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by profeatur 2y ago
Someone hasn’t seen what Spanish cities look like outside the casco viejo…
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by profeatur 2y ago
Source: the beneficiaries of such fraud, were it to occur…
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by profeatur 2y ago
That’s what nearly all UE regulation is. Most of these regulators are on the payroll of 200 year old companies who maintain their control of the economy by preventing any real challengers from rising.
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by profeatur 2y ago
> It's so naive to think that Meta/Google(Youtube) doesn't have power to manipulate people's opinion We have that here too, except in our case it’s the government using the good old fashioned medium of television.
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by profeatur 2y ago
Well, most things, considering the absolutely pathetic average salary, the rising cost of living, and the ever-increasing tax burden.
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by profeatur 2y ago
Unhealthy people get left behind in Europe all the time. I hope as a European you’ll never have to go through the hell of trying to deal with any kind of complex chronic illness. The doctors have no clue how to treat these kinds of problems
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by profeatur 2y ago
Yes, there is a public health system, but people tend to avoid it when they can. Most opt to go private for their dental, for example. And if they have any kind of systematic (sibo, ibs, autoimmune, etc) problem the public system is useless
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by profeatur 2y ago
The divide goes back even further than the USSR. The enlightenment era gave us two separate definitions of freedom. At its foundation, the US govt is granted whatever rights it has to constrain freedom by wholly autonomous and free individu
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by profeatur 2y ago
Europeans will continue to buy the hardware, except rather than being able to afford the Apple devices they’ll buy some very low quality knockoffs from Shein.
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by profeatur 2y ago
>liveable work conditions How does low pay affect the “liveability” of work conditions? A waitress in the US makes as much or more than a software engineer in most of the EU. While the EU worker may receive more vacation time, and while
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by profeatur 2y ago
Twenty years ago it was quite expensive for an American to visit Europe. Typically only the upper middle class could afford it. Since then the European system has become stagnant and for every US tech company that’s ballooned in value many
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by profeatur 2y ago
It will be interesting to find out why Cortes is depicted as a Roman. Considering the church inventory, it reminds me of the Holy Week processions in Spain where you often see people dressed as roman soldiers.
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by profeatur 3y ago
+1. Even if many of the mid-twentieth century French philosophers were incomprehensible and self-contradictory, they certainly provided a lot of useful raw material for more grounded thinkers like De Landa.
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by profeatur 3y ago
170,000 terawatts of free solar energy per day has to go somewhere…
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by profeatur 3y ago
People who think the world works on facts have a hard time grokking LLMs. With chatgpt you find solutions to problems the same way you do with humans: through conversation. Personally, chatgpt has revolutionized my work flow, both in that i
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by profeatur 3y ago
This is generally true, except that it’s not necessary to travel to the US. You can see a local private doctor or dentist (often accredited by a US university, using US developed medical technology) locally.
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by profeatur 3y ago
>wrongdoers This goes all ways. The USSR had their hands in Spanish politics. Spain’s extensive gold reserves were drained and shipped off to Moscow, for instance. Spain was dragged into a political and economic system with no real organ
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by profeatur 3y ago
>humans for the majority of existence… This is not globally true. Animal products have always been the most important part of the Northern European diet. Earlier, nomadic herders in Asia and Europe ate primarily animal products (while fa
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by profeatur 3y ago
Depends on what you replace it with. For the majority of people less beef means more soy, more seed oils, or more chicken (the meat most easily modifiable by modern industrial techniques). The consequence is low muscle mass and high body fa
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by profeatur 3y ago
People below the age of 29 are still likely to believe what they were taught in school, and haven’t yet suffered the consequences of the lifestyle they’ve been told their whole lives is more healthy and virtuous.
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by profeatur 5y ago
Covid broke our institutional reality. There's clearly something about the events of the last two years that's caused a large segment of the population to instinctively reject what we're being told by authorities of all strip
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by profeatur 5y ago
Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler’s reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler. The less you trust the ruler’s reliability, the more information y
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by profeatur 5y ago
There's a difference between "vaccines work," and the vaccine specifically developed for COVID works. Most of us who are skeptical of the second statement are not skeptical of the first. The snake oil is in the discourse.
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by profeatur 5y ago
I’d be less hesitant to take the vaccine if midwits weren’t so eager to convince me that science says what I know science cannot say.
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by profeatur 5y ago
You equate those values with the systemic regulation of them. Id argue that Christianity is inherently conservative. Christianity finds the root cause of the imperfection of our world (and the systems it contains) in original sin. One doesn
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by profeatur 5y ago
The sad truth is that the people in this situation lack shame. They lack the sadness that you feel when you see the way they live. They will take what you give them, and then they will take more. They will make you feel guilty for not givin
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by profeatur 5y ago
Climate change is probably happening, sure. But you’re deluding yourself if you think that we’re going to come up with a way to solve it systemically, or that anyone in power actually cares about the issue at all. The more likely outcome is
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by profeatur 5y ago
Whenever this topic comes up the conversation always centers around money or housing or other brute physical facts. It should be obvious by now that this problem is not about material resources but is something deeper and much more intracta
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by profeatur 5y ago
Do you live in Europe? The last thing we need is more regulation. I can almost guarantee that whatever law they pass is only going to make it harder for those of us actually trying to start up businesses here.
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by profeatur 5y ago
I think it’s more likely a natural human response to the lack of autonomy we experience in the modern world. Especially during childhood we are forced to live our lives on rails, and we have no power to change the circumstances we find ours

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