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by branden 18y ago
The people are uneducated. In order to protect them from themselves, a strong government must control them. Since a strong government controls the people, there is no need to educate them. The people are uneducated...
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by branden 18y ago
I'm not someone who can exercise for its own sake. I'm no good at creating a structured routine for myself, and I'm terrible at following schedules. I get around this by living a bikeable distance from work and the grocery store. I've been
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by branden 18y ago
The road does not actively participate in your driving; it is indifferent to it. Were you not driving, the road would still be there. s/road/world/ s/driving/thinking/
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by branden 18y ago
FTA: "And so we roll our eyes, sigh, and quietly accept the idiocy, the opportunism, and the utter disrespect for our peers and ourselves that is technical discussion on the Internet." As a great thinker once said, "I'm starting with the ma
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by branden 18y ago
I take his point, but I think you can agree with it and still treat consciousness as something that takes place within the brain. I guess the disagreement is over whether body, brain, and environment are all literally parts of consciousness
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by branden 18y ago
"But the view that the self and consciousness can be explained in terms of the brain, that the real us is found inside our skulls, isn't just misleading and wrong, it's ugly. <snip> I find this a very sad and ugly picture of our cir
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by branden 18y ago
Really, it makes that problem worse. I've had it burned into my brain what a shortened URL looks like - short domain, short hash - so I can immediately recognize one and be suspicious of it. But looking at http://tinyurl.com/Do-Tiny-URLs-S
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by branden 18y ago
Encouragement in either direction is ethical so long as the parent is taking the child's wellbeing into account. Past that, it's a judgment call on the part of the parent, and a lot of that is informed by their own life experience. I know m
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by branden 18y ago
Taking drugs that have a net negative effect on your personality is a bad idea.
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by branden 18y ago
Indeed, I remember my first impression of YouTube was being dumbfounded at how easy it was to just watch a damn video.
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by branden 18y ago
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=perseverate In its context it's actually more meaningful than "persevere." Now if you're looking for an example of masturbatory diction, I go with his use of "exactitude."