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The Retarded Thread: Get off that bus edition
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2020-04-23 at 4:19 PM UTC
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2020-04-23 at 7:47 PM UTCI knew a guy who ate 60 5/325 Percocets without extracting and lived without any long term damage from all that APAP
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2020-04-24 at 4:30 AM UTCJust got the gay Valorant beta
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2020-04-24 at 4:32 AM UTCugh riot
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2020-04-24 at 4:39 AM UTCYeah.
I'm not sure whether I want to actually install it considering the anticheat is a rapekit.
I might end up just playing CS again anyway. -
2020-04-24 at 6:25 AM UTCthe core of modern society's issues is inconsistency of beliefs and valuesThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-04-24 at 6:45 AM UTC
Originally posted by aldra the core of modern society's issues is inconsistency of beliefs and values
Really?
You can have perfectly consistent in your beliefs and have it generate shit outcomes because the belief is shit. I don't want a perfectly consistent ISIS follower. Inconsistency can be the critical "patch" to stop a particularly malignant belief system from reaching its (bad) logical conclusion.
Not to mention, it's just necessary. Learning means an evolving base of knowledge where there will always be inconsistencies, as new and incompatible information enters. But that doesn't mean the new information washes it clean.
For example our everyday physics are inconsistent with the truth but it works better anyway, because making the subtly inconsistent assumptions allows us to do literally all the engineering perfectly within a domain of applicability that is functionally everything in our world. We do aerospace engineering, material simulations, structural calculations, not by taking Quantum Mechanics but by scaffolding ourselves up to Newtonian physics with the relevant assumptions.
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2020-04-24 at 7 AM UTCI wouldn't consider ISIS' beliefs to be consistent.
The sort of thing I'm talking about is the unwillingness to kill an animal but the demand to eat their meat. The outward desire for 'peace' but the willingness to allow others to carry out violence on their behalf.
Inconsistent beliefs make a person, and in turn a group, tribe or population, unpredictable and unreliable.
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2020-04-24 at 7:17 AM UTCI don't think applied physics is consistent either. It's not an inherently desirable state of affairs.
The sort of thing I'm talking about is the unwillingness to kill an animal but the demand to eat their meat. The outward desire for 'peace' but the willingness to allow others to carry out violence on their behalf.
You're probably unwilling to handle poop but I'm sure you don't mind paying someone else who isn't, to do your plumbing... The outward desire for "cleanliness" but the willingness to allow others to carry out filthiness on your behalf.
That is only a solution. You are disgusted and he is not. Same with meat. Where does the problem come in?Inconsistent beliefs make a person, and in turn a group, tribe or population, unpredictable and unreliable.
You can predict pretty well how ISIS members would act by taking their inconsistent beliefs as a basic assumption. I can certainly rule out a great majority of things that they WON'T do. Offering them pork would garner a consistent negative response, for example.
In some edge cases where there is a direct conflict of premises, you will have to transplant in some 3rd postulste to decide which one path to take. But then that's just not known to you: how do you know that's not the brain in the act of making it consistent, and you just needed information on that process? -
2020-04-24 at 7:38 AM UTC
Originally posted by aldra I wouldn't consider ISIS' beliefs to be consistent.
The sort of thing I'm talking about is the unwillingness to kill an animal but the demand to eat their meat. The outward desire for 'peace' but the willingness to allow others to carry out violence on their behalf.
Inconsistent beliefs make a person, and in turn a group, tribe or population, unpredictable and unreliable.
I've been trying to put some ideas together to write a proper thread
My mom loves animals, but whenever i talk even very generically about the processes involvedin slaughtering cows, pigs, chickens, etc for meat or milk or whatever....she gets FURIOUS and will yell and slam doors. Ive pointed out how hypocritical it is to “care so much” about animals that you cant even stomach the DISCUSSION of the way their lives ended before they end up on your plate. Her argument is “this is the only thing i get to enjoy” and “how often do i really eat meat? i hardly eat anything” which ive pointed out is kind if like saying “how often do i stomp an infant to death?” And shes a really intelligent, well read, college educated woman.
I talk to people all the time who have this impression that someone like George Bush was a heartless bastard and Obama was this wise and rational, kind man. And when you point out that Obama ramped up the drone program to nuke a bunch of brown people with killer sky robots, that doesnt seem to jive with their experience either.
California is a vehemently anti-gun state, and make every effort to curtail the rights of others to own. And yet since the pandemic, thousands and thousands of Californians have gone to purchase guns for the first time. When ineterviewed, many of them asked to remain anonymous bc gun ownership wasnt “part of their brand” and they feared being ostracised by their fellow liberals whose values they were betraying for their own sense of well being.
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/guns-los-angeles/
I was discussing with a friend whether the folks that gather in these mega churches during lockdown should be barred from ER admission if they become infected. If someones faith is so strong that they need to flaunt their disobedience of a health directive to worship, then i would expect that that person would “stand in faith” and let god sort it out when theyre on the kitchen floor sucking for air like a fish. But id wager prayer isnt their first thought when they get seriously sick. -
2020-04-24 at 8:12 AM UTCIt's been some time since my last infantstomp
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2020-04-24 at 9:25 AM UTCYeah i mean on New Years ofc. Like the jedis stomping on a drinking glass or whatever it is they do. Just jam your heel into its tiny gooey head like some crush video. But its a rarity is my point. One or two a year, TOPS.
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2020-04-24 at 10:33 AM UTCgotta love fruit gushers
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2020-04-24 at 11:40 AM UTCGushers? More like fruit by the foot
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2020-04-24 at 10:48 PM UTCGet it, infant stomp?
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2020-04-24 at 10:48 PM UTCFuck yall
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2020-04-24 at 10:49 PM UTCBought a qoz from my neighbour. Cool guy. We play 2K together. He's a dreadlock negbro and a true 7G. Decent bugs, although I squished them into my meditainer first like a retard
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2020-04-24 at 10:54 PM UTCThat shitty machine trim tho
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