estearum

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by estearum 2mo ago
Not sure what argument you're trying to make here.
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by estearum 2mo ago
> Such complacency. I feel sure you would have assured me with equal confidence that something like January 6 2020 couldn't possibly happen before it actually did. You would be quite wrong on that front. I was warning people for mon
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by estearum 2mo ago
Imagine thinking that politicians give literally even one single fuck about non-voters' opinions lmao
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by estearum 2mo ago
This is far too complex a conversation to have at the level of abstraction you're trying to have it. Just say what you're trying to say. I don't know what "green parties" refers to across the entire globe of climate
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by estearum 2mo ago
Not really. We've made significant enough progress on this issue to prove that policy-driven progress is in fact possible. This type of cynicism is both unwarranted and unhelpful.
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by estearum 2mo ago
Not to mention there are plenty of environmental improvements that are vast and near-term quality of life improvements. The only penalty on many of these things is financial , but even that is only in the near-term, and in the medium to
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by estearum 2mo ago
It's absolutely worth voting even in a "safe" district because political mandates are won separately from political power itself. You should also volunteer for a swing district though! Very good idea.
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by estearum 2mo ago
You can vote
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by estearum 2mo ago
What's the counterfactual? That they stage an actual coup? Those are the two options. Either our political system continues, in which case yes, they will de facto give up money, power, status, and legal protection. Or our political sys
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by estearum 2mo ago
This is how all ecosystems work? This is not at all related to the problematic circular financing stuff that I suppose you're trying to allude to.
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by estearum 2mo ago
"achieved more" what? Achieved more things that humans care about? I think ants have probably achieved more things that ants care about.
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by estearum 2mo ago
The car seat thing is about how people don't have kids because they'd need to have a car that can fit 2-3-4 car seats, which is a gigantic, very expensive car. Car seat requirements prevent childbearing != giving people car seats
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by estearum 2mo ago
They'll go back to being basement-dwelling losers. But we need to make sure we prosecute and imprison every single one who committed a crime.
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by estearum 2mo ago
What? They're commentating on policy more than anything lol.
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by estearum 2mo ago
The problem is that courts are getting flooded but it's up to Congress (de facto the Republican party) to remove the source of water. But they're a mixture of exclusively cultists or cowards so they won't do it. They need to
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by estearum 2mo ago
I don't think that'd require a Constitutional amendment, would it?
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by estearum 2mo ago
Not sure what could be motivating your reasoning here, but you've ignored several times the physiological evidence of differences in visual cognition between self-reported aphantasics and non-reporters that shows up in: fMRIs, skin c
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by estearum 2mo ago
Yet you decline to offer an explanation for the observed physiological differences between people who self-report aphantasia and those who do not? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49473050 Intellectually lazy, to be h
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by estearum 2mo ago
Yeah that's totally insane to me. Interestingly, a lot of aphantasics are pretty good at spatial reasoning. It seems surprisingly non-visual. In retrospect, the earliest sign that my cognition was different was in being asked to recall
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by estearum 2mo ago
You're not reading what is being said to you. There are correlations to non self-reported phenomena. This comment names a few (despite being dead for some reason?): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475441
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by estearum 2mo ago
Yes, sorry I believe we are saying the same thing. I'm saying there are a number of physical tests like the ones you describe, and those line up with the much simpler apple imagery self-report test.
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by estearum 2mo ago
Can you explain why people who report aphantasia don't show physical responses (like sweat or pupil dilation) in response to imagined visual stimulus (like being described a scary scene), while people who report mental imagery do sho
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by estearum 2mo ago
People are saying they are phenomenologically equivalent (or close to), not that they're literally equivalent as in generated by the same mechanisms.
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by estearum 2mo ago
Do the apple test (closed eye imagination and then pick the most-similar image on the scale). It's a validated test. And yes, apparently some people actually see an apple (not me, as a total aphantasic). Whether that means in their
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by estearum 2mo ago
Yeah, this is a valid critique of the whole internal monologue idea, but interestingly aphantasia has been quite empirically confirmed and the simple apple test has been validated!
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by estearum 2mo ago
No. Article 2, Section 3 of the US Constitution: "[The President] shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" The judiciary doesn't have discretion as in it has been "granted" discretion. It de facto has
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by estearum 2mo ago
Not taking a position on either side of the underlying debate, but obviously a government has a unique obligation to its own citizens, and ideally no unique obligation to an ethnicity or race.
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by estearum 2mo ago
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/22/nx-s1-5941765/trump-immigrati... https://apnews.com/article/trump-asylum-appeals-court-ed8f8f...
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by estearum 2mo ago
...what? You're saying that insurers aren't retailing you healthcare services despite the fact they are actually retailing you healthcare services, but in some cases you can choose to not use your insurance and buy healthcare from
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by estearum 2mo ago
Well no, you're running into the fact that this administration has shown capricious (and often illegal) determination logic of who gets to come in or not. People haven't always complained about this feature/bug/whatever

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