fopling.bsky.social
Baker of bread, maker of wine, lover of philosophy
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Unfortunately I agree with this assessment.
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That seems to be the case going back at least as far as Clinton with US intervention in the Balkans. Obama pushed that norm to its limits in Libya and received some criticism for it.
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Congress hasn't formally declared a war since WWII. It's also unclear to me by what mechanism the last six or so wars the US has fought have been legal, but there's plenty of precedent. If we didn't declare Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan illegal wars I don't have a lot of hope for this one.
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Thank you so much!
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Wow, which text is that Marx quote from? It's exactly what I've been looking for
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I'm curious if you've seen the theory that most of the specific condemnations of homosexual activity date from the Persian empire era and may have been influenced by Zoroastrianism. I haven't done enough research on the textual history to know if I should believe it.
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I think AI would really struggle with your style. You have a poetic use of empty space I have never seen replicated.
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I'm curious if he's 30 like the profile says, or over 50 like this skeet directly says. Or perhaps neither
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To put it in perspective. This is a bit like saying my voting power was curtailed in 2024 because I voted for Biden but didn't vote for Trump. You don't only have voting power when you vote for the winner.
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I found the questions, all eight of them. Participants were asked to agree or disagree on a five point scale. No wonder the results ended up how they did.
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What this mainly tells us is that of the poverty stricken but tech literate population, those who identify as Republican are less polarized on right wing talking points than those who identify as Democrats. That really isn't saying so much.
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To add to the problems. The sample was drawn from crowd workers so it self selects for people choosing to answer questions on the Internet in exchange for small amounts of money. On top of that, of the 396 participants only 55 were Republicans.
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These are the eight statements participants were told to agree or disagree with on a five point scale. What the results tell me is that not everyone who considers themselves right wing is a mustache twirling villain, nothing about the basis for their politics.
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I want to know the methodology behind this, because your results will change dramatically based on the questions. There is a lot of diversity in thought on the left across topics the right doesn't care much about.
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If I make this soon I'll let you know how it goes. In the meantime feel free to give me any suggested improvements
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In dollars per hour of enjoyment streaming services might be the only better deal than videogames. This is obviously not counting library services, which being free (I suppose technically some fraction of local tax payments) are an incredible deal.
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I watched Sátántangó for the first time a few months ago and I'm in the same boat. I absolutely want to watch it again, but it feels a little soon and more importantly I don't have an entire day coming up that I can justify dedicating to it.
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Then it sounds like you've taken the instrumentalist view. I lean that way myself, but I think scientific realism is probably the more popular view.
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It's a question of what we are actually doing when we apply that methodology. Are we discovering objective facts or are we creating systems for prediction independent of whatever facts about the universe there may be?
When I say discovering facts I mean uncontroversial things like ionic bonds.
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I'm afraid my father has warped my view on this topic irreparably. His favorite movie is Mamma Mia, followed closely by Mamma Mia Here We Go Again, and Legally Blonde.
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There's a more reasonable version of the fight to be had over scientific realism. When we partake in the social construction of science are we discovering the genuine facts about the universe or not?
This fight even gets closer to the true concern behind the 'science wars' than what we see play out
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Almost 20 grad student stipends at the rate Michigan pays. Over 50 if it were my former institution.
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Most human beings aren't collecting and arranging their own art galleries, and even fewer choose who to date based on good aesthetic taste. Compared to the bowerbirds we are artistic philistines crawling in the mud.
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Maybe, although the unity of Eros and Thanatos was already there in Lacan. You can see Lacan as pointing in the direction D&G went, but I worry that the unified drive isn't enough to escape psychoanalysis entirely.
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I'd expect something like "Space Force Civilian Core"
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Still contentious as far as I can tell. Most psychologists have dismissed Freud entirely, but we still get articles pretty regularly talking about how he turned out to be right about some things.
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As a side note, I loved the Doom Generation, but Roger Ebert hated it. I can't blame anyone for bouncing off that film pretty hard.
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When you're watching it the difference between a baffling choice made by someone who doesn't understand how to make a movie and a well thought out creative experiment doesn't amount to much. This is why I love both Doris Wishman and Guy Maddin they end up in similar places for very different reasons
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I love b movies and I also love snooty art films. Even when the two aren't consciously aping each other I think there's a lot of overlap between them. Usually it's because there isn't so much studio oversight so the people making them can get away with weird mistakes or calculated experiments
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American meat consumption is untenable. Meat prices are rising (although still absurdly cheap considering the inputs) but it doesn't seem to be denting consumption. People have been ringing alarm bells about it for at least twenty years, but nothing will pry the hamburgers from their hands.
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I see Smith as trying to pull the sentimentalist tradition in the direction Kant went with his downplaying of personal sentiment in favor of an abstract theoretical sentiment we can imagine a perfect observer would have. He's moving the foundations interestingly.
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Because you don't know what your gender will be in the original position, bisexuals are suddenly the hottest commodity in dating.
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I think social struggles becoming increasingly partisan is one of the driving forces behind this. An increasingly large number of minorities have a vested material interest in Republicans not being in power. People outside those groups who socialize or date people within them have reason too.
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I think it really depends on what part of the country you live in. I grew up in a rural area with no speed cameras within a hundred miles or more, but every city I've lived in has had them up for at least a decade.
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Sneaking in under the wire by only owning a physical copy of The System of Objects
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There's a reason a lot of students suddenly change their worldview a few times after they get to college. Many of them are moving from a low knowledge or low reliability environment to a university and are having to change their internal models of the world dramatically as they acquire knowledge.