gmtx725

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by gmtx725 4y ago
I think the point is people disproportionately tsk tsk about the harms of drug use compared to the harms of alcohol. Personally I think most substances in moderate quantities taken only occasionally are no big deal. Yes there is probably so
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by gmtx725 4y ago
it was just called "Kingdom of Great Britain" before 1801 when it only included England Scotland and Wales
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by gmtx725 4y ago
The ancient Egyptian god is fuming
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by gmtx725 4y ago
not 100% disputing what you're saying and im sure more automatics/EVs etc will gradually filter in. BUT it's not just an affordability thing lots of people just prefer cheaper cars and would prefer to put their disposable inc
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by gmtx725 4y ago
There's still a big demand for manuals here, not just from petrolheads either. They're popular generally but in particular with newly qualified drivers, and people who live in urban areas and drive only infrequently. They're
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by gmtx725 4y ago
In the UK manuals are still significantly cheaper, so the bottom end of the market prefers them as well as the petrol heads
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by gmtx725 4y ago
What about the cost factor? In the UK manuals are still significantly cheaper than automatics.
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by gmtx725 4y ago
I'm UK based and still drive a manual. The main reason being cost. I'm a super infrequent driver (maybe once a week for bulky shops or long weekend trips) and don't want to be paying through the nose for something that is a c
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by gmtx725 4y ago
Manuals are still ubiquitous where I am in the UK so I don't agree with that assessment. They are still vastly cheaper than automatics as well.
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by gmtx725 4y ago
> So, just like almost everybody else Projection?
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by gmtx725 4y ago
Sorry I just don't agree with this. I run 50 miles a week and mix in some cycling too, and I actively have to make an effort to eat enough to maintain weight. Endurance cardio doesn't trigger hunger or cravings for me unless it&#x
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by gmtx725 5y ago
It's not completely an illusion. You had for example Leicester winning the league only five years ago.
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by gmtx725 5y ago
you say that but a complete minnow (Leicester) won the league only five years ago putting all these 'big' clubs to shame. Yes the odds are stacked in their favour but the only thing that keeps it exciting is the (small) chance of
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by gmtx725 5y ago
What even is a "true price", ontologically speaking?
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by gmtx725 6y ago
> This claim is false. If you can empirically support a result which shows that something most other economists believe is likely false and can do so convincingly It's almost impossible to do that though isn't it? Economics isn
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by gmtx725 6y ago
It's not that simplistic, it's not a conspiracy it's a self-selecting self-replicating system. How do economics professors get hired? By impressing other economics professors. And by having the power to win funding for the de
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by gmtx725 6y ago
my main problem with economics is it makes a philosophical error in that it assumes people and economic agents are inert objects to be studied as you would chemicals or atoms, without the capacity to react and respond to economic "laws
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by gmtx725 6y ago
Would you apply the same criteria to literature? Film? Art? Why isn't someone like, say, Jackson Pollock as 'clear and understandable' as a renaissance painter?
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by gmtx725 6y ago
I admit Deleuze's writing is hard work but he has some really interesting metaphysical ideas linked to complexity and systems theory, try reading Manuel DeLanda for a more accessible introduction
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by gmtx725 6y ago
"Analytic" Philosophy is already a term, I think it does the job pretty well
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by gmtx725 6y ago
IMO it's a strange misinterpretation of his work to think he's a conspiracy theorist. I think it is undeniable that every era has an ideology that captures the zeitgeist of the times, I think Curtis just explores the origins of th
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by gmtx725 6y ago
Calm down, his films are just interesting takes on the ideologies that govern our times, combined artfully with arresting archive footage and music. They're not always claiming to be capital-t 'truth'...
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by gmtx725 6y ago
I wouldnt class Adam Curtis's work as documentaries. More like... interesting stories and moods crafted from a collage of archive footage. They're just an interesting take, not necessarily claiming to be the capital-T 'Truth&
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by gmtx725 6y ago
Really, that's interesting, I've always thought about his work the opposite way. As if he's saying 'this is a story about the way the world works, you can take it or leave it'.
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by gmtx725 6y ago
> Sounds like you're applying a lot of quite American assumptions to rural Wales, to be honest. I'm British, I know Wales pretty well. Rural north Wales is pretty deprived
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by gmtx725 6y ago
yeah, i'm sure a bunch of highly paid software engineers swooping in to deprived communities and inflating property prices would go down well with the locals...
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by gmtx725 6y ago
Exactly, the communist manifesto is a short throwaway propaganda pamphlet that is for some reason held up as the apex of his work. Whereas Das Kapital, a mammoth 3-volume serious academic undertaking, and his real magnum opus, is ignored.
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by gmtx725 6y ago
harping on about ever-increasing inequality is rich coming from the CCP...
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by gmtx725 6y ago
> Interestingly, it seems the US is almost unique in our mass deindustrialization The UK has vast swathes of poverty in the deindustrialised north of England and other areas. Former mining and heavy industry towns that even today almost
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by gmtx725 6y ago
Projection. I'm a centrist not a leftist.

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