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by esarbe 6y ago
Good.
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by esarbe 6y ago
Because you are not using an Adblocker.
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by esarbe 6y ago
Considering that our predatory rampage of resource extraction has brought our ecosystem to the edge of collapse, I'm not convinced that Malthus was wrong. Let's revisit this again in 50 years when we've stabilized our populat
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by esarbe 6y ago
Yes, please. Switch to FreeBSD. Every FreeBSD developer knows what a terrible idea SystemD is. https://papers.freebsd.org/2018/bsdcan/rice-the_tragedy_of_s... Joke's on you.
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by esarbe 6y ago
Do I guess correctly that your organization doesn't value clean services initialization, solid services dependencies management and reliable log handling? Well, there must be room for such organizations too. It's a colorful world
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by esarbe 6y ago
> More research on trans people is welcome, there’s fuck-all of it out there, and now the meantime, we must do our best to use what we do know to help people. I think we can agree on that.
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by esarbe 6y ago
Hey, thanks for the link! I'm not sure that the article is too relevant though, since it is about the effects of puberty blocker in treatment of precocious puberty. Which brings us to the reason why I linked to the Economist article; i
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by esarbe 6y ago
Hey, that interesting. > The whole sex vs gender debate is a literal mess. On one hand gender is a social construct if so transgenderism would never be an issue, if gender is so fluid and a “choice” then why convention therapy can’t work
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by esarbe 6y ago
Yeah, society has some weird fixations. Sex, sexuality and gender are very much taboo topics and anything that can not be put in nice little boxes is considered deviant and obviously bad. Although I think that may be changing. Since we&#x27
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by esarbe 6y ago
Blocking hormones can have just a bad effect as giving hormones. Hormones are signals for the body. I don't think we know enough about the developmental process to justify interfering with it. This is a quote from a recent article in t
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by esarbe 6y ago
I'm sorry to contradict you. We currently do not know what effect puberty blockers have. There's not enough research. It's also not true that there are no ill effects in brain developments; studies with animals have shown s
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by esarbe 6y ago
I'm answering several paragraphs at once, because here the point of contention really comes down to - to paraphrase - "But really, didn't we have capitalism before that?" > They had complex regionals supply chains, tr
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by esarbe 6y ago
I've worked in investment banks for years. These are not happy people. If you have other choices, I urge you to pursue a different career path.
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Human activity pushes nature beyond critical thresholds(economist.com)
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Around a third of Freshwater Fish worldwide threatened with extinction [pdf](wwfint.awsassets.panda.org)
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by esarbe 6y ago
Alas, there might be some truth to that.
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by esarbe 6y ago
First; thanks for the thoughtful reply. This is why I really enjoy NH. Why do you think that the "feudal mode" of production was only localized and over a short period time? I would argue that since the agricultural revolution som
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by esarbe 6y ago
Agreed. It's all about perception, not about actual value added. Just see e.g. the costs of environmental pollution that are not even considered when 'calculating' the added value.
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by esarbe 6y ago
The ship has hit the iceberg a while ago and we trifle about the variance of the dance we should all perform. Isn't it? I'm scared too.
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by esarbe 6y ago
I think you might be conflating trade with capitalism. The exchange of goods and services for a representative value (i.e. money) is not capitalism. That's just trade. Could you explain why you think that the percentage of GDP a govern
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by esarbe 6y ago
I don't understand why you think that I would write off anyone as 'stuck in the dark ages'. So I guess that might be misunderstanding my argument. I'm not demanding any actions, my point is not that everyone but me is do
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by esarbe 6y ago
I agree with your assessment. I'm afraid we are - as I mentioned further up in the thread - are just not mentally equipped to be able to process the situation we - as a species - find ourselves in.
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by esarbe 6y ago
I've come to the same conclusion.
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by esarbe 6y ago
I consider to be very convincing the theory that most of our capacity for reasoning actually revolves around the modeling of other humans' thought processes. Together with language (which allows us to 'groom' many people at o
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by esarbe 6y ago
Yes. Capitalism is not a viable survival strategy for a species.
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by esarbe 6y ago
I think if you look from a point in time of where the term 'capitalim' was initially heh coined, you will find that it very much is a hyper-capitalistic society we live in. During the time when capitalism was first named an over
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by esarbe 6y ago
I have come to the conclusion that most of my colleagues, friends neighbors and acquaintances are living in a stoically enforced willful blindness. No one in their right mind can nowadays honestly deny that we are moving, slowly but ever ac
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by esarbe 6y ago
Well, it's romantic to think that there's a higher calling for humankind. And I guess that for the story-telling narrator in our head who is interpreting and commenting the events unfolding in front of our eyes, it's just imp
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by esarbe 6y ago
It's an unfortunate consequence of our biology. We're not thinking machines, we reproduction machines. Thinking was never even tacked-on, it just was just a side-effect from our (quite amazing) capability to abstract and model the
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by esarbe 6y ago
It's the unfortunate truth that in the hyper capitalistic system we live in, everything that does not in the most direct way result in value added is demeaned, discounted and cut. And we've also seen what happened to climate scien

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