bobthechef

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by bobthechef 4y ago
I wonder how much we could reduce A/C usage by changing how we build. Contractors seem ignorant of traditional practices that used to help in part no doubt because they think they can throw A/C at bad design. For instance, what if
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by bobthechef 4y ago
"suddenly I’m hearing a lot about “brown” identity (we’ve been reduced to a color) from white people and white dominated institutions" Even here, you're committing the same fallacy by using the term "white people" w
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by bobthechef 4y ago
It sound like you're talking about, or at least brushing up against, prudential judgement[0]. Sometimes, the optimal move is not to seek the optimum. An obvious class of problems is where determining the optimum takes more time than th
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by bobthechef 4y ago
The absurd overuse of AC seems like a peculiarity of the United States. Walk into an American household in the summer, and you find people watching TV with blankets or a sweatshirt because the temperature is so low. In the winter, the oppos
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by bobthechef 4y ago
The vulnerable narcissist vs. the grandiose narcissist. That is, the Hollywood-archetypal "nerd vs. jock", though I have also met some grandiose nerds in my time in addition to the vulnerable stock. On a different node, I also see
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by bobthechef 4y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by karma in this case, but I wanted to note that the word "supernatural" is very often misused. Once you start prodding people about what they mean by "supernatural", you quickly discover
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by bobthechef 4y ago
> He's not saying "I'm correct whether you like it or not". Instead, he's saying "we are all prone to cognitive errors, whether you like it or not". Restated: "I'm correct, about us all being
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by bobthechef 4y ago
> charging according to income Perhaps only as part of a way to ease those with low income. But this is no good in general. You are charging one person more than another for the same good simply because of higher income. This is price di
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by bobthechef 4y ago
Our culture is in love with bullshitting. If you can bullshit to get what you want (ostensibly), then you're the man. Notice how getting away with things is glorified. It's like you managed to hack the Matrix or steal the cookie f
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by bobthechef 4y ago
> in awe of the natural world as some do with religion I have a real problem with the distinction between "religious people" and "non-religious people" because it presumes a distinction that I don't think exists.
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by bobthechef 4y ago
This is where a sense of humor would come in handy.
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by bobthechef 4y ago
These are subsaharan Africans , not African Americans .
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by bobthechef 4y ago
Indeed. But I also wonder how common this is. Imagine you have a deal with a friend who is a stock broker. You supply him with insider information to make trades. You give him your money and he makes trades on your behalf, and to conceal th
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by bobthechef 4y ago
Indeed, deduction, while of course important, is downstream from conceptualization. If you begin with muddled concepts, your deductions aren't good for anything. Even a small error in the beginning leads to big errors in the end. And s
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by bobthechef 4y ago
Isn't this exactly an example of you assuming you know better? How have you verified your own position, your own beliefs about transgenderism and gender dysphoria? Is your position actually coherent and defensible? Putting aside how g
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by bobthechef 4y ago
I never liked the term. It often seems to be used by people who demand that others make sacrifices for others and that’s a bad sign, a sign of coercion and exploitation. This is distinguished from considerations about the common good whic
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by bobthechef 4y ago
This borders on solipsism. The same argument can be made about any human being. At the very least, we presume there is pain by observing the behavior of animals in response to stimuli and interpreting what we see analogically. An in light o
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by bobthechef 4y ago
> I feel like it's the opposite - that, historically, many people (regardless of profession) always generally assumed that certain living things did not feel pain or otherwise suffer for some definition of suffering. I'm not su
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by bobthechef 4y ago
> technically it's a minor basilica, not a cathedral) This is a category mistake, no? A cathedral isn't an architectural term, but a designation granted to the central church of a diocese (i.e., the seat of a bishop, hence &qu
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by bobthechef 4y ago
How is it not binary? There's no reason to obfuscate the issue. All you need to do is to answer two questions: 1. Are human beings _human beings_ beginning with conception? 2. Is it ever licit to kill an innocent human being intentiona
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by bobthechef 4y ago
A Procrustean view. The law isn't perfect, and in that sense, it is like software in that it is constantly changing in anger. With the law, however, you're also in the situation of having many different interpreters. Given that th
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by bobthechef 4y ago
I reject the notion that aesthetics is arbitrary. It is not. I also reject the mystification and the dismissive progressive fallacy that the only reason anyone might oppose change is because they're crusty old reactionary humbugs (of c
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by bobthechef 4y ago
Broadly, no political order functions in the absence of a moral society. We've become rather fixated on the notion of systems that can somehow produce good outcomes no matter how vicious its members are. The problem here is that any po
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by bobthechef 4y ago
A sense of humor would be appropriate here. (A digression, since you made the point. This isn't a contest between Nazism and a free-for-all. A society can be overly inclusive, of bad behaviors, ideologies, and other objective threats t
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by bobthechef 4y ago
That sort of naive libertarian view is grounded in a false atomistic anthropology. We are individuals, yes, but intrinsically social animals who need society to live and to thrive, and language is a matter of the common good. Control langua
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by bobthechef 4y ago
Indeed, this racist condemnation of all "white" people is compounded by its anglocentrism. The etymology[0] of the word "slave" is also historically interesting[1]. [0] https://www.etymonline.com/search?q
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by bobthechef 4y ago
The Poles, the Baltic states, etc. know Russia all too well and have an fear of Russian power that is justified. However, NATO is not some simple fix as current events demonstrate. Central Europe is a region between a rock and a hard place.
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by bobthechef 4y ago
Indeed. People pleasers and "nice" people are prime targets because of insecurities and the lack of courage to be honest. "Oh, I can't refuse to meet later even if I don't want to because I might offend them."
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by bobthechef 4y ago
The presumption here is that there is something to be liberated from. That men and women are generally better suited toward different aspects of parenting is not an artificial construction. Ideological commitments have taken the place of re
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by bobthechef 4y ago
This is rather worrying. A game isn't an argument. It's not even evidence! Movies suffer the same problem in that we can couple causes with effects in ways that bear no relationship to reality. Just look at how Hollywood has contr

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