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by thrance 3y ago
I think you'd gain a lot by reading the wikipedia article on American imperialism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_imperialism There are dozens of illiberal dictators installed by/allied to the US to g
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by thrance 3y ago
There is plenty of hate speech towards non-believers if you look a little bit for it. In fact, I'd even say that as unfunny and overseen atheists memes are, they are the most tame of all religious critic online.
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by thrance 3y ago
I am french and didn't know about these, thanks for sharing. Growing up in the north, I remember holes in the forests that were supposedly dug out by shells a century earlier. They were fun to ride on a bike.
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by thrance 3y ago
Here is my reasoning: immaterial objects (such as the soul) are by definition outside of the material world, and thus unobservable. We can't ever (dis)prove the existence of an unobservable object. As for the other questions you mentio
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by thrance 3y ago
Oh I studied this, I'm well aware of those theorems, and I don't think they are the death bell of logic some make them to be. If you somehow find an unprovable theorem (quite rare), you can always try with a different set of axiom
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by thrance 3y ago
I don't get that, if there is no unambiguous link of cause and effect, what is there left to describe, or even observe ? I think that if someone is completely unable to justify an observed truth to others, then it might not be a truth
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by thrance 3y ago
I don't like categorizing Philosophy as an art form. People don't read philosophy like they would poetry. They want to learn something about the world, something factual, preferably. If philosophy can't "prove or disprov
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by thrance 3y ago
Honestly, I really don't see the point of having such megacoroporations here. What has Apple and Microsoft done for Americans ? They pay little to no taxes, they spy on everyone, they provide increasingly terrible products...
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by thrance 3y ago
It does, but it is also supposed to bring up the hidden costs of buying things in their prices, so that greener products that would do less harm would be cheaper than more destructive goods. For example, a plane ticket might be cheaper than
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by thrance 3y ago
I recall seeing their company on french national TV a few years ago. If I remember correctly, they didn't claim that sailboats would be able to replace our global cargo fleet, but rather that in an energetically shrinking world they wo
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by thrance 3y ago
I think they meant "more significant than it need to be". Recently I looked up how long it takes light to go to Mars from Earth : it's between 3 and 20 minutes depending on their relative positions.
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by thrance 3y ago
I think you still need to know where the phone is located on Earth to compute the normal vector (i.e. where is up ?)
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by thrance 3y ago
I can hate both.
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by thrance 3y ago
But that would defeat the purpose of the confusing layout made specifically to have you see a maximum number of products, deliberately wasting your time!
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by thrance 3y ago
We already have the ITER project, a well-funded international (~35 nations) attempt at building a fusion reactor prototype. Also we probably shouldn't count on a miracle to save us from climate change.
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by thrance 3y ago
The last time I studied special relativity was a while ago, but I think your mass only increases in other frames of reference. If, for example, we consider the speed of your ship from the point of view of someone left on earth, then your sh
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by thrance 3y ago
I had zero trouble visiting my german friends by train last november, departing from Paris. I didn't even have to leave my seat. I have no idea what you are trying to say.
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by thrance 3y ago
My first exposure to programmming was by coding in TI-BASIC on my TI calculator during math class in highschool. I never thought of going online to learn more so I had to explore what every builtin functions did. Them being written in a for
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by thrance 3y ago
Can you please expand on how french citizens don't have free speech ? And how ensuring minimum decency in the output of a computer program would impact free speech ?
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by thrance 3y ago
The only case I am aware of is that of the "Potsdam Giants" [1]. Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia was so obsessed with tall men he created a regiment of them, and pushed these soldiers to marry tall women. It apparentl