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Moreover, I know people who have the gift of healing. I also know people who have the gift of prophecy. So the only REAL enlightenment comes from God, not following some sort of mysticism or buddhism or other New Age type religion.
Only in America.
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@3RU7AL
once again, attacking the source without disputing the facts
Which is perfectly legitimate. Only a crazy doesn't realise that.
We can't be studied debunkers on every topic. If you've got a history, you've got to work harder for your "facts".
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I say obscene shit all the time. I don't play at being a college professor on an internet forum so I can scold young boys over PM for kicks. One's an appropriate use of an internet forum. The other is predator behaviour.
I didn't ask you for shit, you dopey bitch. I trolled an obnoxious and silly poster.
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Proof is right there. If I asked this dumb bitch for nudes, she'd have said it right there, not waffled about underwear colour.
Am I shitting on a special moment for you here, Cassie?
Dumb bitch.
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@Avery
And as if Cassie wouldn't have told all if I did, attention seeker that she was.I had dozens of people ask me for stuff like that on DDO. You weren't the only one.
I notice you've never explicitly said I did, because I didn't.
You also asked for my underwear color.
I told Wylted this recently when it came out you're a catfish. Because you were a hyper conservative, prudish little poster. A constant tirade against EmilRose and female promiscuity in general. And constantly banging PM's at me. I refused to speak to you unless you told me.
I never asked for shit besides and had no interest. It was an admittedly childish joke on you.
You furthermore declared that I had "pancake nipples"
Sounds like a younger me. Funny that stuck with you though. Been worrying about it ever since?
Peace out, you desperate little weirdo.
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Who knows why this little weirdo is piling on now. I never asked a user on this site for nudes. And as if Cassie wouldn't have told all if I did, attention seeker that she was. Catfish since, as I hear it. Nice btw there.
I guess sore at being ignored.
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thett already vouched for me, fuckface. You gotta be the creepiest piece of shit I've ever had the displeasure of knowing. thett sees it now I bet. Others too. It always baffled me how you got any respect at all.
Good day, creep.
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@Sidewalker
Did you really need to embarrass me like that?
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You're unravelling, fuckface. And Cassie was 19 or about two years younger than me either way, and we were never more than friendly kids. Unlike you, I can actually get laid irl. Sad life of hiding behind avatars and internet boyfriends. What a loser you are, mate, with your fuckface pompous posts.
Society treats it differently when it's a fully adult male directing that sort of attention to a 13 or 14 year old girl,
Sounds close to an admission to me. Poor gay man, can't chat up young boys. You're all over the place.
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@Swagnarok
I'd say that no matter which side you're on, you are "throwing in" with truly awful people who exist somewhere. If someone's politics are tainted by some ethereal association with somebody else you do or don't know who has similar beliefs and attitudes but adds bad stuff to it, then all politics are tainted.In which case no politics should be happening at all. But nobody here accepts that conclusion.
Well a person's politics should surely account for others around them and how their politics might affect them. I think I saw something on reddit that black people were pulled over in their cars 25% more in places where there had been Trump rallies. For some amount of time after. Or something. Studies. But so even if you agree with the dude on whatever issues, he's fuel to other fires than yours.
Or you might take up some argument in a thread with a user not OP, where OP is obviously extreme or hateful. There's something of a tacit agreement or encouragement in that. I mean, I see little real extremism from leftists on here. I see some crazy, pointless, toxic shit from right wingers.
When a car skids, you steer into the skid or you wreck your car. I don't know if that analogy works but I got stuck on cars lol. But maybe a heartfelt right wing politics is better served in steering left a little bit. You pull back hard, you're gonna wreck the car.
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I think coal is a little mad thett corrected his nonsense projections about my being a paedophile but not my initial point about his being a groomer.
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I really expect that right wingers are losers in general tbh. But RM too.
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I would say the left is basically one shade of boring. The right is a rainbow of lunacy.
There's politics in that.
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First of all, I'm drunk. But I'm also inspired. But then again, I have work in the morning, so don't expect too much.
But I wonder where it comes to certain individuals. Like, some of you right wingers are obviously decent people. But then you get the likes of TWS69 or who cares, a 70 year old man raving about blackwashing of Ariel the fucking dolphin or whatever she is. Or Trump gets the KKK, same shit.
Well that shit is surely ludicrous. But that's the lot you're throwing in with.
That is to say, there's obviously decent people on the right. But also absolute fucking lunatics. Then with the exception of RM, the left is all the same one thing, you know what you're getting, it's not so bad. Ramshutu through to oro, they all just like to suck a cock every now and again. Danielle is a lesbian, basically.
So, well, the good guys. Thett for example. Skep is also gay, questionable. But what happens if your votes make for TheWhiteSaviour69 becoming president of America. Or who knows. ThankWhiteySlaves. TheyWillSuck. Just. He's an obnoxious fucking loser really. I'm drunk lol. I wish I could think of something fucking sick burn for his dumbass acronym. TheWhiteSerpent. Something.
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@bmdrocks21
I tend to like the Irish very much. I take exception to him. Seems like one of those knock-off Ulster Irish.
You like me well enough and I find you a good deal of fun also. You're just salty about last time.
I'm the rightful king of the Irish.
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@rbelivb
Because it's entirely boring
So fucking boring. It's one for the antagonistic in general also. What's a woman? Bones loves this shit, can hammer a no-brain opinion all day long. That's a hobby entirely without art.
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The transgender issue is one for creeps, fantasists, and the religiously squeamish. Once upon a time OP would take any excuse to direct whatever young boy to private messaging. Absolutely a groomer with the best of them, although the rest of you failed to see it. This OP again where he writes "boys" as much as he can is obvious exhibitionism alongside his catalogue of spanking debates.
While we're in the business of managing other people's experience of reality, I'll again point out that your children are bringing machine guns to school in order to mow each other down. This issue, by comparison, is no issue at all. They'll figure themselves out. We're all fucked up. But some more than others.
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One person who strongly believes in the above principle is Peter Singer, an Australian philosopher who now teaches at Princeton. Singer believes our intuitions are what lead us astray in “The Footbridge Case” not our principles and we should ignore our intuitions or change them.Singer believes we should always act so as to bring about the best consequences overall and so we should get over our reluctance to push the fairly large person and do the right thing: save the five workmen further down the tracks by sacrificing the one.Singer’s explanation why we are misled and hesitate to do the right thing in “The Footbridge Case” is due to fact that we’re asked to put our bare hands on another human being and shove that person to his death. We should always, Singer believes, “save five by sacrificing one” but because we are asked to do something that produces an intense emotional response, that very intense emotional response gets in the way of our capacity to think clearly and rationally about the problem.Singer acknowledges that there are differences in the two cases. He agrees that our immediate intuitive responses upon hearing each case, the original Trolley case and the Footbridge case, point in different directions. In the first case we’re ready to sacrifice one to save five, in the Footbridge case, we are not. But Singer believes the examples simply reveal that we should revise or bracket our intuitions and act rationally.
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Don't get me wrong, you sound like a very good dude. It's just Singer never sat right with me, especially his ideas about infanticide and regarding people with disabilities. His motivations feel inhuman.
I also wonder if you as an Indian are not perhaps more susceptible to utilitarian ideas being from such a massive country and of such pronounced poverty.
I don't know. I think there's a lot to be careful of in utilitarian thinking. Or a lot missing.
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The Daemon/Rhaenyra thing was clever and fun. Daemon's got plenty art so far in sowing division.
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Have you seen Nolan's The Dark Knight? Surely, right? I think it's a powerful critique of utilitarianism and illustration of the idea I'm trying to get at. So Joker is sort of a victim of trolley problem/utilitarian thinking. All his games are around that. The two boats for example, one filled with civilians, the other criminals. In the end, he turns the good lawyer, Harvey Dent, to his madness.
I know that's a movie, but. Effective altruism feels like eugenics' cousin.
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I've always kinda thought of effective altruism as euthaniastic sort of thinking. It strips the soul and humanity right out of doing good. So give to some efficient charity rather the beggar on the street. What's the point in that? The end of pain and life and humanity. I give to the beggar on the street and I share humanity with him.
I mean, not to discourage you, but I'm curious your thinking on it. Peter Singer has always felt some sort of mad scientist to me instead of a moral philosopher or example.
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WFH pretty much halves my work week. Close enough anyway. I got sports and beer to be social about.
As to outsourcing, that's already been happening. IT guys were sat down at desks on Microsoft Teams to Indians before there was ever a lockdown. WFH makes literally no difference. Even in office, a teammate right next to me, I'm talking to him on Teams.
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I have both a trade and a bachelor's. And a good trade too, like kinda fancy, e&i tech, paid me well while I was at it.
Then I got bored and went back to college. Did a computer science degree.
I mean my trade is tiddlywinks compared to my degree. And 3 months out of the degree I was earning more than I had been working with 5 years experience in my trade.
College is serious shit. No way I'd pay American fees though.
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@Shila
How come time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana?
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@Polytheist-Witch
That's because we are 50 individual countries even though people call US states.
Don't buy it, but nice counterpoint. Race thing makes way more sense.
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All politics in America goes back to race. It's a Pandora's box of a problem.
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@Polytheist-Witch
There's one big difference between America and every other developed nation, and that's your race issue. The whole rest of the world is about free college but yours and its divided people aren't. Hmm.
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The yanks won't go for free college because they don't like paying for the blacks.
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The big actual threat in AI is that the Chinese are going to build a bunch of Terminators and take over the world. Like actually.
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Machine learning is essentially just glorified curve fitting. It's a very efficient method for dealing with massive amounts of data that we've picked out of the human brain. It's still our toddling learning algorithms. There's nothing in anything anyone is doing that's going to allow for or facilitate an AI striking off and doing its own thing. I've built tons of these things at this point. It's just so incredibly basic once you actually get into it. Here, this is AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFbnpY_k7js&ab_channel=FirstPrinciplesofComputerVision
TBH I think human intelligence arises not just from brain but from brain-body communication. Actually, I could almost concede that human thinking is essentially as basic as found in that video above, but I think the human body is a wonderland of a complex system and environment. We never simulate anything close to it. Here: https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/25/science/rewired-ferrets-overturn-theories-of-brain-growth.html It feels like brain is secondary here. Just jelly mathematics. The intelligence is in our bodies. I think maybe that Avengers movie got at that a little bit with Vision. Or maybe not. It's definitely an idea though.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Your laptop is a bigger scandal than Hunter BIden's.
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@Public-Choice
When does something shift from correlation to cause? Actually I'm not even replying to you right now. Have not read your posts even. I'm just typing and posting completely at random.
Some things are obvious. Be careful with that fallacy. It makes a person look a dumbass more often than it's useful I'd bet.
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Maybe you take some Christian angst in this. That'd be fun.
Personally, I'm sick of the rain.
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The entire point of machine learning is turning correlations into predictions. It's very legitimate science that produces seriously impressive things. There's no fallacy here, you're just dumb. I don't even know why you'd be so indignant about this. Colder the country, the more suicides too.
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@3RU7AL
She's been there forever. Part of the furniture I guess. Kinda like you are here. I rarely read your posts. When I do, I don't think much of them. Actually if I were to pick one of you to die, it'd be you, but I'd prefer you both lived forever. Or something.
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