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by verisimi 2y ago
I'm surprised to read so many comments that think a 'natural' phenomenon is being described. As with famous actors, it seems to me that certain faces are heavily promoted for some reason, and others are not. Certain people
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by verisimi 2y ago
"write a poem about lady Macbeth as a empowered female and make reference to the delicious new papaya flavoured fizzy drink from Pepsi"
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by verisimi 2y ago
> It annoys me Do you realise this is the only time you used the personal pronoun? The rest of your comment is "we" and "our". The funny thing is that I didn't do any of the things you claim "we" did,
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by verisimi 2y ago
Are you one? In your experience, is it true that the temperature has increased by 50F? I'm being facetious... But do you see my point?
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by verisimi 2y ago
Surely the answer is the level of emotional engagement you have? Eg dissatisfaction, excitement, engagement with authority, etc.
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by verisimi 2y ago
Great, how did you do it? PS ... and what did you see?
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by verisimi 2y ago
I agree completely. No one has access to another's mental state. When you think of linguistics, and commonly misunderstood terms even though we have an objective way to convey the meaning (dictionaries, words) eg 'emigrate',
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by verisimi 2y ago
> Right at the critical point, water looks weird. It look like a blur of droplets floating in gas. But if you look at any droplet you’ll see it’s full of bubbles of gas. And if you look in any of these bubbles you see it’s full of drople
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by verisimi 2y ago
Great response. Yes, corporations and governments aren't great parents. But then neither are parents, if they allow corporations and government free reign over developing minds.
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by verisimi 2y ago
I wonder how frequently this could be a vaccine reaction, as peanut oil is used in many vaccines.
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by verisimi 2y ago
Of course, given that peanuts are legumes, banning nuts eg cashews, sesame, etc makes no sense. There would be some sense in naming peas, beans and chickpeas though, as these are legumes.
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by verisimi 2y ago
It's almost like the massive health industry isn't helping at all, and is more interested in making profit off the long term ill.
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by verisimi 2y ago
But you have not demonstrated the truth to yourself - so you are instead comforting yourself by aligning with the "scientific consensus". This is a religious position. You have failed to engage with me, as you are not putting for
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by verisimi 2y ago
You want to hang a label on my arguments - conspiracy theories, 'absolute relativist' (whatever that is) rather than engaging with the arguments. Nor do you acknowledge the hypocrisy of your position (that you want to force other
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by verisimi 2y ago
> A government is a legitimate monopoly of violence and I'm all for it. It is based in violent use of force. I'm glad to hear that this suits you, I hope your opinions and convictions remain in line with the government's.
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by verisimi 2y ago
> It is ok, but not opinions are equal. Not all are equally well founded, not all are equally well reasoned, not all weigh all arguments by their importance and urgency. I'm happy with the basis of my opinions. I'm happy to ex
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by verisimi 2y ago
> We live in societies quite tightly controlled by corporations. That's right. No need to cheer on the tightening control though. That is a form of fanaticism - you think you know what is right and everyone ought to do it. One sh
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by verisimi 2y ago
> Right now? No. But I also expect to live at least 30 more years and I want a nice world for my descendants, so yes. Everyone wants a nice world. But this misses the point of what I'm saying. If you give up lots of your money and
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by verisimi 2y ago
Do you genuinely feel threatened?
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by verisimi 2y ago
You're not on point. They probably only started to 'physically lift up' because the climate warmed. It says so in the second line. /s I get that the human lifespan is quite a short thing, but it's it so hard to
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by verisimi 2y ago
I bet you've not seen a mustard seed, but you still get what is being said, in the parable of the mustard seed. If the parable is talking to a foundational reality, rather than cultural situations, I think it can endure. I get what you
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by verisimi 2y ago
Yes poetry is a sort of decent checksum. However I think parables are an even better checksum, as they can be translated also, but if the meaning is altered the story fails to be coherent. Parables are imo, the best form of information tra
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by verisimi 2y ago
This ai energy stuff makes zero sense..... Unless you have an existing metric for the energy cost of fiat currency. So what is the cost of fiat? And I don't mean merely the production of paper, but also the cost of moving it, transf
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by verisimi 2y ago
> What is TLA+? > > TLA+ is a formal language for specifying systems used in industry and academia to verify complex distributed and concurrent systems. Among others, the TLA+ methodology is successfully applied at Amazon Web Serv
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by verisimi 2y ago
I hate all this nonsense. Just the idea that culture is a thing to be created, as if people are blank templates to be filled up on a mediocre manager's whim. However - content aside - I actually liked the page layout. I liked the cli
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by verisimi 2y ago
Nothing about this ama/article suggests that NK is anything but a Potemkin country - a false baddie for others to hide behind. The NK idea is useful to agencies, in certain circumstances.
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by verisimi 2y ago
I don't get the story... Why is the student so zealous in guarding the imagery?
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by verisimi 2y ago
> “We take the security of the rail network extremely seriously and use a range of advanced technologies across our stations to protect passengers, our colleagues, and the railway infrastructure from crime and other threats,” But I think
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by verisimi 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20240617202511/https://www.wired... Link to avoid the hundreds of essential 'partners processing data' via cookies.
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by verisimi 2y ago
> Social constructs are socially constructed. Given social systems are heterogenous, this variation is far from profound. (It’s almost corollary.) Not really. I imagine its fine to shoot a burglar in the US who breaks in your house, but

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