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by lukas099 1y ago
> The Black community began using the word Juneteenth for Jubilee Day early in the 1890s. [1] I thought it was a neologism until I looked it up. Turns out, I'm just white. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junet
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by lukas099 1y ago
This is vibe-based, but I think the Rationalists get more vitriol than they deserve. Upon reflecting, my hypothesis for this is threefold: 1. They are a community —they have an in-group, and if you are not one of them you are by-definition
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On the other hand, bio is the branch of science with a single accepted "theory of everything": evolution.
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Last I looked into it, the tire companies were looking at making rubber from dandelions, somehow. Seemed like it would be great if it actually became viable.
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I think they mean they don't emit a "natural" orange (like an orange flower) that is really some kind of sum of many wavelengths. I could be wrong though.
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Yes, I should have added 'bullying' to the 'dissing' explanation. It was certainly that too.
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by lukas099 1y ago
I don't think it's auto-censorship as much as language changing. For me, 'retard' is 99% associated with my friends dissing each other as kids, and 1% associated with 'delay'.
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by lukas099 1y ago
M$ used to be an appropriate name for Microsoft. It still is, but it used to be, too.
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But that’s making your simulation deliberately less interesting, no?
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> Attributing that to a divine intervention is the most probable explanation. You lost me here. It seems humans have a predisposition to believe in divine beings, so this just sounds like taking human biases as a basis for truth. What&#x
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This reminds me of what Jordan Peterson does, which is to define "God" as something that we know exists. He defines it as the fundamental value upon which other values are built; you define it as consciousness. I've always th
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The gods in different cultures aren't just named differently, have different properties.
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To me, calling the unknown "God" is imposing a term loaded with human preconception and biases in exactly the place you don't want those things.
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by lukas099 1y ago
To quote the philosopher Hank Hill, "Yeah, yeah, I know, everything is one way, then it's the opposite."
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by lukas099 1y ago
Yes. Who are these people paying for jobs that don't do anything, and why are they more concerned about "keeping people busy" than their own profits?
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by lukas099 1y ago
I never thought either of them was a shoo-in, especially Harris. Was that really a consensus?
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The surname thing was extremely common even outside of sports at my high school.
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Hell I’d take a pub. Bring back the neighborhood pub.
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> But the overall problem isn't cars, it's individual traffic in densely populated areas. I disagree; it’s cars.
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My take was that other animals didn’t exist either, in the story.
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Experience of encountering things that were previously unknown unknowns would teach it of the general existence of such things.
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Sounds like every group of people ever, when viewed through the biased sample of “people who post”.
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It’s a belief about a great future change, but there’s nothing supernatural or totally implausible about it. And it doesn’t sound like they were preaching it as the absolute truth, but were open that it was just their belief. Also, no socia
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by lukas099 1y ago
Yes, it was the same with nukes, each side had to build them because the other side was building them.
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Pretty sure Kagi’s users are disproportionately software workers by a large margin, though.
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Move fast and break kids
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Have you never grown a plant? They grow towards the light. If there’s not enough light, they grow tall and leggy. This isn’t revolutionary.
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But the issue also causes male infertility, so that can’t be why it’s so prevalent. This is discussed in the article.
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by lukas099 1y ago
It’s not ignorant to point out the main reason that trees in cultivation are shorter, which is that there is no need for them to grow tall. They’re also a lot greater in trunk diameter, fwiw.
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A lot of the tech research and investment is done by governments, though.

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