verisimi

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by verisimi 8d ago
Yes, everything outside of personal experience is somewhat fictional - one probably wouldn't agree with the biases, assumptions or assessments of any author/content creator.
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by verisimi 13d ago
We already live in fascism - governments and corporations are just wings of the same bird.
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by verisimi 14d ago
Shirley, the most sensitive dump is in testicles? Microplastics in balls. Like a ball pit.
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by verisimi 17d ago
What do you think Wittgenstein would say?
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by verisimi 22d ago
Yes, we operate at a different level, and don't serve the same purpose (humans are not food). Similarities are that we are engineered (psychologically, 13+ years of schooling), operate in an artificial environment not a natural one.
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by verisimi 22d ago
One should look to oneself, and act according to what you believe to be right. Internalising an externally provided morality is not it.
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by verisimi 22d ago
If you alter people's natural behaviour so that they are less manipulative, do you think this is the same as having not taken that action? It is a (further) unnatural intervention. It would be like giving someone an emetic because th
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by verisimi 23d ago
> I would fund things which make people less susceptible to manipulation and more equipped to think for themselves. This also would be manipulative. If you think society can provide you freedom, you are looking in the wrong places.
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by verisimi 23d ago
> You cannot judge if it's worth it from the cow's perspective, it got to live, enjoy the sun, eating in the field, doing cow stuff, same as us. Yep, same as us.
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My Contaminated Smile (<2003)(web.archive.org)
2 points by verisimi 24d ago|0 comments
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Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical(erikengdahl.se)
115 points by verisimi 24d ago|123 comments
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by verisimi 1mo ago
> We will get much better at manipulation and better at people “writing” things to justify their own feelings. Yes, ai has strong narcissistic traits. And so do the people that own them. And pay for them. In response, people in general
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by verisimi 2mo ago
I don't use Betamax, nor is it well supported.
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by verisimi 2mo ago
What can I say - its popular with me! Its also well supported, so that's something.
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by verisimi 2mo ago
I was responding to the generic comment that: > pretty much no-one uses either of them
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by verisimi 2mo ago
I use RSS multiple times daily.
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by verisimi 2mo ago
For fun, I'll say. You're trying to apply reason to emotion, not realising emotion drives everything. Consequently you think it's acceptable to force everyone to accept (your) superior reasoning, for their own good, whether
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by verisimi 2mo ago
> all of them are serial arsonists, which means three or more fires So, the number '100', has to wildly low, as some arsonists will not have been caught, or only started one or two fires.
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by verisimi 2mo ago
If you think any human endeavour, especially those that relate to handling of money, is without an agenda, I think you'd be wrong. If you also throw in the fact that this money is not taxed, you increase nefarious incentives. And tha
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by verisimi 2mo ago
> astroturfing works, and is only getting better/worse Perhaps one would say 'increasing' or 'decreasing'?
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by verisimi 2mo ago
People aren't doubting the benefit. Lenders are doubting their return. People's benefits have nothing to do with it. The benefits would go in a minute, if doing so yielded a better return.
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by verisimi 2mo ago
"re-buy democracy"
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by verisimi 2mo ago
This is another point that is overlooked. If you transform a landscape, moving the water through quickly or whatever, preventing the natural action (eg deeply drenching the ground) perhaps you create a high risk of a fire where the ground
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by verisimi 2mo ago
> I find it easy to envision a world, maybe 50 years from now, in which the very concept of "truth in advertising" is viewed as a lost, idyllic fantasy. I find it easy now!
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by verisimi 2mo ago
Oh no, would Google and Meta be dead? How will we manage?!
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by verisimi 2mo ago
No one asked you about this. Your government is free to spend its money as it likes, it can send it to the UN.
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by verisimi 3mo ago
The speed of turn-around sounds impossible. That you are asking for bike lanes - which is already part of most local agendas - is more believable. I daresay if someone asked for the lanes to be removed, they would not get any traction.
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by verisimi 3mo ago
We were already living in 1984 when Orwell/Blair wrote the book.
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by verisimi 3mo ago
> It's going to be interesting watching nation states fight over how best to do this As others have said, there is a coordinated push to drive this legislation everywhere. There is no fight in nation states. Just capitulation.
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by verisimi 3mo ago
Are you talking from experience? What legislation have you organised?

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