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Post by ben_w »

iancmceachern wrote: post #779
ben_w wrote: post #734

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"Free will" and "consciousness" are poorly defined, as each means different things to different people. I can't remember if it was Frederick Nitzsche or Alistair Crowley who said there's only one thing you can do which is truly your own will; that definition seems to me inherently deterministic in a way which violates other people's ideas of free will. I've seen (and been confused by) a Young Earth creationist fundam…

>"Consciousness" apparently has around 40 definitions Yes but only one that applies here. From oxfords: "Internal knowledge or conviction; the state or fact of being mentally conscious or aware of something." I disagree, I think they're both very clearly defined. Both in the clinical and law sense.

I don't see how that helps.

I am deeply confused by much of BDSM, but I am aware that some people report enjoying the experience of not having any control, of their ability to choose being taken away from them.

Can you also give an example of what you mean by "free will" such that your chosen definition does help?

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Post by rayiner »

kelseyfrog wrote: post #651
mattmaroon wrote: post #557

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I didn’t say it was. I just said employee theft is a bigger problem than robbery.

> you can imagine who works at them You might want to be more careful then. This empty space is a well known rhetorical device used to allude that you're making a negative judgement about people.

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Re: US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana

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Post by iancmceachern »

ben_w wrote: post #781
iancmceachern wrote: post #779

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>"Consciousness" apparently has around 40 definitions Yes but only one that applies here. From oxfords: "Internal knowledge or conviction; the state or fact of being mentally conscious or aware of something." I disagree, I think they're both very clearly defined. Both in the clinical and law sense.

I don't see how that helps. I am deeply confused by much of BDSM, but I am aware that some people report enjoying the experience of not having any control, of their ability to choose being taken away from them. Can you also give an example of what you mean by "free will" such that your chosen definition does help?

To me, the idea of knowing that I exist and that I can do things with that existence, is free will.

I dont see how I could exist, knowing that I can do things, without doing things.

Hence they are inextricably tied, to me.

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Post by Semaphor »

hunter2_ wrote: post #439
ada1981 wrote: post #328

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So they just eat the fees?

Yes, even exorbitant ones like on a cruise ship or casino. Free checks, too. And mutual funds with lower fees than Vanguard. But virtually no physical branches (most locations are brokerage offices only) so not ideal for depositing cash or getting a cashier's check... use something else for that.

The Neo-Bank I use in Germany (N26) works similarly. 3 or 5 fee-eaten withdrawals per month, but the always free option is supermarket registers. There’s a large network of supermarkets that are connected to the network, and I can generate a code on my phone, scan it, and it registers the negative value (e.g. -50 €), which I then get handed. Deposits work the same way (scan code, generate positive amount that you then pay), but at least for free accounts deposits incur a fee.

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Post by underseacables »

hansoolo wrote: post #481
underseacables wrote: post #383

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I think this is why North Korea allows marijuana and meth.

Can you give some evidence for that? Curious

Google is your friend.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/world/asia/north-korea-cr...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/nn4ywx/north-korea-is-stoned...

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Post by beaeglebeachh »

somenameforme wrote: post #604
beaeglebeachh wrote: post #290

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It's oddly not. Only to be a user or addict with a firearm. IIRC if you just like the way weed looks in your hand that doesn't make you a user, and there's plenty of reasonable doubt you're guarding it for grandma or whoever. Of course people are still being convicted of weed and firearm, but it gets recorded as gun law violation and nobody cares, cuz left hates guns and right hates weed, so they'll never repeal it.

What you're saying is how people generally think the law works, but it's not how it works in practice. This is easily illustrated with possession of drug paraphernalia charges. There's two types of possession, actual and constructive - but both face the exact same charge. Constructive just means something like 'could be reasonably accessed.' So imagine you're in a car, get pulled over, it smells of weed so the cop ex…

What you're saying is how people generally think the prohibited possessor law works, but it's not how it works in practice. It says nothing of drug possession, only gun/ammo possession by someone who uses or addicted to illegal drugs. There is plenty of reasonable doubt that constructive or actual possession of drugs is not accompanied by use, in fact this is the case for many dispensary workers.

>922 g (3) ... who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802));

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Post by paxys »

dgunay wrote: post #420
paxys wrote: post #128

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Well, politicians doing what people want in order to get reelected is kinda the point of democracy.

Yeah, but based on the guiding principle of democracy (govt by the will of the people), you'd hope to see them do that immediately instead of waiting years and years to do it when it is most strategically advantageous. I know politics is gamey like that by nature, but it sucks to see. The lag time between a policy becoming overwhelmingly popular and it actually being implemented is often long enough to radically alte…

If doing it at the end of his term gets him more votes than the beginning, that means the voters want to see it done towards the end.

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Post by xmodem »

jpsouth wrote: post #559
wallaBBB wrote: post #370

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And one of the best Twitter accounts: https://twitter.com/WorldBollard

‘I don’t even think it was my fault!’ Well the static, bright yellow pole didn’t waltz into the side of your car now, did it? People are so ignorant it’s actually unbelievable. https://x.com/WorldBollard/status/1781394728899993984 Edit: reminds me of my neighbour who dropped his motorbike because a car pulled out on him from a fuel station. I asked how fast he was going, he said with absolute conviction he was doing…

Oh my god. As someone who can't see well enough to get a license, but somehow can see bollards just fine as a passenger: If you can't see them, you shouldn't be fucking driving.

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Post by sanderjd »

rascul wrote: post #284
sanderjd wrote: post #145

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This kind of rule should be made by an executive agency, empowered by a congressional delegation of that rule-making power to that agency. This is just the same principle as private organization boards of directors delegating the minutia of running the organization to the executives and their teams. If you think it would be madness for hiring decisions on individual contributors to be made by board votes, then you sh…

> voters remain free to replace the executive the next time around Note that there are only either 538 or 100 voters, depending on which position in the executive branch.

No, the President exerts significant control over executive agency policy, and is elected by many more people than that.

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Post by hollerith »

int_19h wrote: post #482
hollerith wrote: post #250

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I bet that in the US, no health insurer will ever pay for an insured person's marijuana.

I bet that CBD will be covered very quickly, because it really does work very well for so many things, so it shouldn't take long to have enough studies clearly in support of it.

Magnesium supplements work very well for many things, too, but are there American insurance plans that pay for it?
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