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by cam_l 8y ago
>Are they? Yes, they can be.. providing you are comparing apples with apples. According to [0]. But that is not really satisfying without numbers is it? So lets take the first example linked in your reddit post. The Potsdamer Palace. It
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by cam_l 8y ago
Aesthetics is not architecture! Not sure how much clearer i can be. Talking about architectural aesthetics is like discussing the success of Amazon or Google by way of the colour palette of their website. The articles argument is about the
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by cam_l 8y ago
It started life as a style called internationalist. It is brought to you by the same people that champion open plan offices. They are cheaper to build than traditional style buildings, by an order of magnitude. But critically allow for maxi
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by cam_l 8y ago
Have a look at heatherwick's buildings. Tell me what you think. Nobody does architectural criticism anymore. In the industry it is all breathless, feint praise. Like the Hollywood cliché. I for one, enjoy hearing someone's critica
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by cam_l 8y ago
>you should not get to make medical decisions that are proven to cause serious problems for others just to eliminate a minuscule risk to yourself. I wonder why this position does not inform people's view on other things in life, lik
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by cam_l 8y ago
I would recommend you read some of Bolt's work for you to understand exactly how off base your comment (though perfectly reasonable in abstract) is, when applied to Bolt in particular. Though in truth, i would not wish such a fate on m
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by cam_l 8y ago
Dang's Razor: "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without comment."
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by cam_l 8y ago
Fully agree, but i think the crux is you cannot have an individual without a system. Which i think the Right don't really understand. And of course the left speak as if the individual is theoretical when looking at the system.
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by cam_l 8y ago
They are just the ones you remember.
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by cam_l 8y ago
There is a link in one of the comments above by theoh. There is reasonable evidence to suggest the urinal was not even his work, but of a friend of his for which he (eventually, much to her dismay) took credit. Edit: And also.. I see the co
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by cam_l 8y ago
You have touched on what i think is the critical underlying difference between Left and Right thinking. Systemic responsibility vs personal responsibility. The thing is, they are not mutually exclusive. They are more like two sides of the s
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by cam_l 8y ago
Windows XP..
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by cam_l 8y ago
Everything that contradicts my point of view is an exception, everything that confirms it is proof. Since there are a lot of poor people, and few privileged, i get a lot of proof and very few exceptions.
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by cam_l 8y ago
Wow, you are hilarious. Perhaps i should not have engaged with your original troll. I just thought it funny that it included the most misguided of arguments. There surely are plenty of other, real arguments you could have used (which might
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by cam_l 8y ago
I'm sorry you cannot read, or argue in good faith.
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by cam_l 8y ago
1. I was specifically replying to the flagged poster (flagged for good reason as they are being derisive without warrant), who let on that they did not actually mean to reply to my post. 2. Not wiggling, fuck i am not saying anything at all
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by cam_l 8y ago
The paper i posted makes no such claims. It build up an idea of human consciousness as an emergence from the inherent properties of the interactions of elements, chemical bonds and environment. That human consciousness is a function of the
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by cam_l 8y ago
Except you were not replying to the nautilus article, you were replying to the one i posted by Grosz. You might like to have a read of it, it does not makes the claims you are suggesting.
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by cam_l 8y ago
My favourite explanation of the emergence of consciousness inherent in matter is an article by Elizabeth Grosz. It makes an argument for what i guess is a version of panpsychism that sounds, philosophically, very practical. http:/&#x2
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by cam_l 8y ago
If they marketed it as a bludgeoning tool.. Yes.
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by cam_l 8y ago
It always irked me that in gym you were asked to do things without any instruction. Kick this ball, get a grade. But then it occurred to me that is how most kids felt with maths. Ie. Mindless busywork to set you up for a lifetime hating it.
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by cam_l 8y ago
We have had 30+ years of skepticism in coal power, which made near enough to approximately fuck all difference (until perhaps very recently). I would suggest the historical stagnation of nuclear has sfa to do with activism and quite a lot t
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by cam_l 8y ago
This is absolutely true, a sort of tragedy of the commons for the elite. We should institute a sort of 'enclosure' on the means of production, just to protect them from themselves.
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by cam_l 8y ago
This is what is known colloquially as 'shooting the messenger'. You are putting blame in the wrong people. We are being trained to filter out BS precisely because of the misinformation levelled against scientists to discredit them
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by cam_l 8y ago
Sure, Hiroshima was no worse than Dresden or Tokyo. I respectfully disagree that it was justified, I take the view all three are war crimes. I fully understand that a lot of people believe Hiroshima was necessary. And at the time I am sure
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by cam_l 8y ago
Oh, thanks, had momentarily forgotten Oppenheimer(!?) ..that is about as strong an act of atonement one could make. I have actually read a lot about it (though it may not seem that way), along with the justifications and reasons etc. I beli
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by cam_l 8y ago
I think it is both helpful and wise with the benefit of hindsight to understand the banality of mass murder. It was not just the Germans who were doing it. Sociopathy describes very well (outwardly at least, it is a cultural term not a psyc
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by cam_l 8y ago
>If you're an adult thinking in terms of an abstract blueprint of a weapon.. You are probably not making mines. I don't know. It makes perfect sense to me the kind of mass murdering sociopath capable of working on such a device
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by cam_l 8y ago
Best way to hide a conspiracy..
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by cam_l 8y ago
"People Think They Are Thinking When They Are Merely Rearranging Their Prejudices" -author contested

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