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by aradox66 4y ago
The vast majority of monocultured grains are used to feed livestock. Plant based diet, even if you ate soy and wheat and corn and nothing else, has an order of magnitude smaller impact than eating meat.
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by aradox66 4y ago
No, changing zoning laws so that cities are built in a way that makes this possible for a bigger portion of the population would count as system change.
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by aradox66 4y ago
"Sponsoring gun violence to shadow promote gun control" is an amazing conspiracy theory.
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by aradox66 5y ago
Which translation?
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by aradox66 5y ago
Stepping out of self deception by Rodney Smith. A Buddhist book by someone who has really internalized the dharma and uses his own words rather than reiterating the same jargon as everyone else. As someone who got caught up in a lot of &quo
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by aradox66 5y ago
The website is new, but this business also runs one of my favorite brick and mortar tea shops! It's in the Oakland hills. They pile up the steaming leaves from every cup they brew and the shop fills with the earthy caramel aroma of goo
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by aradox66 5y ago
One interesting take I heard from Culadasa on a podcast referencing reincarnation in a Buddhist context...there may be rebirth (and there are ancient, ongoing lineages of practice with which you can allegedly explore and remember past lives
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by aradox66 5y ago
This seems to be the consensus, but if I don't eat late I feel much more awake and can't fall asleep well.
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by aradox66 5y ago
Don't overlook that this mechanism of intergenerational knowledge transfer (culture) exists in many species, not just humans
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by aradox66 5y ago
Well put. I've never seen someone use the phrase "exception that proves the rule" non-ironically. Why is it more than just a class of exceptions? How does it prove anything?
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by aradox66 5y ago
We want the goods
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by aradox66 5y ago
That's only true on average.
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by aradox66 5y ago
This is a simpler and more coherent theory that also has more explanatory power
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by aradox66 5y ago
Love this. As an aside, espresso + a whole bunch of sencha = calm + still able to fall asleep ==/==> "sensitive to caffeine", at least to my eyes!
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by aradox66 5y ago
That's pretty much the central principle of anarchism (the political philosophy and practice, not the colloquial slur). Dismissing it as "impractical" is a bit premature - it's a concept well grounded in ethnological exa
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by aradox66 5y ago
It's not necessarily about your job description. It tends to be about whatever there's the most discontent among coworkers about. Like the mandatory all-nighters with no overtime, or whatever.
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by aradox66 5y ago
I believe you just laid out the basic argument of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. At the risk of supporting your point, not all philosophy is based on this perspective :)
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This is a weird spam website, this isn't an article. There's not even a citation.
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by aradox66 5y ago
"The title is just a note saying why you should not go about writing articles that way. The article is deliberately mistitled and put en relief the point that you should not compare Flask to FastAPI nor compare FastAPI to Flask. Both s
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by aradox66 5y ago
In a geological time scale, human extinction due to ecological fallouts is also a blip. I agree that the ecological crisis is not existential on a geological scale, but that's an irrelevant scale for questions of human civilization, wh
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by aradox66 5y ago
This argument is still baseless without a comparison between regions and policies. For all I know, crime rates are rising more slowly in San Francisco than any other city. If crime is rising in multiple cities, it can't be due to a pol
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by aradox66 5y ago
There's some decent argumentation in here, but repeatedly referencing rising crime rates in San Francisco and other cities with anti-policing DAs is meaningless without context. Crime rates have been rising everywhere during the pandem
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by aradox66 5y ago
This is what drives me nuts. So many web apps have perennially obsolete documentatio
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by aradox66 5y ago
If we understood why some placebo effects are stronger than others, than yeah it stands to reason that we could utilize that knowledge to make stronger placebos.
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That kind of consideration should not influence medical empirics or practice. If placebo is a real phenomenon, it needs to be understood.
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by aradox66 5y ago
I'm sure it's beneficial, I know there's a ton of studies on the importance of touch for infant health in particular.
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by aradox66 5y ago
I do think the distinction is important, but I'd hope for a more precise terminology than "real" vs "fake" effects. "psychosomatic" is okay but has some similar baggage. There should be a thorough technica
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by aradox66 5y ago
This is what drives me crazy about people who dismiss alternative therapies as placebo and therefore worthless. There's something mich more interesting going on, and studies on the placebo effect have barely scratched the surface regar
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by aradox66 5y ago
Plenty of clinical evidence suggests that therapy can help folks having a hard time. It's not magic - talking about your problems with someone who cares is helpful.
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Your perception of yourself and your life is being distorted by depression. The intellect tries to make this about "meaning," or who you are, but it's not really about that. You're not a parasite, and the people who care

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