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by bsedlm 4y ago
some of us refuse to let this real meaning be dictated by any entity other than oneself. not to say the meaning is subjective, just to reject all except our own appreciation of this meaning. what I'm trying to say is that, sure, there
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by bsedlm 4y ago
there's too much science "up in the air" (to refer to the stuff that hasn't made it down to the text books) it bothers me but I cannot do anything about it (other than be bothered by it) > I have seen the false perce
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by bsedlm 4y ago
the _pesky_ thing with "meaning" is that a life that seems meaningful (to them who live it) *IS* meaningful (again, to them who live it)
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by bsedlm 4y ago
I wanna get on this list but it seems like founding one of these is the most plaussible way to do it.
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by bsedlm 4y ago
I feel as though you're just being nitpicky for the sake of missing the point. the overarching issue is that this " 'End users' are hostages. The real user is the ad-company" is a terrible problem which needs to be
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by bsedlm 4y ago
do you ever worry about being robbed by the police in the USA? in mexico we do, the police are as likely to rob you as any criminal. though it's not technically a robbery, it's actually extortion; they look to create a scenario in
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by bsedlm 4y ago
why should you be forced to rent for a place to sleep?
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by bsedlm 4y ago
> a exceptionally dry and boring subject matter, encumbered by complex mathematic models and obscure economic theory. by this point, considering the amount of technical understanding around narrative, storytelling, and enganging media
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by bsedlm 4y ago
sorry to say, but no. (or at the least, it's very highly unlikely)
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by bsedlm 4y ago
it's also important to understand the difference between narcissistic traits, and a narcissistic pathology. i.e. being narcissistic is not inherently bad nor evil, and unless there are other negative consequences that elevate the trait
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by bsedlm 4y ago
reminds me of church of euthanasia's "save the planet kill yourself" from the older internet. the point is that it's the least we can consume, in contrast with a more capitalist friendly "go sit at a cafe to buy a d
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by bsedlm 4y ago
> I hold unto my right as a mammal to be inefficient and sit drooling looking at trees. yes, I even like framing this as an environmental conservation activity. I'm doing nothing at all (only consuming oxygen, no content, no noth
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by bsedlm 4y ago
but I want my work to be engaging... it seems like I want this out of an existencial instict; one which the modern world has completely disregarded. I want it, but I know (and I agree with your stance) that I will not find it in any "i
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by bsedlm 4y ago
> stop trying to make money off me for one second while I solve this tire crisis. but if they did, they'd be pretty much wasting money! their stock holders could reasonably sue the board for choosing to not make money for a second.
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by bsedlm 4y ago
IMO, economics as a science is all about making up theories to 'scientifically' (but actually, just academically) justify whatever the ruling powers want to do. In a larger sense, academia and a big chunk of contemporary western &
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by bsedlm 4y ago
I have no more trust in anything, anything at all, that I read about this kind of stuff on the internet (since the Ukraine stuff started). I will literally have to fly myself to Shanghai to believe this newsbit. Maybe it's really that
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by bsedlm 4y ago
unless said neighbor is the current hegemonic nation, in which case you better make sure you buy/sell oil in dollars and that your national bank is independent from your government (you know, just to be safe). i.e. if the USA invades s
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by bsedlm 4y ago
have you considered how (not "why?") was google able to give away one gigabyte of email storage to anybody before 2010s? that was not free either... what I'm trying to get at (and not very eloquently) is that a lot of that wo
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by bsedlm 4y ago
I cannot get over how many authors that article has.
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by bsedlm 4y ago
reddit actively shadowbans comments and all kinds of user created content. It was really surprising to me that they'd be shadowbanning comments I would make to reply to other people in already buried (controversial) threads.
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by bsedlm 4y ago
There's a russian artist who's made a couple of albums about "singing bronze". He plays the bronze plates, they sound a lot like bells. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsZ5RIZrNKw
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by bsedlm 4y ago
India and Pakistan are the same people and the same culture. as far as I understand, and from my own far away position (combined with "nearsightedness"), it seems to me like the India-Pakistan division was made up when the english
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by bsedlm 4y ago
> What, then, is the core engine of our own civilization, and in what way might it decay? While we lack an incontrovertible answer, the Industrial Revolution appears to be a leading candidate. I find this historically shallow (or short
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by bsedlm 4y ago
I hope you're joking. because otherwise, neo-surveillance fascism here we come.
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by bsedlm 4y ago
I counter-maintain that to force such an in-depth article down into one key point means pretending it doesn't make another handful of key points. maybe imagine this article is not one long twitter thread, but at least 8 or 9 topically
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by bsedlm 4y ago
> Key to Supiot’s legal philosophy is the distinction between government by men—typical of the feudal period, with its personal allegiances and ties of dependence—and government by law I would frame this using "government by men&q
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by bsedlm 4y ago
this is a shallow read of a really in-depth article. your comment does it no justice
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by bsedlm 4y ago
because it's exposing a scheme (for the lack of a better word) actively being used to keep (and increase) power/wealth concentration
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by bsedlm 4y ago
it really is becoming more like an experimental science than a mathematical science. it's become easier to make experiments instead of deducting things from first principles... What's really surprising, is that everything about th
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by bsedlm 4y ago
maybe i'm squinting too hard, but I see this as related to a more general attitude of imposing our will while disregarding what is already there. "why would we want to position the building according to where it is? specially when

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