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by shlant 6y ago
I can empathize with that perspective. I personally find the "guilt and shame" tactic less effective and more divisive which is why I tend to avoid going that route. However, there also is truth to the statement "meat is bad&
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by shlant 6y ago
it's very interesting to me how many people seem to have all of the sudden become very concerned about the perceived consciousness of plants. My question usually is: "Your interpretation of 'plant consciousness' and cons
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by shlant 6y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding... It sounds like your position is "everything in the 1st world has a downside so why bother". It is certainly possible to live in a first world in a more conscious, less impactful way.
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by shlant 6y ago
"thus eating meat can still be ethical" Most people who choose not to eat meat for the ethical reasons do so based on the foundational belief that killing another conscious animal for food is unethical. "small-scale, grass fe
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by shlant 6y ago
He said nothing can REPLACE it (as in doesn't provide the same experience), not that he is refusing to use anything BUT it
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by shlant 6y ago
as soon as you start to perceive online interactions as a competition, you get exactly the kind of attitude the original comment had. We can seek to figure out who might be the "longest-serving programmer" without being combative
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by shlant 6y ago
this is an online forum. Ask HN is for starting discussions. This isn't a rigid competition that needs to be strictly moderated. Even all that aside, his tone and dismissive attitude towards ageism is not welcome here.
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by shlant 6y ago
"I am sorry, but you are not a programmer anymore" Your gatekeeping is not welcome here. This isn't a competition. "The reason you are able to completely ignore the age issue is because there's no ageism in hiring b
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by shlant 6y ago
"And yet, we never seem to hear this fact on the News..." Most likely because A. it disproportionally impacts poorer people in far-off countries and B. It's harder to sell as an enemy/scapegoat compared to other humans&
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by shlant 6y ago
"Powerful psychoactive substances shouldn't be taken by people who are not mentally 'balanced', meaning just fine, happy with themselves or similar." But therein lies the crux of this kind of reasoning: those kinds
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by shlant 6y ago
sounds like you have a bit of a pro psychedelic bias here and are minimizing people's experiences. This isn't just some story I heard, this is a person that I know and who I witnessed struggle to heal from literal broken bones ove
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by shlant 6y ago
I hear what you are saying, but I'm not just talking about generalized "bad trips" similar to my own - I'm referring to people who's physical bodies have extreme reactions (such as seizures) that seem to be outside
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by shlant 6y ago
if you just care about having the most perfectly maintained, bug-free system then yes, poor backwards compatibility is a good thing, but if you are talking about market share and general acceptance of a system (which he is addressing in the
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by shlant 6y ago
I wonder if some have a genetic predisposition to bad reactions to psychedelics. My best friend had an LSD reaction similar to yours (increasingly intense hallucinations until falling on the ground and starting to seize). His brother had a
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by shlant 6y ago
can someone recommend a IRC client on OSX that is still maintained and isn't garbage?
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by shlant 6y ago
> Lies/bullshit/deception and ignorance are nothing new You are definitely right there, but my point was the barrier for entry has been lowered. No need to have a printing press and to be accepted for sale at storefronts - if y
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by shlant 6y ago
the bar has certainly been lowered about as far as it can be in terms of who can share their ideas/beliefs. It's a double-edged sword of previously unheard of freedom of speech and an unending supply of lies/bullshit/dec
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by shlant 6y ago
it's a complicated issue and you're right that the the unending source of dopamine hits from entertainment would certainly play a role - although that's not really unique to social media. I personally think that a bigger fact
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by shlant 6y ago
> I don't remember my parents having this problem with their newspaper. They did look at the newspaper before the sky every morning. This seems to be a pretty common comparison, especially as a reply to older generations remarking o
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by shlant 7y ago
there may be people who continue to test positive, but there have been no confirmed instances of reinfection.
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by shlant 7y ago
> "there already seems to have been cases with this one where a person got it twice" Just so people know: this has not been confirmed and has been an unsubstantiated rumor for a while. It is pretty unlikely this will happen con
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by shlant 7y ago
who is saying "bullshit"? I think I am making a pretty reasonable argument that seems to fit into "Some level of skepticism is of course warranted".
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by shlant 7y ago
> "I believe your cynicism has sliced off only a portion of the truth here and tilted focus in the wrong directions." I think his cynicism is completely warranted considering how many people are starting to view psychedelics as
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by shlant 7y ago
I think referencing the leaders of the psychedelic movement would be a pretty biased argument for psychedelic use. Survivorship bias would also be a factor. I want to echo the sentiment of the OP - I have yet to meet someone who does not go
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by shlant 7y ago
It's very clear you have not taken it before, and seem to be (possibly willfully) ignorant about alcohol. LSD is not a dissociative like GHB or PCP. Almost everyone on a full dose will be completely lucid with full mental clarity. Of c
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by shlant 7y ago
As someone who has been on it on 4 years, I believe it is probably the most indispensable tool for any frequent traveller. Being able to talk to people in realtime who are living in, or have been living in the places you are interested in v
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by shlant 7y ago
We have something similar as well over at https://privacy.commonsense.org/ . We have taken different ideas from many different implementations and applied them more specifically to ed tech products.
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by shlant 7y ago
the @whale_alert twitter handle is what most people keep an eye on
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by shlant 7y ago
> "I can get those easily with multivitamin tablets" Multivitamins are not a replacement for a balanced diet[1], most likely provide very little protective health effects[2] and can, in some cases, be dangerous[3]. > It&#x27
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by shlant 7y ago
> Hamburgers contain trans fat > This is pretty misleading. Animal fat has a very small amount of trans fat I'm sorry, but what was misleading? I didn't say "most trans fat in hamburgers is from animal fat". Pointi

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