly what I have. An IKEA knife I’ve had for the past 20 years or so. I’ve always kept it sharp, but the game changer in the past few months was reading advice to sharpen it every time I use it. I do that now, just a little bit,
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I am with you. Thank you for speaking up!
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A good friend of mine put it this way, and he’s right: —- So far, the “peaceful” protestors have desecrated the national war monument and the Terry Fox statue, flown multiple Nazi flags and Confederate flags and large numbers of “Fuck Trude
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by adriand 5y ago
I'm surprised that no one in this thread has used the word "hangover" yet, because that's exactly what these researchers have quantified. They certainly haven't "discovered" it, because anyone who is famil

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