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by splithalf 5y ago
No, I was making an empirical argument: most great scientists have been religious. It would not be too hard to quantify this if you scraped a few Wikipedia links.
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by splithalf 5y ago
I take the Bible and related texts to be the key document(s) upon which the religious beliefs in question are ultimately based. For believers, the Bible/Torah/Koran are of more importance than the institutions, the priesthood, et
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by splithalf 5y ago
Stand athwart the push of incentives pulling humanity down the slippery slope to Holocaust 2.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide
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by splithalf 5y ago
Hope they controlled for vaping.
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by splithalf 5y ago
We’ve known this for a month or so. The bottom line is that experts still recommend getting the vaccine.
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by splithalf 5y ago
We are talking about religion, not religious institutions. According to bible, these are not the same. Another key theme of religion that atheists seem oblivious to. The important point here is to understand that all powerful institutional
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by splithalf 5y ago
Yes compared to “anthk”, Newton was an idiot. “He”indeed.
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by splithalf 5y ago
To say that religion “knows” is to be fundamentally unaware of religion. The core tenant of judeo-Christian belief systems is one of piety - being humble and accepting the fallibility of humans and thirsting to overcome those imperfections
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by splithalf 5y ago
The point is valid but I am not so sure the line between recreation and use is so clear cut. Take pain patients for example. If they are not getting enough pills from their doctor they’ll get them on the street. Is that person a patient or
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by splithalf 5y ago
More death on the roadways and acceleration of climate change. Thanks Facebook!
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by splithalf 5y ago
The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
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by splithalf 5y ago
Sort of the same thing isn’t it?
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by splithalf 5y ago
If those foundations can do more good for humanity with less money than the federal system, wouldn’t it be good to leave these “loopholes” in place?
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by splithalf 5y ago
Some people are never content and need to increase their wealth and social status constantly. Others will be content and happy regardless of their social status. Those who need to keep amassing ever more wealth “to keep up with the Jones’”
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by splithalf 5y ago
Immigrant parents, being more likely to be overachiever on average, are very different than normal parents in this regard. I didn’t know anybody growing up who had to drill on school work. Some dads were into sports and would pressure their
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by splithalf 5y ago
In theory it could all be a vast conspiracy of the news media to misinform people, sure, but that would be a conspiracy theory.
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by splithalf 5y ago
Work requires compromising ourselves. We do this for survival. There is no way to make most tech ethical. It’s an economic reality that is quite evident in the historical data. When was the last time we had an ethical tech company? We have
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by splithalf 5y ago
“ the mere expression "work/life" embodies a mistake: it assumes work and life are distinct” Going to have to meditate on that one for awhile. It seems “privileged.” For many work amounts to a set of indignities required for
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by splithalf 5y ago
Fix your strings. :)
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by splithalf 5y ago
They need to be penalized. For every high profile incident like this, there are many more that never reach public scrutiny. The leadership needs to be made accountable.
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by splithalf 5y ago
I think dog owners are generally good people who have done really great things but I also sometimes feel like there might be a few entitled jerks in their ranks, especially pit bull owners.
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by splithalf 5y ago
Great response. At the same time, absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence. It seems improbable that nation states aren’t keenly interested in social media influence. It seems much more likely such efforts are undetectable
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by splithalf 5y ago
Or the person searching it ctrl+f’d a typo. Or a Chinese intern who helped compile the spreadsheet deleted that row on “accident”. People are too quick to notice conflicts of interest. Everyone of us lives a life filled with such conflicts,
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by splithalf 5y ago
So many of today’s problems result from a lack of morality. If the solution doesn’t involve Bitcoin then it involves religion. Security is impossible and digital security doubly so.
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by splithalf 5y ago
“That's what advanced education is, learning something because an expert tells you to.” Many share this conception but it’s not a very useful model I would argue.
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by splithalf 5y ago
Couldn’t disagree more. If that would happen, why hasn’t it happened yet? There are pirates and terrorists too, and they don’t make the world better or safer, quite the opposite.
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by splithalf 5y ago
The problem is peoples’ notions of justice are capricious and savage. The draconian laws over psychedelics represents yesteryear’s popular conception of “true justice.”
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by splithalf 5y ago
Truly curious, is there no concept of sexual harassment in Europe? Maybe Europeans are less pervy than Americans, like how they don’t have alcoholism or fat people?
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by splithalf 5y ago
“surprised we're not seeing more acts of eco-terrorism yet“ People don’t work the way you think they do, yet.
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by splithalf 5y ago
We could be worse off putting too many eggs in the ESG basket.

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