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PeriodicallyPedantic

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  • The amazing thing about imagination is it doesn't need to be consistent or based in reality. People can typically imagine such things.

    For example, I can imagine an elephant disguised as a normal sized human in a trench coat, because within my imagination, hammerspace can exist.

    As such, I can imagine an egg that has every single property of a chicken egg; look, flavour, size, smell, colour, etc, such that it was absolutely indistinguishable from a chicken egg until it miraculously hatched an alligator. I extremely strongly suspect that the overwhelming majority of people would have understood what was meant by the thought experiment.

    And literally you're just asserting you're correct by fiat. The people on the other side make the exact same argument about their side. You seem to be missing that this entire dilemma hinges on the fact that there is no specific definition for "chicken egg", so to claim you're correct by definition is baseless afaict.

    The best argument I've seen so far is that the entire dilemma doesn't even make sense since the chicken is the egg; it's the same animal just in different phases of its life, therefore one cannot come before the other; it'd be like saying "which came first, the chicken or the other chicken?". But that comes dangerously close to the question of when life begins, so gonna try to avoid that.

  • Literally why I started off my comment talking about the difference between peaceful and fair.

    Because many people would consider "peaceful" to mean "without physical violence" in this context - so I described what that could be. Something china is actually actively in the process of doing.

    Idk how that means I have my head up my ass. One of us is using the wrong definition for that idiom.

  • You have a crazy definition of "advocate".

    Apparently if you describe it, that is considered "advocacy" even if you explicitly denounce it.

  • Thank you, I've always wondered how their sizes compare, this is a great visual representation. So clear.

  • I honestly do not believe that when I said that, you not only didn't but we're unable to imagine an egg that by all properties confirmed to the expectations of a chicken egg until an alligator miraculously hatched out of it.

    I do not believe you're debating in good faith

  • Why are you conflating "peaceful" with either "act of peace" or "good"? I explicitly said it wasn't fair, eg that it's unethical and I don't support it.

    All I'm saying is that China has a clear path to stop the world from getting involved if they do decide to invade, and that China has had recently success taking over countries with little violence.

    So your framing this as though I'm a Gretzky supporter is kinda wild.

  • It's almost like you intentionally misunderstood my comment to make a point.

    Would it be an act of peace? Absolutely not.Would it be peace_ful_, if you ignore everything else I said in my comment? Absolutely not.

    But if OP is looking for the most peaceful (least bloodshed) way of "unifying" Taiwan and mainland China, then this is how. Remove Taiwan's value to the west, propaganda tf outta the next gen, come in with overwhelming force as the world looks on and does nothing, install pro-china govt officials, ramp up propaganda, withdrawal blantant military force.

    I explicitly said this was not fair eg it would be bad and unethical so this isn't something I support obviously.

  • Peaceful or fair?

    For peaceful, I think that China needs to make it so the world doesn't depend on them for high end chip manufacturer, so the USA stops caring about them because they're not a critical strategic national interest. Then they just invade.

    The world isn't doing shit about Gaza, the world is barely doing anything about Ukraine. I think the world sits by and watches it happen, if they're not a critical strategic interest.

  • Are you 5?

    You're clearly not supposed to answer OP's question honestly. No context is needed.

  • Linoceros

  • Naw, I think a few of the original members are still there

  • So, not "technically" at all (see my user name)

  • Oh get over yourself

  • Short form is cool because it's like constrained writing.

    Tiktok was pretty great while it was just silly videos.\ But it's not short form anymore so it's full of political essays and propaganda.

    I kinda hope that loops is more like vine than tiktok or vertical YouTube. But it'll probably be up to the instance to govern video length.

  • "you mean alligator egg"

    No, I didn't. And yet you still likely understand what I mean, or get close enough to what I mean that it doesn't matter, unless you're being intentionally obstinate.

    And what do you think of the idea that the egg is simply a phase in the life of an animal, that the chicken is the egg it hatched from, not just the former inhabitant? In this case how can the egg be owned by the animal that laid it if it is itself an animal?Like the caterpillar is the chrysalis is the butterfly, the chicken is the egg.

  • I'll need to look into it a bit more, but I'm skeptical that this will work in practice:

    How can they confirm that I'm the owner of the passport? How do you prevent them from selling the fields they requested, that have been uniquely linked to you? How do you prevent the government from keeping track of all the services you're using?

  • I know it's my name, but I have to congratulate you on the excellent pedantry!

  • Isn't that just because they use non-magnetic metals for implants?

  • I get that that's the premise of the joke.But that not the premise of the dilemma, which pretty clearly implies it's a chicken egg.

    The dilemma would have no meaning of it was "what came first? The chicken or the horseshoe crab egg?"

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world

    Good head-to-head reviews of handhelds that can run bazzite

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world

    Handheld PC reviews only cover Asus and Lenovo.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    If eating a banana is ~0.1μSv, then what is holding a banana for an hour?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    Performative vegetables: veggies you pack in your kids lunch even though you know they won't eat them

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    It would have been really funny if a video game ejected the disk if you lost too many times

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    I'm glad I got a glass dinner table: otherwise I'd never know how much gunk my young child smears in the underside of the table

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    Quick Shot

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    I don't piss in the shower, that's gross.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    The movie cars is crazy

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    How do people like toast and bread rolls, but not bread crust?

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world

    Low flow toilets

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    Everyone knows what first aid is, but what is second aid?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    Sitting on the toilet

  • memes @lemmy.world

    It's not funny, we need to talk to you

  • memes @lemmy.world

    Gotta make sure we're under warranty

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    I kinda feel like if I had one good fart, that'd really sort things out for me right now

  • hmmm @lemmy.world

    hmmm

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    Mmmm spicy Kraft Dinner Mac&cheese