DornerStan

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Seems like a pretty reasonable semantic shift to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

We have will, it just isn't perfectly free. Our consciousness emerges out of a confluence of intersecting forces, and itself has the ability to influence the flows around it. But to pretend it's removed from those flows and forces, or exists in some vacuum, is nonsensical, as is pretending that there isn't some essence behind the signifier "self".

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Wait can you just leave the space between studs empty then?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Paywalled and not worth the 5 seconds it would take to bypass it, but did they at least mention the safe alternative: soaking?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I just don't like them as signifiers in general, personally. They're shorthand for something but what that something is isn't clear to the listener nor even the speaker.

It's not something I'd nitpick in general, and the examples you gave are harmless. But at best they're not very imaginitive or interesting descriptors, and at worst they're thought-limiting and tend to perpetuate dominant norms.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

literally "if I can't describe an ethical standard in one sentence or less then it must be a paradox"

[–] [email protected] 63 points 4 days ago (1 children)

First they came for the White Nationalists

And I did not speak out

Because it was based

Then they came for the pro-Whites

And I did not speak out

Because it was based

Then they came for the pro-Western Culturists

And I did not speak out

Because it was based

Then they came for the anti-Marxists

And I did not speak out

Because it was based

Then they came for the Christians

And I did not speak out

Because it was based

Then they came for the Whites

And I did not speak out

Because it was based

Then I still did not speak out

Because there was no one left

to come after me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

homeschooling

ew

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