nataliste

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by nataliste 3y ago
>You cannot expect crime to be reduced if you remove the “criminals” without addressing the conditions that made them criminals in the first place. Unless the creation of criminals is caused by being victimized by criminals. Then that&#x
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Acid-sugar taste-hacking is something that has bothered me for quite a while. We know that sodium consumption can be drastically reduced by adding salt at table rather than adding it directly to food. Why doesn't this happen with sugar
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Hey, I just want to thank you for the book recommendation. Reading the preface to "A Treatise on Efficacy: Between Western and Chinese Thinking"[1] it seems to codify a lot that I've previously thought about. And as a topical
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A question: I read a comment of yours from last year concerning your bespoke browser. Do you transform websites that have a large amount of irrelevant formatting like sidebars?
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Bloodletting is a valid medical procedure for hemochromatosis which presently affects around 1 in 200 of those with European ancestry. It's very possible the incidence rate was greater in the past when populations were more locally h
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I dreame of a setmoot wishtongue that riddes English of the mute endes and comes again to the grounde and wefte that Roman-speak still ownes. He writes, he is a writer. I sleepe, I be a sleeper. For truth, there is Anglish, but the end spea
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Evil doesn't exist as a true motivation; there are only disordered senses of good.
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I have never understood the obsession with even having rings or a ceremony to begin with. My wife was my wife prior to a judge legally marrying us (and only because my mother-in-law didn't want our children to be bastards). If for what
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I still have no idea what you're ranting on about, but it's clearly not related to anything I've said. Cheers.
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>These projections, which take into account demographic factors such as fertility, age composition and life expectancy, forecast that people with no religion will make up about 13% of the world’s population in 2060, down from roughly 16%
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What are you even on about? I'm talking about widespread suppression of Jews, whether Christianized or not, that is documented before and in the aftermath of the first Jewish-Roman war, which occurred 68-74AD. There's no empire-sp
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>Demographics refutes your last point. By all means, please explain.
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>What makes you think "myth of Jesus the Christ turns out to be, say, a cipher of the re-execution of Alexandros I, the son of Herod the Great and Mariamne I" is at all likely? It's not just Nicholas of Damascus that would
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As a short addenda and much more within reach of the project is that we have many hapax legomena (that is a word or an expression that occurs only once within a context) in classical Western languages that are likely to have meanings discer
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As far as QAnon goes, this would be like discovering an unsecured laptop that actually belonged to the original Q and had something like IRC channel logs that they used when generating "what won't they believe" type ideas. As
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That's true of zealots, but growing the religion anywhere where literate people are will become exceptionally difficult if the myth of Jesus the Christ turns out to be, say, a cipher of the re-execution of Alexandros I, the son of He
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by nataliste 3y ago
I wrote this for a different community (filled with semiliterate sophists), but this is absolutely huge and could upend huge swathes of understanding about the last two thousand years. You can avoid the longform essay below if you want. The
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There's always the Simile of the Mountain: https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN3_25.html
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I'm not a tech worker. I'm someone that spent eight years working in cooperative ventures. Regardless of venture, the Pareto members (i.e. the 20% of people that did 80% of the meaningful business logic) were consistently outvoted
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Corporations under a board and a CEO staffed by hired labor have very little in common with worker-co-ops and workplace democracy. My point is that a person competent enough to successfully run a business will almost certainly do so solo. T
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The paradox of worker-coops is that workers capable of successfully running businesses together are also capable of running businesses independently, so why create more failure points?
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Not everything reduces to monetary value. And I'm guessing the person with almost the most monetary value on the planet has a better position than most to perceive that. I honestly think he's doing this as what someone on Substack
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I memorized both this poem and William Knox's "O why should the spirit of mortal be proud?"^1 as an exercise in rote memorization. It took me a couple of days, but it's now been years and they're still burned in the
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Here's a trick that I've done in the past: buy a Presto popcorn popper. You can then buy organic grains in bulk--wheat, barley, rye, even oat groats--and pop/parch them in the popper. You get the nutty flavor and bioavailabil
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(In California)
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What? Chicken as a meat has been depicted in Babylonian carvings from around 600 BC. Chicken was one of the most common meats available in the Middle Ages. For thousands of years, a number of different kinds of chicken have been eaten acros
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Do you think that the Catholic Church has historically or presently embraced wage labor outside the home? Is modern society something that fathers can protect their kids from by being absent? I say as this as one of five kids of a Tradition
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I don't understand this space of what I can only term ecological or economic antinatalism. Can you share your thoughts on the following? Do you think unbeing is preferable to a potentially miserable life that would still likely result