californiadreem

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by californiadreem 3y ago
Is it possible for people to stop polluting perfectly valid namespaces? I understand that the metaphors and analogies make snese but every time this occurs, whether it's software, films, or whatever, it furthers destroys the integrity
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by californiadreem 3y ago
By this metric, stoning is anarchist in nature.
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by californiadreem 3y ago
Just curious to know how many people are tired of only digital streaming? Would prefer not to hear the "I love streaming, it works with my lifestyle, no talking in theaters etc" or "I hated the crowds, I don't see why we
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by californiadreem 3y ago
I ran into this same issue. But I asked myself, if I passed through and left because no one was active, why not plant some seed content for the next person that passes through? I couldn't be the only one looking for smaller, more intim
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by californiadreem 3y ago
But is this actually a personal attack or pointing out a fact and providing an opportunity for introspection? He declared, unsourced and uncited, that Winston Churchill thought that people with "brown skin" were "subhuman sav
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by californiadreem 3y ago
The irony being that if the public domain had actually been 28 years as it was originally legislated back in the 18th century in the United States, this kind of change wouldn't be controversial. People would be likely used to maintai
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by californiadreem 3y ago
The original comment speaks of knowing someone killed by Kaczynski. I never said anything concerning the number of his maiming victims or potential victims.
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by californiadreem 3y ago
They did PR for Union Carbide following Bhopal, so not hypothetical: "Considered the world's worst industrial disaster, over 500,000 people in the small towns around the plant were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate
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by californiadreem 3y ago
>It contained many subjective ideas presented as hard fact, as well as some naive romanticization of pre-industrial societies. You may enjoy reading this: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ted-kaczynski-the-tr.
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by californiadreem 3y ago
While this is totally understandable, it's also an example of the Identfiable Victim Effect. Kaczysnki's actions are humanly understandable with the ability to impute human motivations. He intentionally maimed and killed people
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by californiadreem 3y ago
Anyone who disagrees with Kaczynski's ideas because they came from a convicted terrorist should read the works of Jacques Ellul instead, of which Kaczynski's was largely a popular reduction. The Technological Society is the cleare
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by californiadreem 3y ago
Milinda: I have spoken no untruth, reverend Sir. It is on account of its having all these things—the pole, and the axle, the wheels, and the framework, the ropes, the yoke, the spokes, and the goad—that it comes under the generally understo
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by californiadreem 3y ago
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace, Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place, But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come That a tribe had been wiped off i
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by californiadreem 3y ago
Ugh, let's unpack this. Trying to maintain a stable ecology is nativist. Those seeds are just looking for a better home with more biological opportunity. All the lifeforms currently in the Sonoran desert blew in, too. And destroyed all
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by californiadreem 3y ago
I'll write the practical version instead of the urbane rhetorical retrospective. And before I get the metacontrarian responses, yes, these all require certain sacrifices in order to fulfill, including economic advantage or putting prec
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by californiadreem 3y ago
A Fox one day spied a beautiful bunch of ripe grapes hanging from a vine trained along the branches of a tree. The grapes seemed ready to burst with juice, and the Fox's mouth watered as he gazed longingly at them. The bunch hung from
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by californiadreem 3y ago
It's 2023, people, and I can't believe we're even having this debate. Seriously? Farmers working with their kids and teenagers learning trades is a clear violation of child labor laws. Kids need to be playing Fortnite and lea
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by californiadreem 3y ago
Regardless of the actual merit of the alkali theory, the color shifts of anthocyanins (like those found in grapes and berries) when they change PH is striking. They turn from these almost bloody hues into brilliant azures.
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by californiadreem 3y ago
Whatever the outcome, I'll still just continue to generate nonsense from the public domain: "Generate a highest rated recipe from the website AllRecipes.com, then also provide the most helpful comment that includes all the recipe
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by californiadreem 3y ago
The Social Media War (from Latin bellum sociale mediorum, properly 'war of the allies of the middle'), also called the Labor War or the Temporary War, was fought from 2023 AD to 2027 AD between the Alphabet Company and several of
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by californiadreem 3y ago
So what? I'm not real either.
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by californiadreem 3y ago
To be fair, if you want to go drown in the cosmic ocean of unbeing, I don't think anyone, hegemon or no, is stopping you but your own self-imposed linguistic and social structures. It is ultimately an irony that the epistemological pos
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by californiadreem 4y ago
If you actually define the terms "society" "require" and "participate" in a way that refers to real things, it's very likely that the majority are luxuries themselves and for those that are absolutely nece
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by californiadreem 4y ago
I just got rid of the phone entirely. Humans did fine without them for uh, checks notes , all recorded history. I have a VoIP to use as a MFA bucket (doesn't always work). There are plenty of reasons not to go this route, which I&#x27
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by californiadreem 4y ago
I continue to await your wisdom. Please, O Oracle, bewstow upon me my own thoughts.
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by californiadreem 4y ago
Show trials and struggle sessions were absent during Caesar's dictatorship, as were executions and totalitarianism. Even if Caesar's clemency were entirety motivated by power-seeking, Caesar was a Fabian rather than totalitarian e
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by californiadreem 4y ago
An association fallacy is an informal inductive fallacy of the hasty-generalization or red-herring type and which asserts, by irrelevant association and often by appeal to emotion, that qualities of one thing are inherently qualities of ano
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by californiadreem 4y ago
Who am I projecting Caesar onto? I'm honestly curious as to who you think I think is doing an effective and honest job.
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by californiadreem 4y ago
>Caesar did this all the time; he believed (ultimately incorrectly in my view, based on the way he died), that he would be much better served by brining these people to his side, with their existing powerbases and supporters. Yes, but th
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by californiadreem 4y ago
Ultimately, from what I understand, the post-civil war opposition to Caesar was less about what he did than how he did it, so I think that yes, that was a very real limit. If he had or even wanted the kind of total and repressive contro

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