analog8374

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by analog8374 1mo ago
If the past has taught us anything it's that we can contrive a logically-consistent, authoritatively-founded rationale to support literally anything.
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by analog8374 2mo ago
Remember covid? We all fell into lockstep with great eagerness . Suddenly everybody agreed on what's good and bad, who's good and bad. And why. So don't go pointing fingers. Attend to the 2x4 in your own eye because it'
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by analog8374 2mo ago
They have this standard icon for leopard. That's an example of it. It's like our Mickey Mouse isn't exactly anatomically correct either.
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by analog8374 2mo ago
I don't think he's sitting on the leopard.
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by analog8374 2mo ago
Would you say that modern medical science is truth-motivated or profit-motivated? 50-50? 60-40?
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by analog8374 2mo ago
Agreed. And reading is not an unalloyed good. We squat over our fetish and acquire a bit of a hunch. 200 years of pro-reading propaganda may have bent our opinion. Once upon a time reading was considered a morbid activity. And it kinda is.
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by analog8374 2mo ago
I doubt it's as simple as that. I mean we're talking about a kind of cultivation of the self, acquiring a higher way of seeing. I suspect that some kind of destruction of the old way of being is called for to arrive at this higher
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by analog8374 2mo ago
To be a good writer you must also love writing. But writing isn't naturally lovable. You rarely hear much from those guys who don't love writing, because they didn't write.
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by analog8374 2mo ago
To read as much as you can, have a love for reading. How do you acquire a love for reading? Why would you want to acquire a love for reading?
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by analog8374 2mo ago
given that there's no way to establish or break rapport on the internet, does that mean we're all rendered as ASD people here?
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by analog8374 2mo ago
framing accusations as questions is so last millennium.
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by analog8374 2mo ago
a lightweight portable foldable seiza bench. yes I know there are such but none are good. mine is good
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by analog8374 2mo ago
I think that you are unnecessarily conflating being-watched, being-judged and being-punished.
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by analog8374 2mo ago
I didn't "refute the topic", I asked you a question. So please answer it.
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by analog8374 2mo ago
how does being watched constrain my psychic sovereignty? I don't see the connection. Being watched does not cause my freedom to see, do and think to be limited in any way, as far as I can tell.
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by analog8374 2mo ago
Privacy is less important to me than it is to you. I! think that your need for privacy is something you acquired, and could unacquire.
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by analog8374 2mo ago
Being watched all the time seems nowhere near as bad as being kept in a cell or forced labor.
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by analog8374 2mo ago
Knowing and not-knowing look a lot alike, subjectively speaking. Because both deliver a state of few-unresolved-riddles.
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by analog8374 3mo ago
When we spend this much effort picking through their bullshit, whether we prove our case or not, they win.
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by analog8374 3mo ago
because the not-obvious is harder to see.
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by analog8374 3mo ago
it isn't the obvious idiocy that you've got to worry about, it's the not-obvious idiocy
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by analog8374 3mo ago
people like to put their television down, but we are still good friends
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by analog8374 3mo ago
have you tried grape soda?
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by analog8374 3mo ago
when you spend long times focusing your attention upon that whole reading process it tends to stick. Like a drug with long-term effects. Do you want those effects?
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by analog8374 3mo ago
that and the middle class
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by analog8374 3mo ago
I have used this a lot. A very valuable resource.
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by analog8374 4mo ago
2 ideas about direct democracy. Selling your vote becomes a nonissue when everybody is doing it. An LLM informed by a reddit-style discussion tree might be a good way to implement the policy-creating part of a direct democracy.
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by analog8374 4mo ago
all form is interpretation
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by analog8374 4mo ago
it's a pretty good guess that when a smart person does something like this, it's something he considered long and hard and applied his full smartness to, and therefore it is probably the smart move. Right? Let's not split hai
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by analog8374 4mo ago
If a smart guy joins a seminary then joining a seminary is probably smart.

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