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"Demnach werden hohe Anforderungen an die Wahrscheinlichkeit und Bedeutung des Erkenntnisgewinns eines Projekts der Grundlagenforschung gestellt, damit dieses einen Tierversuch zu rechtfertigen vermag, während bei angewandter Forschung im..." [
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2 days ago
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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
There will be time for a middle-aged twit,
Some yellow fog & an existentialist fit.
This is all a facade,
I am pinned to a fraud,
And those mermaids, they don't give a shit...." [
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"From my viewpoint these fixed demographic voting blocs he's talking about were established very late and were a surprise to everyone. I'm a college-educated white and I voted for Obama, but the fact that I was apparently pre-determined to do so only..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kittyprecious
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"His basic definition seems to be: humor is violation of expectations...but it has to be a violation within certain expectations of normality, i.e. the situation cannot be wildly in violation of expectations.
Sounds about right to me...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Monochrome
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"Part of this frustration is how insistent we are as a culture that gender is only binary. It might be mostly binary, but it's not even close to entirely binary.
You see, this is what I don't understand. Doesn't these transgender cases imply that..." [
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"I'm also surprised at all the people saying "freedom" here. Freedom is certainly a tradition part of America's self-image and to my mind its most abstract part. It is a piece of pure theory not in the sense that it's not true but in the..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by peacheater
Last month
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"Any discussion of the basis for morality, introduced at this point in the thread with a rather pointless reference to Hume's Law, is going to go badly. There are many reasons to believe that we need to assume an absolute, objective morality, and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by [expletive deleted]
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"I don't think these drawings are really painted any more "realistically" than the original children's drawings. He just seems to keep the central features more or less intact but translate the primitive style into more of a Pixar style (not..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by josephtate
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"I can usually be persuaded to drink a beer on the week-ends, at least if it's in Kreuzberg or Neukölln. Also a Mefite has a bar here." [
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"Jaltcoh, being afraid of getting raped doesn't equate to being afraid of gays, the black guy in the joke isn't identified as being gay, the imagined threat of rape has much more to do with a power dynamic than with sexual orientation, the joke..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Reverend John
2 months ago
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"Does anyone else feel like Scientific American fucked up the entailment in this counter-argument?
By those standards, design-based explanations rapidly lose their rigor without independent scientific proof that validates and defines the nature of..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by AsYouKnow Bob, grubi, tyllwin, stevis23, Joseph Gurl
2 months ago
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"I like where he says "if we were an indigenous tribe, living the way we're living, we'd be dead a long time ago".
A statement so vacuous, it's almost meaningless.
I also like how he puts garlic on the rat...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
2 months ago
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"Just last night I saw Arsenic and Old Lace. I couldn't imagine anyone not being entertained by that." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by showbiz_liz
2 months ago
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"when news articles revealed that troops in Iraq were dying because of inadequate body armor, a senior Pentagon official wrote to his colleagues: “I think our analysts — properly armed — can push back in that arena.”
Yeah, it's a good thing those..." [
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2 months ago
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"I'm doing hindu pushups once a week now, and I used to do 10 at the beginning of each workout as part of my warmup. I find they work mostly my triceps, shoulders and upper back; and the front of my hips too, but I see that as more of a side-effect...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by KAS
2 months ago
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"The author clearly doesn't get it.
eye of newt, did you read the article? The author clearly does get the point you're making and addresses it explicitly, for example here:
"If Cosby’s call-outs simply ended at that—a personal and communal..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by longdaysjourney, ShawnStruck
2 months ago
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"So at this point are people benching more than they're deadlifting? The biggest deadlift I can find on youtube is 1003. But people seem to be squatting 1200-something. Is there some kind of denim underwear they're using to distribute kinetic energy..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Squid Voltaire
2 months ago
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"I am studying philosophy in Germany at Humboldt U. The whole educational situation here is a clusterfuck. This is what I can tell you:
When I came here 6 years ago, they had no equivalent to a bachelor -- they just had a thing called Magister...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by astrochimp, bitter-girl.com, srrh, thomas144
2 months ago
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""I'm a nun, so reading the Bible is my 'going to the gym'."
"I'm a hired thug, so going to the gym is my 'going to the gym'."
"I'm an 19th century phrenologist, so palpating grapefruit is my 'going to the gym'...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by lhall, damn dirty ape
3 months ago
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"There is no argument in favor of the warden's position -- absolutely none.
If he would commit a crime on furlough, he would also commit a crime in 6 months when he gets out. If you are afraid that we will commit a crime when he's out, then you..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by lupus_yonderboy, delmoi, criticalbill
3 months ago
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"I understand your frustration very well. I have lost friendships with people who started to believe in occult shit about the hidden meanings of coincidences; it became too much for me to listen to and I lost respect for them. Friendship involves..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Guy Smiley, flummox, pointystick, Sitegeist
3 months ago
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"I can see why this didn't catch on. If I'm a Christian, then who is he to rewrite the Bible, and if I'm an atheist then what do I need the Bible for? And if I just want the moral story, I can read the Bible as written and see the supernatural bits as..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
3 months ago
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"A few words on methodology here, to add to languagehat's complaint.
I am a translator. You do not translate by using Babelfish, nor do you translate by looking up the word in a dictionary. If you have a working knowledge of both languages, then..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by lalochezia, ceri richard, languagehat, Leon
3 months ago
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"Maybe you could cut down on the time spent exercising? All you really need is 20 min. 3-4 times a week, and it can't be hard to force yourself to do that. Shovelglove has a rule about never exceeding 15 minutes because it's the smallest..." [
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4 months ago
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4 months ago
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"But wouldn't it make more sense to start with the phenomena themselves, rather than the theoretical structure we're trying to fit them into ("the known laws of physics")? Observations are primary; theory is secondary. Discredit the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by stevis23
4 months ago
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"As a fairly mundane example, on two separate occasions I have had strong premonitions as to who was calling me on the telephone a few seconds before the phone rang. This would be pretty unremarkable except that the callers were people who I had lost..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Optimus Chyme, axon
4 months ago
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"In terms of your strength training and muscle definition: you don't need to spend very much time on it, but you have to be changing up your routine and also really upping the resistance. You shouldn't be using just 8lb weights after a year...and the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Thoughtcrime
5 months ago
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"I get into endless discussions with Swedes about "foreigners" ruining Swedish society because they don't assimilate, only to point out that I too am an "immigrant" who refuses to assimilate.
The real problem, rhymer, is that..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by axon, anansi
6 months ago
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"the hijacking of british islam is presumably a phenomenon larger than just one set of questionable extremist literature transactions.
"Presumably" means what here, exactly -- that you presume this? Or that we are all supposed to presume..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by axon
6 months ago
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"Grumblebee, the problem with this question is that while the question is, technically, answerable, the answer doesn't really make anyone one bit more knowledgeable about anything.
The question contains two premises.
Premise 1: an absolutely..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LobsterMitten
7 months ago
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"The quiz seems to assume a utilitarian moral framework, and the article even calls the decision not to throw the guy onto the tracks "irrational", as if this were a settled matter. Utilitarianism is popular among people who have read a..." [
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favorited 30 times, recently by flibbertigibbet, papafrita, Totally Zanzibarin' Ya, marginaliana, numinous, ekstasis23, straight, effwerd, boubelium, mer2113, Richard Daly, kolophon, Jpfed, Sangermaine, The Light Fantastic, tehloki, mai, Danila, lumensimus, wfrgms, jinjo, honest knave, mwhybark, arcticwoman, prosthezis, mi, Grangousier, divabat, manish, TheophileEscargot
7 months ago
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""Let's start with the fact that killing the hobo would be bad for me, as it would erode my human compassion and internal taboo against murder. Then let's move on to the harm done to society when society becomes a place where, if your utility..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Free word order!
7 months ago
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"Pope Guilty: I remember us disagreeing about philosophy before, and we will probably continue to disagree. You strike me as someone whose basic philosophical tendency is quite the opposite of mine. For the record, I will feel free to continue to..." [
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7 months ago
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"First of all stop worrying about it and understand that two people can have fun in bed without penetration. Back when there were still virgins I had a couple of whole relationships without penetration. If you can pleasure her in any number of other..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sondrialiac
7 months ago
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"Those news stories all make it sound like it was seen directly by witnesses and caught on camera. For example: "'It gives me the chills,' a witness said" and "Several witnesses to the odd occurance believe that the image was either a..." [
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7 months ago
