contrapunter

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by contrapunter 6y ago
>It also doesn't help that 80% of toys is cheap plastic tat Yes. Amazing how many people are content to makes presents of such dross to their young friends and relations. Alternative approach: get the adult versions . e.g. don&#x
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by contrapunter 6y ago
If one man produces 1000+ hours of content then there's always going to be dodgy stuff when stuff is taken out of context. ('If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them wh
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by contrapunter 6y ago
Nah; I've listened to a number of his shows. He's a popular political commentator who is anti-communist/leftwing -- that's why they banned him.
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by contrapunter 6y ago
Important to recognise that Stefan Molyneux is not far-right, whether or not the far-right are encouraged by his YT channel deletion. I would classify him as an atheist/libertarian.
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by contrapunter 6y ago
>> Mainly that’s about being able to do things without having to explain them first It seems as good a rational definition of faith as any.
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by contrapunter 6y ago
>They exist, but the woke crowd is purging them hard now. Yes, thereby creating tomorrow's woke crowd. Tomorrow's woke crowd will ultimately purge today's woke crowd. So we may as well just politely state our opinions
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by contrapunter 6y ago
Speech isn't free. It's a form of action and actions are constrained. As the West changes from a Christian to a post-Christian culture, one set of blasphemy laws are being replaced by another set. One set of words you can't s
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by contrapunter 6y ago
Don't disagree with the facts but the suffering of humans depends as much on the content of their thoughts as it does on material conditions. A civilisation at the apparent height of its power and security can eat itself from the ins
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by contrapunter 6y ago
The closing scene is priceless. Clive Sinclair defiantly drives into the future on his C5, without helmet or neck support, overtaken by lorries/juggernauts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM#t=1h21m38s
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by contrapunter 6y ago
I've also heard private debt jubilee put forward as a solution. Don't know which (if either) is preferable.
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by contrapunter 6y ago
Can anyone explain why banning credit/usury wouldn't help in the longer term?
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by contrapunter 6y ago
>How can you evaluate cost of managing basically forever (at the human scale) dangerous wastes? I think we need to be optimists. Not 'glass is half full' optimists, or 'humans are perfect' optimists but 'progre
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by contrapunter 6y ago
Perhaps it would melt down through the tarmac. As the article states, 'Yeah, let that sink in for a moment.'
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by contrapunter 6y ago
Science is a set of evolving traditions about how to fix errors and it relies on the consciousness/perception of individual scientists. Consciousness/perception is error-prone but it does seem intimately connected with the correc
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by contrapunter 6y ago
Misleading in some respects, but overall helpful. Like a computer desktop.