metic 1y ago • 100%
I hate that posting into the void feeling. I blame that more on the microblog format more than any particular platform.
metic 1y ago • 100%
It’s possible. Roman concrete is still superior to modern concrete in some ways and we haven’t rediscovered the formula.
metic 1y ago • 100%
Infinite work glitch
metic 1y ago • 100%
This is one of my favorite channels on YT. A good contribution in giving an overview of all of Stoicism, not just the part that people tend to focus on these days. I do have to dock him some points for mixing up Academic “Skepticism” and actual Pyrrhonian Skepticism, tho.
metic 1y ago • 100%
Aged like wine.
sent from my Panoptiphone 87
metic 1y ago • 100%
“That is not how biological scientists define the word ‘drive’.”
Her argument basic boils down to semantics.
metic 1y ago • 100%
Many years ago I posted a true story on r/nosleep or r/letsnotmeet (forget which) bc I didn’t realize most of those stories are fake. It was frustrating to realize my weird situation that I wanted other people to know about and empathize with me about (bc the cops did nothing) was largely ignored.
metic 1y ago • 100%
Haven’t been proven wrong so far. I’d love it for the human race to get it together and take its existential threats seriously, but it seems world leaders would rather have pointless wars over territory and argue about cultural issues.
metic 1y ago • 100%
I hate it when articles undercut their own clickbait titles.
Obviously it can be a bit of both. I’m sure a lot of those guys on Wall Street get off on the high stakes, competitive environment along with all of the benefits to being wealthy. On the other hand, some people choose jobs that don’t pay much but give them a high degree of satisfaction. But I surmise that most people, particularly men, are mainly motivated extrinsically in their jobs to provide for their families, to maintain a certain lifestyle, or simply to survive.
metic 1y ago • 100%
In humid climates, shorts should be acceptable work attite.
metic 1y ago • 100%
This is a pretty fun rabbit hole to dive down. The para-biblical book Jubilees retells a lot of the Hebrew Bible stories with added details including naming the patriarchs’ wives. A more interesting reading is that because they are omitted in the Genesis account, quite possibly a lot more people were also not mentioned. This led to the “pre-Adamite” doctrine, that Adam and Eve were not the first humans. Of course there’s also the Talmudic account of Lilith which has gained a lot of popularity recently.
metic 1y ago • 100%
I worked a 6-2 shift once. Quite liked it as I am a morning person. Had to go to bed around 9:00 though.
metic 1y ago • 100%
Networked, autonomous local communities.
metic 1y ago • 100%
I noticed posting from lemmy.world is really buggy. I started composing in another app as a failsafe. Kbin doesn’t seem to have this issue, and maybe other Lemmy instances don’t either.
metic 1y ago • 100%
Given how ruthless the FCC is, the best we can hope for at this point is a deathbed confession.
metic 1y ago • 100%
I saw a post that automatically grabbed a NSFW furry thumbnail pic from somewhere but it wasn’t in the linked article, nor did it show up on Lemmy.
metic 1y ago • 100%
The main subs I follow are more or less back to normal or never protested to begin with. Two tiny subs I mod have been getting hammered with Temu spam and because the built-in moderation tools don’t seem to help I set them to restricted.
The big difference is on /all. Some popular subs have been largely replaced like r/AITA -> r/AITAH & r/TwoHotTakes. But a lot of the usual content is completely missing and in their place are the food delivery and selfie subs.
metic 1y ago • 50%
Why is the thumbnail pic a furry?
Not that I’m complaining; nice to not be inundated with beans. I’d assume with federation the active posts would mostly be the same on both. Edit: I think it may partly have to do with how voting works differently between Lemmy and Kbin.
Over the history of philosophy and religion numerous works of metaphysical speculation have been written. Many of these metaphysical models are mutually exclusive. This bewildering variety of metaphysics naturally induces a skepticism of *all* metaphysical systems. No particular metaphysics can be be proven empirically. Metaphysicians must recourse to either theophany or reasoning; in practice usually a combination of the two. Others cannot access the same theophany or may dispute their logic. Materialism cannot escape this skepticism. Materialism (or physicalism) is the current prestige metaphysics in the modern world, but it has not earned this position on the basis of its veracity. Science as the study of physical or social phenomena, does not concern itself with non-physical phenomena. It is instrumentally materialist, regardless of the individual scientist’s metaphysical views. Although science uses materialism as a working assumption, it does not and cannot attempt to prove it, nor any other metaphysical model. The prestige materialism currently enjoys is a result of people mistaking this instrumentality for veracity.