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by zamfi 4y ago
Yeah. But, fortunately, it's a dynamic system! Learn to ignore the headlines that are written this way, because the noise is high. Some folks have to use ad blockers to avoid seeing ads, while others train themselves to just ignore ads
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by zamfi 4y ago
Guilt is not a binary. When one group is actively trying to absolve its sins of the past, and the other doesn’t even recognize them while doubling-down, the claim that “everyone has sins” an abdication of the idea that behavior matters.
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by zamfi 4y ago
Why the hate? This headline makes the audience clear, and it’s not you! Enjoy the freedom this gives you to skip reading the post.
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(2014)
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Individual deaths can result in local change, perhaps mediated by liability concerns. It's become the cynic's take to point out how quickly an unprotected pedestrian crossing gets a traffic light after a fatal accident there. The
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by zamfi 4y ago
Okay, and as a counterpoint: being able to up and leave your community on a dime to choose another one leads to filter bubbles, mutual distrust, easy "othering" of communities not your own, and makes more challenging any work to i
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by zamfi 4y ago
Yes, my point is that using those as a measure of liberties is a particular definition of liberties that makes assumptions about what humans value most. Not everyone values these — nor even liberties in general — and describing their lack a
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In this case, the name is really only indicative of where the current canon of philosophical thought identifies the first recordings of these notions as explicit philosophical notions, and has nothing to do with “these behaviors” as were no
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by zamfi 4y ago
I’m extremely confused by how the lesson you drew from Wengrow and Graeber is that the notions of freedom to relocate, disobey your community, and keep the value of your labor are actually universal and not based in a specific notion of ind
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by zamfi 4y ago
I think you’re projecting. I’m not sure how I could have caveated my statement more than I did — I am not dismissing the perspective I describe as “western” at all, merely noting the existence of alternatives that may offer other perspectiv
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by zamfi 4y ago
I’m all ears if you have a better descriptor for philosophies emerging from enlightenment-era thought in Western Europe. (Sure, I could say all that but it’s a mouthful!)
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by zamfi 4y ago
The freedoms you list: whether you can relocate, disobey community orders (norms?), or “keep” most of the value of your labor, are fundamentally rooted in a notion of the individual as separable from the community or society they exist in.
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by zamfi 4y ago
This is a very western perspective on the role of the individual. Not to say that it is wrong or others are better or anything, but there are other ways to interpret the interrelatedness of actions by individuals within a collective, that m
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by zamfi 4y ago
> I’m not sure there would be a push back against it if being forced to tell people that you’re advertising a company that pays you money to advertise them wasn’t still seen as negative Hmm, is this really about “selling out” though? Or
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by zamfi 4y ago
Futures contracts on commodities necessarily assume fungibility of the underlying commodity!
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As siblings note, the "historically" I'm talking about is pre-WW2. Life in the US from 1950-2000 will one day be seen as a historical blip, not a state of being the US can ever return to. In that period, the US reaped massive
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by zamfi 4y ago
Rarely profit. But it goes towards higher salaries, larger administrations, financial aid, and various amenities that today's college-bound kids' parents demand, like comfortable dorms, gyms, etc. College in the 80s didn't lo
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by zamfi 4y ago
And prior to that, education used to be a lot more expensive, and was only for the rich. Your claim is not just cause-and-effect, it's historical fact too.
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by zamfi 4y ago
Surely your smart developers and well-connected sales guys differ in more ways than merely “connections” — in particular, the sales guy, being on the front lines of “what people want”, is surely better-positioned to understand the market he
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by zamfi 4y ago
I assume you’re referring to particular kinds of knowledge and particular kinds of attitude, but you do leave this ambiguous. Most “know-how” technical knowledge—what I assume you’re referring to—is like having a set of solid well-known too
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by zamfi 4y ago
I guess I should have said "currently" -- very few grids are 100% renewable; some offer the option to individual customers (hi EBCE!) but usually what this means is that the operators purchase enough power from renewable sources t
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by zamfi 4y ago
I think the parent poster meant "annual chance of dying after 80" as in, for any year 80+, you have a 50% chance of dying that year: it doesn't go up each year, so you don't "age" in that sense.
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by zamfi 4y ago
It is next to impossible to use only renewable electricity from the grid. I agree with you, the statement was meant to illustrate the original poster’s rather unhelpful maximalist stance.
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Again…both are helpful.
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“Own” as in “not from a grid” not self-manufactured.
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by zamfi 4y ago
Huh? We need to both (a) reduce emissions from transport, and (b) reduce emissions from agriculture. The parent poster was implying (presumably, because my original post was saying “we should do both” in response to a post that said “(a) is
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by zamfi 4y ago
Did I say somewhere that meat consumption is not problematic?
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Not the OP, but I’d guess: yes.
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I assume you are being serious, but the truth is that supporting ICE vehicle sales and the fossil fuel industry as a result is supporting industries that are actively killing us and the planet also . I sure hope you bike (or drive a confli
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The problem with this kind of post is not, as you might surmise, that people disagree with the notion that reducing meat consumption is helpful from an emissions perspective. It is that the binary presentation implies an either-or when in f

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