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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3y ago
> Aren’t there counterexamples? How would Dresden be considered? I would say that Dresden is not a counterexample. Every year on February 13, many Dresdeners gather on the Neumarkt to commemorate the destruction of the city on the Bombe
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3y ago
Of course, cars and engines in particular are more durable today. This is due to technological progress. Cars weren't designed to be unreliable back then, they were unreliable because they couldn't do any better. Two or three year
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3y ago
Try registering or deregistering a vehicle in a major German city. That once took me three months, because I simply couldn't get an appointment via the web interface set up especially for that purpose. Since Covid, the process is kin
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3y ago
I don't see any numbers, just assertions and strange comparisons.
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3y ago
I don't think that's the case. And I don't think you're an anthropologist or anything. It's just a convenient narrative when it fits into your own view. Polyandry was and is widespread in some cultures. I wonder
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3y ago
How do you know these are just fringe cases?
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3y ago
The state of nature exists only as an idea. Primitive peoples are just as alienated from their supposed state of nature as we are.
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3y ago
The principle of quickly googling any logical principle that suits you, and then claiming, roughly, that it is applicable here, and that if you disagree, you are effectively denying that 1+1=2. HN at its best.
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3y ago
How do we know that the causal relationship is this way and not the other way around, if there is one at all? Raising children and generating income at the same time requires teamwork in most cases. That's immediately obvious, and th
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3y ago
> Why would I prefer sales tax? A consumption tax would be good. It would affect everyone. It would be easier to levy than an income tax.
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3y ago
Please do not buy a special device for navigation. Use an old or a cheap smartphone or tablet with GPS. Install a decent navigation software with offline maps (e.g. Osmand). Remove the sim card. Turn off Wifi. Familiarize yourself with
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3y ago
If you don't play the lottery, you can't win. That's obvious. But the vast majority of people in America will not succeed even if they are convinced that success is possible.
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3y ago
Your worldview is amusing. Everything is simple and consistent. Simple concepts, simple explanations, simple recipes. You have to be a complete idiot or very lazy not to succeed in the world as you see it.
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3y ago
Hey, I don't want to argue with you and I wish you all the best. But you are twisting my mask comparison. In my comparison, pulling the mask all the way over your nose means giving in and using WhatsApp without any objections. The c
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3y ago
It's similar for me, but I have WhatsApp on a separate device that's at home and I only use it for WhatsApp. This keeps it strictly isolated from my primary smartphone and the list of contacts on it. Meta still has part of the s
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3y ago
It is often presented this way, but there is no synthesis in Hegelian dialectics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic#Hegelian_dialectic
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 4y ago
Bad faith
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 4y ago
> In my experience, software engineers "think" imperatively I hear this often. In the past the claim used to be that they "think" object-oriented. This is a thinly veiled argumentum ad naturam. > ... on the funct
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 4y ago
Is she confusing 'extraordinary' with 'famous'? I am extraordinary! Some people see it. Most don't. I'm fine with both.