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Cypher · @cspcypher
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Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive. - Sun Tzu

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Declan · @deckytoyou
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I really fear what is becoming. , accept, decline some nonsense shit that many do not understand; , , , , policies, and other stupid rules that defending the world does not exist, etc. What has happened? How did we let it be? It is not the place where I wanna be. I come here to see what I wanna see, to talk to anyone I wanna talk, to post what I wanna post, to find knowledge and skills I was deprived. And what we have now? What do we do then?

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Cypher · @cspcypher
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If Black people had simply accepted a status of economic and political inferiority, the mob murders would probably have subsided. But because vast numbers of ex-slaves refused to discard their dreams of progress, more than ten thousand lynchings occurred during the three decades following the war. - Angela Davis

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Cypher · @cspcypher
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The most harm of all is done when power is in the hands of people who are absolutely persuaded of the purity of their instincts-- and the purity of their intentions - Milton Friedman

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Cypher · @cspcypher
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Why [..] should the boundary of sacrosanct life match the boundary of our species? - Peter Singer

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Cypher · @cspcypher
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. - Epictetus

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Cypher · @cspcypher
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. - Marcus Aurelius

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Cypher · @cspcypher
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Hebrew word for charity tzedakah, simply means justice and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life. - Peter Singer

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Eve :verified: · @evelynefoerster
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An ‘alien meteorite’ probably didn’t slam into Earth — how will we know if one does?


An ‘alien meteorite’ probably didn’t slam into Earth — how will we know if one does? 🤓
nature.com/articles/d41586-023

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Eve :verified: · @evelynefoerster
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‘Weird’ dinosaur prompts rethink of bird evolution

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Eve :verified: · @evelynefoerster
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SAPIENS - Archaeological Tropes That Perpetuate Colonialism

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Eve :verified: · @evelynefoerster
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The New York Times - Opinion | Is There a Crisis in Cosmology?

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Cypher · @cspcypher
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation. - Maya Angelou

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Cypher · @cspcypher
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So what the media do, in effect, is to take the set of assumptions which express the basic ideas of the propaganda system, whether about the Cold War or the economic system or the national interest and so on, and then present a range of debate within that framework—so the debate only enhances the strength of the assumptions, ingraining them in people’s minds as the entire possible spectrum of opinion that there is. - Noam Chomsky

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Kent Pitman · @kentpitman
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Losing Ground in the Environment

@dhyannada

I think the way I'd say it is that capitalist markets attach value to scarcity. Scarce things command a higher price. So where there is not scarcity, it must be created in order to profit from it.

A serious problem with capitalism is its reductionist nature. That is, it sees a problem that's a real problem and reduces it to a market model so that it can be reasoned about as a simple matter of maximizing profit. But the people doing it really don't care about the original profit. They subscribe to the greed-is-good and disingenuously presume that all relevant variables are encoded such that it's fair for them to simply maximize profit.

But then they find they can profit better by regulatory capture or exploiting externalities than by solving the original problem because no one has made a specific rule against it. And so the regulatory capture part makes sure that rules aren't made against regulatory capture or externalities, which assures that capitalism will continue to distract itself making profit and never really even trying to solve many of the biggest problems we have.

Capitalism is, at its best, merely an optimization engine. But if not programmed with boundary conditions, it will generate nonsensical solutions, as any mathematical optimization system would. Morality must be one of the boundaries. It is a mistake and an active attack on society to assert that morality must not be encoded in law. Even Adam Smith suggested that it had to be put there, because it would not be otherwise discovered. As I recall, he pretty much expected that capitalists unfettered by boundary laws would become tyrants.

As to the finite nature of the world and its resources, I refer you to my 2019 essay Losing Ground in the Environment, which I think sums things up more neatly than I could quickly do here.

netsettlement.blogspot.com/201

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Nick East (Indie Writer) · @NickEast
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Open media

I maintain that my flood is mostly useless knowledge, but knowledge nonetheless! 😂

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WIST Quotations · @WISTquote
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WIST - Sartor Resartus, Book 3, ch. 4 (1831) - Carlyle, Thomas | WIST Quotations

A quotation from Carlyle, Thomas:

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That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
wist.info/carlyle-thomas/63015

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WIST Quotations · @WISTquote
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A quotation from Billings, Josh:

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Human knowledge is very short, and don’t reach but a little ways, and even that little ways iz twilite; but faith lengthens out the road, and makes it light, so that we kan see tew read the letterings on the mile stuns.
[Human knowledge is very short, and doesn’t reach but a little way, and even that little way is twilight; but faith len…
»

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wist.info/billings-josh/1042/

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(Author) Michael Anthony White · @mikewhitewriter
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"Essential Information After High School Graduation" is out now, available online and direct from me on my website (links in bio!)

Check out my newest series "Two Minutes of Reality" touching on some of its content:

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4C

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🐧MEU REFÚGIO NERD🍥 · @MeuRefugioNerd
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#manchete #cavaleirosdozodiaco #onepiece #dc #marvel #heroes #sentai #tokusatsu #japao #brasil #brazil #japan #manga #anime #movies #cinema #cyberpunk #Cult #pop #nerd #cultura #noticias #news #games #space #ciencia #natureza #travel #culture #science #nature #arcade #consolegaming #desktop #pc #boost #knowledge #retrogaming #gaming #debian #linux #howto #tutorials #comeon #go #community #joinus #join #follow #subscribe

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