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JoeClu, in How do I learn to detect logical fallacies in a conversation?
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We learned to recognize a lot of them in college Philosophy 101.

housepanther, in Part time tech work?
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I honestly had my sights set on doing some sales and consulting based on the ERPnext platform, an open source solution that uses Frappe. I am still working out some of the wrinkles but I am wondering there might be a business opportunity because ERPnext looks like it could literally be game-changin.

somedaysoon, in What are your favorite sublemmys?
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Saw someone else post it in similar thread so not taking credit but I liked sublem.

jerebear205,

That’s a legitimately good name!

mspoison, in If you could have one small thing as a superpower. What would it be and why?
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ability to spawn $100,000,000,000 into my bank account at any time :)

BeMoreCareful, in How far from a forest fire do you have to be for a daily temperature record to count?

Are the fires out of the environment?

DontTreadOnBigfoot,
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Nothings out there!

JoeClu, in If you could have one small thing as a superpower. What would it be and why?
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Invisibility, with ability to hide IR and sound and can make recording video cameras invisible too. I’d expose all the corrupt politicians, judges, and CEOs!

chaogomu,

That's a fairly major power. The question was about a small thing as a power.

Like the ability to know what judges and politicians are corrupt... From reading the newspaper and their court filings, because they already tell everyone that they're corrupt, like all the time. It's not hidden, it's just next to impossible to get people to care about it. Or to get the right people to care about it.

Like, look at Clarence Thomas, the fucker is corrupt as all hell, and since the Republicans don't care, nothing can really be done. Because it's technically not illegal, and Republicans are blocking any form of Ethics reform.

Tedesche, in If you could have one small thing as a superpower. What would it be and why?

Kill every insect within 10 yards of me with a thought.

noksucow, in If you could have one small thing as a superpower. What would it be and why?

Lie detection

Lawyerator, in People of Lemmy, have you ever had what some would consider a "spiritual" experience?

I was in college, it was night, and several friends and acquaintances of mine had lugged a case of beer to a giant empty wire spool that sat next to our campus at the time. The spool on it’s side made for a good table.

Having completed an entire class about world religions, we were set to debate whether Buddhism or Taoism was a more reasonable philosophy.

The girl to my right was definitely engaged in the conversation, but she hadn’t said anything yet. I asked her “so what do you think about all of this?” She looked at me, crossed her arms, and fell backwards into the ground. I immediately said, “holy shit, did you guys just see that?” Nobody else saw the girl. As it happened, the wire spool was on the lawn between the campus and a graveyard.

Maybe I’m nuts or maybe I saw that. Never saw anything like that again though.

luthis,

How did that affect you?

Lawyerator,

At the time, I approached it from the perspective that consciousness in some capacity was possible after death while acknowledging that I had no evidence on the questions of how, why, how frequently, for what duration, etc. I hypothesized that ghosts were whorls of consciousness like the whirlpools in water after the passing of an oar.

I was raised Lutheran, but had been approaching my understanding of existence from what I thought of as a logical perspective. For example, I reasoned that heaven, if it existed as a joyful reward state, must either be essentially finite in duration or must involve eternal dementia based on the notion that eventually you would run out of novel or interesting thoughts or experiences. To remain joyful, heaven would have to either have the individual be dissolved back into the universe/almighty or would require forgetting earlier novel experiences.

These days I tend to just anthropomorphize the universe itself, as the wants of an omniscient and omnipotent being would be indistinguishable from the natural rules of the universe. To quote Roger Waters: “what God wants, God gets (God help us all)”. I figure God wants matter to be attracted to other matter and for electromagnetism to be a thing (amongst other rules of the universe).

Elephant0991, in Posted pictures no longer showing?
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I see everybody’s images, except you (OP).

Nemo, in Strong Men

It didn’t get replaced. Both exist side-by-side.

And frankly, I can take a punch in person but will still not stand for people being incivil in my online discussion spaces.

Ajen, in Do you prefer PC or laptop?

Lightweight/low-power laptop (aka chromebook) + homeserver seems ideal, IMO. Especially if you have gigabit upstream at home, and know how to set up a VPN.

ZagamTheVile, in If you could have one small thing as a superpower. What would it be and why?

I’d like to be able to give people arch cramps by making eye contact and saying “bipity bopity boo” quietly.

overzeetop,
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We’re all here think of good things; you’re plotting nefarious powers.

garyyo, in How far from a forest fire do you have to be for a daily temperature record to count?

Well, the record high temperatures are what cause the forest fires so we do have to take that into account. And the radiant heat that the fire gives off dissipates with the inverse square law so that limits it’s contribution. Really it seems that the only major contributing factor to the increased heat, other than the effects of the already high ambient temperature and thus the decreased apparent humidity, are the excitation of the air molecules as they are transformed from elemental oxygen and plant matter into hydrogen hydroxide and carbon dioxide, along with other molecules due to incomplete combustion and contaminates. Overall I think a safe bet would be 2.

neko, in Strong Men

That was never a thing, log out of YouTube and touch grass

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