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Even that view is Biocentric. Furthermore, the language of "the world is falling apart" is quite Geocentric, I mean c'mon, what year is it 2015 or 1515?


That can't be true, right?


The penalty for not having a license plate mounted on the car is $25 and proof of correction. You can have it signed off at your local highway patrol office. There is no additional penalty for repeat violations as far as I know.


perhaps the pilot doesn't have to divert much from their regular route to check in. Do they usually fly daily?


phrasing!


Very cool. I did something similar (but much less advanced) in math class where I generated something like a height map by "randomly" (I'd really just pick numbers that seemed good) assigning values to a grid and then subdividing the grid and linearly interpolating between points plus another "random" offset with a range that gets divided with each subdivision. It was a good way to pass time for someone who would rather have been playing dwarf fortress but only slightly understood the math behind perlin noise.


If your form of government, or I guess in anarchocommunisms case form of non-government, can't protect and perpetuate itself then it isn't a very good system at all. It seems like that you are saying that anarchocommunisms failures aren't legitimate because they were stopped with violence and treachery. To a lot of people it seems like the entire point of a government is to organize ourselves into some form of hierarchy to protect ourselves against violence and treachery so anarchocommunism having not being able to do this is its ultimate failure.


First, it's a misconception that anarchists are against governance. They're against the "state," a hierarchical form of government. They didn't have difficulty organizing for defense/violence--in fact, a common criticism of the Spanish anarchist movement was the appropriation of farm land by force. The failure was due to the coordinated efforts of both capitalist democracies and authoritarian communists to impede their efforts at maintaining their society. Most importantly, IIRC, steel shipments from the US were halted, which reduced their fighting ability.


You "imagine" the effect is intensified but you don't actually have any evidence to support it. I've also worked at a restaurant as a waiter. Despite it being a very low end buffet where the food was cheap and wages low I identify completely with the article (except nobody had a stroke while I was working). The only real difference was that the author and his co-workers were much better at their jobs than me and my own co-workers.

Wealth is a big red herring in this story, but I guess its a story no one would be interested in without.


>Wealth is a big red herring in this story, but I guess its a story no one would be interested in without.

Well of course. Nobody's interested in stories about poor people: they're too common.


Unfortunately it is hard to scientifically test the rule of cool


I'm imagining alien life nearing earth and then deciding to head to the next inhabited planet once they notice the wifi has a password on it much like you or I might drive a little further down the road for free wifi.


I'm not trying to make a value judgement, but isn't this sort of counter to how English is typically spoken? Adjectives usually come before the subject, for instance, one would say "look at that red car" and not... well I don't even really know how to organically word it any other way... "look at that car which is red" I guess. The latter sentence sounds very awkward to me.


The intention is to stop neurological conditions being adjectives. 'look that car has a sunroof' for example is much more natural than 'look at that sunroofed car'.


Indeed you are right. "Sally is a person with autism" is admittedly a mouthful and seems counterintuitive.

The difference between Sally and the car is that the car is an object, and Sally is a human being whose neurological differences are often stigmatized.


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