yadingus

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by yadingus 3y ago
I love dreaming and I think it can be used as a tool to get to know yourself, and even practice skills. I think some people, specially nowadays, live in a very conceptual world inside their minds, and anything that they don't understan
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by yadingus 3y ago
See the work of Jaron Lanier for an actually thoughtful debate on this issue, the comments here seem generated by AI.
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by yadingus 3y ago
It's a bit shortsighted to only look at numbers. Quality of sleep affects how tired you feel, how well you can think, etc. Plus I fucking love sleeping, if you consider sleep as a necessary battery charging then you're missing out
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by yadingus 3y ago
I think the socialization argument is a fallacy, in my experience there is absolutely no effort to guide or educate or provide any sort of understanding or framework of how to socialize, how to cope with interactions, your own feelings, e
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by yadingus 3y ago
You might know this already but in Buddhism the mind is considered one of the senses :)
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by yadingus 3y ago
> here could be for me as an average end user I don't care that What you don't care about doesn't change the fact that it's a real distinction. Being used to being locked to one choice because Microsoft says so doesn&
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by yadingus 3y ago
> That doesn't mean they don't exist for other users Right, but it also doesn't mean issues with the OS . They can be issues with the desktop environment. > I feel like your view on Windows seems outdated and based on
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by yadingus 3y ago
The first paragraph, although an interesting theory, is odd and almost self contradictory. If you don't expect anything to come out of interaction, why not just type your responses into an offline journal for yourself and keep it at th
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by yadingus 3y ago
materialism refers to the belief that matter comes first, and that consciousness and experience came after millions of years of matter developing into life and life evolving and so on. I'm not denying this is a reasonable possibility,
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by yadingus 3y ago
> I can't ignore an OS Tbf most of the issues you describe are with Gnome. I've been using linux for 7 years and I touched Gnome once for 5 minutes and hated it. Never had any of the other issues you mention. Screen tearing in
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by yadingus 3y ago
We're beyond what he imagined in technology and material possibilities, but not even close to other more human values. The fact that we are both using this amazing technology of "light speed" information exchange to engage in
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by yadingus 3y ago
Your opinion is based entirely on the assumption of materialism. We used to think the earth was the center of the universe, we learned it's not. We used to think the earth was the center of the solar system, we learned it's not. W
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by yadingus 3y ago
It's also not "we don't know so maybe no black swans exist". Knowing and belief are different things too. I don't know for a fact that the tree outside my house is still there when I'm not looking at it, but I
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by yadingus 3y ago
> They did that and all they had written down was "Walls." dude, that's deep No but really, a lot of revelations I've had on trips, the extremely skeptic would disregard as nonsense, but I consider there's some s
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by yadingus 3y ago
That stress doesn't come from empathy, it comes from treating death as something to be feared and not talked about. In other cultures death is not such an icky subject, and making bonds doesn't mean generating attachment that will
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by yadingus 3y ago
The amount of users who care about Hackernews is negligible when compared with the amount of Reddit users. People have already voted and Hackernews got the thumbs down.
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by yadingus 3y ago
Out of curiosity, what would you say to a person who shared the same story as you, but instead of Catholicism they turned to Scientology?
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by yadingus 3y ago
Perhaps one can examine and question why the need for satisfaction. Is it actually necessary to buy into a theory? To belong to an opinion? Is it beneficial?
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by yadingus 3y ago
How would you know if you had in front of you an example of the contrary?
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by yadingus 3y ago
So you're basically conflating "drug" = "molecule". I see the point better now, but I still think the distinction is misguided. In a clinical context, dosage is more accurate, that's true, but this is not a dis
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by yadingus 3y ago
Is it tho? It's not uncommon to mix weed with herbs, it's called a spliff. Ayahuasca is a combination of substances, would you not consider modern ayahuasca consumption as a drug? Mushrooms are often mixed with lemon juice. Plus w
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by yadingus 3y ago
That's a modern, western distinction tho. In many cultures plants, mushrooms, and other substances are considered straight up medicine, sometimes mixed with other things, usually surrounded by ritual.
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by yadingus 4y ago
> Most of the really great books, people describe, "It's about this character who..." I find this sentence preposterous, not only is it not true about great books, but people don't say that.
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by yadingus 4y ago
I don't know why but this is hilarious.
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by yadingus 4y ago
A carnivore diet isn't relevant. The point is that excessive consumption of meat is a relevant part of many people's unhealthy diet, which ALSO includes excessive sugar and flour. It's not attributing the health harm solely t
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by yadingus 4y ago
I wonder if the researchers ever took psychedelics. It sounds like they, and the author who wrote the article, have no first hand experience with creativity.
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by yadingus 4y ago
The gist of it is that music theory is descriptive, not prescriptive.
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by yadingus 4y ago
I read Blood Meridian first and he became one of my favorite authors. But I am a proponent of reading "hard" books (as long as you're not actually forcing yourself to do it).
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by yadingus 4y ago
> And I have no idea why things are like this. Propaganda. These tools are not for the people, and I'm convinced the idea of how much better our lives could be if technology was thoughtfully designed to truly serve the user is purpo
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by yadingus 4y ago
> that generally makes them better. This is a very questionable statement.

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