Tollund_Man4
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Tollund_Man4
26d ago
Or the country version.
The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Heidegger and Being and Time. I struggled to understand Heidegger's Question Concerning Technology before and this book has been much clearer to me. About 40% of the way through and, though this isn't really the correct way to distinguish them, it's only now getting out of laying the metaphysical/phenomenological groundwork into more recognisably unique claims about authenticity, the concept of the Other etc. Obviously the concept of Dasein is recognisably Heidegerrian too and the other topics are still derived from that so this distinction isn't a philosophical one, but just from a reader's perspective everyone has their answer to Descartes, whereas now it feels like the book is on to totally new ideas.
I will have to read Being and Time eventually because Heidegger isn't someone you can just get the gist of. He departs from common sense and the normal usage of words and creates his own precise definitions such that you'll be lost if you read something without understanding the previous pages. I don't think it's obscurantist though, you'll get tripped up on hyphenated constructs but the definitions of things like 'there-being' are written clearly somewhere. It's just that without the benefit of traditional usage to rely on you have to keep a lot more in your head at once to follow along.
Also reading H.L Mencken's The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. The book was written in 1908, before Kaufmann told us not to trust Nietzsche's sister and apparently even before some of his more famous books had been translated into English, but also before WW1 Germany and then the Nazis had built their own mythos around Nietzsche (and before later scholars and philosophers reacted in the opposite direction). I'll have to read more to see if the former are scholarly quibbles or major barriers to understanding, but Mencken at least has the benefit of having a blank slate encounter with a relatively new philosophy. I haven't reached the meat of the philosophical exposition yet but so far this book is quite easy to read.
Tollund_Man4
1mo ago
No I haven't, thanks for the recommendation.
She's not working in a power plant, more research/engineering on detecting subatomic particles. I never studied physics so a lot of it is beyond me, but the projects seem more on the practical side. Stuff like building reliable detectors for different particles with limited resources, helping the Japanese with Fukushima etc. There was one person there who figured out how to use phone screens to triage radiation doses in a nuclear accident or attack.
That is also true, you can still make friends for a night easily enough even if you're not going to follow up and try to see them next week.
There's a phrase along the lines of "quick to be friendly, slow to be friends" that describes it. Of course if an Irish person moves abroad they're likely also going to try and make some actual new friends.
Tollund_Man4
1mo ago
I'm working as a chef not making much money and I don't have the hang of the language yet. I've got a purely French speaking job lined up in April and a network of chefs who'd give me better work if I can prove myself some more but for now it's too precarious. I'd want to at least be able to promise that I will stay in the country instead of going back to Ireland to look for work after all.
My girlfriend works in nuclear physics where they have 2 year contracts, she couldn't really follow me to Ireland anytime soon.
Tollund_Man4
1mo ago
I never really trained bodybuilding, just strength training, but until you hit 5 day a week levels you can usually just add volume and get better results. It sounds like your new routine is better so no harm sticking to it. If you do want to do compound lifts maybe add some variety, e.g sumo deadlift as well as deadlift, incline bench as well as overheard presses, you'll build more muscle and imo having some variety helps you break through plateaus.
If you do find yourself with lots of time on your hands I would recommend nsuns with rows. It's decent volume but still all compound lifts, I was at my strongest when I had the time to stick to that program for a year.
Tollund_Man4
1mo ago
Anecdotally, most of my old friends from Ireland (all late 20s/early 30s) are geared towards settling down now.
Some are single due to recent breakups, some (like me) who didn't become programmers have to make some decent money before getting married. Out of around 15 people in the last 2 years: 3 marriages (all have had kids or are currently pregnant), 2 engagements, 4 in long term relationships.
The weddings are great fun and since we're scattered across Europe and America now it's basically the only time the whole friend group can get together. We even helped set up the 30 year old virgin gamer with the bride's sister last year and that relationship seems to be going well.
I live in France now. The dating scene is insanely easy for a guy compared to Ireland, especially if you learn the language. Bigger cities probably account for a lot of it, but French people are more likely to make friends with strangers than stick to their friends from secondary school (like I did). They still do the latter but it's less of a barrier than in Ireland.
If you want to just hookup it's not hard, but my French friends seem to be as into committed relationships as the Irish. My girlfriend is French and judging by her friends they're the same with one difference. A lot of young French couples will get Pacs before getting married. I don't know what it entails exactly but it seems like it just covers some legal and financial stuff and the celebration is a lot smaller than a wedding. I'll have to see for myself what this leads to but it seems like it'll add a few years of delay to marriage and children.
Tollund_Man4
1mo ago
Is it the "I survived the Irish theocracy of the 90s" type or are they saying Ireland is like that now?
Tollund_Man4
1mo ago
How many days a week can you commit to the gym?
As much as I would like to see deportations, there is no counterpart in Europe to the abandonment of inner cities to that America saw, you can still have a nice time walking through Marseille or Brussels even if they are disasters by European standards.
I don't think America has failed the most basic functions of a nation state, but if you want to say that achieving the murder rate of the state of Iowa - no European counterpart of Detroit or Baltimore even exists - is a sign of such failure then it appears that you are saying it.
Tollund_Man4
1mo ago
I don't think it's a sign of collapse, feminism has had its share of radical rhetoric for decades now and that hasn't slowed it down. The more worrying explanation is that it's just a sign of a more general radicalisation, and if even seemingly normal women are willing to get locked up or shot for their cause that's all the more moral sanction for the men in that group to take it further.
It's not a rigorous historical point but I would think an exhausted radical movement looks something more like nationalism in Northern Ireland just before the fighting stopped, where the women are marching for an end to the violence and only a few stubborn men remain committed to it.
Tollund_Man4
4mo ago
If this guy were trying to popularise the anti-Israel position and not get in trouble for it he would have a hard time writing a better line. I assume he's actually being genuine here, but unless he's claiming Charlie Kirk was stupid or weak then drawing attention to the idea this pure hearted man was about to turn against Israel raises questions about why a good man would come so close to turning against Israel.
Tollund_Man4
4mo ago
The printing press, plow, literacy, the Enlightenment, and the 20th century provides tools to enable the Priestly-type that simply didn't exist at other points.
Can you explain this a bit more? If you're talking about the ability to maintain an unproductive priestly class it seems like the ancient extractive hierarchy (whether through direct taxation or tradition-bound hospitality) is a social technology which is very capable of doing this on its own. With Christian poverty you even get priests, monks and saints in places where they can just about feed themselves, and their number seems more constrained by the strength of their ideals than anything else.
Tollund_Man4
4mo ago
Considering all the things Hasan has previously done and said (things that break the Twitch TOS like doxing other people and arguably inciting violence with inflammatory rhetoric), if this alleged mistreatment of the dog is what gets him cancelled, it's pretty revealing what certain people's priorities actually are.
It's revealing of the fact that in your face things are easier to rally around, you don't have to pay attention to a word he says to see what's happening to the dog.
Tollund_Man4
5mo ago
What is the Edwards Process?
Tollund_Man4
5mo ago
My conception of personal identity is pretty flexible, but it is in no way stretched beyond breaking point by the notion that a digital copy of me is - for my purposes - interchangeable with me. In many aspects, it's nothing but a straight upgrade. If I want to be stronger, faster, more durable, more intelligent, it helps to be an entity in-silico rather than a meat computer.
Are you giving up on the possibility of actually experiencing this new entity yourself or do you think your consciousness can be transferred somehow?
If the former I see the value in building a really cool mech with your name on it but it seems tangential to the problem of personal death, if the latter I am interested in hearing why as it is hard to conceive of how that would work.
Tollund_Man4
5mo ago
It works the other way around in my experience. Unfortunately for the white Europeans in those countries, when people hear Bulgarian or Romanian they think gypsy.
Tollund_Man4
5mo ago
Many people think that a room cannot count as a bedroom if it does not have a closet
Another instance of learning a small thing that surprises me about America (I assume).
Would you ever consider living in a house that has no closets?
A wardrobe serves the same function even if it takes up more space.
Tollund_Man4
7mo ago
- 1.5km
- 1.2km
- 6km for what looks like a vineyard in the suburbs and 9km for the really large farms.
- 5km for the nearest train (not tram) station.
- I don't think we have an equivalent in Europe but there's a supermarket 400m away and some bigger ones 2-3km away.
- 11km
Tollund_Man4
7mo ago
I'm not sure if American Aldis are designed the same way as European Aldis but given the layout where you have to walk through the queues by the tills to leave it seems like an awkward place to steal from either way.
Tollund_Man4
7mo ago
I also think the truth is generally to be found in the middle. 25 million deportations is the thoughtful man's solution.
Tollund_Man4
7mo ago
Maybe this calls for an inverse catch-22. If you have enough executive agency to successfully organize a slave revolt, you clearly do not belong to the slave class. Welcome to the ranks of the masters brother.
If we're still talking about Greek society the free man was someone who valued liberty over life and had the valour to actually claim it. Granting a slave freedom merely for organising a revolt would be a lower standard than what was expected of free citizens when they are called to defend their own freedom against an invader.
Tollund_Man4
7mo ago
Maybe I need to read more Roman history but all of the times this happened the general's army was already strong enough to contest everyone else in open war (even a less successful rebel general like Sertorius still controlled and defended Spain against Rome).
Even if they do become personally loyal to Trump, ICE isn't a real military force and it is still dwarfed by the regular military.
Tollund_Man4
8mo ago
so I'd like to remove e.g. scratch-off cards at convenience stores
When I worked in a convenience store the people who would hang around the till buying and scratching cards until they were out of money were a big annoyance, the more inconsiderate ones would let a queue build up behind them while they did it.
No, you can filter out the ones who can't handle different political opinions by being up front about what you believe. I've got a few friends who've said we'll end up on opposite sides if there's a war, and the sense of humour there is why it works. I'm not American but I run into students and expats sometimes, they'll be sensitive if they're in a group but you can still find guys who'll look past that disagreement to make friends. You can tell a Muslim or Hindu to accept Christ or get out of the pub and most likely they'll just laugh about it.
If it goes wrong you can have fun making fun of a hysterical woman, or an angry Muslim, but you have to be willing to commit to the follow through in order to even say the first sentence and personally I've never seen any real consequences and the person crying about your political views just looks silly.
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