justinpowers

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by justinpowers 5y ago
You speak with such authority on these matters. You clearly must have sources and relevant studies to back your claims. Especially given the subject matter; it’d be quite ironic otherwise. So please do share your sources…
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by justinpowers 5y ago
“Once we’re all at the bottom, then we’re all on equal footing. And effectively, relatively, socially, there no longer is a bottom or top.” - A Smirking Philosopher
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by justinpowers 5y ago
Shorthand for ”using an indoor rowing machine” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor_rower?wprov=sfti1
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by justinpowers 5y ago
Completely agree with you. I’m just continually surprised that some (many?) can so blithely disregard wealth and its concomitants when analyzing oppression in a capitalistic system.
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by justinpowers 5y ago
Does systemic oppression not include economic relegation or societal indifference to being raised in lead-contaminated homes?
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by justinpowers 5y ago
Direct link to mentioned study: https://www.pnas.org/content/119/5/e2115649119
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Cash makes baby Mozarts!!!!!!!!!(vox.com)
1 points by justinpowers 5y ago|1 comments
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by justinpowers 5y ago
Seems to me the best leader might be someone who forever feels uncomfortable and uses that positively (eg asking for advice, promoting/delegating to betters, expressing gratitude, admitting mistakes, giving due credit) rather than nega
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by justinpowers 5y ago
It sounds like you are saying that air-shipped flowers ONLY use excess capacity on already scheduled flights. And then it sounds like you are implying the same about fruits, in particular bananas in the winter. This is probably not what you
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by justinpowers 5y ago
OP is saying that it is the trauma that causes the person to “zone out and sleep walk through life”, not the resolution. He’s comparing psychedelics to any more direct resolution of the trauma itself in that they both wake the person up. In
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by justinpowers 5y ago
Each toss is independent of prior (and subsequent) tosses, so no matter what, a given tosshas 60% chance of landing heads. Rationally, one should bet heads on any given toss. But most people would agree with the irrational bet. This tendenc
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by justinpowers 6y ago
A government and its people are not equivalent. The people should not be shamed in the same manner that you would shame a government. More importantly, with your last sentence you’re implying that China and the entire eastern world is not c