daniskarma
@daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on 'vegetative electron microscopy' 1 week ago:
To be fait, scientific publishing has been terrible for years, a deeply flawed system at multiple levels. Maybe this is the push it needs to reevaluate itself into something better.
- Comment on unleash your humanities 1 week ago:
I actually have. And I have read a LOT and I mean a LOT of philosophy.
All the great philosophers of history to begin with. I have read all their most famous works. And I have enjoyed them.
But I still think they are not science, as they do not describe nature. They just give opinions on several matters. And the few who dared to make any predictions about the future failed miserably.
- Comment on unleash your humanities 1 week ago:
And the bible used to be considered an explanation on the origins of earth and the human being.
Luckily as time goes on humanity have been able to understand nature in better ways than it used to.
- Comment on unleash your humanities 1 week ago:
I literally wrote “I have a hard time understanding why we should fund philosophy studies with government money.”.
If you do a bias interpretation on that in your search for an enemy is on you.
I don’t write here trying to achieve any goal. I’m not a partisan not a propagandists.
My only goal, as suggested from the original comment was to know other people’s opinion a debate a little on that.
And I’m not even American, so I don’t really have much stakes on that the US government does or stop doing with their fundings.
As I have already said, it’s not that I don’t like humanities being funded. I don’t like them being treated as sciences, when they are not. I would support a humanities funding that would consists in a more democratic and spread funding that would allow to any member of the society to work on their humanities if they want. For instance funding for anyone self publishing a book on any matter (philosophy or fiction), building national archives and forums for this humanities to coexist.
But funding a philosophy department with a few elite philosophers who sre getting a lot of money to do some philoshophing is just wrong from my pov. I could be convinced otherwise if a good argument is presented, but as far as it goes it has not been presented such argument.
- Comment on unleash your humanities 1 week ago:
Not really. I’m just presenting arguments I have always had about philosophy not being a science.
Even if rare, not a single philosopher could make an experiment or present me a scientific theory that would prove that abortion is right or wrong. So the opinion of a single philosopher is as good as any other, and as good as mine for this matter.
Most modern philosophers are left wing, so yes, most philosophers would agree that left-wing morals are right, and that would present an opportunity for left-wing people to say that global morality should be decided by philosophers. I’m left wing myself but I’m against tricks and lies, even if they “benefit the cause”. And even if considering philosophers the moral light of our society would benefit me (as I mainly agree on most modern philosophers views) I personally consider it to be a false statement.
The not funding thing is on the air, yet. I’m just convinced is not a science, is more like literature and other forms of personal expression. And for me the argument would be founding all equally or none. And of course I don’t agree on giving any philosopher a position of authority on morals “just” for being a philosopher in the same way I would give a scientist an authority position in science just for being a scientist (once again, because the whole thing of science is that it’s subjected to experiments and falsifiability.
I don’t even want to diss philosophers. I enjoy reading philosophy a lot. But just as I enjoy reading any other kind of literature. I have respect for Liu Cixin (for instance) but I wouldn’t give him an special position in telling people what to do just because he writes good books that make you think.
- Comment on unleash your humanities 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure a lot of professional philosophers would agree on abortion bans, while a schmuck like myself agree on “mothers choice”… So…
- Comment on unleash your humanities 1 week ago:
I only consider science those fields that can describe nature and assert this depiction of nature vie repeatable experiments. Thus I don’t agree on philosophy being a science.
I algo don’t agree that a professional would have better morals than me. Due the personal nature of what morality is.
Imagine I say my morals are the best, how is any professional philosopher to prove me wrong? It’s not possible. But if I say that “climate change is not real” a lot of climate scientist could show me evidence and offer me a set of experiments to undoubtedly prove me wrong.
- Comment on unleash your humanities 1 week ago:
Why would a philosophy major would have better ethics than my, for instance?
Ethics are greatly influenced by so many aspects different to whatever career someone chose to study.
And we could cut the middleman just voting and electing people with the same ethical values as me. It would be a piss off democracy if I chose a representantive who campaigned for painting all buses blue because I share that view just for some unelected person coming to say “no that’s not ethical you shall not do that”.
Ethics of a society emerge from the society, not for a few individuals.
- Comment on unleash your humanities 1 week ago:
I have a hard time understanding why we should found philosophy studies with government moneyq. I would need some convincing.
Feel free to comment here your best arguments for it.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 1 week ago:
I would lo to be able to justify buying a 1500€ vr set. But using it for one or two games does not make the threshold for me.
I hope they make more really good games so it become justifiable.
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 2 weeks ago:
By played hours the Binding Of Isaac probably.
By impact in my heart Metal Gear Solid.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
What’s the legality of that land?
Where I live there’s no way a plot of land is suited for both farming and a Hotel.
If you build something in a place where residential/commercial buildings are not allowed you are in for a lot of troubles.
If the weather provides the safest bet for the most profit would probably be plant some easy trees or some plant that would not need a lot of caring, and just sell the products.
- Comment on All things have a right to grow. The blossom is brother to the weed. 2 weeks ago:
One thing to notice Most animals that are inside your house, are inside your house for a reason. And if you put them outside to “live” they will just die if they cannot return to a suitable environment with a reliable source of food and proper cover from the weather and predators.
So, sorry for taking away the guilt free feeling of putting an animal outside thinking it will live a long happy life in the wilderness.
- Comment on All things have a right to grow. The blossom is brother to the weed. 2 weeks ago:
Spiders are comrades in mi ongoing extermination war against against mosquitoes.
- Comment on He's totally not a Nazi tho 2 weeks ago:
Billionaire seal of approval
- Comment on How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach? 3 weeks ago:
The thing is that the genocide have nothing to do with the differences between Latin american and Castillian languages.
The people commiting the genocide was the people who went to Latin America and “created” Latin American Spanish dialect.
Current ascendants of Latin American people were not genocided by Spaniards. The ascendants of current Latin American people genocided the native people that used to live there.
- Comment on How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach? 3 weeks ago:
I have never seen a Spaniard correct anyone from Latin America or thinking their language is less correct.
For your knowledge Spain itself have a lot of dialects in the Peninsula, all of which sound different. And Latin American dialects are influenced by Southern Spain dialects as most colonizers where from there. In the Canary Islands and in some parts of Andalusia they also use “ustedes” as second person.
I think you just made some scenarios in your head to be angry or something.
- Comment on How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach? 3 weeks ago:
It makes zero sense.
The indigenous people didn’t talk in Mexican Spanish.
- Comment on I wonder if the "money can't buy you happiness" people ever lived in a car. 3 weeks ago:
If people have not experienced hard ship and they are still unhappy, they are qualified to tell you that the lack of economic problems does not bring happiness.
Just by pure logic.
- Comment on kmk 3 weeks ago:
Sphere is the smoothest, easier to fuck without a visit to the ER.
Dodecahedron looks dangerous as hell. It could impale me a dozen ways, so I’m marrying it.
Guess I’m out for some antiprism murdering.
- Comment on Technology isn't fun anymore 3 weeks ago:
It totally is.
I have fun with technology every single day.
Yesterday I spent a good part of the evening scrapping a site to serve myself an API of it’s contents and dockerizing the app.
BTW if you try to put a service under docker with exposed ports remember to change localhost to 0.0.0.0
- Comment on Did sites end up making money from API restrictions? 3 weeks ago:
It was not about getting paid for API usage, though they let the door open so they could sell that service for very specific purposes but not for alternative apps.
Their point, and it was admitted during the leaked conversation with one of the independent app developers, was about opportunity cost. Their official apps offer ways to get more money out of users, more advertisement, in app payments and all that.
- Comment on What’s an acceptable gender neutral replacement for “techbro”? 3 weeks ago:
Identity policies at work.
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 4 weeks ago:
Discord is where knowledge goes to die.
I never understood why people chose that as a meeting place for communities knowing that all the knowledge thrown in there is useless.
- Comment on modern psychiatry be like 4 weeks ago:
We din’t need a register of left handed people to start making left handed scissors.
I think society can accommodate without the need for medicalize it. That’s the difference I wanted to make, an illness need to be medicalized. A different way of being does not.
For instance, my lighter skin complexion makes so I have to wear more sunscreen that people with darker complexions. But no one would think of it as something to be medicalized. It’s just “oh, I usually get burned by the sun, I better buy some sunscreen” or “oh, I’m left handed I better put my mouse in left handed mode”, or “oh, I’m gay, I’d better go find someone of my same gender to love”. Something like that. Simple, easy and widely accepted.
- Comment on modern psychiatry be like 4 weeks ago:
I will argue that the mild part of the autism spectrum, what we call functional autism, is not a mental illness, not a disorder.
It’s like being left handed, not the most common thing, it can cause troubles in a world made for right handed people, specially if being left handed is not accepted. But by itself is just another way of being just as “healthy” and “normal” as being right handed.
I think this is an open debate. Some folks prefer it being considered an illness because they want diagnosis and treatment. Others, like me, just love to be this way, and there’s nothing I think is wrong with me. The only problem is that the world is not accommodated for people like me, just like it wasn’t accommodated for left-handed people not so long ago. But as soon as it’s 100% accepted as something normal I don’t see it causing any trouble, so if there’s no harm there’s no illness we can talk about.
- Comment on 🪨 Rock on 🪨 4 weeks ago:
Are you sure of that?
For me 9-5 sitting in an office is way better than 7-7 on the sun taking care of crops, inside a mine, or as some rich guy servant.
- Comment on 🪨 Rock on 🪨 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, ancient people had it good, they never had to work, food and shelter used to just fall out of the sky.
- Comment on PeerTube needs more love 5 weeks ago:
Using Voyager, the app has like a thousand (idk how many but a lot) of domains registered, so basically any lemmy link out there take me to the Voyager app.
I would assume the same could be done with peertube app
- Comment on Favourite Metroid game? 5 weeks ago:
It’s also Zero mission for me. The atmosphere and story are amazing.