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Even those in the west who hate religion often have a very Christian outlook on life.
I think about this all the time.
You can see it in what passes for politics – people are only interested in judging who is Good and who is Bad.
It’s part of the reason I’ve been using the internet a lot less; it is overrun with Puritan hordes.
Jesus is common to Christianity+Islam, but not Juadaism.
2·5 days agoSpanish and English are only kinda-sorta ‘different languages’
Is it really true that in the West rich people are less skeptical of psychic things than poor people?
I’ve heard this once before on Hexbear.
Most places it’s the opposite – poor people are comfortable ideas like ghosts, telepathy, astrology, and the rich people look down their noses at that with a sort of ‘Western scientific’ attitude.
14·11 days agoI saw one that’s steam-powered. You put 10% of the wood in the furnace and that chips the other 90% of the wood. No electricity is generated.
2·24 days agozerozerozero
Oh yeah, looks like a follow-up to Gomorrah, which I watched years ago
the writer forgot to say which society it is
That’s getting a bit too vague for me.
How is giving people a chatbot like giving paraplegics pedals? Nobody has explained it yet.
‘fundamental’ would mean it applies to good analogies, not just wrong ones
The meme is “giving a chatbot to an email user is like giving pedals to a paraplegic”
Why are email users comparable to paraplegics. What are they unable to do that everyone else can?
In a pedal wheelchair? Come on
This feels like clarifying with mud.
I don’t get it.
Why are people who use email or something unable to operate a chatbot?
2·1 month agoCastle
Build diagonal lines of pawns
Take her white-squared bishop and defend bpack squares with pawns , or vice versa. Renders her remaining bishop useless.
19·1 month agoChild Left Behind
No, no they’re not
12·1 month agoI think Greenland’s strategic importance comes out if you use a good projection, here is an equal-area (Lambert azimuthal) projection centred on the North Pole:
is it to do with a hedgehog’s spikes (pins?)
Have you read The Birth of Tragedy?
The idea is that the ruling class hate weakness, softness. The oppressed classes hate cruelty. There are two different moral codes based on the material conditions of the person with the morality.