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@Digit@lemmy.wtf
techno hippie
- Comment on Give me some good ones 2 hours ago:
I don’t know if I can… getting burned out, by all the savagery.
- Comment on Give me some good ones 3 hours ago:
big words
- Comment on genius 5 hours ago:
Please tell me they’re not done, and they’re going to make a ceramic moulding of it, to pour a very strong alloy into… And have the competence in chemistry, metallurgy, metalwork and engineering to know they have the precision and strength to make it work.
- Comment on Give me some good ones 5 hours ago:
Savage!
- Comment on Give me some good ones 5 hours ago:
Savage!
- Comment on Give me some good ones 5 hours ago:
Faster than wisdom. Ha! Gotta remember that.
- Comment on Give me some good ones 5 hours ago:
Yes
- Comment on Give me some good ones 5 hours ago:
probably
- Comment on Give me some good ones 5 hours ago:
Hey!
That one’s about me!
;D
(took a thought an a half.)
- Comment on Are you there, God? 9 hours ago:
Arguably, sun worship is at the roots of all religion, and so that’s like saying to god “kill yourself”.
Maybe your prayers are answered. Just wait about another 5 billion years.
- Comment on Give me some good ones 10 hours ago:
PS, I admire your verbal intelligence if you effortlessly get the meaning of that on first read. Quite the vocabulary you have there. Did you swallow a thesaurus when you were 3 years old?
- Comment on Give me some good ones 10 hours ago:
I’m looking for insults so intelligent you don’t realise you’ve been roasted until 3 thoughts later.
Your precocious insipd query’s so strongly influential it triggers my ilithiophobia and a solicitude for philanthropic mischance and exponential precarity of inviolability, and thus my small voice has me incapable of answering.
… May take longer than 3 months [Edit, oh, dyslexic misread, it’s “thoughts”, not “months”. I aimed too high.]. May never realise.
- Comment on Mafs 10 hours ago:
Good luck with what you plant outside on 1/5
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 11 hours ago:
I’d say the conflation’s the bigger part of the problem.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 day ago:
People like this argument, because they can then hate autistics. They could say we are inherently broken and need to be “fixed” or genocided.
Wow. You’ve met people offering that inference from that argument? Aaaaand my ilithiophobia strikes again. It’s like hatred of left handed people all over again. Please, if you ever encounter someone with this disturbing notion, please do offer them some better sense. Please explain to them it’s not a moral failing, or failing of the content of their character. Please encourage them to not be so fearful and hateful of difference. And it does not even matter what “causes” “autism”. That kind of “fixing” is abusive as hell… like ABA. Genocide, too… perhaps the most dangerous form of only having one tool in the toolbox. Gotta teach these muppets more tools. Cant leave them running around with such dangerous foolishness, uneducated and unchallenged.
At this point, I only respect people who were discriminated/abused/mistreated in their childhood.
Yup. >9000 times more respect for we few worst bullied at my school. Only a couple days ago I was thinking/remembering/feeling this so very strongly, and how I’d love to reconnect with them all, to share my admiration of them, my sympathies, and perhaps most of all, my apologies for every time I did not find the courage to step in and stand up for them, and worse, any of the few times I joined in to survive.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 day ago:
Sides?
Oh, so we’re talking about those bifurcated into competing groupthinks, not the search for truth with an educated mind.
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain an idea without necessarily accepting nor rejecting it”, not picking a side. And certainly not flinging around sweeping generalisations^1^.
( ^1^, and when I was trying to remember/refine that term, I asked an LLM, and it suggested there may also be the following fallacies in that: False Equivalence, Appeal to Authority, Appeal to Popularity, Appeal to Trust/Tradition, Straw Man, Vague Reference, Guilt by Association, Reification, Othering, Composition Fallacy, Division Fallacy, Weasel Words, Anonymous Authority, and of course, Sweeping Generalization. That’s quite an impressive collection. And you did it so slick. Most slipped my attention. I bet you don’t get called up on your fallacies often. Not just from the intimidating arrogant airs, but because you’re so slick with them. Hope that helps you introspect and scrutinise your thinking, and is well received to consider.) :)
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 day ago:
Ask some eggheads to show you a virus isolated some time. See what fun rabbit holes you can explore together.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 day ago:
I often share the story how (as the story concludes)
after I renounced formal education, I learned more in my first year alone with an internet connection and a library card, than I learned in the entire 14 years of formal education prior.
… I would not have so successfully done so had I not had the library card.
… And that was back when the internet was more like a library than like TV. And long before the big corporate search engines censored about 99% of the results, like they increasingly did over the past decade.
Do not over estimate the wealth of knowledge the internet has (even with LLMs now). Blind biases lurk. We do not know what we do not know, nor how much more there is to know. Easy to fall into arrogance. And what is arrogance really, but ignorance of our ignorance.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 day ago:
Do they also teach how to spot fallacies? Or do we have to get that from elsewhere? Evidence suggests elsewhere.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 day ago:
Those advocating drinking ones own urine, have some interesting (almost compelling) arguments for it.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 day ago:
Nice quip.
I usually go with
If ignorance is bliss, give me agony
or even
The ignorance that dies is not you
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 day ago:
Gets me wondering which type of “Christian”.
Reminds me of www.youtube.com/watch?v=8swSkk9yeV8 .
There are many christians (not of that^ ilk) who very much are into the sciences, and are undogmatic in their approach to either religion or science. … Which was a surprise to me and my teenage militant aitheism that had swallowed the false dichotomy whole.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 day ago:
Like I just replied a moment ago earlier in this thread.
Imagine where we’d be if not for Bernays, Anslinger and Hearst.
Imagine how good the soil, water, air, and minds would be, if we had still been growing hemp copiously.
Unlike many other plant defences to insects, cannabis/hemp has sticky trichomes to capture them, and the main nutritious part for us is another two layers deeper. Not to mention, we have other uses for the trichomes, like for (very benign, non-lethal, non-addicting) medicine (… “king of panacea” they called it). And the plant is so vigorous itself, it’s often called “weed”, out competing other weeds we have less use for.
Ironically, hemp’s even a powerful bio-accumulator, and can be used to clean up polluted soils. And can leave the soil in a better condition. Can even be grown in the same location for 20 years without rotation before any depletion/imbalance to the soil occurs.
This along with all the other advantages… how it produces versatile super-strong fiber along with food and medicine. Not to mention oil (for lubricants, fuels, plastics, etc), and nowadays, there’s even a very cost effective way to produce graphene from hemp, so we can create things like carbon nano-tubules and buckyballs to make solar panels out of, or leave it as graphene sheets and create capacitor bank batteries, and more.
And it cleans the air 7 times more than pine forests do. Ever been in a pine forest? That’s some seriously clean air already.
And I forget how many times more paper it can produce than trees too. And paper that lasts longer (way, way, way longer), and requires orders of magnitude less chemical processing too. And it’s stronger. Same with cotton, orders less chemical processing, less labour intensive, and produces a product that lasts way longer.
I could go on and on and on further yet. But suffice to say already even at that point, one can see why the competing industries banded together to eliminate the competition.
Either we restore cannabis and start growing it again profusely, sooner, in wisdom, or, we do so later, in desperation (… or not at all (~ too late, all dead)).
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 day ago:
And the scam ruining so many farmers, especially in India, where many took their own lives, by guzzling the very poison that ruined their land and their freedom to plant and preserve seeds. “Terminator genes” in more than one way.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 day ago:
Imagine where we’d be if not for Bernays, Anslinger and Hearst.
Imagine how good the soil, water, air, and minds would be, if we had still been growing hemp copiously.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 day ago:
Worse now.
Glyphosate’s not just used as a weed killer, but as a desiccant.
Sprayed directly on our “food”.
Oh but don’t worry, our obedient STEM dogmatists can reassure us that it’s no harm to us because humans don’t have the shikimate pathway that it acts on. Pay no attention to our microbial biome, where the majority of our immune system is, and how nearly all of it does (nor other pathways, nor the cumulative toxicity of the other breakdown products, and certainly not any attention to the man behind the curtain with his Codex Allimentarius plans to own all life). … Cherry picking like that is at least as bad as “because it’s got electrolytes”. Socrates, Socrates, where for art thou Socrates? Not in the minds of those who pre-decided the answer and presume to know.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 day ago:
How do you know when a conspiracy theory is very unlikely? The more important it is and the more people who must participate in it, the less likely the theory is to be true. That’s why you can write off flat earth theories almost instantly with very little knowledge of science.
For a start, probably more sound footing not to start with a presumption presented in a pejorative, to be truly open minded and enquiring, seeking the truth.
The flat earth stuff’s fascinating…
Bare with me. LOL.
There are several allusions being masked by the dumb litteral.
And I don’t mean the under-the-fundament or matrix simulation stuff.
For one,
Maps.
For another, arguably even more intriguing,
Legal fiction. (And all bureaucracy and its reductivism (~ see, not just “flat” because it (once was) on paper)).
“The flat earth”, being a term used to refer to these.
But, if all you ever hear about is the dumb literal stuff, and presume to know, and believe your beliefs, unwittingly being naive realist, then you never get to the deeper stuff.
Non-belief ftw.
It helps you look deeper, beyond the shallows.
“It is the mark of an educated mind, to be able to entertain an idea without necessarily accepting nor rejecting it” – … Who said that?
Far few babies get flung out with the bathwater, with this approach.
Then also, it’s easier to see more of the lies within lies, and the lies so vast that not even their inverse are true, and can easier cease identifying with any position on any matter, and watch, unscathed, as strawmen are felled all around you.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 day ago:
Imagine we learned the spirit of egalitarian pedagogy in school, instead of the many toxic social-domination/social-survival lessons learned.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 day ago:
Science classes
And [other^1^] philosophy, especially epistemology.
… And it’s quite telling and daunting that
But how do you teach those skills directly
was asked.
Like it was missing the question mark because it was rhetorical. Like it’s beyond their conception, and as if in absence of evidence (or experience) it’s presumed to be evidence of absence of possibility or means to do so.
Looking forward to this year, and more people realising more of how much has been stolen from us.
[ ^1^ Because science is just another branch of philosophy. Natural philosophy. ]
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 day ago:
“That’s impossible!”
“No. It’s necessary.”
– Interstellar.
Otherwise… doomed.