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  • There's a time and place, folks!

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  • There's lightyears of difference between "stop throwing paint on statues and blocking roads" and "stop sitting on your privilege with your vote and allowing the disemprivileged to be meat grindered because you think this time it'll teach the incredibly privileged who happen to be nearest to you politically a lesson."

  • Essentially a very large faucet

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  • We can't do those aqueduct screw things?

  • Essentially a very large faucet

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  • This does make me wonder how expensive it'd be to set up a trans continental irrigation system, basically just moving surplus water in places like the southeast or northwest to drought locations like in california or the southwest to take the pressure off of local water resources.

  • TIL: Iran put a 80 million dollar bounty on Donald Trump in 2020

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  • Probably by certifying intent beforehand and having them provide exit support so you can go to Iran and spend the rest of your life there out of reach of US retaliation, assuming a minimal willingness to hunt you down in a foreign nation.

    Things would probably get complicated if the regime collapsed though, non zero chance those 80 million dollars would become useless as a new state tries to establish its own monetary policy, and that's assuming they aren't western friendly and decide to extradite you to curry favor.

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    Some Feminist Tips

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  • I don't get why this was down voted, none of those points are asking much

  • Some people have a feudal mindset - even when they're on the bottom of the ladder

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  • I mean with all those hurricanes the man's probably drowning in insurance premiums alone!

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  • Bad faith actors are busy these days.

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  • The quote was a hyperbolic answer to someone sarcastically suggesting I was trying to act smarter than everyone else because the question is an infamous example of self styled philosophers simultaneously over and under thinking questions.

    Overly obsessing the meaning they've read into what was originally posed as satire, and yet underthinking the details and implications of the scenarios they're describing.

    We are expected to take the question as if we were there in person and yet they are not expected to adhere to a setting in which we could be there in person.

    It's very "rules for thee..." and the fact that self proclaimed philosophers go so out of the way to insist on this supposed deep and foundational question really shoots the credibility of the profession to pieces if such a faulty question is actually as important to the lot as the people trying to insist I'm some uneducated ape for pointing out that "someone will die anyways" scenarios are inherently suspect.

  • Bad faith actors are busy these days.

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  • says philosophers should exercise more intellect

    gets called anti-intellectual

    There's weapon's grade something in this discussion but if it's anti-intellectualism I ain't the one bringing it son.

  • Bad faith actors are busy these days.

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  • If such a faulty experiment is the basis of our ethics it's little wonder why the world has become such a cynical and nihilistic place.

    Suggesting an alternative isn't refusing to engage with the hypothetical, it's engaging in the hypothetical in a way that someone who thinks they're so smart for studying philosophy should really fucking know how to entertain.

    And again, the whole question was devised to point out that both answers are horrifying, morally bankrupt, and a logical conclusion of a faulty school of ethics, so insisting the question is "basic ethical philosophy" is just damning the entire foundation even more.

    You're not making a case that I should feel embarrassed about a snafu in philosophical thinking, you're making a case that the real trolley problem is whether I should have gone back and shot the philosophy majors you think were snickering behind my back before they could do any actual damage by indoctrinating someone with actual deciding power into their effective death cult school of ethics where never thinking twice about "someone dies anyways" outcomes is perfectly reasonable.

    Your "foundational ethics question" is equally as ridiculous as asking if I'd cheat on my SO if it would cure their cancer and also they wouldn't forgive me for it. That's not how anything ever works and insisting there's some deep meaning in it is a farce, and the author of the question itself intended for it to be a farce, and trying to defend it as anything but a farce just makes you a farce

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  • Anything not bolted down, benches, trash cans, hell if it's small enough you could try throwing stuff at it directly to tip it off the track

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  • If reminding a bunch of people that trolleys are typically built in places with a lot of stuff that can be thrown on the track is all it takes to "beat" philosophy, then maybe the philosophers didn't have anything to say worth listening to in the first place.

    Especially when they're trying to ask questions to determine a moral course of action, why does anyone have to die when some property damage would do the trick just as well?

    That's why the question was devised in the first place, to illustrate how ridiculous the two schools of thought represented by either decision were when taken to their logical conclusion.

    The original correct answer was to do something more productive than just standing around with your thumb up your ass debating utilitarianism vs not taking a direct action to kill someone.

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  • Trolleys aren't trains

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  • What'd be more productive would be enforcing a reformed model.

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  • Cancer Memes

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  • So something I've always wondered is if it would be possible for a "stable" form of cancer to eventually metastasize an entire person, and then that person just becomes a walking living tumor but is entirely stable.

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  • I was talking about the philosophy problem itself not the FPTP vote. As you could probably guess from the context of me dunking on the philosophy majors so much.

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  • Suggesting it's easier to convince a Midwestern football coach/car dad to go vegan than an NYC germaphobe is a level of optimism I have never seen

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  • I said throw shit onto the track to try and stop the trolley once.

    The philosophy majors did not like me pointing out it was ridiculous to imagine the problem existing in a void with an absolute limit on possible courses of action.

    They liked it even less when I reminded them that the problem was invented to make fun of them by a philosopher who was arguing that both courses of action were ridiculous conclusions to reach given the broader context of a trolley crash not existing in a vacuum.

    Thought experiments in the void is how we got the declaration that feathers and lead weights were affected by different rates of gravity.

  • There is no progressive party in the US

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  • God it's like I can hear how white you are.

    It literally is a statement that the interests of black and queer folks are contrary to the interests of "tHe WoRkInG cLaSs" to continue shitting on them without any expectation to be better because poor white people and straight people also participate in systemic oppression.

    As for Bernie, people didn't turn out to vote for him, and he lost because of it, end of story. There was a bias against him from the democratic establishment, but acting like that absolves his supporters of having the turnout energy of cosmic background radiation is deflection of the fucking first order, and suggesting that Trump happened as some kind of punishment of the DNC establishment for not throwing out their own damn vote tallies and just handing the guy who's not even a party member the nomination because some quixotic white kids got especially loud about it just reeks of the kind of privilege that is exactly what I was suspecting earlier.

    Like fuck man, you just spouted off ranting about your god given right to just give up and let everyone around you bite it like it's an indication of anything but your own abject failure as a human being with an allegedly functioning sense of empathy.

    You're not smarter than everyone else because you want to blame everyone else for you not wanting to do anything to help, you're just a wordier sort of dickwad.

    Rot and die on your own time jackass.

  • Utterly fucking bizarre

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  • Yes how mask off of me to point out the mask off rhetoric of Houthi stans.

    That shared braincell spending an early weekend with the ex?