naremu

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by naremu 3y ago
I didn't propose anything, I'm just nitpicking HN's nitpicking of attempts to have a real conversation. Which, since HN is a place for technically minded people, has resulted in people arguing that chemical contamination of P
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by naremu 3y ago
> the colloquial definition of chemicals which if we're not being pedantic, we know brings up ideas of substances damaging to other substances or life itself. From the comment you're responding to. Damage is quantifiable, if it
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by naremu 3y ago
So, let me get this straight: I've claimed reducing everything to "chemicals" is disingenuous, and in response, I'm immediately told "no, you" and then challenged with debates over topics or ideas I haven'
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by naremu 3y ago
We're not allowed to begin bailing the water out of the sinking ship until the ship is sunk. You'd think we'd finally have gotten far enough in education to not be so easily carrot and sticked. But damn. People coming out of
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by naremu 3y ago
> Do you know what the word "chemical" means? This intentional nitpicking of the colloquial usage of the word chemicals is a favorite of both, disingenuous conversationalists who like to take a chance to feel correct rather tha
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by naremu 3y ago
>What is the difference between lye (dangerous), sand (not dangerous unless it suffocates things or gets crushed and inhaled), water (can cause flooding or drowning, otherwise harmless), and sodium bicarbonate (quite basic, generally har
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by naremu 3y ago
> could become not-small amounts. Let's not get too relaxed here. There's gigantic masses of plastic all over the world that would like to say that anything mass produced and cumulative "WILL become 'not-small' a
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by naremu 3y ago
Unfortunately Terrence McKenna (or fortunately depending on how you look at things) doesn't seem to have retained the same popularity. He does still have some decent "pithy one liners" but if I remember right, he didn't
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by naremu 3y ago
It definitely seems to matter on an almost jewelry-level to some people, footwear. Even if I doubt they spend more time intentionally looking at other people's shoes day to day, but I guess "louder" designs may change that a
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by naremu 3y ago
That's unusual if that's the case, in my experience. I rely on syncthing to keep my notes synced between devices/applications (and photos) and using "run according to time schedule" for "5 minutes" has nev
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by naremu 3y ago
Well quite frankly, saying "the claim that these are lies are just as disingenuous as the claims themselves " is a pretty low quality, classic stick-in-the-spokes "debate" tactic that essentially hand waves the ball bac
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by naremu 3y ago
Ironically, many of the "respectable" discord servers (i.e. revolving around hobbies people under the age of 18 aren't/can't get into) seem to not allow cross-server emojis (which mostly stops all usage of them and
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by naremu 3y ago
Well if OP's original "missing the forest for the trees" analogy is to be revisited (which I tend to agree with), it's that pedantry is sort of by (some) definition focusing on the letter rather than the spirit of what&#
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by naremu 3y ago
Stress seems best for the primordial hunt and battles of my ancestors who needed a powerful drive to see through an ideally short term situation with more response than they might have otherwise been able to muster, I have always found it l
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by naremu 3y ago
It turns out reality is slightly more complicated than raw game theory, which is basically just what you described. To be honest, it sounds like you might be internally cynical and externally giving, and exhausted seeing the results. Most o
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by naremu 3y ago
The Perennial Philosophy (both the concept and the book) focuses on more these types of things. It brings up that even in Christianity you can easily point at the non-personified elements of the theology and find conceptual relation to geog
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by naremu 3y ago
I suppose if you're a cold hard logic type only just dipping your toes into it, the Stoicism of old might be more your speed, as they considered logic and reason their hammer and nails, yet still retain a certain universal appreciation
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by naremu 3y ago
People seem quick to forget that religion/philosophy was originally married to the quest to discover more about our world. Carl Sagan, before lamenting about modern astrology, reminds us in Cosmos that astrology was once an actual atte
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by naremu 3y ago
Many of these texts have been around long enough for many dedicated people to put forth their own translations, and if relevant (like with many Chinese texts) with some kind of further researched commentary/citations to better explain
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by naremu 3y ago
I think many people here probably use Firefox to some degree and are concerned at the sustainability of the entity that makes it, especially since it seems to follow a for-profit trend of higher executive pay even though it's non-profi
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by naremu 3y ago
Punk rock was very simple but it still required a skillset; most punk rock fans probably hadn't invested the time and effort to be able to participate past supporting those that did. Punk movements seem to have always suffered from thi
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by naremu 3y ago
Incidentally I've actually found "natural" solutions like boric acid and diatomaceous earth to be wildly effective (in killing/reducing established populations, not preventing new ones), if a bit unsightly and inconvenie
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by naremu 3y ago
This seems like the sane, boring reality. People with modern dental routines probably don't benefit from the original purposes of fluoridation the same way people in the early 1900s only just getting electricity did. But people only ju
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by naremu 3y ago
Isn't that taste chlorine from the sanitation process? Either way I actually do assume water filter companies lobby to keep public water as subpar an option as possible, there's certainly no incentive not to.
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by naremu 3y ago
The impression I get from friends living in TX who have been sympathetic to TX for their entire lives, is that it's been a slow process working towards effectively only having behavioral laws for poor people. And yes, a common trope of
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by naremu 3y ago
I assumed this is what parental controls are invented for, but all too many parents don't seem to even have the knowledge to activate those in the first place. Maybe they should learn how they work instead of supporting a thin veil of
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by naremu 3y ago
Considering many cities were actually retrofitted to become car/sprawl centric, I'm going to say that's a political will/lobbying problem rather than a real one. Although it may have become a problem with all this sunken
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by naremu 3y ago
I have a feeling that if people made one of those pros and cons sheets and did the crossing off equal things, these conversations would go easier I can't imagine equating things like the smell of weed and having to share a train with a
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by naremu 3y ago
I know it should be a warning sign to just not drink coke, but I've instead taken it as a "this is literally for filling a glass already prefilled to the brim with ice like in the ads" kind of thing. Because undiluted coca co
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by naremu 3y ago
It may again be placebo effect, but I can still taste the difference in bottled water poured into my steel water bottle and my usual filtered tap water. I also can't stand plastic bottled sodas, and can tell they've been sitting i

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