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Media (and corresponding manipulation) could be created specifically for teaching purposes, aiming to keep the material as apolitical as possible while still retaining the techniqu…

Maybe interested in science, but disliked scientism?

Those Yahoo Groups could be a trove of niche, otherwise uncollected information, especially with regard to vintage or specialty electronics. Removing them was a huge loss.

Many episodes with COVID discussion are still up. The ones taken down feature comedians and (non-COVID related) controversial figures. I'm not sure these removals are related to th…

>broadcast disinformation that is getting people killed. A statement many people appeal to that nobody can substantiate.

I think they're a great way to tell which two minute "how to remove [x] from your computer" video actually works.

I haven't watched in a while, what "quack pseudoscience" has he entertained recently?

>Sure, Genealogy of Morals is probably all wrong All wrong according to what exactly?

The affected sites that I use are now working. Check again.

Wonder if the name is a Deleuze/Guattari nod.

I should be clear that I agree with the sentiment of the Burning Man saying as it applies to Burning Man and events like Burning Man, I was just nitpicking the language of the cura…

>I still really prefer a world where we can be heads up, aware of each other, aware of the world about us, casually participatory with each other as we go about. It's such a waste …

>Online provides a forum for people to get the sort of attention we might like. "Look what I can do!" or "Look at me!" Still, one of my gripes about social media is that there are …

>It's very odd to me. I've seen people directly telling leadership that we are overworked, that schedules are impossible, that we need to work on group morale, etc - and it very ob…

Fair point re: considering Marx's time of writing. >The distinctive, defining element of the bourgeois property system is marketable property in means of production to which rented…

>Where does Marx argue for this? It depends on what you mean by "raised", but after calling for the abolition of the family in the Manifesto (in whatever sense that the family unde…

>If you do a surface level reading of text, you're going to get a surface level understanding of it. I'd take this comment more seriously if you cited Marx in a primary text making…

>even the Manifesto From the manifesto: >"The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. But modern bo…

No, not necessarily. You can be psychologically influenced by a society imbued with religious moral undertones to the point where you unwittingly want to "prove yourself" to "some …

Work is not replacing church. In the Middle Ages, there was farm work performed by peasants. As far as 100 days off, if we take 52 weekends a year, we're a little over that same am…

I kind of see all documentaries this way. All documentaries rely so much on manipulation to drive a narrative that it's difficult to classify it as anything other than art. They ca…

I don't think that's a problem with psychedelic drugs so much as people fitting their experiences into pre-existing molds that only prospered because of their illegality (so the ex…

That looks like a great follow, thanks. Speaking of Twitter, their "trending" section introduces yet another level of possible editorializing/bias. They have started to try and sum…

>Modern actors aren't as willing to sacrifice their health for muscle as their historical counterparts, especially because the lean look is preferred over the muscle-bound appearan…

>It mostly boils down to people pumping themselves full of steroids up until a week or so before the competition so they test clean. The most common "base" of a steroid cycle is te…