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by notnaut 2y ago
You feel like you choose compassion but you assume animals do not choose because they don’t have language to express their considerations. You’re jumping the gun on choice and free will (existing at all, firstly) being exclusively somethi
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by notnaut 2y ago
The imbedded disdain a lot of tech minded people have for anything frivolous ought to tell you why so many of them have a hard time finding meaning, comfort, human connection.
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by notnaut 2y ago
Yes. It was Biden and his team’s decision to prop him up til it was too late.
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by notnaut 2y ago
Why would they? The party in its current form exists as a reactionary pressure release valve for after the actual party of action deconstructs the roadblocks that keeps the money controlling both parties from self-replicating.
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by notnaut 2y ago
Good thing it’s always suicide via gunshot to the back of the head and drowning in freak storms and accidental slips out of hospital windows that keeps taking out these journalists and whistleblowers and not murder!
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by notnaut 2y ago
Humans murder humans for all sorts of idiotic reasons. Are you so confident a corporation cannot hold a grudge, or more simply, see value in “sending a message?” Maybe the net benefit is more cowardly journalists and whistleblowers across t
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by notnaut 2y ago
Is this comment an implicit endorsement of giving blood as a health benefit because it allows to slough off heavy metals or something? what…? News to me.
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by notnaut 2y ago
Two rocks smashing together experience which one is bigger!
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by notnaut 2y ago
The number of mountains named for the shape of a lady indicates plenty of us get confused like this all the time! ;)
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by notnaut 2y ago
> it is impossible to live a normal life without ID as it is > if you can't afford $30 every 8 years there is something very wrong with you. I don’t think it should be a requirement to be normal or “right” to be able to vote, fro
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by notnaut 2y ago
Check their YouTube channel out for like 10-20 more fun challenges like this. Whoever’s responsible is so creative and clever and also very good at making entertaining videos.
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by notnaut 2y ago
There’s no shattering moment here. If you have something meaningful to share, state it plainly. Otherwise take your koans to koans r us.
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by notnaut 2y ago
Not in the sense I meant. The “enlightenment” confidence and awe-struck assuredness is the feeling and it comes from deep inside. Recognizing that confidence and assuredness are not knowledge is not quite the same as those feelings themselv
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by notnaut 2y ago
While the analogies are often useful, everyone reading HN comments should be very aware and very skeptical of just how often computer/tech people rely on computer/tech analogies to understand things that are fundamentally not comp
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by notnaut 2y ago
David Foster Wallace was clever in his forethought here, though the reasons video calls have largely fallen out of favor in the real world may be different. “Within like 16 months or 5 sales quarters, the tumescent demand curve collapsed li
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by notnaut 2y ago
Metaphors dawg
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by notnaut 2y ago
We sure there’s a strong actual difference between the things? If consciousness is a spectrum, it seems likely connected to intelligence at a sort of fundamental level. The more intelligent, the more obvious it is that consciousness is ther
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by notnaut 2y ago
We turn the tv on muted with birds vids flying around for our cats. 2 are obsessed. 2 don’t respond at all.
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by notnaut 2y ago
Shouldn’t the answer also be “yes” if it’s been expunged?
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by notnaut 2y ago
“The free market would fix it” quite spiritually similar to “god will provide” or “prayer solves everything.” Maybe, maybe with an unwieldy amount of time the rubes would all die out as they administer snake oil to themselves and their fami
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by notnaut 2y ago
But that’s you wind up where the only socialization they get is with other weirdos on the internet.
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by notnaut 2y ago
The game Animal Well is popular right now if you want a modern game that urges you to use some note taking tools in a similar way.
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by notnaut 2y ago
I bet there were a few people who said something like that the first time someone made music
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by notnaut 2y ago
And by calling it identity theft instead of bank fraud, the reverse effect is had on the common perception of who has responsibility when dealing with an incident. You can have your “””identity stolen””” at a bank without an ounce of carele
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by notnaut 2y ago
Yep. Feels good man. Same as all the psychs. And altered perspective can make you wiser.
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by notnaut 2y ago
I would like to read more. Feels sort of like an expression of certain “universal truths” like the 80/20 rule or golden ratio
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by notnaut 2y ago
I walk by this location regularly. VERY open to goofy ideas and harmless shenanigans.
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by notnaut 2y ago
I mean. Or a relieving reminder that we have nothing to hide but our skeletons and everything comes out in the wash.
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by notnaut 2y ago
If you have to behave like an adversary to get a tool to behave properly, “prompting well” is a sort of more confusing term than you’re putting forward here. If everyone started “prompting well” by current standards, I doubt it’d be long be
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by notnaut 2y ago
Smart people don’t like sex scenes?

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