[-] woodenghost@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Many plastics (thermoplastics) would actually be recyclable, if they didn't put so many additives in, like for UV resistance. But then the color would get a slightly yellow tint after some years of exposure to sunlight. And who would want that? /s

[-] woodenghost@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

it seems like differences in worldview stem from a disregard of the universal ethical principle

and it makes sense then that common ground cannot be found when opposing viewpoints are rooted in incompatible principles.

That's a very normative and idealist worldview, that itself fails to regard other, opposing principles and thus doesn't live up to the standards it pretends to set. In reality, differences in worldview often have material reasons rather than ideological ones. For example all the brilliant dialectics of Hegel ultimately amount to him embracing the Prussian monarchy as the ultimate end result of history. The final goal of all human morality. It just so happens, that he was a privileged intellectual, comfortably living under Prussian rule.

[-] woodenghost@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This article is just the tip of an iceberg of very publicly available facts. US people have been indoctrinated to believe in nuclear power because of nuclear weapons and centralized energy corporations high on government funds. Elsewhere it's long between accepted as a scientific and economic fact that it can never be the solution. It's never been economically viable. It's ecologically destructive. It's technologically outdated. Other countries only need it to support or deter the imperial hegemon. US leftists need to finally rise above almost a century of propaganda and face the truth: in a peaceful communist world, no one would ever even think about building something as ineffective (in cost per kWh) and dangerous as a nuclear power plant.

[-] woodenghost@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

It's remarkable how there are uncountably many non-normal numbers, yet they take up no space at all in the real numbers (form a null set), since almost all numbers are normal. And despite this, we can only prove normality for some specific classes of examples.

It helps me to think, how there are many "totally random" or non computable numbers, that are not normal because they don't contain the digit 1.

[-] woodenghost@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

Do they offer that much for information on any murder? Or does it depend on your class? (rhetorical questions)

[-] woodenghost@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

It sounds similar to [citation needed], which is often used on Wikipedia.

[-] woodenghost@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

The Germans teach about the genocide they committed, because they get a sick sense of moral superiority out of pretending to have denazified.

All the while it does nothing to prevent their complicity in the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

[-] woodenghost@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

Master-Slave-Morality

By saying humility is voluntary, slave morality avoids admitting that their humility was in the beginning forced upon them by a master.

I don't agree with Nietzsche on morality, as it's not a materialist analysis, but still... Seeing people elevate bootlicking to a religion always makes one want to overturn all of ethics. (Not unique to these cases of course, christians did it on large scales.)

[-] woodenghost@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Good effort comment, thanks! Are you sure about merit based evaluation for MJ? Wouldn't people just strategically exaggerate their grades?

MJ encourages honest evaluation because exaggerating grades can backfire if too many others don't follow suit.

I guess I don't quite understand this point. Why wouldn't everyone exaggerate grades?

Dolphin liberals would just tell all the dolphins to give dolphin Harris an excellent grade, insisting she was excellent in comparison to dolphin Trump. (Sorry to break out of the thought experiment.) So this:

This can help identify when all candidates are weak

wouldn't happen when all the dolphins try to game the system. Did I misunderstand?

[-] woodenghost@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

San Juan Wolf carefully replacing that building, but accidentally knocking over another with his ass was hilarious and relatable.

[-] woodenghost@hexbear.net 5 points 7 months ago

Yes! Finally someone else who is amazed by this! It's crazy to think, that magnetism can be understood as nothing more than a relativistic phenomenon.

[-] woodenghost@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago

Wow, that's really good advice 👍 I'm on boardgame geek and hadn't thought of that.

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