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by nyokodo 3y ago
> is the “oh there’s many people out there who have it way worse, so be thankful for what you have” mindset actually healthy? It’s not always healthy to compare yourself to others but it’s always healthy to be grateful for what you have
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The good kids get to enjoy the worsened global warming, lower air quality, and radioactive fallout from all the coal Santa distributes to the bad kids.
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> A content free-for-all may be the best we can hope for. Only if we sacrifice innocence from even the few corners it persists in. Nor would content anarchism last if we achieved it as human nature appears to not be anarchic so culture w
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This isn’t a statistical study with questionable methodology or a fleeting observation, it is a constant and personal empirical experience we all have that has been observed and analyzed for all human history. It is not self reported data,
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> no one seems to have any idea where free will would come from No materialists have any idea perhaps. A more common sense approach is to deduce from our common experience of free will (and consciousness too) and lack of a matter based r
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> why … do they need to move it at all? Because they’re owned by Microsoft and it looks bad if Microsoft doesn’t dogfood its own cloud infrastructure. Plus it’d be more economical long term if they didn’t invest in a parallel cloud infra
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Given how vague and unreliable my visual recollection is for most things I’d shudder to think of anyone using it for anything serious. This would be something that would have similar inaccuracy to witness testimony. Generally speaking, huma
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> The rejection of an imposed faith then, necessarily, also included a rejection of empire The issue of being a good Roman citizen apart from worship of the Emperor was a key issue for early Christians. The answer was that they most cert
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> Rome could not survive a world where the state itself was not the deity. Except it could, and did for a thousand years depending on how you measure it.
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> there's a lot of writing from Roman times and not much evidence that Christians as a group were specifically singled out Especially if you arbitrarily exclude Christian sources. This is just bigoted historical revisionism.
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> Declining religious tolerance was another effect Pagan Rome had centuries of persecution of Christianity not always and everywhere proactive but often brutal and widespread. The early Christians didn’t gather in the catacombs for the a
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> we ARE human resources, and it's very likely none of us are irreplaceable, none of us matter really all that much to our employers Now, remember this the next time you’re tempted to lose sleep, sacrifice family time or leisure for
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> who knows? Precisely the point, no one knows yet as far as is publicly known. Anyone who purports to know ought to front up with the evidence or admit they don’t know.
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> I think life is the most common thing in the universe. Until we have sufficient evidence we don’t know how common life is in the universe. It doesn’t take much for one of the exponents of the Drake equation to veer towards zero so clos
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> Have we lost something? Where will future hackers get their inspiration from? Maybe a million different YouTube channels and proliferation of cheap ways to learn and tinker are fueling the next generation. Let’s hope so. I can watch ro
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> it'd either be directly run or heavily influenced by those being regulated. Which is also the probable fate of an AGI super intelligence being regulated by humans.
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> The text only mentions satellite phones iPhones 14+ are satellite phones to a limited degree. [1] 1. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213885
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> when people accept that a machine can be intelligent, the goalpost will stop moving The goalposts will stop moving when the terms used are precise. What does intelligence mean? If people agree on a precise definition then we’ll know wh
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> Buy it's dark at 6pm. No need to wait till 10pm or midnight They’ve timed the race to be when the strip looks coolest but after the casino traffic has peaked.
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> It's to make the broadcast easier to watch for the European audience. They’re just saying that because it sounds better than that the strip looks cooler at night.
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> what is the point of using it? Plausible deniability allowing them to push as much significant risk of identity theft onto consumers instead of themselves where it should be.
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> not just young people's pass time I said “predominantly” it’s for the young, not “just” for the young. As people age they tend to have greater demands on their time, they have on-average lower energy levels, they’re more likely to
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Europe in general, and Germany in particular is getting old. Clubbing is predominantly a young person’s pass time. All youth oriented activities will increasingly wither there as the years advance.
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> How are you even supposed to implement this? Lawmakers rarely specify the how. That is left up to the interpretation of companies, regulators, and courts. When sensible, this is a hedge against technological change, but obviously it ca
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> I am reasonably certain I had covid in January 2020 Probably not, there were nasty flu strains circulating then that are much more likely an explanation. It had already spread somewhat, but not enough to be a likely cause until March e
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> Some times I wish food was less enjoyable so I’d eat less of it Ozempic and similar medications have an even more subtle effect. Food is still just as enjoyable but the attraction to that enjoyment is gone.
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> more victims joined in because they were lazy... They were lazy because they relied on the reputation of who was pushing for FTX, now their reputations won't be so rock solid. That's some justice.
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> You are basically suggesting that a fraud victim should be punished more than the money they lost Their actions brought in more victims, and therefore investors ought to be wary of listening to them in future. They ought to be also pun
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> Breaking: Comedians make shit up. Yes, but if you’re personally claiming to be a victim of another race then you ought to be broadly telling the truth. Making jokes about terrible things you experienced doesn’t make any new victims but
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> invented to garner sympathy Or, worse, invented to garner sympathy by piling on demonization onto another group. These are not victimless crimes.

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