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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
I think the clearest distinguishing line that can be broadly drawn, is between followers of theistic and non-theistic Satanism. The latter do tend towards being the awfully nice people you've been describing, who are always making sure
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
The Church of Satan is just a way of selling libertarian humanism to the dissaffected children of middle class Christians, by inverting some biblical tropes and going woo a lot though. I tend to think of actual Satanists to be more like the
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
>in no way is an upright pentagram 'Satanic'. Broadly speaking, though I think it does depend on context. For instance, if practicing Satanists have attached a sacrificial victim to an upright pentagram, in order to worship Sat
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
I wonder if you can make them 1D, so you have cells comprised of channels with a lithium whisker at either end, then you shuttle ions up the channel in between the whiskers and they can't get lost.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
Oh this is fun. I'm going to wait just a little longer...
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
One of the clear messages I get from looking at the past couple of thousand years of history is that I should really try and avoid getting hung up on symbols. Also looking to history, it is remarks such as this that will probably lead to th
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
So that explains why religion, rock music and the dollar never became particularly popular. I did wonder.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
As to why it became occult, one of my favourite versions is that phi was used for engineering and one of the easiest ways to get phi is to draw a pentagram, but this was a trade secret, so one of the first things you do when drawing plans f
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
The automatic status of property rights and protection by both government and industry inherent within the long established framework of IP is very functionally different in nature from a labourer attempting to arrange an adhoc right to pay
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
Arrr... (that's probably enough)
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
There seems to be a global movement against migration, which is in one sense pretty funny. I kinda like the ones who think they are vikings, 'vikings against migration' , being one of the most wonderous concepts of the modern age
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
>How does this particular issue trace back to Trump exactly? Well, I'm feeling lucky, so I think I'll pick; 'The increase in frequency directly following his election campaign promises and attempts as President, to instit
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
I have some friends who have severe mental health problems. The shit they can come out with on their social media can be pretty, well, mental. If this is the standard that everybody is put to, then I could easily find it very hard to get a
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
I don't think that anyone is calling for a college admissions department to be the sole arbiter of who is good in the world. Mind you, if I had to choose between a college admissions department and US immigration officials as the sole
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
One thing that seems fairly obvious is that HN tends to neuter political discussions that upset certain sides within certain geographies. Discussing the current politics of Hong Kong or Brazil is much more accepted than US migration or Brex
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
Run the live video feeds from the vehicles through a style transfer AI that has been trained on Mario Kart, then secretly stream the result to a mobile app disguised as a free taxi driving game. All the app needs is a feature where the app
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
> SpaceX's stated goal is "occupy Mars". That does give them a fair amount of leeway when outsiders are trying to judge them on methods. Is also a hubris trap if not incredibly careful.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
Sounds like a great material for floating arcologies.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
This looks amazing. Started reading a translation - https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20180101/html.php
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
Aww, my first thought was food packaging that auto-sublimates after opening.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
The first one, less so. Explaining what you are doing to someone (as long as they get the basics) can be a great way to cement your understanding of what you are currently doing.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
>English doesn't do that—instead, it goes with the foreign spelling first It only does that with accented letters that are otherwise shared in a common alphabet and then only sometimes. In your desire for a rule that you like, you a
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
>I've still seen no hint of the legal system directly grappling with this problem. It just keeps getting worse. I've been keeping my eyes out but I haven't seen anything. IP is modern capitalism's goose that lays the
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
One of the many wonders of policy based evidence is that if the policy goes tits up, you can still always blame whichever profession you cherry picked.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
> We need to stop thinking that the conquest was the worst thing that ever happened to these local people Unfortunately it is rather difficult to make such a comparison, as the conquistadors eliminated so many of the written artifacts a
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
I hope it unfolds into a little tent.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
Currently he seems to be focussing on an interesting cross between a hydrogen fuel cell and a heat engine. http://www.johnsonems.com
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
Was it better in the old days?
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
To be fair, they have always done an awful job of selling books. edit - 'Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle' - https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18am...
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
I don't think they really knew where they were located in the first place, then headed for somewhere that they were not equipped to get to. They've always been lost.

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