bokoharambe

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by bokoharambe 2y ago
It's not any particular technical development that separates humans from other animals, but the human relationship to technology as such. Humans only live by way of inserting external objects between themselves and nature, and they do
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
Trump is not the only/real alternative to liberalism even if he was the option that was given. That's why abstention won: no one wants the liberals, but no one sees Trump as different enough from them for him to earn their support
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
Can't take this seriously when Trump barely got more votes this time around than he did last time. There has been no loss of young men. People are broadly feeling disenfranchised, and that's why the Democrats lost. If anything, th
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
You can develop muscle memory without rote memorization by doing exercises. There, you end up memorizing facts by solving problems and therefore building intuition. I agree that you need some level of memorization when you first "perfo
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
It just seems strange to me that, like in the case of mental illnesses such as depression or Schizophrenia, scientists insist on looking for genes or even GWAS correlations and just aren't finding anything. At a certain point, you have
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
I feel like the real problem here is the way that research has to be sold in order to get funding (I assume the same was true in the 1960s). There is no inherent harm in trying to find a universalizing science, but market imperatives drive
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
I am fairly confident that people's agency is pretty low on the list of reasons why loneliness had reached epidemic proportions. There are very obvious cultural and geographic (and ultimately economic) factors at work that none of us a
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
I didn't mean to imply said local community has never existed, only that it no longer does. I'm not convinced that the cloistered, middle class, older, and predominantly white communities that exist in every medium to large city a
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
Communities that are local =/= local community in a general sense. There are in some places participatory communities that (often older, middle class, family-oriented) people participate in, but I'm not sure those organizations ca
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
There is no "local community," so there is no local production in any meaningful sense anymore. I am nothing like my neighbors, never have been, and have never known very much about them in any of the places I've lived. That
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of "does schooling have to be awful" than "should you go to school." I apologize for being unclear.
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
Is it really necessary? I'm not seeing it.
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
Your post really demonstrates how different people can have very different experiences of the same field. I love biology too, yet I care very little about chemicals or chemistry, and I wish there was more of a track for studying biology whi
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by bokoharambe 3y ago
Personal responsibility is a hard sell in a world where human beings are not absolutely sovereign agents. Regardless, the law isn't stopping you from driving without a seatbelt. I find it odd that you have such a visceral response to a