nickburns

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by nickburns 6mo ago
Sure is a line of inquiry worth pursuing either way, no?
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by nickburns 6mo ago
Your comments feel like projection, which lead you to make an extreme (and, in my opinion, unfounded) assumption about GP. GP says nothing about self-confidence nor 'liking' onself. One can have a social interaction like GP comica
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by nickburns 6mo ago
Matching your latter register: and what, in your mind, will 'seeing someone' do to change somebody's lack of social 'grace and ease'?
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by nickburns 6mo ago
What is suffering?
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by nickburns 6mo ago
It's never stupid to clarify what someone means if they communicate in a way that's unclear to you. 'Former' and 'latter' were in reference to the two questions I posed to you.
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by nickburns 6mo ago
I disagree it was implied. Not to mention that in an honest conversation, I shouldn't have to point out that you've cherry picked a quote (which on its face doesn't mean what you apparently think it does) from its actual cont
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by nickburns 6mo ago
You say I'm 'suffering inside', not me.
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by nickburns 6mo ago
> And it tastes even better when it seems to cause distress to vegans. Odd flex. Try not to worry so much about what other people think of you. It'll make you a better human.
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by nickburns 6mo ago
> In the context of picking battles, martyrdom is (self) sacrifice, with no direct gain for the cause. On the first clause, exactly. (The second clause appears to be a bit of ad lib.) > Abstaining from meat, to me, will take away one
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by nickburns 6mo ago
They don't call 'em cannon fodder for nothin'!
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by nickburns 6mo ago
Hey, at my ripe, old age, I only started learning how to properly feed myself more recently than I'd like to admit. So I take your point about acknowledging one's baby steps once you successfully string a few together. Thanks for
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by nickburns 6mo ago
So you acknowledge the former but can't get past the latter. Got it. I wonder how the judges will score.
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by nickburns 6mo ago
Do you think plants achieve the same degree of sentience as say, a pig? Or would drawing even that line be too arbitrary for you?
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by nickburns 6mo ago
Equating eating meat with martyrdom in the year 2026 is, in fact, the same cognitive dissonance you personally deny. I eat meat. And I'm highly, highly morally conflicted. I'll leave it at that to avoid sounding hypothetical—exc
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by nickburns 6mo ago
Nowhere did GP say animals eating animals is abnormal.
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by nickburns 6mo ago
I can imagine this poster's chortle thinking to themself, 'they thought I meant the animals!'
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by nickburns 6mo ago
I take your point about the 'abstract' nature of online privacy. But another angle might be suggesting to those that are ambivalent on the issue that the pervasive (and for all intents and purposes, permanent) recordkeeping natu
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by nickburns 6mo ago
This is definitely a point that should be emphasized more in this discussion. Even still, where it ultimately falls flat (currently) is the lack of hard proof to show people that it's truly happening. Also, the degree to which some are
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by nickburns 6mo ago
Some good counterpoints. But you're suggesting more people would be okay with 'PI following them' hypothetical than GP suggests—simply with the knowledge that others are subject to the same degree of surveillance? I'm no
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by nickburns 6mo ago
Guy's clearly not an American! (Either of them.)
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by nickburns 6mo ago
So you're an admitted scumbag? (Primarily Windows user by the way.)
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by nickburns 6mo ago
Exactly. Amusing indeed.
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by nickburns 6mo ago
Why is this quackery front page?
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by nickburns 6mo ago
Fonzie absolutely cared about being cool, too. It's why he jumped the shark after all. (Pun fully intended.)
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by nickburns 6mo ago
Lol, I thought the same.
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by nickburns 6mo ago
By the time Gettler looked into this field, it was already an established fact that fathers had lower testosterone that [sic] men without kids. I'm sure this typo will be promptly corrected. But it does offer some sense into
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by nickburns 6mo ago
Are you suggesting Android/iOS app developers are forced into data collection somehow? If so, how? I'm genuinely curious.
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by nickburns 6mo ago
> if your developing geolocation based apps, location tracking is a core function. But the subsequent sale of that data is not—is the discussion here.
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by nickburns 6mo ago
'Inside' perspectives can be equally useful or ignorant. The questions remains: why the distinction between inside/outside?
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by nickburns 6mo ago
I don't follow what you mean by 'logistics in civilization' as that's pretty vague and amorphous. Could you be more specific with maybe a single example of where my physical geographic location is electronically critical

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