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TL;DR This article/story is in two parts. The first part, immediately below, is an article I wrote and published about my dog Ezri in the context of Stoic philosophy. I had no idea when I was writing it how prescient it was. At the end of the article,...
by nevdull
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 10:30 AM PDT
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Have you heard the phrase “Begs the question”? Sure you have; most everyone has. But chances are, it was used incorrectly. “Begs the question” does not mean, “Raises the question,” or, “Leads to the question.” Those are distinct things. ”Begs the...
by nigelTheBold
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on Wed Mar 13, 2024 at 08:04 AM PDT
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As a heads up, I am not posting this expecting any recs or comments, this is intended to be my first diary that appears under this DKos username so that anyone trying to get some perspective when reading any of my future diaries may go back under my...
by AnOceanOfNotions
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 11:43 PM PDT
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The War on Education Several states are defunding university humanities and social science programs. They want to convert higher education into factories producing cogs for businesses and industries owned by the state’s wealthy overseers. If you have a...
by lafollette
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 03:30 AM PST
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Sympoesis Despite the widely inaccurate view that we live in or on an environment and must therefore protect what we depend on, we are made up of environments (4 billion years worth of co-evolving associations, living and non-living) and moreover,...
by Campion
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on Wed Jan 03, 2024 at 01:19 PM PST
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— — I’ve been a fan of the Robert Plant song “Ship of Fools” for as long as I can remember. Not sure why exactly — it was mostly the melody, and the way it makes me feel, I think, when I listen to it. Lately I’ve been wondering though, given the rapid...
by jamess
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on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 12:19 PM PDT
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“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old (ways*), but on building the new” -Socrates Artificial Intelligence (AI) is promising to be one of the most transformative technologies in history. As we stand on the brink of...
by Push4Purple
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on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 06:50 AM PDT
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I am watching a wonderful series at Wondrium titled “The Modern Intellectual Tradition.” It traces the failure of Philosophy to define practices that enable us to ascertain truth. The lecturer, Lawrence Cahoone of the College of the Holy Cross, does an...
by bkbalke
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on Tue Sep 19, 2023 at 08:34 AM PDT
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I’m not sure this is really the right forum to be discussing religion, but then again it’s probably not the right forum for my Ghana diaries, either, so here we are. I want to say that I am not arguing for or against Christianity or religion in...
by McCrowlerr
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on Sun Sep 03, 2023 at 08:48 AM PDT
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It's simple. When your side can't win without cheating, then you just say that your opponent must have cheated. When your corrupt friends get tossed out (as in Ukraine), it must be that the other side was more corrupt. From there, it's no great leap to...
by the one who knows
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on Fri Aug 25, 2023 at 08:13 AM PDT
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If America loses its democracy, blame will go to all the citizens who endorse lies, lying, and liars Quiz: True or false: “All politicians lie.” Answer: This is a trick question. There is deep subtext to the statement in quotes above, namely: “All politicians are equally bad, so it makes no difference who I choose to vote for.” It is most often spoken...
by rmartin1241
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on Sat Aug 19, 2023 at 05:51 PM PDT
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Welcome to Overnight News Digest- Saturday Science. Since 2007 the OND has been a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with ...
by Rise above the swamp
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on Sat Aug 19, 2023 at 08:59 PM PDT
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on Thu Aug 24, 2023 at 03:30 AM PDT
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Been reading Daily Kos on and off since the Bush Era, but this would be my first ever actual diary post! I’m on on the neurodivergent spectrum, and haven’t been able to get an adequate mileage of answering a thought that came to mind. This has driven...
by Angry Pidgeon
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on Fri Jul 28, 2023 at 07:01 AM PDT
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Here’s a musing for my own purposes, as a way to better clarify my thinking. Perhaps some others might find it useful or amusing. My conservative friends think I'm a liberal, my liberal friends think I’m kind of conservative. For the most part, I’m...
by dlsamson
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on Mon Jul 03, 2023 at 11:57 AM PDT
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I have been thinking about this newsletter for a bit: We don't need political ideologies anymore. �In it, the author claims that no one has a monopoly on the truth, that "both sides" have a point ...
by angryea
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on Tue Jun 06, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
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This is what a national joke looks like, with its inevitable consequences: A Chinese comedy troupe has been hit with a £1.7million ($2.13 million) fine by authorities after one of its entertainers made a joke about the military. Li Haoshi, who performs...
by annieli
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on Thu May 18, 2023 at 11:22 PM PDT
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As a not particularly good non-theist Buddhist [what a mouthful], raised a Lutheran and partnered with a Catholic, the existence of god, gods and other “superior” beings is an unnecessary irrelevancy. Buddha pretty much agreed with this, as he neither...
by LaFeminista
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on Mon Feb 20, 2023 at 04:47 AM PST
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Gimme Schlatter is scared that growing old inevitably means turning into a conservative crank like the artist behind Lil' Abner and Matt Taibbi That Taibbi believes he's found what he's looking for? That he thinks bog-standard emails between Twitter...
by angryea
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on Wed Jan 25, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
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I remember as a teenager reading of the few instances on record of feral children being encountered by those in society. I always found it fascinating to consider the circumstances that could have led up to such an instance. These stories have been...
by novapsyche
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on Wed Dec 07, 2022 at 09:59 AM PST
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