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#209, #StandUpLocust, #MurphysFerry, Surah Yunus 10:71
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Tretiak
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2hr ago
I’d been looking for a particular pair of men’s, blue Stacy Adams for years before finally coming across a brand new pair that was just my size once on eBay. I instantly bought it despite it being on the pricier side of things, specifically for the reasons mentioned. Directly on their website they’d long since been out of production.
Tretiak
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2hr ago
If you’re pursuing the religious vocation, then it makes sense to me. With the exception of Paul and Barnabas as prominent figures in the church, tradition suggests all the apostles were married and thus couldn’t completely devote their lives to God.
Tretiak
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2hr ago
Because generally that relationship is inversely proportional if you’re a smart kid.
… And anyone who understands how babies are made can make use of sodomy, fellatio, and coitus interruptus.
So butt sex, blow jobs, and the pull out method? See this is why every generation thinks it was the one who invented sex, once you start talking about things this way.
Tretiak
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2hr ago
I think in an ideal world if you choose to not have kids, you forfeit your right to social security; since you depend on others and successive generations to fund your retirement.
They have to be. People have to contend most immediately with what’s right in front of them. Even with foresight the tendency to remain idle is difficult to overcome, because why address things that aren’t presenting a problem? The solution I’ve always had for this isn’t to think 10 years in the future, it’s to think about the big picture in general.
People who don’t have kids because they “aren’t prepared” to have them don’t take stock of the fact that you can almost never be prepared for it until it happens. “I’m too immature,” well guess what, you’re about to grow up really fast now. Sure there’s always finances and other things to work out, but when it comes to family planning, there’s far too much expected parents happen to overthink.
Tretiak
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2hr ago
If there was a glut of people in the rhetoric or philosophy department that could handle themselves well in this kind of debate they'd be able to make a splash in the debate scene, which is fairly open.
William Lane Craig has been doing this his entire life. That’s what debate is. Destiny understands zero about debate, because the fool doesn’t [and probably can’t] read academic literature. Norman Finkelstein trolling him was always hilarious to watch.
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3hr ago
By fashion management are you talking about the retail side or brand management? I’d imagine luxury and even mid-tier brand managers understand the trends and forces quite well. On the outlet side of things, I can see how they’d be suffering.
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4hr ago
The recent updates to Gemini that I’ve experienced have felt like night and day compared with the iterations of maybe 3-6 months ago. It seems to parse and select for data that’s relevant to what I ask it without losing context as easily. It’s getting better at handling edge cases too, but it’s still imperfect.
Tretiak
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4hr ago
You can already approximate some unique experiences in modern VR, although I’ve never tried it. I’m still waiting for the day law enforcement gets involved when someone decides to make a sim that allows you to smoke crack and generate the psychological state of getting high without actually doing it. When the day comes though for the kind of thing @Primaprimaprima is pondering, it’s not going to be a pleasant one in one respect, because human beings are going to have to rethink so many things about what we actually are.
That’s a quote I’ve really taken to heart over the years. A basic charity and generosity is obliged to others, per Catholic social doctrine. Beyond that though, I closely guard what’s in my self-interest and I’m not stupid. If someone puts in a tall order that involves me, they’re absolutely going to pay for it. Over the decades I’ve collected so many favors from others, I own as much social debt in my friend group as Japan owns financial debt on the US economy; and they know it.
My father used to tell me “the trick is not to make an emotional investment,” and “judgment is the first step to attachment.” I’m a highly judgmental man and it’s taken a lot for me to temper that characteristic and I have to a great degree; but it’s also meant that I don’t entertain bullshit. When you lose control emotionally and get mad, you’re not solving anything, you’re just mad at that point; and you become a hostage to the next thought and whatever emotional punchline it contains.
Tretiak
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12hr ago
Yep. I’ve mentioned the Reproducibility Crisis here before. Science isn’t as airtight and rock solid as people think it is. Small sample size effects, lack of long-term consistent results, etc.
Tretiak
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12hr ago
In some select domains, sure. But I’m also pretty confident the Dred Scot decision isn’t being upheld anywhere in the US anymore.
Tretiak
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12hr ago
No, I know that’s what you were saying. My point is that there’s a reason why that moral precept is put before science and it’s not a conclusion of it. If a person wanted to wholly structure a society purely based on the scientific facts of the matter, it’s not one they would likely want to live in.
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13hr ago
Speaks really poorly of the quality of the publication too, if it’s allowed to pass. I remember reading a paper once in a “journal” (that actually had some legitimate backing) about the possibility of igniting Saturn with a nuclear weapon and I was thinking, “What the fuck is this shit?,” as I made my way through it. Academia in no way is this sort of purified, pristine landscape of nothing but rigorous logical and scientific clarity that people think it is. There’s at least as much bad science as people think there is good. And some areas of it are outright corrupt.
Tretiak
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14hr ago
If that’s the case we need to pull from Kiwi Farms more. They never have this problem, /s.
Why are we constantly raising the bar and treating adults as children? They are not so underdeveloped that they should be lacking this much in the sense and good judgment department. In my parents heyday, young children were doing very complex tasks (no they weren’t doing hard labor, thank God) and learning on the fast track. There’s been a great coddling of people in the 21st century.
People I work with at my current job think I’m some kind of magical worker for no other reason than the fact that I do my job. It has nothing to do with that at all. It’s a product of the culture I was raised in. Young children are adults in training.
Tretiak
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15hr ago
It's not like we don't have lots of evidence of negligent or even outright fraudulent publications in even reputable journals.
There was a meta analysis done once that showed about 50% of peer reviewed papers turn out to be false. If you look at something like PubMed epidemiological literature, a lot of it is riddled with multicollinearity that severely impacts the precision of their regression estimates. This was actually acknowledged in findings of their own studies. But it generalizes across disciplines. You find it in Neoclassical economics where models have been repeatedly subjected to different datasets and the existing structure falls completely apart.
Tretiak
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15hr ago
There’s a reason citizens have “equality before the law.” You surely don’t find the principle alive in science or the animal kingdom. Some technocratic societies seek to implement a limited version of that in specific domains, but an entire society founded on such principles I’d imagine would be a very miserable one for anyone who’s not a top performer.
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15hr ago
I used to be like that. I still am but less so given the way I’d get treated. If it’s an elderly woman or a man who seems really down on his luck, I’ll offer a helping hand and some of my time, but I don’t do it for just anyone anymore.
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23hr ago
Well, if one of my homegirls really needed help and couldn’t get it elsewhere and she offered to buy or make dinner later (I’ve had this happen), sure; why not? (I wouldn’t do this if I was in a relationship though, unless my girlfriend/spouse was okay with it) If on the other hand she thought she could dial me up because she was a pretty face who was entitled to my assistance for no other reason than the fact she exists, she wouldn’t be in my contact list for very long. As we used to say growing up: ass, grass or cash for those girls.
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23hr ago
He tends to become active around topics like this. There are a large minority of topical users on TM who only come alive when the discussion shifts around to certain issues. There’s a reason I don’t partake in a lot of the political discussion here. It’s mostly arguing on incremental, insignificant tidbits of current events that aren’t going to end up going anywhere. Culture War is too top heavy on that dialogue IMO.
That more than anything is what gets me in hot water with others. Irony and immature sarcasm is a huge part of how I live my life. There’s a reason in past circles whenever my name gets brought up, “smart ass” is the first thing that comes to people’s minds. I have found that people either hate it or love it. It doesn’t mean I’m not out to present and deliver the logical argument; I am and I do, but I don’t see the problem with occasionally adding a little flair to things.
That’s why I said ideal world. I was anticipating precisely that objection.
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