verisimi

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by verisimi 2y ago
If you have a teflon frying pan, using metal damages the surface. I wouldn't think eating teflon bits is good either.
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by verisimi 2y ago
> I have no memory of the Jomon period. You're not the only one with no memory of 300bc. My memory fails me too.
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by verisimi 2y ago
Yes, but I'm not sure that the job is to 'change the world' - I don't want to fend off those who think they know what I need. I think it's more about changing oneself to align with what one finds here, whilst tryin
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by verisimi 2y ago
The story is right, but reality is wrong? Perhaps you have an issue with interpretation here. The pleasant story was the illusion here. PS - I too loved the Richard Scarry books as a child and bought them for my children - and I'm not
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by verisimi 2y ago
Same as when you ignore the whole cringe-comedy festival by not even considering voting. Liberating.
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by verisimi 2y ago
> Have governments become more authoritarian? They were always like this. 20 years of state funded education doesn't go into depth on this topic though. 1984 is a warning about a possible future tyranny, right?
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by verisimi 2y ago
Yes. But what of the governments which take on the data too, allowing it to be collected, legalising collection, surreptitiously collecting it themselves? All large corporate and governmental entities love the data. Industries (tech, fina
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by verisimi 2y ago
I love this line: > Rick Gekoski, a book dealer who did business with Mr. Horowitz, described him in 2007 as “a terrific combination of a scholar and a grifter.”
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by verisimi 2y ago
> Think of life as one long trial. The narrative you weave is not for your benefit, really. I like the trial metaphor, but disagree about who it is for. It has to be for yourself. How you explain life, your actions, etc is only for you
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by verisimi 2y ago
> No-one is adding fictional details to how incredibly well-preserved this wreck is. No? You know this how? A reference to a previous Disney documentary, fwiw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wilderness_(film)
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by verisimi 2y ago
> The famed vessel, which sank in 1915 after becoming stuck in pack ice, was discovered in 2022 resting at a depth of 3km below what Shackleton called “the worst portion of the worst sea in the world”. > “Hurley gets this flare gun, a
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by verisimi 2y ago
If not nature.... where do you get diversity from? It seems such hybris to believe that mere humans have a better handle on what 'nature' needs, than, er, nature. The embedded idea is both guilt-ridden and egotistic. Amazing dest
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by verisimi 2y ago
It absolutely is. A fake cow or whatever, provides the evidence for justified belief.
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by verisimi 2y ago
Nature doesn't have the right conditions to deal with the changes in nature?
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by verisimi 2y ago
But, most historical changes are quite dramatic and quick. And evolution is meant to happen quickly too, no?
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by verisimi 2y ago
> there are people in charge that would lead us down either path Must you follow?
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by verisimi 2y ago
If you (and others in the replies) were to go and update and perfect your data, removing all these ambiguities (fake name, dob), you would then be in a position to ask them to delete it. Ie absolutely remove all doubts about who you are to
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by verisimi 2y ago
Great article. > Don't you find it infuriating when lawyers and accountants fail to clarify how their respective domains work, making them unavoidable intermediaries of systems that in theory you should be able to navigate by yourse
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by verisimi 2y ago
> And then they’d create a religion as explanation for the flood and why it was from god/the devil. .. as opposed to climate change which is self-evident.
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by verisimi 2y ago
Artisanal
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by verisimi 2y ago
Are SEC the good guys? I can't keep up.
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by verisimi 2y ago
> We truly fucked ourselves by giving these national ISPs so much power. Why did you give them so much power? Maybe you should have asked questions, drawn up better agreements.
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by verisimi 2y ago
What about if these people, despite their special terminology and maths, don't know either, and they're all just acting like they do? Stranger things have happened.
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by verisimi 2y ago
> Words mean things, and they mean what a reasonable person would interrupt. Interpret. Words mean things, you know.
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by verisimi 2y ago
Thanks for the exchange
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by verisimi 2y ago
Yes, the model one has and the terms one uses probably vary from person to person. However, a meaningful exchange of ideas can occur anyway, if we are prepared to hone in on definitions of words, and correct the difference in personal mean
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by verisimi 2y ago
Great. I'm glad you are happy to use 'believe' rather than 'know', if you are trying to convey your meaning clearly. I think there is a huge value in this, in being clear on what one knows (that I am sitting on a c
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by verisimi 2y ago
Are you able to say that 'you assume that the earth is a sphere but don't know that to be the case'? Do you actually say 'I know the earth is a sphere' even though you don't "know"? Do you know the
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by verisimi 2y ago
Yes, we don't truly know much (not nothing). We can, on occasion, drill into whatever is being claimed, look at the data and see if we agree with the conclusion. If you personally sample test studies, comments or whatever you then get
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by verisimi 2y ago
No, I haven't replicated these tests. I'm just not assuming them to be true.

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