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Who is the more idiotic? The idiot, or the one who spends precious time yelling at the idiot for behaving idiotically?

https://sh.itjust.works/post/38729770

Who is the more idiotic? The idiot, or the one who spends precious time yelling at the idiot for behaving idiotically? - sh.itjust.works

Lemmy

It's easier to inform language with language than with experience.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/38711868

It's easier to inform language with language than with experience. - sh.itjust.works

Because 1) language is requires no translation from experience 2) language is relatively easy to record, communicate and analyze. Thus it is inevitable that our language will slide from “reflecting reality” to “reflecting itself”. Consider where that’s going.

Interesting. A few comments and criticisms on the details. Zero replies about my actual point. And lots of downvotes.

They are afraid.

Social nuke - sh.itjust.works

Everybody privately shit-talks everybody. The phone always listens to it and records it. A viral hack that turns all this shit-talking into texts. Everybody in the world suddenly gets a thousand shit-talking texts from their closest friends and associates. Society dissolves.

Word and idea is infinitely crude compared to experience.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/38488804

Word and idea is infinitely crude compared to experience. - sh.itjust.works

Lemmy

If you play a multiplayer game, and lose, who is the author of your defeat?

https://sh.itjust.works/post/38356244

If you play a multiplayer game, and lose, who is the author of your defeat? - sh.itjust.works

Is it the other players, because they beat you? Is it you, because you chose to play the game? Is it the game manufacturer?

Black-rimmed glasses are heavy eyeliner

https://sh.itjust.works/post/38235752

David Hyde Pierce declares he would appear in a second Frasier reboot - sh.itjust.works

Lemmy

When is democracy appropriate and when is it not?

https://sh.itjust.works/post/38166864

When is democracy appropriate and when is it not? - sh.itjust.works

When is authoritarianism appropriate and when is it not?

All form is interpretation.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/38164873

All form is interpretation. - sh.itjust.works

Lemmy

How did you start meditating?

https://sh.itjust.works/post/38064071

How did you start meditating? - sh.itjust.works

I read a book that promised magic powers. Then, trying it out, it was … impressive. Then I abandoned it for a few years. Then I picked it up again seriously. Made sense of it for myself. Studied awareness and its ways, and so on. … You?