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by oska 3y ago
> Buddhism provides a nirvana/afterlife narrative to justify why people should accept/embrace suffering in the current life so it serves the same purpose as a god. And now you are making a gross mischaracterisation of nirvana
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by oska 3y ago
> it just ruins the whole experience of the interaction Hit it on the head there. Taking photos takes you outside the experience. It's the reason I take very few photos when I'm traveling. (I can understand ppl wanting to tak
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by oska 3y ago
> he just tweeted recently a reply to a Tweet saying Islam would take over France Really should provide a source when stating things like this, as many will want to check out for themselves exactly what was said. I went and found the twe
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> I wouldn't be surprised if that was true Conversely, I would be more than highly surprised if it was. It has all the trappings of an urban myth.
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I've had thoughts along similar lines. My idea was that users should have the ability to select their favoured mod team from a range of teams. So all moderating the same namespace but swapping out different mod teams would give you a d
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by oska 3y ago
> Interestingly, you did much the same thing I did despite my belief that the virus arose naturally Except they decided not to get the injection (so called 'vaccination'), while you did. That's a crucial difference in the
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by oska 3y ago
> So I started to read Charlie and the Glass Elevator to him and stopped only a few pages in when some very offensive caricatures of Chinese people talking in English showed up. Couldn't you have just skipped over this bit? Or parap
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by oska 3y ago
I'm waiting for big rooms support to be implemented in keet (which is already amazing)
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by oska 3y ago
The old reddit user interface was/is remarkably good. Threaded, collapsible discussions with markdown for comments in a non-distracting (i.e. sparse) layout.
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Because ideologues fear the power of the Socratic method to expose irrationality
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by oska 3y ago
This comment and your other one above don't really add anything to the discussion here. They comprise an attack on an individual and, as you say, we can't have an informed opinion because we don't know the individual. So it j
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by oska 3y ago
I checked out this show on yr recommendation. I usually much prefer British tv to US American tv but on this occasion I found the British show vastly inferior. I found Coupling to be crass, unfunny and tedious. I also didn't find i
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by oska 3y ago
https://archive.is/o6GuR
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I used to donate to Wikipedia but now think I was naive to do so. I now donate to the Internet Archive instead.
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by oska 3y ago
While demographics can be a slow turning ship, it is ridiculous to project 3 generations ahead. As is demonstrated by your 'expected figure' of a 94% decline.
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I'm prompted to remind you of this part of the site's guidelines : > Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that ot
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by oska 3y ago
(Can't edit my comment above now so adding on by reply) My observation above was just from personal experience. But after making it I searched 'Kurzgesagt' on YouTube (just wanted to see what videos they'd recently produ
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by oska 3y ago
I disagree that my comment was phrased to imply anything; I made a conscious effort for it to be as objective as possible. I'm completely fine for my comment to prompt people's own takes, as you gave in your second paragraph, in r
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by oska 3y ago
Just an observation : The apology text from the father was unconditional. The reply from the daughter was conditional appreciation.
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Kurzgesagt has become (or was always?) propagandistic, in my experience, so that may explain where they get some of their funds from.
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by oska 3y ago
Microsoft is always doing bad. They've done bad for the life of the company. Microsoft has never 'done good'. They have always been a negative force in computing and society at large. This toxic culture comes from their found
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by oska 3y ago
I would guess that they are 'brutal' (your word) towards evangelical religions, which does make sense if they want to protect their culture that is linked to the Russian Orthodox church. I don't imagine they are 'bruta
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by oska 3y ago
I see you're a new account. I invite you to read this site's guidelines [1], which explicitly advise against saying things like your first line. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> You have to face your fears and anxiety before you can understand them — before you can conquer them. You can do all this without the use of drugs.
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by oska 3y ago
> This sounds more like a DO(C/M/B/I) trip than LSD. I had no idea what you were talking about here, so looked it up. Link for anyone similarly ignorant : https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/DOx
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by oska 4y ago
You're right, Duolingo is of negative benefit. Good, motivated language learners will quickly discard it and proceed and progress with more effective methods. People who stick with duolingo will end up getting something like the old
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by oska 4y ago
> The Guardian itself is biased to the left I would describe The Guardian as being biased towards neoliberalism
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> He did. And he also convincing lost the next election. A little bit of a correction needed here. Morrison brought the lump of coal to parliament in February 2017 [1] when he was the treasurer in Turnbull's government. A year and a
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by oska 4y ago
You are saying that every person who voted for Trump is an unreasonable and/or morally deficient person. It is highly arrogant to put yourself in the position to make that call and, as I've already said, only demonstrates a bigo
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by oska 4y ago
> I cannot see a reasonable and/or decent person of moral competence casting a vote for Trump. This is an extremely bigoted statement. It's highly ironic, given the morally superior position you are assuming for yourself, that

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