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by jshevek 7y ago
Thank you
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I agree regarding obviousness, marketing, difficulties of poverty, and doable challenges. I'm not convinced about "most poor people" and exceptions making the news. I've lived in several very poor communities in severa
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You are absolutely correct, but it can sound to a reader lacking nuance as if you were arguing that other factors (outside the mind) aren't important. Many people suffer from the prison of two ideas, and wrongly misinterpret this ar
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Thank you for posting this. Long ago I investigated how cheaply I could eat. I researched nutritional needs, created a spreadsheet, priced items at the supermarket. It was easy to keep myself well fed at a cost far below standard assistanc
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by jshevek 7y ago
I am a fan of fasting, keto, and IF. But a sudden loss of daily calories for the unprepared can be severely physiologically damaging for many, no matter how much you have stored.
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by jshevek 7y ago
> in light of the sudden downvote withoutcomment, you kinda feel I have felt similarly in the past, in similar situations. Play it through though, in a variety of cases, and we see why it's not just allowed, but a good thing.
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Presumptions are not prefaced by "if", hypotheticals are.
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If you disagree with the parent, you could courteously exert the small effort to explain why directly and briefly.
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by jshevek 7y ago
"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
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by jshevek 7y ago
> replying instead of blind downvote because antisemitisim has many forms it seems, even here :( [It damages the conversation when people assume] racism when there is no evidence of racism.
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I don't know how many people have a valid medical need to avoid gluten, but I do know that in certain subcultures it is popular to imagine one has a gluten intolerance. Edit: Just discovered spurious accusations of racism in this thr
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I'd have a lot more faith in this story if I could see the memo for myself. Vice is not above twisting people's words and taking them out of context.
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No, things have gone from bad to terrible in the internet era.
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I'm also interested. I was paying attention to memes during that period and don't remember any which fit.
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When I see someone earnestly citing the WHO to make a point I'm usually a bit nonplussed. This site has a culture of expectation that we make substantial responses, but how you respond substantially to irrelevancies like this? The be
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> If you are trying to convince someone of your opinion, you are failing Are you speaking for yourself or for other people? If for other people, how do you know?
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> I've yet to come across someone who is critical of NVC but can provide something better. This makes sense from the perspective of seeking single, coherent, generalized system. If you embrace the chaos, complexity, and diversity
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Thank you for your response. Would you agree that introspection and character development are important parts of a healthy NVC process? That an individual's application of NVC suffers without it?
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This is an obvious and trivial observation which misses the point of my statement. In my experience, the vast majority of NVC practitioners use NVC as a weapon to manipulate others by righteously invoking "universal needs" while
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> If you cannot state your need without judgmental comments (blaming others, etc), you are not going to get far in solving the problem. This is not universally true, but you state it as if it is. > Your problems are valid, but you ha
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In theory, it seems like nvc should enable higher degrees of emotional authenticity and transparency, but in practice, at least in my experience, it seems to do the opposite for most people. Anecdotally, the vast majority of the nvc people
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by jshevek 7y ago
I respect your skepticism, but I agree with catalogia in that I get the impression that you "have some wrong ideas about how evolutionary biology works" Evolution is a fact, but many people's individual mental models of evolu
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I've learned through personal experience that it's not sufficient to discuss this with a professional biologist. I've found several biology PhDs ill prepared for this topic. I discovered that even at the PhD level some bi
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Listening to politicians debate this year has reminded me how most people's mental models of the world remain firmly stuck in the decades of their youth.
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I agree with you, but please know that commenting on downvotes is likely to bring downvotes from people who otherwise wouldn't. One of the site rules discourages commenting on votes.
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This is another form of poisoning the well. Please do not do this.
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You've copy pasted the same text twice in this thread. You are literally spamming your support for [someone who lied about throttling then attacked, via despicable rhetorical methods, attacked an organization for bringing the truth to
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by jshevek 7y ago
The parent is trolling. https://www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrect-quotation.en.html > A quotation circulates on the Internet, attributed to me, but it wasn't written by me.
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When you copy paste something, you should indicate so. Ideally you should source the quote. The above text is a fabricated quote wrongly attributed to RMS. https://www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrect-quotation.en.html
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Shutdown won't delay long enough for a vaccine, but it has already delayed long enough for improved treatment capacity and possibly improved treatments. Every day of delay increases the chances of treatments being more available and be

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