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by ahthat 5y ago
Exactly. It’s easy to lie, narcissists more than others are likely to flatter themselves. This kind of data is not all that accurate or helpful. It really doesn’t tell you anything.
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by ahthat 5y ago
Very cool idea! Room for lots of improvement, keep working on it, I like the direction this is going.
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by ahthat 5y ago
True, but even beyond world music, as far as I can tell there is no widely accepted academic theory of modern production technique, where note-based harmonic language is secondary to general creativity in sonic landscape. This is a large pa
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by ahthat 5y ago
You are correct that the republic is designed to balance against a tyranny of the majority and for good reason: the rights of minority factions are threatened in such a state. >The executive branch has so much power that it is in fact a
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by ahthat 5y ago
That is the whole point of the state: that it is permitted to conduct violence for its preservation. In republics/representative democracies, the people endow the state with this power via elections. It's not a utopia, but at the
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by ahthat 5y ago
I wrote about a similar comparison way back in the middle of 2017: https://benshieldsblog-blog.tumblr.com/post/165101127465/let... https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9li-Wu3-bPEWEswQVdIOHV
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by ahthat 5y ago
Care to explain the - points?
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by ahthat 5y ago
Time is only the relativistic motion of measurable phenomena. We can’t know what we can’t measure, it is perhaps possible that things “happen/happened” outside of the limits of what we can measure and extrapolate from measurement. We w
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by ahthat 5y ago
What the heck is going on in western North Dakota?
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by ahthat 5y ago
You do not know that the problem wouldn’t be worse without widespread messaging.
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by ahthat 5y ago
Again anecdotal evidence. Just because some people shrug off multiple infections does not mean awareness has no influence.
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by ahthat 5y ago
No, you are not wrong to say that... but that’s not what your parent comment was saying. Your comment was saying that messaging did not have much influence on your behavior later in life. I’m saying that just because it didn’t have much inf
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by ahthat 5y ago
My hunch is that people are probably generally unaware of the recent rise in syphilis cases, would do well to be more informed, and with proliferation of the message some general adjustment of behavior in society is to be expected
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by ahthat 5y ago
Very well and succinctly put
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by ahthat 5y ago
No evidence provided. Of course it is useful - if you don’t know of a thing, you don’t know the consequences of engaging in that thing. It’s as axiomatic as the trite and age old saying “knowledge is power”. Your comment is completely disin
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by ahthat 5y ago
Continuing to raise awareness of the consequences of assuming risky behavior is a reasonable action that could be taken. With widespread messaging, the burdens of the consequences of risky behavior greater fall solely onto those who engage
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by ahthat 5y ago
Attempt to derail parent argument by citing inadequacy of reflection of anecdote in a general survey of literature/media
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by ahthat 5y ago
Anecdotal evidence
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by ahthat 5y ago
This guy is reasonable. Kudos to making reasoned and nuanced observations regarding both sides of the argument.
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by ahthat 5y ago
This is actually similar to how I've been reading a lot of books over the past few years. As a practical realist, I realized that, when it comes to reading, if I have a clear objective in mind, as long as I feel I have accomplished tha
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by ahthat 5y ago
I don’t think PG is necessarily saying that income inequality is not a problem. This is disingenuous on your part. Saying “of course the Gini coefficient is increasing” does not necessarily translate to “income inequality is not a problem.”
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by ahthat 6y ago
It’s a little incendiary and perhaps would look a little racist to label things “Chinese free” or “Not made in China”. Objects should simply continue to label their country of origin. If the population really is interested in generally remo
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by ahthat 6y ago
Nice piano
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by ahthat 6y ago
Lol this stuff is cool
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by ahthat 6y ago
Studied classical music all my life, then got into DAWs and electronic music making in college. Here’s some stuff! This is for when you are lifting weights in a nuclear Armageddon: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/yGrrQjR5VwJJD
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by ahthat 6y ago
If it were part of the job description, there would be nothing wrong with being asked to serve coffee to management, no matter what your position is. If it is not in the job description, then it is generally inappropriate.
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by ahthat 6y ago
I think people are confusing the notion of being a secretary and having sex with your boss with the idea that it is inherently wrong for superiors to use their workplace capital to exploit those who work under them. It is completely correct
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by ahthat 6y ago
You’re attacking a straw man here. Your experience and personal anecdote may be completely true— however, you are skirting OPs very interesting idea so succinctly stated: that “a populace thoroughly satiated in private can afford to be puri
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by ahthat 6y ago
Don’t forget Alaska. There are roads connecting the Yukon to Fairbanks and Anchorage, and the unpaved Dalton Highway connecting Fairbanks to the North Slope, but there are no roads connecting Fairbanks to the western part of the state at al
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by ahthat 6y ago
I agree that Nietzsche is trolling here. This passage I believe occurs early in the book, in the section titled ‘On Philosophers’. In this section, Nietzsche attacks literally every philosophy he can think of with as much vehemence and iron

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