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by vik0 11d ago
There is no sovereignty perspective because Europe isn't even sovereign to begin with. For starters it doesn't even have a common army
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by vik0 3mo ago
I assume most people who use XP (which by default means non-hobbyists) are using it to run some software that was made to run only on it and the people who made said software never bothered to update the software for another OS. Something l
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by vik0 8mo ago
You can always count on someone coming along and defending the multi-trillion dollar corporation that just so happens to take a screenshot of your screen every few seconds (among many, many - too many other things)
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by vik0 11mo ago
More like surveillance state
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by vik0 1y ago
I'm not American either
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by vik0 1y ago
Am I wrong in thinking this guy isn't/wasn't a very influential person, outside of Twitter and the people that stay on there 24/7? If so, why even target the poor guy? What change was the person who shot him hoping to el
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by vik0 1y ago
People "back then" didn't have access to an industrial quantity of honey Regardless, most people in the westen world dont eat like you. Most of their calories come from ultraprocessed garbage (look up the nova food system)
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by vik0 1y ago
Then at least you tried whatever it may have been you wanted to succeed at. You may fail, but at least you won't wonder what could've been "if only I had tried"
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by vik0 1y ago
Long-term planning on a colossal scale (like nation-state-level) (or even on a not-so-colossal scale - think of how many plans YOU have made and how they turned out) is pointless because of black swans Sure, having a general idea of where y
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by vik0 1y ago
Life without work is meaningless. Over the millennia we have done nothing but work. We were made to work. I don't know if you've experienced not working without having to worry about money, but I have and it has a unique feeling o
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by vik0 1y ago
Using the wayback machine can work if you have the exact video link, but it's not guaranteed that they'll have it You can occasionally find a torrent out there of some channels entire video log Other than that, no If you come acro
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by vik0 1y ago
AI fakes, and AI in general, will push more and more people to interact with each other in real life. I, for one, can't wait for that. Sometimes, the more things change, the more they stay the same
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by vik0 1y ago
Thanks. I'll check it out
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by vik0 1y ago
What kind of a book is it, genre-wise? Was it interesting? I'm deciding if I should read it someday or not
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by vik0 1y ago
https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/pinker.pdf
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by vik0 1y ago
>Cromwell ravaged through and tried to cleanse them I don't think you realize just how weak central states were back in the day. To even call them states in the same vein as how we would today call a state a state is a bit of a misn
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by vik0 1y ago
>I read Stephen Pinker's Better Angels of Our Nature I don't think you realize just how funny of a source that is I will just leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur...
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by vik0 1y ago
>The world also tended to be far more violent in the past than it is now. Do you think people just dropped dead? Humans are not that fragile. The reason the average Roman age was relatively low is because of high mortality at childbirth.
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by vik0 1y ago
I am a wild beast I am not in the 5-7 year old territory
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by vik0 1y ago
I read that too and I was surprised, but then the first thing that popped into my mind was that this is probably a case of survivorship bias
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by vik0 1y ago
>in the year 1200 the average person would likely not have considered the people living 800 years before them to be all that different from them How do you know this? And does the average person today really think someone living in the y
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by vik0 1y ago
This is great! Thank you for sharing!
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by vik0 1y ago
The overwhelming majority of "knowledge produced"* is nothing more than noise. Do not for a second think you're missing out on anything valuable or substantial. Do not be (or, remain) just a consumer, thinking he's accom
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by vik0 1y ago
No. But I never claimed to be self-consistent or rational, did I now?
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by vik0 1y ago
I know that wearing hand me downs was common in history. I've worn plenty of hand me down clothes when I was a baby/growing up. But currently, where circumstances aren't pressing, I refuse to wear clothes worn by somebody els
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by vik0 1y ago
I think you will enjoy reading about mediocristan and extremistan, mentioned in the Black Swan by Taleb. Great book all around really (as well as the entire book series too)
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by vik0 1y ago
Fair enough
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by vik0 1y ago
I will never buy, let alone wear clothes previously worn by another person that I don't know (but even then I likely wouldn't) I am talking about in normal, everyday (for me) circumstances, this would likely not apply in dire circ
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by vik0 1y ago
>it should be taught in reverse chronology. Basically here's what's happening now, and that's due to what happened last year, which is due to what happened last decade, etc Boy, oh boy, you will hate Karl Popper if you eve
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by vik0 2y ago
Waterfox is not new

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