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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
I'm not a communist, so I have little trouble in denouncing or disliking Stalinist Russia, Maoist China, etc. I also, however, find these sorts of discussions completely disingenuous, however, in that it is conveniently left unmentione
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
Are you really sure about where you're ideas come from? I remember the Christian anti-Harry-Potter craze when I was a kid. Preachers would have hour-long television programs about how this, this, and this were in those books. But none
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
In order to even do science we must first make certain non-falsifiable assumptions, fundamentally. This is a basic point of metaphysics and epistemology.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_th...
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The thing is, all of these issues stem from patriarchal systems. (assumption) men will be employed (therefore) child support is their responsibility. (assumption) men are strong independent (therefore) there is no need for assistance. (assu
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
Personally, I have a hard time putting much stock in the opinion of those who use exclamation points.
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An interesting question might be perhaps --- when is there a dereliction of duty? We tend to think in terms of 'just vote them out', however, there is this category of active ignorance that can't truly be established as seem
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
The problem is a great many of them now are paid next to nothing and with recent developments in the industry expected to take on more and more of the work and costs themselves as publishers cut back on promotion and editing services. And
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
It appears many do not know the actual definition of ad hominem . The definition of the term is out there to be looked up.
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
> socially constructed (along with other norms you may have heard about, like gender identity) and since they are socially constructed they are culturally relative. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/social-construct
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
Is there any evidence that common sense is either common or sensical?
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You're going to quote James Lindsay, the guy who refers to critical theory as 'race marxism'? This source is so biased Ma'at's feather never had a chance.
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Foucault and Duchamp are the two boogeymen of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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The real problem is that humans have always deluded themselves that some technology was a 'truth technology'. It's been done with everything from typewriters to cameras. However, the camera has always lied, always rendered a
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The Tiniest Copyright Violations Ever Made (2014)(theverge.com)
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
As an intermediary, currency requires a minimum amount of social relations. Its value, if it can be said to have one, lies in its use as an indirect measure of the degree of faith in a particular set of social constructs. The reason I use
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
>economies can crash. Gold can not, thus is it valuable. The thing about money is that it is a technology. But unlike other technologies, such as an electric toothbrush, for instance, it has an additional quirk: without belief, it doesn
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
One can be lecherous from the age of 15 onward and never actually get to know any women, so the two aren't mutually exclusive (actually, the first might contribute to the problem of the second.) Oh, I know all too well of his numerous
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
Having read Asimov's autobiographical inserts in anthologies such as Before the Golden Age and The Early Asimov , I get the idea that young (as in prior to the age of 30) Asimov suffered from a problem similar to many male mangakas:
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
I think the largest part of it is having grown up in fundamentalist evangelical christianity -- the rapture and all that. I view such SF as a secularized render of such conceptualizations -- along with the concepts of the singularity, etc.
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There is no single piece of science fiction I despise more than this story.
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
Entropy (like the house) always wins. (Unless we're wrong about physics.) If I remember correctly, life actually increases the rate of entropy. So, conceptually, the more life, the faster the universe approaches heat death.
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Then the nature of the universe (so far as we understand it) is "bad".
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All social media is immoral except my social media.
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
> We all know we're going to die Not so sure about that. Ernest Becker wrote a book on the subject titled The Denial of Death (though some take issue with psychoanalysis, whether post-Freudian or not). Even when we tacitly admit
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by apocalypstyx 5y ago
The question might be whether intrinsic motivation is inescapable. "From the start of this book I have had occasion, in various contexts, to refer to the overwhelming elation felt by scientists at the moment of discovery, an elation of
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by apocalypstyx 5y ago
I will also add that it was likely a mistake to reference any laboratory-observed phenomena whatsoever, replicable or otherwise, with regard to such a topic. It would seem likely for there to be a bias against such references extant prior
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by apocalypstyx 5y ago
I never focused on the social role as causatory[1]. All I wanted was a quick, easily searchable, not-overly technical example of reproductive variation in a population over time. What is known of Calhoun's experiments still satisfy t
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by apocalypstyx 5y ago
Which is in part why I stated: Though simplistic applicability of this to human society, in the ways that have been done in the past, should probably be discouraged. But you are likely correct; I should have been stronger in my warnings.
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Does a bee think about winter? Does a tree? Or do they react in response to stimuli with evolved, complex behaviors? Does a bear go out and gorge itself to gain weight because it thinks that's the best way to get through winter or do

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