yesenadam

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by yesenadam 9y ago
"Don't be snarky."
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by yesenadam 9y ago
Oh, it's only about job interviews. Sigh. Maybe that should have been obvious to me from the title or URL? I'm fascinated by interviews, but job interviews, not so much. Except this, from my favourite book by a mile about philosop
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by yesenadam 9y ago
This appears to be an ad.
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by yesenadam 9y ago
Everyone? Only estadounidenses.
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by yesenadam 9y ago
I get what you say about not insinuating, though I feel the two people who asked so far weren't so much insinuating as actually puzzled, as it genuinely seemed the parent couldn't have read the article and still thought it was an
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by yesenadam 9y ago
A small point.. What is called "left-leaning" in the U.S. looks right-leaning to most of the world. [source?] Supporting one (the less far-right one) of the two main business parties gets you called "left-leaning". Suppo
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by yesenadam 9y ago
(Apologies if you're joking, but you don't appear to be. Hmm but I'm not sure.) "Consider the fact that in the social sciences, about 18 percent of American professors are communists.." - whoaaa! hehe. Well, that wa
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by yesenadam 9y ago
Try Sapolsky's incredible 25-or-so-part online lectures on Biology of Human Behavior. A great lecturer on a most fascinating subject, it's accessible to a general audience. Covers the topic on all different levels, scales, approac
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by yesenadam 9y ago
'How can you tell if this full stop "wrongness" is occurring?' Well, I get why you would ask this, but that's an extremely strange question; I sense false assumptions in there somewhere. Yes, "wrong, full stop&
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by yesenadam 9y ago
Metaphors We Live By - Lakoff/Johnson Philosophy in the Flesh - L/J Rationalism in Politics - Oakeshott Erving Goffman – Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Walter Lippmann – Public Opinion Art as Experience - John Dewey Plutarc
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by yesenadam 9y ago
The language is tricky in this area; I'll try to be clear. There seems some confusion in your concepts; at least I'm confused about them. I don't claim to have this stuff all worked out; sorry if it's not helpful. It sou
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by yesenadam 9y ago
"Choosing to experience negative emotion because someone does something is self-harm." Hi :-) Fascinating comment. Do you really live that, or just it's something you read/heard and aspire to? Trying to unpack that a lit
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by yesenadam 9y ago
Thank you, I needed a good laugh!
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by yesenadam 9y ago
"Criticizing the history of the United States is fine, but it's not even in the same universe regarding human rights abuses." I thought this was an outrageous remark, and felt compelled to object. But you say that's de
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by yesenadam 9y ago
maybe that was a joke and i missed it. deeply interesting? no idea why it's on here.
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by yesenadam 9y ago
I've already put in a lot of hours to that depressing topic, mostly a couple of decades ago. That Scott Noble stuff recently was more than enough. I do seem to remember Saddam got into power with U.S. help, then they sold him about 10
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by yesenadam 9y ago
Maybe I should have asked a question, I'm curious. Which countries did you mean?
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by yesenadam 9y ago
Hi. 'find me a source': Google is your friend. I can understand if you don't want to learn about this stuff. You sound young, or naively gloaty at least. If you think talking about 4 people is relevant then prepare for a big
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by yesenadam 9y ago
And it's also not what they said.
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by yesenadam 9y ago
Do you count killing someone as human rights abuse? Killing hundreds of thousands, millions? I guess these U.S. killings have been mostly of people in other countries, which don't count as human rights abuses? It's somehow worse i
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by yesenadam 9y ago
Um. Your country has drones bombing innocent people across the globe, and you are worried about...whether you are getting value for money?! Please consider for a moment what that might sound like to people 'across the globe'.
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by yesenadam 9y ago
> Israel is an unusual circumstance, in that it's surrounded by hostile countries, but so is the U.S. Huh? IIRC, the U.S. is surrounded by Canada, Mexico and a lot of ocean. I don't know how that can seem a realistic statement
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by yesenadam 9y ago
> Nearly everyone in this world holds to some central and defining philosopy or faith or religion that shapes the meaning of life for them. Is that a fact? Seems like a false assumption to me. Unless you just mean whatever deeper beliefs
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by yesenadam 9y ago
Whoops, I meant Godement's Analysis .
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by yesenadam 9y ago
I tried working in a library, once I'd been driven out of parks by wandering people on phones. In the library every couple of minutes someone ran outside shouting into their phone "I'm in the library! Hang on!". Grr. And
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by yesenadam 9y ago
i.e. Hamming advised everyone to work on the most important problem(s) in their field, and precisely not to "Chase after the things that interest you and make you happy." Maybe for him these two were the same. There is something