wu-ikkyu

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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
I have, please elaborate.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>This makes me worry about the future, especially augmented reality. Don't you want ads right ON YOUR FACE!? It's OK. You'll adapt! I have a dream that augmented reality will one day enable you to visually block virtually
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>You took something of value that was created or owned by someone else. By this definition every website you visit on the internet that you did not create yourself is stealing.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>The cost of electricity use to produce them adds a value to it. This is a sunk-cost, not added value.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It was mostly the Spanish, French, and British empires instigating violence in Argentina up until then, when the US joined the party with the Dirty War.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>violence was endemic in Latin America before 1973, and that the U.S. did not cause that violence I must still be misunderstanding; you're saying US interests have had no involvement with the violence in South America before 1973? I
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>The U.S. didn't get involved in, say, Chile, until 1973 This isn't even remotely correct. The US began expanding its influence in South America (Chile included) around the early 1800s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>That merely requires a change in the democratic voting system which eliminates some perverse incentives "Merely" seems like an understatement
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>people in the U.S. are far more free, prosperous, and safe than those in China. This sort of statement is entirely subjective. As a counterpoint, many people in China would say the US is less free and less safe, because the US has by fa
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
You're assuming our intellectual assessment of our lives is always right and without bias. Just because we don't recognize something as being "real" doesn't mean it can't have real effects on your mental wellbe
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Feeling like shit when your life is terrible is normal. Feeling like shit when your life is awesome is not. Could it possibly be that our idea of an "awesome life" is mistaken?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>I'd like to think that medical professionals and academics in the mental health field have probably been thorough enough in their research to have looked at these finding over the years. You might like to read up on the short histo
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Great question! Though it would seem we are delving into the realm of metaphysics, which is unfortunately taboo for modern psychiatry.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It still seems many people believe there is strong scientific evidence to the "chemical imbalance" theory as an independent cause of depression, which is a myth. It is a paradoxical issue though, because chemicals can indeed play
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>There are people who have wonderful lives, fulfilling jobs, happy families, who are still depressed. If someone truly feels and believes they have a "wonderful" life, it would seem they are not suffering from crippling depress
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
"The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labor. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In prin
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
To understand what they're talking about?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>seems to be to be problematically obvious. Agreed, it's so painfully obvious it's problematic. Human psychology has an interesting habit of ignoring obvious painful truths, as Margaret Heffernan details in Willful Blindness: W
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
If bank credit isn't backed by fiat currency (fractionally reserved or otherwise), then does it have any real basis to it?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Perhaps I misunderstand but are you implying governments being in perpetual debt is a good thing?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
I agree, OP was simply illustrating how much of this seemingly scary "debt" is really fancy financial maneuvering rather than something with a strong basis in physical reality/resources. Like when the stock market crashed in
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Is it theoretically even possible for all debts to be paid with the given supply of money vs. what is supposedly owed? For instance when interest is charged on a loan, the money needed to pay the interest fee is not created by the bank.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Do you think the periodic table contains all the elements in the universe?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It was much more than just speech which caused all that.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
"When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result" -Marshall McLuhan There is an element of truth to those anxieties. New forms of media create new spatial r
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>How's technology to blame for helicopter parenting, fear of terrorism and crime in general, the notion there seemingly is a nonce behind every street corner and similarly irrational ideas and behaviours rampant today? It seems obvi
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
There is nothing wrong with having online friends, but there is an obvious deficit in richness of communication and experience between online and meatspace interactions. Perhaps in years to come VR will overcome that deficit, though.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Indeed, it seems what we need to end poverty is more "heart" (empathy), rather than mind (intelligence)
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
The same could be said for "The War on Terror". If we really wanted to fight "terror" we'd keep everyone unconscious with drugs so they couldn't feel terror.

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