@williameijer@jeremykauffman I’d tend to think leftists would agree.
A common knock on leftists is that they only drag down, which low status people perceive as to their benefit in the supposed zero sum game of life.
@pli_cachete Dickens is not grammatical here. Two prepositional phrases followed by a coordinating conjunction doesn’t work. We’re missing a clause.
It’s also not supremely rational to suggest that subtraction of water would relate to mud on a street.
He sounds distracted.
@MasterTimBlais Perhaps fidelity loss leads to a vague visual roundness and the weights correlate roundness with plump features (African) and overall roundness (obesity)
@StefanFSchubert The phrase is meant to convey that what something does is more important and real than the stated purpose
I don’t think any of those examples are refutations when _total_ effects are examined and distinguished from environmental circumstance
@BecketAdams My theory is that he was always planning to control it, he just needed to wait a few years to build the premise that the purchase wasn’t FOR controlling narratives
@pli_cachete I kinda think you do but they are fundamental stuff that doesn’t feel tagged to a time because of how much it relates to everything else since.
It’s just stuff like knowing what a human looks like or gravity or water. Aren’t those essentially memories from infancy?
@nabeelqu 4) only humans are sentient, with the mechanism not well described by science
5) only the self is sentient and the rest is universe’s curated mirage for you
6) everything that can sense is sentient including my sedan’s backup camera and plants