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by ctrlp 3y ago
I don't think there is a point where we were not already in societies. Society is what is natural to man. I agree on this with Aristotle: "Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidenta
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by ctrlp 3y ago
I appreciate your points and why one might want such things. I don't, however, think it's possible for the government to enforce a few minimal, overarching "rights" except over populations capable of self-governance. I
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by ctrlp 3y ago
The government/society is already regulating vices. It really is just a question of who gets to decide what is a vice and what is not. Propositions that reference "human or civil rights" are begging the question. What are &qu
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by ctrlp 3y ago
"Do your own research" is generally the correct response to someone trolling. (Asking for "some online references" is a classic troll.) If you're actually a serious person, it's your lucky day. I enjoy a good c
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by ctrlp 3y ago
I hope you're capable of doing a modicum of your own research. It wouldn't be hard to find a thread and pull on it.
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by ctrlp 3y ago
It would take a bit of time to explain why a society might not want to legalize, regulate, and tax vice. You might also want to do a deep dive into Libertarianism and consider whether it has ever made sense or could make sense for any socie
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by ctrlp 3y ago
"Lord, give me chastity and continence, but not yet!"
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by ctrlp 3y ago
The essayist sounds like a typical academic subversive. She offers no answers or theories, only questions, aka "...the politics of X" . In other words, she only "problematizes". Let's see: She offers a clinical yet
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by ctrlp 3y ago
News is the machine that manufactures opinion. If you don't read the news you will still be subject to mainline opinion and its policy consequences. It's probably more accurate, if no less unhappy, to read the news as primarily pr
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by ctrlp 3y ago
The original comment stated that Germany was responsible for starting the two World Wars, not Austria. But to describe Austria as "a clearly aggressive country" is totally inadequate to an accurate view of this history. Austria wa
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Germany didn't "launch" WWI. WWI was "launched" by political and revolutionary pressures triggering a complex of alliances in Europe and the Ottoman Empire. WWII had similarly complex causes. It's a ridiculous
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Tell us you know nothing about history without saying you know nothing about history.
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by ctrlp 3y ago
In what sense has he "gone off the deep end"? Why was he once a hero of yours but no longer?
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by ctrlp 3y ago
"I wish to dedicate this flight to the people of the new communist society, which we are already entering, to our great Motherland, and to our science" And make sure the secret police have no reason to suspect you
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by ctrlp 4y ago
So what? Beautiful objects were often made for rich people. In what sense does that invalidate their aesthetic qualities rather than confirm them? Average people famously have little sense of beauty. Average people don't make art.
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by ctrlp 4y ago
After 20+ years as a professional dev I suppose I can safely pronounce on software development and it is pretty rotten compared even to when I started programming in the mid 1990s, which may already have been after the truly beautiful age o
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by ctrlp 4y ago
What would it be a parody of satire of?
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by ctrlp 4y ago
Honestly, you could read all the greatest books several times in a life with a habit of reading and a good prioritization. Many great books are pleasurable but many pleasures are acquired. The pleasures of middle age are not the pleasures o
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by ctrlp 4y ago
Many people wouldn't get far into the great works of literature with this approach. Many worthwhile books are "difficult pleasures" but the pleasure might not come until after experiencing a lot of pain. Things that are worth
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by ctrlp 4y ago
Article neglected to add that all the online writing is the same.
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by ctrlp 4y ago
The fact your "average" person can't afford premium information is the point. Truth is free to those who can afford it, very expensive to those who can't.
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by ctrlp 4y ago
ok, shoot. $5/mo per sub. Pick three for your $15 budget and a few freebies. I submit it is not sufficient merely to know that non-MSM narratives exist to have the skills sufficient to detect military-grade influence campaigns.
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by ctrlp 4y ago
copypasta from where?
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by ctrlp 4y ago
Access to authentic diverse viewpoints is a luxury good you must pay for. Everyone who would be accurately informed must fund their own private intelligence service. The legacy media of a "multitude of voices" under one imprint is
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by ctrlp 4y ago
This is a pretty strange way to think about viewpoints. Fringe as opposed to what? The "common" view of things in the modern media environment is highly manufactured. To have a knee-jerk filter that privileges the mainstream conse
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by ctrlp 4y ago
I used to buy jewelry made from old computer parts from a seller on the local arts and crafts circuit. The pieces made fantastic gifts for the right person and neat conversation pieces. The artist's husband had been in military IT for
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by ctrlp 4y ago
Good book on this topic by Jim Holt: "Why Does the World Exist? (An Existential Detective Story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Does_the_World_Exist%3F
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by ctrlp 4y ago
This line of reasoning is very popular but I don't see how people take it seriously. Twitter (and other major social media platforms) have become de facto "government instrumentalities" under the dual effect of pressures from
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Trudeau is the spitting image of his biological father both in appearance and approach to government. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
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by ctrlp 5y ago
For anyone looking for a non-precious, well-designed analog companion for work, I've really enjoyed using David Seah's Emergent Task Planner notepads [0]. They're great if you've got a busy day interspersed with meetings

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