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> At their very best, third places allow people of differing backgrounds to cross paths — to develop what are known as bridging ties. As opposed to our closest connections, bridgin…

i'm not alt-right but this comment just makes me want to read alan watts more

A great essay (also check out "The Left is Not a Church" by Benjamin Studebaker) but by 2013, feminist bloggers online had made all these same sort of urgent, crucial observations …

If you think your law enforcement should decide which political speech is terrorism, you have many home countries to choose from -- from the U.K. to Saudi Arabia -- but the U.S. is…

"The social benefits of adopting it outweigh the theoretical unfairness" of war and torture. Would you agree?

> speech doesn’t have unlimited degrees of freedom in the United States. Thanks -- Nobody said it does or should. I asked the person above me for the source of their statement.

As in many other areas, the younger generation raised on Web 2.0 are far beyond the Web 1.0 crowd in regards to industriousness and psyche. Nobody writes or reads stuff like this a…

Is the BDS movement an example of stochastic terrorism? Someone told me they exist to inspire hate crimes against Jewish and Israeli citizens. Are hasbara organizations stochastic …

Are you ok with BDS and all other Palestinian human-rights advocacy being nuked off the face of the internet for "anti-Semitism" within moments of handing the anti-"stochastic terr…

Source in U.S law?

Yes, they say all this about war and torture as well (curious your thoughts on those?)

The solutions are to convince the center, succeed at reform through protest and politics, and maybe, as necessary, go further through grassroots action. Just like the women who won…

My point was that framing the problem as an individual pathology that afflicts at random rather than a cultural, communal sickness inevitable under capitalism is absolutely absurd

> Most people suffer from what is commonly known as “plant blindness”, a term coined by US botanists Elisabeth Schussler and James Wandersee. They described it as “the inability to…

What a comment. A feast for the inner reply guy: > The traditional way is to seek a guru "The" way? According to whom? Did you do it? > Some even leave everything and go to forest …

This is what meditation is about, but replace "phones" with "everything"!

$1.41 parking ticket

For work, Vimflowy has been great as a todo list scratchpad. I have Markdown New Tab in the browser as a general scratchpad, but Vimflowy as a pinned tab for todo lists.

I forgot about Amber Heard, responsible for a nontrivial amount of world-wide violence that we have statistics for

> Anyway, this women arent violent stuff is actually extremely harmful to society I don't think I said "women aren't violent" or any form of that claim?

Emotional abuse in relationships being a world-wide issue is kind of a separate thing to what I said