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One is cancerous, the other is a benign tumor (for now).
One is cancerous, the other is a benign tumor (for now).
I don’t really think of songs as girl songs or boy songs. That being said, I guess La vie en rose by Edith Piaf, I guess? Nothing secret about it, though.
Also, no secret in me liking I want it that way. Never told anyone, but that’s because nobody ever asked me.
This is why I love the internet.
It’s just a phase. Once Big Dental has used him up until he burns out, he’ll do the most degrading painting work. If he’s lucky, and doesn’t end up in shoe cleaning or worse.
I got it, but mostly thanks to watching HIMYM.
Shutting down my computer with the button, restarting, and installing Emacs.
tar -?
, -h
is dereference or smth.
Well, first of all, determinism precludes any notion of free will. Second, even if we allow random chance, free will is still an incoherent idea. Behavior is either caused by certain factors, in which case it is deterministic, or it is at least in part random, in which case it is just that - random. There’s just no conceptual mechanism - that I am aware of - that allows for free will to be anything more than an illusion.
I’d debate the free will part.
Patriotism, as long as it stays just that, is probably not going to do much damage. It’s just kind of there and annoying, but not directly dangerous. But it is still a ridiculous concept to be proud of the arbitrarily drawn lines within which you were born, and being loyal to them simply because you were born there. That doesn’t mean you can’t like your country and want it to prosper. But emotional attachment to and positive attitudes towards a nation by default is cringe at best. Praise a country if it does something good and critisize it if it fucks up. But why would you give one country special treatment there? And patriotism is never far from being exploited and turned into nationalism at the slightest inconvenience. Sometimes, it doesn’t even take an inconvenience, as evidenced by football right now.