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by danharaj 7y ago
The LGBTQ community originated the concept of "Chosen Family", people you willfully make a connection with as deep as blood family ties. As you can imagine, this is a particularly pressing need for people who are forcefully severe
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It's not that the record was broken once. It's that it keeps getting broken. Do you feel smart setting up strawmen just to knock them down?
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Start with Forcing https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/forcing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forcing_(mathematics)
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How do you think all those European Americans got there? And, modern nation states are very new. For example, France drove to extinction or near extinction all languages besides French spoken in what is now present day France through gov
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You realize civilization is older than 120 years right?
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Which means that you're taking as the neutral stance to not have a concern with arbitrary detention of asylum seekers. You have implicitly taken a position on who has the burden of justifying themselves. Do you see how people can take
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It's not the size of the group, it's whether they hold arbitrary power over others.
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Don't be coy. Your question comes with the framing you choose for it; people would rather you be more forthright about it.
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Strict immigration control is a relatively modern phenomenon, and you should reevaluate your viewpoint if you find it so easy to justify putting children in cages. Scratch that, justify other people putting children in cages. Most people
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Well, originally economy referred to the maintenance of the household to the benefit of its members. That was circa Aristotle. Binary search from there?
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Try to remember when economic activity served human life instead of the other way around.
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The dark secret is that no social media company would clamp down on such a lucrative source of user engagement. A lot of the early adoption of social media platforms is by young people and... well, you see?
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They are particles of an effective field theory which approximates the quantum phenomena in a piece of matter at a particular energy and length scale.
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Funny how anything widely adopted before I was born seems timeless and yet so much of it is quite new.
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How did you get good?
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The ancient solution is to pair them with rice or wheat.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/malta-car-bomb... Clarification: one of the journalists
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Remember that the journalist who exposed the panama papers was killed in a car bomb.
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It would perhaps be a relief from the viciousness of close quarters living if we lived on a hyperbolic surface rather than a puny sphere. Make a day's hike away from brutal conflict, take a detour, and never be accosted again.
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So which politics are OK and which aren't? They're both politics even if they're "orthogonal".
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If you don't consider unions a political issue then what is your definition of politics? The organization of labor is one of the central pillars of civilization and has been political since time immemorial.
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"leave your politics at home" while working for a company that is shaping tomorrow's society. that is to say, adopt the politics of your boss at work. i don't like that.
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The blunt reason is that this article was written for mathematics grad students who already know that symplectic manifolds are a hot topic via diffusion.
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Is "any hamiltonian dynamics on any phase space of a physical system" not a major enough class of problems for you? This is one way mathematicians study physics. Are you asking for applications of symplectic geometry? If so, here,
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> (In classic mechanics, particularly, there is an unusual symmetry to position and velocity, such that the laws of mechanics look roughly a rotation x -> v, v -> -x, which is why this works so well.) In fact, every symplectic mani
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The uncertainty principle shouldn't be regarded as the fact that you cannot exactly and simultaneously know both the position and momentum of a particle. It should be regarded as the fact that such a concept doesn't even make sens
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The history of the world is not ergodic.
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Capitalism vores everything.
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I read her books.
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Adrian Shephard's still lying around tho :^)

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