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2017-07-08 at 2:02 AM UTC in bias and magical beliefs
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2017-07-08 at 1:30 AM UTC in bias and magical beliefs
Originally posted by 霍比特人 I think philosophy is mostly useless.
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2017-07-07 at 10:02 PM UTC in bias and magical beliefs
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2017-07-07 at 10 PM UTC in I have the best wasps
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2017-07-07 at 9:59 PM UTC in bias and magical beliefs
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2017-07-07 at 9:53 PM UTC in bias and magical beliefs
Originally posted by 霍比特人 Science is there whether you know its there or not. It is the objective reality of the universe. You can't manipulate science like you can manipulate a chainsaw to build a house, cut a tree, or sculpt ice. You have to follow the rules of science. There is literally no other option, no manipulation involved. You can choose which rules to follow but you can't manipulate the rules.
If you want to make this a semantics game you can fuck off. Call it reality or whatever. And if you don't believe in objective reality you can also fuck off. You guys know just as well as I do that science is more than just 'the study of.' I'd like to see you give more than a semantics argument on how it is a tool, if that's what you believe.
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2017-07-07 at 9:41 PM UTC in bias and magical beliefs
Originally posted by 霍比特人 How can you say science is a tool though? Science is the most objective reality we have. It isn't a tool any more than you would say oxygen is a tool for breathing. It's so inherent that to call it a tool implies its something to be manipulated. You can't manipulate objective reality.
Science is a method or tool used for measuring objective reality. It is not reality itself, it is a method or tool of learning and discovery. -
2017-07-07 at 9:40 PM UTC in bias and magical beliefs
Originally posted by greenplastic Yea…I know those statistics would be extremely difficult or impossible to get, I was just saying it would be interesting if we could hypothetically see them
It would be. What do you imagine the results would look like? I imagine it would pretty even, but slightly higher on the death toll. -
2017-07-07 at 9:21 PM UTC in bias and magical beliefs
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2017-07-07 at 9:11 PM UTC in bias and magical beliefs
Originally posted by greenplastic yea, i really meant technology
So did I. You know stuff like flint knives, spears, arrows, swords and clubs... that's all technology. Technology is a tool, how it is used is up to us. It can be used to save and it can be used to kill. What we do with technology says more about us than it does about the technology. -
2017-07-07 at 8:45 PM UTC in bias and magical beliefs
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2017-07-07 at 7:04 PM UTC in bias and magical beliefs
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2017-07-07 at 6:32 PM UTC in bias and magical beliefs
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2017-07-07 at 6:26 PM UTC in I lost my SAP gloves.
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2017-07-07 at 6:25 PM UTC in Serious Question: Should I undergo MAPS Assisted MDMA Therapy?
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2017-07-07 at 3:06 PM UTC in Car or Truck, or Van?Truck.
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2017-07-07 at 11:55 AM UTC in I lost my SAP gloves.
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2017-07-06 at 3:15 PM UTC in Serious Question: Should I undergo MAPS Assisted MDMA Therapy?I don't this MDMA has any effect on HIV.
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2017-07-06 at 3:10 PM UTC in DeterminismIt's not just the keyboard, the actual computer is not working. I think the video card is overheating or something. I dunno. My friend who built the computer is going to look at it this weekend.
That's also why I haven't been on the Minecraft server. -
2017-07-06 at 3:07 PM UTC in Communism
Originally posted by Captain Falcon First of all, /r/thathappened tier $100% true story.
Second of all, you have to literally be 5 years old to seriously use the taxation-is-theft line of argument, and think it can be replaced with charity. The fact is that you live in a fucking society. Nothing you do is in a vacuum. Every single penny you've made has come off the back of public infrastructure. For every generous person like me, there will be a greedy jedi like you, who isn't willing to pay back in. You didn't magically pull the spirit of industry out of your asshole.
Third I already do a fuck load of charity, but the point of taxation and social programs isn't "charity". This is just a fundamentally retarded statement that displays the silly mindset you are in. The point of social programs is to establish a baseline for the standard of living in a fucking country so you can't starve and go homeless in the US of A in 2017.
And finally, I am also talking long term; when hundreds of unemployed niggers who lost their jobs due to automation are going hungry and the greedy jedis aren't paying in, and then they break down the golden estate gates and rape their wives and daughters and steal their bread, we'll see how much charity can be relied on, and how much sympathy they have for their estates.
I watched a video that suggested jobs like mine (skilled trades) will be among the last to become automated. Do you think that will be good or bad for me? On one hand, I will be among the last of the schmucks who works an actual job... but on the other hand I will be earning more than the average pleb. What are your thoughts on that?
