tawpKek

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by tawpKek 10y ago
>Self-interested people often work together to achieve great things. Why should this be the case, when it is in their best interest to just care about their own wellbeing and disregard that of others? I think this is a kind of strong sta
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by tawpKek 10y ago
I think the idea that speech is anti-fragile works to a point, but is ultimately a bit naive about the way that power structures and language works. Its entirely possible to limit someone else's ability to communicate simply by communi
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by tawpKek 10y ago
Thats really not what I'm talking about. I understand the push back against "SJWs" and those in the language policing community. That said, telling someone to get in the oven, which Ricky Vaughn and others are known to do, is
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by tawpKek 10y ago
I think its worth asking here: Why do we value free speech? Is it because we would like a variety of ideas to be heard, even if some of them are unsavory in the current social landscape? That we do better when we are open to a more diverse
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by tawpKek 10y ago
This trash algorithm identifies me as "very liberal". Excuse me, I am a leftist, not some modern liberal tyvm.
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by tawpKek 10y ago
>The web and FB has made us dumber- we point and click and no longer have to search and think. That is a bold and baseless statement.
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by tawpKek 10y ago
Interesting you mention the fact about it being poorly displayed. I would say it is, but not because you don't often see this frontal view. As you may or may not know, the sculpture was originally meant to be displayed on the roof of t
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by tawpKek 10y ago
You could draw a parallel between this and the tabacco free pharmacy push: http://cvshealth.com/thought-leadership/cvs-health-perspecti...
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by tawpKek 10y ago
Vintage thread on consensus cracking: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread429408/pg1
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by tawpKek 10y ago
Whoops, there was a typo in my post. I meant to write do they need that (meaning a physically accurate bookshelf) to be understood as books. >That's the fun of it! No, I am the arbiter of design and all who disagree with me are evil
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by tawpKek 10y ago
w/r/t the pedantic point, it seems you're a bit stuck in the prison of the literal here. Sure, the books couldn't sit on a real actual shelf, but do they really need to to be understood as books? I got that they were boo
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by tawpKek 10y ago
That, right there, is a damning indictment of your understanding of modernist design and art. Visual communication achieved acclaim because it prioritized functionality over decoration and did so with the tools of reduction and abstraction.