daseiner1

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by daseiner1 5d ago
i don't dispute that the "War on Drugs" was (is?) pretty much just a glorified jobs program for law enforcement but nevertheless some drugs are very bad. ironically enough alcohol, despite being the most readily available d
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by daseiner1 7d ago
i've been hearing this critique of new apple products for about two decades now and inevitably: - apple's product "does the same thing" as [device sold at 25% of the cost] AND - apple's product "does the thi
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by daseiner1 7d ago
*Xiaomi apple is always "late to the party" and regularly takes existing tech, polishes it to a high standard of UX, and introduces a new paradigm for consumer tech products. if xiaomi has ever done that please let me know. not to
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by daseiner1 7d ago
apple has been quite good at treating their "economy" products with the same level of respect as their premium ones, as far as I've experienced. the Neo is significantly more powerful than the Pro I bought four years ago and
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by daseiner1 24d ago
false dichotomy, no? critical consumption is an entirely separate matter than mindless consumption. great filmmakers watch great, historic films to learn technique, just like great chefs eat different cuisines to learn new elements of fla
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by daseiner1 24d ago
holy hell I enjoy an acerbic takedown as much as the next guy but this is beyond the pale. given that we do now live in a society with a universal right to vote the need for an educated populace esp. regarding matters of civil society is
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by daseiner1 2mo ago
just raise interest rates to counteract, then perhaps you meant inflammation resistance training doesn't cause cancer though
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by daseiner1 2mo ago
walking, walking, walking, walking having a well-rounded diet and getting an hour of walking in daily is like 90% of the way there for good health. (actually, proper sleep is the #1 most important thing)
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by daseiner1 3mo ago
famously friendly business environments europe & canada lol
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by daseiner1 4mo ago
corporate pursuit of monopoly is as sure a phenomenon as gravity
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by daseiner1 4mo ago
phil mickelson, easily the most famous left handed golfer, is right-handed but plays lefty because he would stand across from his dad and mirror his swing as a kid
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by daseiner1 4mo ago
fun fact: vs the US, golf stores in Canada carry more left-handed clubs because a right handed hockey player has their right hand higher on the stick which is the same orientation as the grip for left-handed golfers.
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by daseiner1 4mo ago
or the imprisonment of Galileo or the persecution of Socrates or the crucifixion of Christ or the legal charges against James Comey or even interpersonal dynamics in the corporate world. politically powerful insecure people swinging a stick
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by daseiner1 4mo ago
i’m convinced a significant number of that majority just thought it’d be cool as hell if lightning was in fact gods fighting, which i can respect. at that time: what’re they supposed to do with knowledge of lightning and electricity? might
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by daseiner1 4mo ago
identical critique of democracy, just sub in “manipulation of voters“ for choice of readers” (my comment is admittedly in poor form since I’m just redirecting to a hobby horse of mine)
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by daseiner1 4mo ago
at the risk of jumping the shark into full-on “woo woo”: what does it mean to “create ideas”? are ideas created or revealed? if ideas are created where do they come from? if ideas are revealed, then does that necessarily imply a determinism
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by daseiner1 4mo ago
nicely done and well put. one of the better intros to the “hard problem” i’ve read, truly
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by daseiner1 4mo ago
even saying that our senses are "tied" together with/into our memory and emotions is expressing a dualism. that's the challenge and that's the gap to leap.
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by daseiner1 4mo ago
bingo
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by daseiner1 4mo ago
I don't have the energy at present to fully develop my thoughts but one thing I'll say is that in my view they did *not* see the same cat. It was the same collection of flesh & bone on four legs, certainly. But it is not the
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by daseiner1 4mo ago
Isn't what makes the experience of love special the experience of love? a robot can hold hands and kiss and bring flowers home far more efficiently than i can. is that what love is? A robot CAN write a poem about how the redness of a
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by daseiner1 4mo ago
the quote from the article is just a contrived tautology that misunderstands the nature of the problem. the dualism problem is not about finding an explanation for why what we call a cat is what we call a cat. it's that you can measure
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by daseiner1 4mo ago
> a religious or spiritualist meaning to it, which is far from the truth. It's a question that arises from scientific curiosity that we hope to answer one day. a) it is wrong to say definitively that it is untrue. there is no acid t
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by daseiner1 4mo ago
not sure exactly what that’s supposed to mean
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by daseiner1 4mo ago
I personally loathe the kind of shithead bullies highlighted in the article. It's not a crowd I like and it's not the kind of crowd I associate with and in fact they're the kind of dickheads that I have a rather consistent st
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by daseiner1 4mo ago
Virtually every community excludes people in one form or another. Describing this as a fault of “socially excluded nerds” is a weak ad hominem. Subcultures have a right to be monocultures if they like. The Boy Scouts of America, for insta
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by daseiner1 4mo ago
And thereby it is necessarily impossible for Costco to be available to everyone. The spending dynamic you've described is Costco.
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by daseiner1 5mo ago
> The concept of the 'blindness' of justice is antithetical to blind patriotism. exactly. i mean only to point out that the Banksy work intentionally invokes the figure of Blind Justice to inform the work, however you may inter
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by daseiner1 5mo ago
seems missed in the general commentary that there is also an inherent commentary on the western tradition of “blind justice” https://i.etsystatic.com/13403651/r/il/40b0bf/6851322246/il_...
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by daseiner1 5mo ago
it's "written well" but not at all a smart piece of writing. leading with a photo of a cute baby before engaging in an extended defense of one's own integrity is so obvious as to be insulting

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