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by atlantic 3y ago
Or following that misanthropic logic to its conclusion, perhaps we should do nothing at all, and let pollution run rampant. That way, humanity will eliminate itself, and the biosphere will return to normal within a few million years.
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by atlantic 3y ago
Why the downvotes? It was an honest answer from a longtime freelance web developer.
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by atlantic 3y ago
I think you're missing the point. The question isn't whether concepts refer to existing things or not, but whether they are valid and useful. Nothing general ever exists - only the particular. The number two doesn't exist, al
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by atlantic 3y ago
"Good guys" and "bad guys". Where did you learn your ethics, the Cartoon Network?
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by atlantic 3y ago
Let me give you an example. Here's a concept: countries. You've got the US and Mexico, and there is a border between them. You could probably find an infinite number of points right on the border, that can't be said with cert
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by atlantic 3y ago
Or that you're in bad faith.
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by atlantic 3y ago
Avicenna argued otherwise. Have a look at his "floating man" thought experiment for how consciousness can exist detached from any sense experience.
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by atlantic 3y ago
The existence of edge cases does not invalidate a concept.
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by atlantic 3y ago
MS Visual Studio.
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by atlantic 3y ago
So that's it? Either people agree with your particular set of opinions, or they are "racist idiots"?
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by atlantic 3y ago
"Opportunity is everywhere" is another way of saying that, starting from any situation, you can improve your lot by being creative and taking the initiative. It would be hard to prove either way, but in my experience there is some
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by atlantic 3y ago
I live in southern Portugal, and over the years I've observed big differences in how natives and foreigners react to Portuguese drug laws. The native Portuguese feel that it's not ok to consume drugs, but that for those that do, t
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by atlantic 3y ago
If you claim talent is everywhere, the onus is on you to prove it. Disproving a sweeping generalization requires a single instance. For instance, I'm looking out of my window, and I don't see any talent - ergo, talent is not every
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by atlantic 3y ago
Selection bias. Kias circulate in Europe. No carjacking here.
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by atlantic 3y ago
What are respected media outlets? Your personal favourites? That's a nonsensical category, considering most media conglomerates are in bed with their respective governments.
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by atlantic 3y ago
If that were the case, carjacking numbers would be up wherever Kias circulate, which is clearly not the case. Criminality is rampant not because there are opportunities to commit crime, but because there are people willing to commit them.
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by atlantic 3y ago
Depends how narrowly you define agitprop. If you consider everything that comes out of the American media/news conglomerates as propaganda, then it's orders of magnitude greater than the efforts of China or Russia.
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by atlantic 3y ago
Along those lines: instead of banning plastic bags, or bottles, or straws, or whatever, why not simply ban plastic altogether? People managed to do without until the 1950s. Is there any use case for which there are no alternatives?
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by atlantic 3y ago
With fountain pens, ink flows out steadily as long as the nib is in contact with the page, and stops flowing when the nib breaks contact. Whereas with ballpoint pens, pressure is required for the ink to flow, since the ballpoint is held in
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by atlantic 3y ago
The title should be "ludus mortuus est", the game is dead. Ludus takes the nominative, since it's the subject of the sentence. And mortuus also takes the nominative, because it's a nominative complement. Google Translate
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by atlantic 3y ago
Or, as Carl Sagan was fond of saying, "absence of evidence does not mean evidence of absence".
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by atlantic 3y ago
As we're beginning to discover in our generation, censorship is largely down to the individual censor, and if you're looking for some kind of underlying rationale, you're wasting your time. Censors too are sad bastards, and t
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by atlantic 3y ago
Absolutely. The media buried this for years. Now the media is bringing it to light. What is the ulterior motive?
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by atlantic 3y ago
Nobody is privileged in absolute terms. Everybody has their own troubles. Groups (racial, social, whatever) are a useful abstraction, not a reality. And if anyone has to compensate anybody for anything, that's what the justice system i
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by atlantic 3y ago
Personal experience is useful. All kinds of groups were mistreated, historically speaking. If we keep pulling up old grievances, society remains perpetually divided. How many lynchings did you witness yourself? Or hear from first-hand witne
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by atlantic 3y ago
The US is offering as much protection as the New York mafia offers local shopkeepers - protection from themselves. Sure, we need to pay tribute, but that's because we're vassal states, not because we get anything in return.
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by atlantic 3y ago
Green energies in general are heavily subsidized, whereas conventional fossil fuels are heavily taxed. Without these measures, there would be no transition to alternative power sources, because economically they are nonsensical.
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by atlantic 3y ago
Absolutely. Seemingly, creating hatred between races, between sexes, and between generations are all part of the same agenda. Class warfare, on the other hand, is conspicuously absent.
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by atlantic 3y ago
So in effect, several possible responses were sent from the past, but the irrelevant ones were deleted, leaving only the right answer. Hmmm.
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by atlantic 3y ago
Because the market price is only fixed at the moment of sale. Until then, setting the market value of a property is fairly speculative.

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