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by manifestsilence 7y ago
23 hours involuntary solitary confinement is legit confirmed psychological torture. Self-inflicting that is either self-harm or else you are doing meaningful activities indoors and it's not the same thing at all.
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
I think what you said about condoms highlights a key historical difference. Throughout most of humanity's moral development, there was no such thing as protection, against STDs or pregnancy, other than the rhythm method or induced abor
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Absolutely! The same way we say you have to hash and salt passwords so they're not useful for cross-site breaches, it's even more important for any other piece of information that is used to verify identity. Especially since these
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
That the market is manipulable should be evident from the quantity of money that is spent on lobbying legislators about it, and how much opposition there is to unions. Belief in a totally free and natural self-regulating market is just as b
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Absolutely! I still tend to stop and edit and overthink way too much to finish longer things, so tomorrow I'm starting https://nanowrimo.org/ to attempt to actually finish a novel draft without any second guessing. It&
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Yeah, fair enough. I have found sonnets and sestinas to be really interesting ways to explore ideas, too, because of their structure. I suppose the level and kinds of restrictions you self-impose affect the kind of space you explore. Both a
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Wow, that's an epic freewrite! Some really great phrases in there, too
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Heeeeeeeeere's Johnny!!!!!
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
I agree, totally. But I think that 20 minutes of journaling per day is really valuable even if it's not for work optimization.
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
A lot of people say handwriting is fundamentally better, but I much prefer typing because I can keep up with the flow of my thoughts more, and find I catch a higher percentage of the thoughts that are occurring. YMMV
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Haha, yes! It only becomes problematic when I click post before doing the editing step...
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Black Perl is a thing of beauty and genius.
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Agreed. For more modern ones, Dessa and Kate Tempest are also really great.
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Robert Bly did a collection of haiku with essays accompanying them that's good.
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
I love poetry, but think this advice is slightly off. A better way to get un-stuck is free-writing. Just write whatever comes to mind without stopping. If you hesitate, just write "I don't know what to write" - anything to ke
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Here's a short essay on it I wrote a long time ago. I would rewrite a lot of this now for general quality, but I think my thesis is sound: https://albertstimson.wordpress.com/2015/01/23/why-poetry/
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Very cool! I'd like to add that: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/ also has an email list for poem of the day. I may do both. :)
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
It's tempting to think one can come up with objective measures of musical complexity, but the problem is the number of dimensions musical complexity exists in: Many people who listen to classical (in the more general sense of the word
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
This one is kind of contrived, but a work of mad genius. Mandelbrot code that resembles Mandelbrot, in Python 2: _ = ( 255,
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
This is why Python uses Timsort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timsort
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Except humans aren't rational actors, driven by statistics, and obviously the women who were murdered can't be interviewed. But if there are more stories out there about women being murdered by a partner, and the stories are ampli
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
It can become wrong to use words the old way. Try throwing a "fag" on the fire...
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Well here's the thing: if you're talking about socially presented traits of a person, you're talking about gender. If you're needing to use the word sex, it means you're talking about the difference in shape of a pe
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
It's not a trend, it's an increase in scientific understanding. Language is fluid, or we would all be speaking some variant of old German on this forum (try reading Beowulf in the original). It's not grammar, it's semant
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
I think the chat in this example still basically counts as synchronous, and the issue is more to do with people being poor at organizing their ideas in text vs. spoken conversation. Truly asynchronous communication would force them to put t
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Ok, fair enough. I have enough other reasons to be against roundup without needing to cling to believing it's carcinogenic. Thanks! For the record, the other reasons are to do with the larger ecological impact of roundup-based practice
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
As a contrary data-point, I'm an increasingly luddite programmer who doesn't care at all about 5G, but I live in a town that is kind of a hotbed for conspiracy stuff and I tire of the latest scare always going round without a plau
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Agreed, but there are plenty of factors with a better-explained causal mechanism than non-ionizing radiation. Like the three you listed. My money is on diet and pesticides/preservatives/etc. being another big one. With this, too,
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
This comment explains precisely why the dismissal from so many here. Correlational studies without a plausible causal mechanism are highly suspect. As an illustration, people have used obviously bogus examples like, in the past 100 years, p
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Having just read the other thread, this gave me a great moment of confusion and deja vu as the two trains of thought entangled in my mind. Kudos. :)

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