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by periphrasis 5y ago
I said you would not have to leave your chair, as in you are treating this like a game, as in you are not taking this seriously, as in you are prioritizing your personal emotional satisfaction over any sort of analysis of strategic interest
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by periphrasis 5y ago
Photographs corroborated by satellite and drone imagery, which is consistent with the public arguments being made by [Russian state media]( https://medium.com/@kravchenko_mm/what-should-russia-do-with... ) (yes I’m aware
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by periphrasis 5y ago
Congrats on your contrarianism. Forgive me if my simplicity and inability to think critically causes me to think less of you.
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by periphrasis 5y ago
The question would be a lot easier to resolve if the major MAGA thought leaders would stop making excuses for genocide. Anecdotally, my dad is MAGA-leaning right, and while he opposes the invasion and is happy to see the Russian army destro
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by periphrasis 5y ago
Yet most unaffiliated voters “lean”, often very strongly, towards one party or the other. Most estimates put true independent/swing voters at only 3-4% of the electorate.
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by periphrasis 5y ago
The irony of course being that the American political demographic, MAGA, with the biggest grievances regarding tech “censorship” also appear to be most willing to make excuses for or deny Russian war crimes.
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by periphrasis 5y ago
You are advocating conflict escalation and expansion that will drastically shorten the decision tree that ends in the permanent end of human civilization in its present form. Given that the Ukrainians -- with Western material, financial and
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by periphrasis 5y ago
New Vegas wasn’t a Bethesda game?
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by periphrasis 5y ago
The problems of higher education not withstanding, I will always be grateful I stumbled into a superb liberal arts education as an undergraduate and I will always feel a little sorry for men like Altman who aren’t even aware that they misse
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by periphrasis 5y ago
A few subjective observations that may be totally wrong when applied to others despite their normative tone: * VR makes me sweaty… because it induces minor vertigo. * Anything which requires intense, complete focus to do right is never bori
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by periphrasis 5y ago
A cup of coffee and a book.
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by periphrasis 5y ago
Today OP “taught” me that if a book requires careful effort to fully understand, then the book is badly written. Likewise, if a book is hard, the reader shouldn’t ever be expected to push through that difficulty and should instead seek an e
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by periphrasis 5y ago
Agreed on the latter point. But on the former, would it though? Prior to the internet, isolating yourself from the world involved making a very deliberate and drastic life choice that completely changed your environment, like joining a mona
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by periphrasis 5y ago
Sure conveyances existed prior to 1945. What did not exist prior to 1945 was cities and towns designed such that the only effective means to get around was a car. Yes, I grant that the car is a useful invention for the rural farmer. It is n
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by periphrasis 5y ago
Idk man, how do you think people survived prior to 1945? We do not have to go far back into human history to see the alternative to car centric development. Were pre war cities and towns gentrified and devoid of commerce? Did everyone have
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by periphrasis 5y ago
We’ve also absorbed the Protestant Reformation, the Counterreformation, the Thirty Years War, and the English Civil War into the background of our culture: see the implicit suspicion of the Pope and global organizations in any right wing Yo
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by periphrasis 5y ago
I think this common argument underrates the extent to which core factual mastery informs your ability to perform analysis and to synthesize arguments. For example, if given the exam question “Discuss the role of demagoguery in Athenian demo
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by periphrasis 5y ago
I’m not sure the recency bias of a contemporary average person is a good proxy for the artistic achievement of a time now three generations past. If we were to enumerate the list of major, artistically significant films released in the 30s
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by periphrasis 5y ago
I haven’t played either game but any sort of visual medium is capable of story telling without dialogue or exposition: visuals can tell a story at least as effectively, if not more so, than words can. For a somewhat recent, very well regard
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by periphrasis 5y ago
Video games have existed for over 50 years now. Video games have had as much time to mature as film had had by the early 1940s. And by the early 1940s film had produced numerous mature works of art displaying mastery of the medium that are
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by periphrasis 5y ago
I’m saying that anyone that thinks that progress is a given and that we are inherently better off for having the social web may not be giving sufficient considerations to the trade offs we have incurred. On the other hand I’m typing in ange
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by periphrasis 5y ago
Indeed. What are the trade offs of technology? Is it actually making our lives better? Are our lives richer for having brought Mark Zuckerberg into them? Perhaps if we had thought to ask those questions ahead of time we wouldn’t be living t
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by periphrasis 5y ago
No I do not. And I’m sorry that the incumbent monopolist in third world countries is such a shit show that anyone has to suffer for their incompetence. Doesn’t change the reality that Facebook is the only game in town in the developing worl
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by periphrasis 5y ago
Some number less than their active user count? Ask a leading question; get a flippant answer. I’d find the cries for empathy to the poor affected users more compelling if it weren’t for the fact that anyone of working age can remember a tim
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by periphrasis 5y ago
I particularly had in mind “why would I want to consume this particular form of sensory input in preference to others?” and “why is this good and useful to an individual and a society as opposed to just a platform for selling noise?” and “w
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by periphrasis 5y ago
Very interesting distinction. I remain deeply skeptical that this is a good or useful technology, but you’ve effectively summed up why it’s compelling to users in comparison to other social media. Thanks!
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by periphrasis 5y ago
I agree that precious little occurred in terms of technological advancement. However, I think it’s a more tendentious claim with respect to cultural achievement. For example, all the great epic poems of the Western tradition predate the Enl
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by periphrasis 5y ago
Sounds like a gigantic attention suck designed to stimulate addiction. Moreover, it’s unclear to me why opening the floodgates to more human expression without any concern for the quality of that expression is desirable. The virtue of socia
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by periphrasis 5y ago
Why would I want to watch short form video content? Genuinely curious here.
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by periphrasis 5y ago
Yeah, I was about to make the exact same comment albeit mentioning Sophocles and his roughly 120 plays. If you’re into classical literature, what was lost can be extremely tantalizing. I read Cicero’s De Re Publica recently, of which only a

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