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by detcader 7y ago
The "language and religion" bit bugs me: How do you know if any collection of individuals' prejudices has ever caused war when it could be the invisible hand of capitalist economics? It's invisible. If I claimed slavery
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I like the job Nathan Robinson did on this topic with his essay "Service With A Smile" at Current Affairs: > In every restaurant, except a buffet (and I am not pro-buffet), I feel like an aristocrat who pays someone to put on h
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by detcader 7y ago
NASA's yearly budget is over $20 billion
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by detcader 7y ago
I like the first sentence, but what's "like that" doing in there?
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Glenn Greenwald becomes focus of Brazil press freedom debate(washingtonpost.com)
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"The Dispossessed" by Le Guin was helpful for me to think about these problems, which I found went deeper than I thought as a younger person. "IOU"...who is owed? Who owes? Who needs milk?
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by detcader 7y ago
"Mental health in the 40's" was women who deviated from expectations of public behavior, intercourse and reproduction being placed in institutions and forced to take hallucinogenic drugs. It's alarming to hear that night
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by detcader 7y ago
Thanks to you and bluejekyll! I am understanding it a bit better with the breakdown
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What background does one need to understand the "4.4.8.8.in-addr.arpa" paragraphs? I'm a career web developer who took a networking course many years ago but "timely inversion," "DNS zone," what "publ
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by detcader 8y ago
I'm interested in how this taxonomy of discussion works... can you define the lines between what is "fair" discussion, "talking points" "trolling" and "garbage"? Like, where does criticism of Isr
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by detcader 8y ago
Talks given by this person includes "Attention: Is your diet causing your ADHD?" and "Beyond Medication: How to Improve Mood, Attention and Memory Through Diet." I hope you caught her talk at the "Boulder Carnivore
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by detcader 8y ago
I'm happily surprised that the model has been mentioned at all... it's worth diving into the motivation. The moral reasoning behind non-conservative, sex-positive proponents of the model is in asking: from the perspective of the b
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by detcader 8y ago
I hope you're never categorized as a bad actor for a view you develop by your friends or fellow activists. From what I can tell, the bleeding-edge version of the line between honest soul and bad actor is under continuous deployment...
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by detcader 8y ago
I am usually radically Greenwaldian in arguing against deplatforming of any and all legal political speech on internet platforms, but it feels like a different set of principles apply in this case. To me GoFundMe is not a common platform fo
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by detcader 8y ago
I think the hardest thing for folks is actually arguing that speech X, Y, and Z are hateful, because all people of every political background who log online seem to want to do is legislate others into silence or post innuendo and memes abou
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by detcader 8y ago
That's an understandable reaction! But I won't be unpersoning people, especially those who themselves make a hobby out of looking for more people to unperson.
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by detcader 8y ago
Zaid Jilani made a point this week about how AIPAC isn't actually that powerful, rather BDS just doesn't try that hard to lobby and get the right people elected. I guess the BDS movement is going to have to get itself hired Facebo
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by detcader 8y ago
For me biographies are easier, like The Man Who Loved Only Numbers. Sometimes I make Anki flash cards for interesting facts, it can serve as a motivational factor for continuing on. I feel non-fiction books are supposed to engaged with; I a
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by detcader 8y ago
Why would I want to buy a house at all, much less with other people? Some anecdata and heuristics incoming: I know someone who owns his house and he had a plumbing problem in his basement recently; huge pain and expense. Folks in their 20s
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by detcader 8y ago
> Attacking the image of God in the human is abominable, but this need not be a literal attack. Rather, a literal attack names but one species of the genus ‘domination,’ a broader category in which one imposes an arbitrary will on anothe
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by detcader 8y ago
That makes sense. However (and this is just my isolated experience) I found some good teachings in Feynman in my teens/early 20s without really ending up mimicking his style or behaviors. Some anecdotes in Surely You're Joking wer
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by detcader 8y ago
I think "populism" from us liberals is a euphemism for "whiteness," as in the socially constructed club called "whites." At least partially? I don't keep up with a lot of mainstream liberal writing these d
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by detcader 8y ago
Ah, so who is going to force the C-section/normal birth to happen? The authorities, with guns? If that scene is ok with someone, that's where I'd disagree with them, because it's clearly cruel. There's countless sit
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by detcader 8y ago
The BBC writer uses the phrase "forms of behaviour that conflict with deeply held moral principles" to assumably define moral decision making paradox. One could also add "being hypocrites" to make a sort of definition tr
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by detcader 8y ago
Well, cool, that's where the disagreement is. If some woman I don't know says there's no alternative, I'm going to believe her because I don't know her.
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by detcader 8y ago
We see all kinds of moral decision making paradoxes: when men act against homosexuality and then later come out as always having been gay, when religious leaders abuse people sexually... I think morality is just fluid for most people, when
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by detcader 8y ago
In my experience vegans and vegetarians generally don't think any killing of suffering beings is automatically wrong, we think killing them when alternatives exist is wrong...
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by detcader 8y ago
I find it interesting where we as makers put our optimism and our pessimism. We post about space exploration and gene editing. We say "just wait for what humankind can do with this! Soon no one will have to have any disease, and space
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by detcader 8y ago
I should say that your previous comment has points I think are good ones! I just don't think it's a pie in the sky idea imagining a world where younger people can bring compassion, patience and kindness to an older population even
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by detcader 8y ago
Good thing war and military culture is not depressing, alienating and suicide-inducing. The opportunity to help and care for other people is a great gift. Killing or culling individuals, populations... directly affects everyone's spiri

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