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Barbarian

@Barbarian@sh.itjust.works

Linux server admin, MySQL/TSQL database admin, Python programmer, Linux gaming enthusiast and a forever GM.

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That was a loophole to the original GDPR. That's now against the law in the EU, but bringing cases against all these sites is time consuming.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrcbH0ge2WE&t=825s

So... beans and jeans are the way forward for humanity?

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There's a lot of evolutionary processes that don't have to do with having more offspring, but increasing the viability of less offspring. Having kids, no matter the species, is a very costly affair. You could argue that mate selection generally reduces the number of offspring, but increases the viability.

I've read a hypothesis (very much unproven) that having some gay members of a species increases the viability by having more people to care for the offspring without being in mate competition. It's called the gay uncle hypothesis

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    Short version: lbs and kgs aren't just different measurements of the same thing. They are the same thing. Pounds are mathematically defined by kilograms.

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    And so it is that you by reason of your tender regard for the writing that is your offspring have declared the very opposite of its true effect. If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls. They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.

    What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only the semblance of wisdom, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much while for the most part they know nothing. And as men filled not with wisdom but with the conceit of wisdom they will be a burden to their fellows.

    • Plato, 370 BC
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    Yeah, that's pretty nutty. I'd argue what I quoted, which is basically "Reading makes your memory shit because you won't need to exercise it" is also a pretty bad take.

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    I ASPIRED TO THE PURITY OF THE BLESSED MACHINE

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    https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/c379dbc9-bfdc-473b-80a2-2c69d419eec7.jpeg

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    MBTI personality matrices are just astrology for a modern audience. Change my mind.

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    You can say that you're sceptical but if you say that that's not doing science then I don't know what to tell you, either.

    Isn't skepticism the bedrock of science? The scientific method (heavily simplified) requires a hypothesis, predictions based on that hypothesis, and then testing of those predictions. I don't see any predictive power in the MBTI matrix, which means it's unfalsifiable. This is different than your twins example, where you can predict certain characteristics of the results.

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    Eh, more like they would commit genocide if they could. They'd happily and gleefully murder every Jew in Israel, but they don't have the military strength to do it.

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