DonPiano

joined 1 year ago
[–] DonPiano@feddit.org 1 points 57 minutes ago

Crocodilia, like birds, are archosaurs.

[–] DonPiano@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago

Usually more of a logarithmic relationship though

Either way, keeping at it is essential

[–] DonPiano@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah. It's somewhat odd for me, as my love for and of nature, as well as (and in the same vein) my ideas about human potential and dignity come from a specifically un- if not anti-spiritual place.

Something like: The material world is not only beautiful (in a fundamental way, I don't merely mean pretty like a forest on a hill, but also beautiful like all the interconnected systems that make it a forest), but also all there is, and that is part of the reason why caring about feeling beings is important.

But yeah, we always gotta make some judgement calls on who and what we exclude and include with the terms we use.

[–] DonPiano@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Note: I include a love of nature, humanism, etc. under the 'spiritual' label, as well as traditionally religiously spiritual.

Huh. Why?

[–] DonPiano@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

Because that empirically tends to negatively interfere with rehabilitative functions of justice. If crime is bad, preventing crime is good, and stopping crime prevention therefore is bad.

[–] DonPiano@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh no, Macie's wife

[–] DonPiano@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

*make the distinction

[–] DonPiano@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cool, can you show how big the effect is, based on your team's efforts? And what the distribution of values is, based on sponsor?

[–] DonPiano@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Can you conceive of other motivations?

[–] DonPiano@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do you believe that the point of such assignments is because the teacher desires to read a couple dozen nigh-identical essays on the topic at hand?

[–] DonPiano@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

Firings and jail time.

In lieu of that, high fines and firings.

[–] DonPiano@feddit.org 7 points 2 months ago

They are replaceable, it just takes some tools and work, both of which you can get at the phone repair shop.

 
 
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