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I didn't propose anything, I'm just nitpicking HN's nitpicking of attempts to have a real conversation. Which, since HN is a place for technically minded people, has resulted in pe…

> the colloquial definition of chemicals which if we're not being pedantic, we know brings up ideas of substances damaging to other substances or life itself. From the comment you'…

So, let me get this straight: I've claimed reducing everything to "chemicals" is disingenuous, and in response, I'm immediately told "no, you" and then challenged with debates over…

We're not allowed to begin bailing the water out of the sinking ship until the ship is sunk. You'd think we'd finally have gotten far enough in education to not be so easily carrot…

> Do you know what the word "chemical" means? This intentional nitpicking of the colloquial usage of the word chemicals is a favorite of both, disingenuous conversationalists who l…

>What is the difference between lye (dangerous), sand (not dangerous unless it suffocates things or gets crushed and inhaled), water (can cause flooding or drowning, otherwise harm…

> could become not-small amounts. Let's not get too relaxed here. There's gigantic masses of plastic all over the world that would like to say that anything mass produced and cumul…

Unfortunately Terrence McKenna (or fortunately depending on how you look at things) doesn't seem to have retained the same popularity. He does still have some decent "pithy one lin…

It definitely seems to matter on an almost jewelry-level to some people, footwear. Even if I doubt they spend more time intentionally looking at other people's shoes day to day, bu…

That's unusual if that's the case, in my experience. I rely on syncthing to keep my notes synced between devices/applications (and photos) and using "run according to time schedule…

Well quite frankly, saying "the claim that these are lies are just as disingenuous as the claims themselves " is a pretty low quality, classic stick-in-the-spokes "debate" tactic t…

Ironically, many of the "respectable" discord servers (i.e. revolving around hobbies people under the age of 18 aren't/can't get into) seem to not allow cross-server emojis (which …

Well if OP's original "missing the forest for the trees" analogy is to be revisited (which I tend to agree with), it's that pedantry is sort of by (some) definition focusing on the…

Stress seems best for the primordial hunt and battles of my ancestors who needed a powerful drive to see through an ideally short term situation with more response than they might …

It turns out reality is slightly more complicated than raw game theory, which is basically just what you described. To be honest, it sounds like you might be internally cynical and…

The Perennial Philosophy (both the concept and the book) focuses on more these types of things. It brings up that even in Christianity you can easily point at the non-personified e…

I suppose if you're a cold hard logic type only just dipping your toes into it, the Stoicism of old might be more your speed, as they considered logic and reason their hammer and n…

People seem quick to forget that religion/philosophy was originally married to the quest to discover more about our world. Carl Sagan, before lamenting about modern astrology, remi…

Many of these texts have been around long enough for many dedicated people to put forth their own translations, and if relevant (like with many Chinese texts) with some kind of fur…

I think many people here probably use Firefox to some degree and are concerned at the sustainability of the entity that makes it, especially since it seems to follow a for-profit t…

Punk rock was very simple but it still required a skillset; most punk rock fans probably hadn't invested the time and effort to be able to participate past supporting those that di…

Incidentally I've actually found "natural" solutions like boric acid and diatomaceous earth to be wildly effective (in killing/reducing established populations, not preventing new …

This seems like the sane, boring reality. People with modern dental routines probably don't benefit from the original purposes of fluoridation the same way people in the early 1900…