So... what's the difference? What are you getting when you trade a Pebble for an Apple Watch? Do those features make-up for the trade-offs, like the dramatically reduced battery life? What about the difference in price?
From what I've seen, the Apple watch does less and costs more.
Outside the singularity nuts, you don't often find people advocating for a video game afterlife.
Besides, your mom will probably just unplug your universe to run the vacuum cleaner in your basement "apartment", fulfilling the prophecy: The great Filter Queen will being an end to all existence.
Apparently, easy math is easier for some than for others. I always tell kids they can check a subtraction by reversing it with an addition. 1984 + 21 = 2005. Oops, something went wrong! If you do the problem again, you'll find your mistake. 2015 - 21 = 1994.
. I work in a place right now where I've been told to be EXTREMELY careful about the wording I use around the female employees. Our workplace will sooner fire me than hear my side of the story so that they don't get a law suit. And its happened here before. Twice.
"So this dame comes up to me and asks about Python, right? So I show her my dick. What's the big deal? Now I gotta deal with some sexual harassment shit."
Even overweight, unattractive women think that they are attractive, and they have the dismissive attitudes of their much more beautiful sisters [...] they do not appreciate attention from men whom they consider lesser than themselves.
So... it's the fault of the women that they don't find you attractive? They should appreciate any attention they receive from you because you believe them to be unattractive? That's surprisingly arrogant.
There seems to be a theme here. The less successful you are with women, the more likely you are to blame the media, feminism, women in general, or some other factor external to yourself. Have you considered that you're simply not a great catch? That you're less attractive than you believe yourself to be?
Man, you've got some serious issues. Women don't exist to service you sexually. They have far more to contribute than just a warm and wet place to stuff your tally-whacker.
Try this: Shower regularly, lose the flab, dress like an adult, and treat women like people and you just might find you'll have more success when you interact with them.
What about all the people who think they have free will?
Here's something fun: Can you actually believe that you don't have free will? I don't mean some silly statement like "I can't see how free will is possible", but actually observe yourself acting, free from the illusion? After all, with other illusions, you can "shake them off" an see them for what they are -- separating what is from what is apparent. If you can deny such a strong and ever-present aspect of your own experience, how does that affect your perception of yourself? Can you take pride in your accomplishments or feel shame for your failures? Does it have any meaning to you to know that the meat robot you happen to inhabit made, for example, a +5 post? It wouldn't be the meaningful, experiential, you, after all, that accomplished that, but some 'other' external to you. You were just along for the ride. Is that consequence a fact you recognize or do you hold on to the illusion?
Or the ones who can look straight at a penis vs. a vagina then declare that gender is "socially constructed?"
There's a distinction they draw between sex and gender. You're having trouble understanding their position because you conflate the two.
So... you're saying that Reddit was okay when you could go there for racist discussions and kiddie porn, and it's ruined now that that content is no longer available?
Feminism, like most identifying terms in practice, is defined by whatever those who identify as feminists say and do, and to say that some of those who identify as feminists aren't really feminists because they're not sticking to some dictionary definition of it is a textbook case of No True Scotsman.
I pointed this out before. By your reasoning, we can claim "No True Scotsman" when presented with any operational definition.
You can disagree with the definition, but that's insufficient to dismiss its use under "No True Scotsman" banner.
Consider this terrible example. I have a club for fishermen. We have 1800 members and we're growing rapidly. None of the members have ever gone fishing. You come along and say "You can't possibly be fishermen. To be a fisherman requires that you go fishing."
Are you guilty of committing the "No True Scotsman" fallacy? Of course not. You and I simply disagree over the definition of fishermen. Consequently, we categorize members of my club differently. If I were to say that your assertion is false as we are fishermen and we never fish, you could respond in one of two ways: You could reassert your objection e.g. "nonsense, if you don't fish, you aren't fishermen" or modify your definition to account for my counterexample e.g. "Well, you're not true fishermen as all true fishermen go fishing."
The fallacy is committed in the ad-hoc modification of some assertion, not in the assertion itself. Otherwise, it would apply to any and all definitions or other categorical criteria.
It's an error in reasoning that lets one hold some belief in face of evidence to the contrary. That's the entire point of the thing.
In this specific case, we have the implication that feminists and egalitarians don't overlap. We then have the claim that, by definition, feminists are egalitarians. You can disagree with that definition, but until the claimant modifies that definition to account for some counterexample, you cannot say that he has committed that fallacy. All he's done is offer a definition.
What are the hard-hitting questions? The crazy nonsense from paranoid conspiracy websites?
I suppose you'd say the same thing if you suspected that questions to Buzz Aldren about sound stages and photographs without stars were going to be ignored, yes?
As you assert that Slashdot is now an echo chamber on grounds of some future prediction, are you also claiming that you're psychic or just that you have supernatural perception?
I disagree. No True Scotsman suggests an ad-hoc modification to support a previously inadequate assertion. If we accept your, and (presumably) the previous posters understanding, we'd be able to dismiss, for example, countless syllogisms on the same grounds. Worse, we could reject any operational definition!
In your example, there's merely a simple disagreement with the definition which serves as the premise: all Scotsmen live in Scotland. You're miss the essential bits: First: the claim that there exists at least one Scotsman who does not live in Scotland. Second: the ad-hoc modification that no true Scotsman lives anywhere but Scotland.
In this particular case, we have a nice syllogism. By definition: all feminist believe in equality, Anyone who believes in equality is egalitarian,:. Feminists are egalitarian.
To get to No True Scotsman, we'd need a bit more. You'd need to disagree with the first premise on some ground and then see that premise modified to account for your objection.
It must be the lizard women in the hollow earth, who control the shadow government, keeping them from facing prosecution for the egregious crimes through an advanced and comprehensive cover-up by the Builderbergs and the Freemasons.
Who's taking about harassment? I'm clearly talking exclusively about the wacky claim made by the AC inexplicably modded +5, which seems to only be supported by a few crazy fringe sites.
By analogy, the AC is claiming we faked the moon landings, and you're talking about monuments on Mars.
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Wouldn't the more obvious answer be "because she wanted to work for Google"?
So... what's the difference? What are you getting when you trade a Pebble for an Apple Watch? Do those features make-up for the trade-offs, like the dramatically reduced battery life? What about the difference in price?
From what I've seen, the Apple watch does less and costs more.
I'm not surprised, it looks to be running at one mega flop!
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week.
Outside the singularity nuts, you don't often find people advocating for a video game afterlife.
Besides, your mom will probably just unplug your universe to run the vacuum cleaner in your basement "apartment", fulfilling the prophecy: The great Filter Queen will being an end to all existence.
Apparently, easy math is easier for some than for others. I always tell kids they can check a subtraction by reversing it with an addition. 1984 + 21 = 2005. Oops, something went wrong! If you do the problem again, you'll find your mistake. 2015 - 21 = 1994.
. I work in a place right now where I've been told to be EXTREMELY careful about the wording I use around the female employees. Our workplace will sooner fire me than hear my side of the story so that they don't get a law suit. And its happened here before. Twice.
"So this dame comes up to me and asks about Python, right? So I show her my dick. What's the big deal? Now I gotta deal with some sexual harassment shit."
Even overweight, unattractive women think that they are attractive, and they have the dismissive attitudes of their much more beautiful sisters [...] they do not appreciate attention from men whom they consider lesser than themselves.
So ... it's the fault of the women that they don't find you attractive? They should appreciate any attention they receive from you because you believe them to be unattractive? That's surprisingly arrogant.
There seems to be a theme here. The less successful you are with women, the more likely you are to blame the media, feminism, women in general, or some other factor external to yourself. Have you considered that you're simply not a great catch? That you're less attractive than you believe yourself to be?
Except it doesn't matter.
A real AI would probably shutdown itself seeing that none of this is of any consequence;
If existence is meaningless, the only question left is suicide, said a zillion existentialists in their mid to late teens after reading The Outsider.
The question, then, is why so many of you survive.
Man, you've got some serious issues. Women don't exist to service you sexually. They have far more to contribute than just a warm and wet place to stuff your tally-whacker.
Try this: Shower regularly, lose the flab, dress like an adult, and treat women like people and you just might find you'll have more success when you interact with them.
or looks a bit pale?
No, no. Looking a bit pale is likely to save you.
What about all the people who think they have free will?
Here's something fun: Can you actually believe that you don't have free will? I don't mean some silly statement like "I can't see how free will is possible", but actually observe yourself acting, free from the illusion? After all, with other illusions, you can "shake them off" an see them for what they are -- separating what is from what is apparent. If you can deny such a strong and ever-present aspect of your own experience, how does that affect your perception of yourself? Can you take pride in your accomplishments or feel shame for your failures? Does it have any meaning to you to know that the meat robot you happen to inhabit made, for example, a +5 post? It wouldn't be the meaningful, experiential, you, after all, that accomplished that, but some 'other' external to you. You were just along for the ride. Is that consequence a fact you recognize or do you hold on to the illusion?
Or the ones who can look straight at a penis vs. a vagina then declare that gender is "socially constructed?"
There's a distinction they draw between sex and gender. You're having trouble understanding their position because you conflate the two.
That makes sense. NASA is faking the Pluto Truther movement to discredit anyone who points out the huge flaws in their fake Pluto photos.
Follow the money, sheeple!
For a few hundred bucks, I can help you with that.
So you agree with my contention that Slashdot is clearly not an "SJW echo chamber".
You could have done that without the paranoid conspiracy theory.
So ... you're saying that Reddit was okay when you could go there for racist discussions and kiddie porn, and it's ruined now that that content is no longer available?
Okay...
Feminism, like most identifying terms in practice, is defined by whatever those who identify as feminists say and do, and to say that some of those who identify as feminists aren't really feminists because they're not sticking to some dictionary definition of it is a textbook case of No True Scotsman.
I pointed this out before. By your reasoning, we can claim "No True Scotsman" when presented with any operational definition.
You can disagree with the definition, but that's insufficient to dismiss its use under "No True Scotsman" banner.
Consider this terrible example. I have a club for fishermen. We have 1800 members and we're growing rapidly. None of the members have ever gone fishing. You come along and say "You can't possibly be fishermen. To be a fisherman requires that you go fishing."
Are you guilty of committing the "No True Scotsman" fallacy? Of course not. You and I simply disagree over the definition of fishermen. Consequently, we categorize members of my club differently. If I were to say that your assertion is false as we are fishermen and we never fish, you could respond in one of two ways: You could reassert your objection e.g. "nonsense, if you don't fish, you aren't fishermen" or modify your definition to account for my counterexample e.g. "Well, you're not true fishermen as all true fishermen go fishing."
The fallacy is committed in the ad-hoc modification of some assertion, not in the assertion itself. Otherwise, it would apply to any and all definitions or other categorical criteria.
It's an error in reasoning that lets one hold some belief in face of evidence to the contrary. That's the entire point of the thing.
In this specific case, we have the implication that feminists and egalitarians don't overlap. We then have the claim that, by definition, feminists are egalitarians. You can disagree with that definition, but until the claimant modifies that definition to account for some counterexample, you cannot say that he has committed that fallacy. All he's done is offer a definition.
What are the hard-hitting questions? The crazy nonsense from paranoid conspiracy websites?
I suppose you'd say the same thing if you suspected that questions to Buzz Aldren about sound stages and photographs without stars were going to be ignored, yes?
As you assert that Slashdot is now an echo chamber on grounds of some future prediction, are you also claiming that you're psychic or just that you have supernatural perception?
I disagree. No True Scotsman suggests an ad-hoc modification to support a previously inadequate assertion. If we accept your, and (presumably) the previous posters understanding, we'd be able to dismiss, for example, countless syllogisms on the same grounds. Worse, we could reject any operational definition!
In your example, there's merely a simple disagreement with the definition which serves as the premise: all Scotsmen live in Scotland. You're miss the essential bits: First: the claim that there exists at least one Scotsman who does not live in Scotland. Second: the ad-hoc modification that no true Scotsman lives anywhere but Scotland.
In this particular case, we have a nice syllogism. By definition: all feminist believe in equality, Anyone who believes in equality is egalitarian, :. Feminists are egalitarian.
To get to No True Scotsman, we'd need a bit more. You'd need to disagree with the first premise on some ground and then see that premise modified to account for your objection.
What's it like to be transphobic?
I take it you haven't read the comments? It's very much the opposite of that.
Did Glenn Beck rape and kill a girl in 1990? Why doesn't he acknowledge and deny these rumors?
No, it is not.
It's a conspiracy!
It must be the lizard women in the hollow earth, who control the shadow government, keeping them from facing prosecution for the egregious crimes through an advanced and comprehensive cover-up by the Builderbergs and the Freemasons.
Who's taking about harassment? I'm clearly talking exclusively about the wacky claim made by the AC inexplicably modded +5, which seems to only be supported by a few crazy fringe sites.
By analogy, the AC is claiming we faked the moon landings, and you're talking about monuments on Mars.