socraticmethod

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by socraticmethod 3y ago
You're correct. There's nothing special about taurine delivery, which is the obligate nutrient for obligate carnivores like cats.
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by socraticmethod 3y ago
>I contend that you are cause of just as much loss of life as I am through your actions. That's patently false. More than 85 billion land animals alone are slaughtered annually for food. Trillions if you include sea life. Regardless
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by socraticmethod 3y ago
That's not the full definition of murder. Here's the rest: - 1: to kill (a human being) unlawfully and with premeditated malice - 2: to slaughter wantonly : SLAY - 3a: to put an end to - 3b: TEASE, TORMENT - 3c: MUTILATE, MANGLE
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by socraticmethod 4y ago
> I’ve never committed violence to animals. Nor do I promote it. Do you eat them?
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by socraticmethod 4y ago
>I'm just not here to impress, and anyone passing judgement about someone else's lack of alcohol consumption is a loser. Seriously. That entirely depends on the reasoning behind abstinence. Bad reasons or bad faith arguments ar
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by socraticmethod 4y ago
> Who wants to be known as the Christian Christians do; many quite vocally, even aggressively. Thus the pushback.
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by socraticmethod 4y ago
>Spending that time with dulled senses What exactly is the fear of dulled senses? What are you gaining by being a bit sharper on Friday night that drinkers are losing? Is anything actually lost? I'm genuinely curious because most o
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by socraticmethod 4y ago
>Two indicator lights (red/green) serve as attention getters and ensure a far reaching call function when a respective message is displayed. The red light is used for system and emergency information, the green light for communicati
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by socraticmethod 4y ago
>Sound engineers need to stop needlessly flexing all that dynamic range that modern tools give them, and just produce a watchable movie. Audio component manufacturers have actually responded to this tendency by adding in-line compressors
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by socraticmethod 5y ago
>WiFi Sucks...Including 6E Outta curiosity, why do you say 6E sucks?
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by socraticmethod 6y ago
Imagine saying "Awww yisss" as an emoji, only you don't actually have to say "aww yiss."
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by socraticmethod 6y ago
>Narrator: "It didn't." Yuck. I read HN to avoid these kind of low effort canned responses.
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by socraticmethod 6y ago
Even textualism is an interpretive process by very human judges.
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by socraticmethod 6y ago
I've been seeing more and more talk of how global opinions of the US have really taken a hit in the last year. With that in mind, do y'all think as quickly as it went down it can recover?
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by socraticmethod 6y ago
"The RATE is abuse is more important than the mere existence of abuse." So what's an acceptable rate for the murder of PoC due to ongoing systemic racism and abuse of authority at the hands of the Police?
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by socraticmethod 6y ago
" They're trained with guns to aim for parts of the body that make it less likely to kill a target instantly or quickly and instead incapacitates them (of course, with a gun you can never know but you can alter the odds) "
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by socraticmethod 6y ago
"...but police here is trained to shoot to incapacitate, and it generally seems to work." I've never heard of this practice, and the opposite is regularly taught to various armed forces around the world. I'm curious t
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by socraticmethod 6y ago
"Second, why shoot to kill and not to incapacitate? Shoot to kill is a policy. Why is that a policy?" Most armed folks are taught that when you draw a gun it's to neutralize a threat. To neutralize is to completely elimina
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by socraticmethod 7y ago
|Ethics isn't based on what causes suffering / well-being. Ehh, where we've landed in contemporary, normative-esque based ethics, it kind of is. Where you think ethics gets its imperative force depends largely (as you mention
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by socraticmethod 7y ago
| IP multicast is and always was hopeless. Out of curiosity what do you mean by this? Are you referring to all Multicast solutions? Can I just be specific -- what do you think of Dante, Audio/Video-over-IP or other time sensitive an s