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Wolf Tivy 7 h
Odgovor korisniku/ci @ZacharyGraves @derek_j_morris
Maybe it's just me, but marginal square feet have fairly low impact on my housing utility function. In fact smaller space would still be outweighed by safer streets.
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Wolf Tivy 7 h
Odgovor korisniku/ci @ZacharyGraves @derek_j_morris
lol who cares. What counts is the roof, bathroom, and kitchen.
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Wolf Tivy 3. velj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @wolftivy
The parade dress uniform of the Reformed Unified Intelligence Service shall include a tinfoil baret.
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Wolf Tivy 3. velj
The job of an intelligence agency is to make conspiracy theories for the state. This is a critical capacity and a serious base of power. Don't let anyone tell you conspiracy theorizing is never appropriate.
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Wolf Tivy 2. velj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @StephenPiment
They are a ruling class, but claim to be the demos, so when the actual demos wants brexit, they short circuit in hilarious ways. Brexit, whatever else it is, is a reductio on the whole scheme they've got going on over there.
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Wolf Tivy 2. velj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @StephenPiment
Careful with those democratic premises. They are also the ruling class, which is always a minority.
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Wolf Tivy 1. velj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @SethLargo
LOL fair enough. Still, is it framed as information, or command? There's something interesting happening here
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Wolf Tivy 1. velj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @wolftivy
Are nonviolent communication, and its opposite, command language, not merely context-defined tools, but context defining? Do they have an activist effect on culture, creating more liberal or illiberal modes of thought and social organization?
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Wolf Tivy 1. velj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @wolftivy
Sometimes inappropriate, but what if we just start using command language more, and force the issue? Are we then forced to redevelop and explicate our contextual authority structures? Does a society that uses lots of imperative language necessarily develop chain of command?
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Wolf Tivy 1. velj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @wolftivy
IMO we underuse the imperative, and shoehorn things into declarative that we really mean to be imperative. "It is preferred that employees attend this seminar". Disgusting. We pretend to be free agents, but a society of such is a contradiction, so we invent passive aggression.
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Wolf Tivy 1. velj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @wolftivy
Many things can be phrased either way. You can make a declarative appeal to ethical principles or certain truths, or an imperative appeal to your own contextual authority. Which feels more natural says a lot about our political culture.
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Wolf Tivy 1. velj
There is much political ontology baked into linguistic matters like imperative vs declarative phrasings. "I would prefer you do X" vs "Please do X". The former implies a world of free agents, trading information. The latter implies a social structure of command and obey.
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Wolf Tivy 1. velj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @jpt401 @insurrealist
Accept the mantle of rule. Dictate your will, and let your interlocutor decide what to make of it. Avoidance of the naked imperative considered harmful.
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Wolf Tivy 1. velj
They're just questions, Leon.
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Wolf Tivy 1. velj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @taoroalin
Why though? Physics favors no particular perspective. Why force an artificial idea of objectivity onto it? If you're going to choose one perspective or the other, let's choose what is most interesting or useful explicitly for that reason.
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Wolf Tivy 31. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @wolftivy
To be constructive, a better way to state it would be to note that it is an interesting alternate perspective, to view the motion of the solar system from the reference frame of the galaxy.
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Wolf Tivy 31. sij
>implying one inertial reference frame is any more "accurate" than another
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Wolf Tivy 31. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @mattparlmer @reesemcardlepgh
I've been using DDG for 10 years. Definitely good stuff.
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Wolf Tivy 31. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @postanathema
Solid oxide fuel cells are real, but commercialization is still speculative. Lots of engineering issues to work out. I haven't done a dive recently. They may or may not beat engines in the long run.
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Wolf Tivy 31. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @postanathema
Electric vehicles, especially if batteries get cheap, will be great. They are much simpler and better from an engineering perspective. But hydrocarbon engines aren't going anywhere either, because sometimes you need that 100x energy density.
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