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by nataliste 1y ago
As I've been told for the last decade, "everything is political" therefore NPR can't provide unbiased or neutral coverage of anything, therefore there should be no federal funding of NPR or PBS. Ideologues and corpiratio
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by nataliste 1y ago
Funny, I was told "if a Nazi sits down at a table of ten people, there are eleven Nazis at that table" for years (and in particular by NPR listeners), but suddenly there's now a use/mention distinction for platforming ex
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by nataliste 1y ago
I finally got fed up yesterday and wrote a userscript so I can just silently block the offenders, their links, and their comments in perpetuity. It's a load off my mind.
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by nataliste 2y ago
Oh, no. Don't do that. Europe footing its own bill for its own defense and increasing their industrial output is the last thing Donald Trump wants. Really.
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by nataliste 2y ago
>It is heartbreaking what happened to a generation of men. Uh-huh. Which of these predictions made in 2015/2016 came true by 2020 when Donald Trump left office? * Donald Trump will cause a stock market crash. * Donald Trump will sta
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by nataliste 2y ago
* xXx_nataliste420_xXx is now playing In the End by Linkin Park [3:36] [Playing] [played 467 times] [Nu-Metal]
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by nataliste 2y ago
Curious: Do you think J.D. Vance unintentionally dog-whistling a Scott Alexander article when he's on the Joe Rogan podcast was orchestrated or just what happened?[0] --- [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex
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by nataliste 2y ago
This dynamic is not exclusive to those claiming to be part of an insular community of freethinkers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25667362
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by nataliste 2y ago
What exactly do you mean?
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by nataliste 2y ago
Sophistry is actually really really old: >In the second half of the 5th century BCE, particularly in Athens, "sophist" came to denote a class of mostly itinerant intellectuals who taught courses in various subjects, speculate
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by nataliste 2y ago
A Wolf had stolen a Lamb and was carrying it off to his lair to eat it. But his plans were very much changed when he met a Lion, who, without making any excuses, took the Lamb away from him. The Wolf made off to a safe distance, and then sa
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by nataliste 2y ago
>He has plans to travel to the desert soon, to ghost towns in Texas and New Mexico, areas that fell on hard times when the railroads closed or the highways diverted past them. Some still have infrastructure in place, he said, and beautif
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by nataliste 2y ago
"...[F]or it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, an
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by nataliste 2y ago
It seems like you're accusing Socrates of making the worse argument the stronger and corrupting the youth?
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by nataliste 2y ago
What is the real heart of philosophy?
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by nataliste 2y ago
>If nine people are comfortable sitting down at a table to eat lunch with a Nazi, then there are ten Nazis at that table. "If you associate with the untermensch, you are also untermensch." >Of course, you could debate just h
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by nataliste 2y ago
One thing I've never understood with public schooling: How come teachers think they have the competence to be in loco parentis ? Just because you are educated doesn't mean you are a good (pedagogical) educator.
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by nataliste 2y ago
>Hitler was given power according to the normal process, even though it should have already been obvious to everyone involved that it was a bad idea, because the most important thing is to follow the process, no matter where it leads) Hi
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by nataliste 2y ago
Garmin says its bands are silicone based. I wonder if that's why they weren't tested.
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by nataliste 2y ago
Pineapple on pizza is in the same category as steak-doneness and IPAs. It's not about the food itself, but the social signaling of supposedly good taste.
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by nataliste 2y ago
This reminds me of my favorite Allrecipes exchange of all time: Tailergate Boilermaker Chili^1: >This boilermaker chili is the one the gang eats at Purdue Boilermaker football games. I always prep and cook the chili the night before and
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by nataliste 2y ago
I'm a stay at home dad and have some thoughts. By staying at home, my children receive a bespoke education and my family bespoke consumer products (e.g. food and entertainment) that far exceed anything my family can access through the
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by nataliste 2y ago
>Meanwhile the assassin needs a name.. the Midtown Hilton Shooter? The 3D Killer? I'm partial to the Chief Executive Offerer.
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by nataliste 2y ago
This is a totally fair perspective and I have no qualms with it, beyond an asterisk that the seeds that matured with the Reformation and its aftermath were planted during the Gregorian Reforms.
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by nataliste 2y ago
"When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other thing there is) has these vices much more. The Church has been cruel; but the world has been much more crue
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by nataliste 2y ago
I'd argue that adulthood was fundamentally altered by the time of the baby boomers. A sizable proportion of grownups became giant kids, not because adulthood has always been like that, but that a portion of baby boomers (and the genera
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by nataliste 2y ago
Can you explain to me how defending freedom of conscience is anti-religious? I'm not against Christ (very much the contrary!), nor in fundamental opposition to the Catholic Church, but what I am against is the unchallenged promulgati
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by nataliste 2y ago
Stating that diversity of thought existed in the effectively autocephalous European Church from the 5th through the mid-10th century conflates accidental diversity with intentional. It’s true that the Church was more decentralized in this p
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by nataliste 2y ago
The Black Swan - Nassim Taleb, Introduction to Part 1
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by nataliste 2y ago
As an academic student of heresy in the Middle Ages, this isn't a defensible position. The Church of the Middle Ages did not have a tolerance towards discussion, criticism, and contradictions. They had a narrow corridor of discussion

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