ttonkytonk

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by ttonkytonk 2y ago
It would help if voucher programs were more flexible. E.g. if a $1000 voucher is available for an apartment, why not a $500 one for a relative's room?
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by ttonkytonk 2y ago
I hope Mr. Tetraheder remembers to make any accounts permanent regardless of the wishes of the members - nothing like a permanent asset.
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A 'Cop of Peace'?(theguardian.com)
2 points by ttonkytonk 2y ago|0 comments
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CNN: Half of global food production threatened(cnn.com)
3 points by ttonkytonk 2y ago|1 comments
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by ttonkytonk 2y ago
I think they're assuming the representative democracies actually exist. In the U.S. (from what I've seen - I'm envious of those with commanding knowledge of the situation) there are occasional elections with very limited, pre
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by ttonkytonk 2y ago
I don't feel like this is a fair representation of my viewpoint, it certainly makes me a little angry. I'm afraid I'll have to discontinue this discussion.
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by ttonkytonk 2y ago
But how about the coercion of our own bodies? Is our will free if we're (for example) free to consume all we want, even if that consumption makes us feel worse in the long run and we know it? And in this case, is the issue weakness of
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by ttonkytonk 2y ago
Our will is not free, it belongs to us!
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by ttonkytonk 2y ago
I believe the real evil is in the conceit of knowledge, and that the gross inequalities of material wealth are actually only symptoms of this. Roughly 2,500 years ago two giants of ethical philosophy appeared on the scene in the form of Soc
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by ttonkytonk 2y ago
We need to bravely search for the truth in all matters.
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by ttonkytonk 2y ago
The Satyricon
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by ttonkytonk 2y ago
I've recently read 19th century theologian and scholar Benjamin Jowett's introduction to Plato's Laws , where (I believe) he observes that humankind is merely in the "dawn of politics". He also points out that the
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Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (2008) [video](youtube.com)
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
The cravings are most involuntary however, I assure you.
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
There's plenty of"public poisoning" going around - sure you haven't profited from some of it yourself? When will the sanctimonious get off of their high-horse?
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
No. (edit - but let me amend my original statement and then I'm leaving it at that: "I may add that I would guess the product probably wouldn't be so harmful if people kept their consumption to under five cigarettes a day.&
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
I really don't, but this is my belief as someone who has extensive experience with cigarette culture and has thought about it. You are free to disregard my opinion based on this fact, but I will still contend that if someone only smo
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
So they're exceptional in producing unhealthy, but profitable products?
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
Yes, because they're primed for it. People make the bad choices they're constantly encouraged to make.
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
I agree mostly with your last paragraph. I'm surely not trying to encourage a habit I'm grateful to have been able to give up, but I believe 1-4 would significantly reduce the risk of emphysema - sorry, but I don't have much
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
A larger pattern of assuming the virtue of the product according to its profit value.
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
Have not read the article, but I think "Big Tobacco" is something of a scapegoat for a larger pattern, and basically they were just unlucky enough to produce one of the most harmful products (recognized as such once the health bil
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
It's telling that "white men" has become a byword, but to speak this way in intellectual terms is to subvert the very tradition that has struggled against what made it that way. (Note - I have not read the article.)
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
I keep trying to tell people, "What a friend we have in Socrates!" but they won't seem to listen. Maybe it would help if I said I could easily see myself being Meletus or Philebus.
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
It seems patently impossible. I wonder if this stems from a confusion about the nature of consciouness implied in Descartes' cognito , which equates self with thinking , which includes calculating (computing).
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Illumination from Hortus Deliciarum, Herrad of Landsberg(plosin.com)
1 points by ttonkytonk 3y ago|0 comments
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
Looks like a bunch of videos.
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
Paywalled.
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
Maybe there's some way for AI to become conscious, but the burden of proof would seem to be on those who make the claim. Seeming is in no way being. Consciousness is most definitely something associated with organic life. I don't
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by ttonkytonk 3y ago
They weren't that fragile, but did tend to wear out after maybe a couple of months of heavy use.

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