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You know what's funny? I have a friend from Sri Lanka. Dark skinned, islander looking dude.
Many years ago , we'd be smoking blunts and bullshitting, and he'd get into how the Indians were a bunch of 3rd world savages (neighboring nations rivalry). Show me video of street shitters and how they pile on top of the trains like rats. LMAO 🤣
Some mix kid would go by and he'd say shit like, "Man those white genes are strong AF, huh? It's no wonder you guys civilized the world."
Back then, I was like huh?
Then he'd go into how, back home, when a half white person bred with a full dark native, their kids would always come out looking light. Never an oddball, extra dark kid. He (or their culture?) perceive it as dominant vs non-dominant traits, but on a genetic level. That whites are dominant, all the way down to the DNA
I had never really thought about it much before then, but the reality is, if it wasn't for that brown skinned Sri Lankan, I may not have ever realized that we Proto Indos European ancestors have always been the high culture of the world.
Indians, Sri Lankans, Pakistanis and Bangladeshi love having pissing contests.
And to complicate things, there are Bengalis from India and Bengalis from Bangladesh, as well as Tamils both in Sri Lanka and India.
I remember an Indian restaurant owner saying: "Even the crows cover their assholes when flying over Pakistan", referring to the widespread sexual abuse of boys.
To explain what he called "the third world mentality", he told me this:
Say you brought in a complete structure kit, with every last thing you would need to build a brand new home or whatever. Tools, equipment, material
Instead of building the house, what would probably happen is that everyone would run in and grab some wood and shit, take it home, then use it to expand their shack. Equipment would be crudely dismantled and pilfered for bits and bobs
He said that most of the island doesn't even have real roads. There are a few, but most are old British mining rail paths that you can barely make it across in the dry seasons.
The few bigger cities are kinda 1st world, but a few miles out, you're lucky to have power on a reliable basis
He said that it's not that they're all too poor to live better, it's the culture, and nobody cares to try. It's the third world mentality. Like when you tribes wearing modern t shirts.
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Massive Repression im Sinne deutscher Staatsräson. Die perfekte Vorlage für Autokraten weltweit.
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Im Gazastreifen hat es mehrere Tote und Verletzte nach dem Sturm auf Lebensmittellager gegeben. Die UN und Hilfsorganisatoren kritisieren den Verteilmechanismus der von Israel und den USA unterstützten »Hilfsstiftung«.
#Palestine / EBU Urges Israel to allow foreign journalists access to Gaza
The #EBU calls on the #Israeli government to unblock access to #Gaza for foreign journalists, who have been banned since October 2023. The EBU highlights the critical role of Palestinian journalists and the need for international media to support their efforts by reporting from inside Gaza. Unrestricted access is crucial for press freedom and independent reporting.
This appeal follows a similar request from the EBU last year. Israel’s participation in #Eurovision, despite restricting access to Gaza for foreign journalists, may be seen as inconsistent with the obligations of its membership. Shouldn’t this lead to KAN’s ineligibility to participate in the Eurovision, at least? You’d think that an ongoing genocide makes the absurd arrangements the EBU is insisting on seem somewhat redundant.
More than 70 media and civil society organizations, including the Associated Press, #BBC, #EBU and The New York Times, have signed an open letter urging Israel to give journalists independent access to Gaza. They highlight that no independent media access has been permitted since the start of the war, increasing pressure on local journalists and creating room for misinformation. The organizations emphasize that over 100 journalists have been killed since the war began, and those remaining face extreme deprivation.
New York, July 11, 2024—More than 70 media and civil society organizations have signed an open letter urging Israel to give journalists independent access to Gaza.
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"I have nothing to hide, so I don't see why I should care about privacy".
First, are you sure you have nothing to hide? Unless you're the most upstanding citizen who never absolutely never did anything that could be held against them, you DO have something to hide, whether you realize it or not.
Then there are things that aren't problematic for you NOW, but could become an issue in the future.
Look at how many people got flamed online for tweets or posts dating from 10 years ago. Or just look at how law evolves: you might be lucky enough to live in a country that's quite tolerant to every gender, sex, sexual orientation, skin color, religious or political views. For now. But as recent news clearly demonstrated , that's not necessarily something that's set in stone.
And finally, there's the hacking risk.
The second misconception you often hear is "privacy is already dead, don't bother, it's impossible to stay private nowadays
If you look online, you'll find a TON of ideas, guides, and videos that do just that: tell you what is private and what isn't. Privacy respecting alternatives are EVERYWHERE.
Privacy isn't dead, it's never been so alive!
The next misconception is one that's harder to dispel: "They give me great services for free, so I think the tradeoff is worth it""
If you think your privacy doesn't matter, I think you're wrong, but you are entitled to your opinion and you have every right to consider your data a good deal in exchange for free online services.
But let's consider this for a moment. First, the services aren't free. The price for these services is your data. And another thing to consider: you could get great services elsewhere, that do the same thing, would take you a few days to learn, and can also be free of charge.
"The cloud is just someone else's computer"
Of course, if you store your files on a company's server, then yes, they're stored on a computer that doesn't belong to you. That's actually true. But there's a huge gap between storing these files on a datacenter, and people in that datacenter being able to access everything.
While Google, Microsoft, or Apple might parse everything that gets into their servers, that doesn't mean it's true of every company. A lot of companies offer end to end encryption, which means that your data leaves your computer encrypted, and arrives on the server in the same form, never being legible by anyone in the process. Or you can have your own cloud stored on your own computer.
For me, it was perhaps simple-scan, a very simple and efficient GUI to scan documents. I used it with my Brother printer / scanner and it works like a charm. Especially since I do not scan stuff often, so a program with more complex UI would have the effect that I forget how to use it until the next time.
Out of curiosity, what is it you use it for? I pretty much only use it for SMS, for which it is kinda janky and unstable. Doesn't always get contact names, doesn't load everything from conversations, misses messages that I sent or that were sent to me, crashes if I scroll too fast, etc. I have Connect installed just to use SMS (cause I hate typing on my phone keyboard), but I'm honestly not even sure what the base software does.
I really like LocalSend as well, but it’s very inconsistent with me. I think it has to do with one device being on a VPN, but I’m not totally sure. Basically I have some “one way” connections where one device can see and send to the one connected to a VPN but not the other way around. Is there some way I can specify LocalSend connections to ignore the VPN? I’m on NixOS and installed LocalSend in my user package declarations in my Nix config.
I had the same thing on Bazzite just with the local network, not a VPN.
I believe it has to do with the firewall. You have to open the port both incoming and outgoing for 53317.
But you literally have to be on the same network, so for example if both devices are on the same local network (hence local in the name) and your phone is on a VPN but your computer is not on a VPN, then it won't work.
It should work if you wireguard into your local network remotely so that both devices are on the same LAN, however, then that won't work anyway because you have to have physical access to the device to accept the transfer (you could probably use a remote desktop to do that, but then it is getting complicated)
Microsoft Edge was a recent surprise. It's surprising both that Microsoft would create it and that any Linux users would run it. Since its Chromium based, there should be no need for developers to test Edge separately.
I convinced my work to let me use linux on their laptop. They sent me instructions for setup. One of them was to install Microsoft Defender, had a link to the Ubuntu package and everything. Blew my mind.
I don't know, but my guess is it might still be able to detect some cross-platform malware signs and detect malware intended for Windows on Linux machines (e.g. I can download a PDF that is harmless on my machine, but if I reupload and a Windows user downloads it, I've spread malware regardless). IIRC ClamAV is sometimes used to check files on an email server, often looking for Windows exploits being sent through the server.
So gaming on Linux is obviously amazing now, but back in 2006 or so when I started using it, it was less than great. I probably tried every single game in the Ubuntu repos and Neverball entertained the hell out of me.
I spent hours rolling this shiny ball around. I loved Marble Madness on NES as a kid, so it was a natural fit.
A close second was Freeciv, as I had also grown up with a copy of Civilization.
I think we're entering the age where "lone shooters" will increasingly target executives and politicians instead of malls and schools, and it's going to be interesting to watch the rhetoric evolve.
They made it so easy to get guns. They encourage men especially to take violent approaches to their perceived problems.
I hope you're right I don't really support going around shooting people either way, but it'd be great if little kids could stop being the most likely target when people inevitably break
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Is there a utility for Linux servers that automatically prunes /var/log and /var/cache when disk space gets low? I've got logrotate installed and working. Still running out of disk space on one of our servers.
Teams responsible for preparing and launching Artemis II at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are set to begin a series of integrated tests to get ready for the mission. With the upper stage of the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) integrated with other elements of the rocket, engineers are set to start the tests […]
The Hamas Movement confirmed on Wednesday evening that it is making significant efforts to end the brutal war on the Gaza Strip, the latest of which is reaching a framework agreement with US envoy Steve Witkoff.
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Let's begin with the GNU General Public License. The original GPL was created by Richard Stallman in 1989. It's what we call a copyleft license: all modifications made have to be redistributed under the same terms.
The GPL generally gives you the right to download and use, modify, and redistribute the code using the license, without any restrictions.
A lot of projects use the GPL, like the Linux kernel, most GNU software, Wordpress, Notepad++, or Git. Also, any project under the GPL can be sold, by the original creator, or anyone else, whether they modified the code or not, but the person who bought that software has every right to redistribute the code for free themselves.
Another much used license is the MIT license, with about 31% of FOSS projects using it in 2021. It's been created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, and it's also a free software license, that grants you the rights to copy, modify, merge, or distribute the code.
It's a very permissive license, much more flexible than the GPL, as it doesn't restrict what you can do with the code you're using, there is no copyleft or copyright included, so you can include code licensed under the MIT license in your proprietary software, and not redistribute your changes
The MIT license is used in some form or another by a LOT of projects, like the X11 display server, .Net Core, Angular, React, Node.js or jQuery.
On to the Apache license, also used a lot, by 14% of FOSS projects in 2021.
The Apache license is some form of middle ground between the GPL and the MIT license. It grants you all the free software freedoms of downloading, using, modifying, distributing, and selling software using the license, whether it's for personal, internal or commercial use.
The Apache license isn't a copyleft license like the GPL, which means your modifications don't have to use the Apache License, BUT the original work must still be published under the Apache license, and every modification has to be labeled clearly.
The Apache license is used by Android, the Apache HTTP server, Kubernetes, or the Open 3D Engine.
Then we have the BSD License. It was created by the Berkeley Source Distribution project, known as BSD, originally in 1969. There are multiple variants, but most grant the same freedoms to download, use, modify, redistribute the software, as long as the copyright notice and license are included.
The BSD license doesn't force any modification to be distributed under the terms of the BSD license.
But licences don't only apply to code. You can also license your creative work, like a book, a video, a drawing, any form of photo, or art, basically anything you create can be covered by a license. And one of the most well known and used is the Creative Commons.
There are 6 types of that license:
First, you have the basic "Attribution". Then you have the Share Alike license, the Non derivative license, the Non Commercial license, the Non commercial Share Alike, and the Non Commercial, share alike, non derivative license.
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After a decade of searching, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere Volatile Evolution) mission has, for the first time, reported a direct observation of an elusive atmospheric escape process called sputtering that could help answer longstanding questions about the history of water loss on Mars. Scientists have known for a long time, through an abundance of evidence, […]
J. L. Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong adlı kitabında ahlaki değerlerin nesnelliğine karşı meşhur “tuhaflık argümanını” öne sürer. Argümanın hem metafiziksel bir yönü hem de epistemolojik bir yönü vardır. Mackie şöyle yazar:
Eğer nesnel değerler olsaydı, o zaman bunlar evrendeki her şeyden tamamen farklı, çok garip türden varlıklar, nitelikler veya ilişkiler olurlardı. Buna bağlı olarak, eğer onların farkında olsaydık, bu diğer her şeyi bilmek için kullandığımız sıradan yollardan tamamen farklı bir ahlaki algı veya sezgi yetisi aracılığıyla gerçekleşmek zorunda olurdu. (s. 38)
Mackie’nin iddiası ne nesnel değerler gibi tuhaf varlıklara ne de garip, özel bir ahlaki bilgi yetisine inanmak için iyi bir nedene sahip olmadığımız yönündedir. Değerleri, dünyadaki belirli olaylara verdiğimiz öznel tepkiler açısından analiz ederek ahlak ile ilgili açıklanması gereken her şeyi açıklayabiliriz. Ockham’ın usturası da bu yaklaşımı alternatifine kıyasla, alternatifin “tuhaflığı” nedeniyle, desteklemektedir.
Doğal olarak Mackie’nin yanıldığını düşünsem de yine de “değer” kelimesini bu bağlamda sevmiyorum. “Değer”, biri için neyin değerli olduğunu veya değerli kılınmış olduğunu ima ettiğinden, “nesnel değerlerden” bahsetmek gerçekten garip geliyor. X, birisinin ona değer verdiği ölçüde “değere” sahipse, o zaman birinin mantıken X’e değer vermesi gerektiğini söylesek bile, onun değer sahibi olma durumu bize bağlı görünüyor. Ve bu durumda, en azından, değeri olan ama hiçbir şekilde bizim değer vermemize bağlı olmadan değer sahibi olan bir şey fikrinin kulağa neden “tuhaf” geldiği kesinlikle anlaşılabilirdir.
John Leslie Mackie (1917- 1981) Söylenmesi gereken şey, iyilik ve kötülüğün dünyanın nesnel özellikleri olduğudur. Bazı standart örneklerimi kullanırsak, kalın ve derin kökleri olan bir ağaç iyi bir ağaçken zayıf ve hastalıklı kökleri olan bir ağaç kötü bir ağaçtır; dört bacağı olan ve koşuşturup fındık toplayan bir sincap, bu anlamda iyi bir sincap iken, bir bacağı eksik olan veya fındık toplama arzusu olmayan bir sincap kötü bir sincaptır; bir cetvelle yavaşça ve dikkatli bir şekilde çizilen bir Öklid üçgeni iyi iken, eğimli bir şekilde çizilen bir Öklid üçgeni kötü bir üçgendir (örnekler çoğaltılabilir). Ana fikir, bir türün iyi veya kötü bir örneğinin, türün özünü veya doğasını daha az veya daha fazla uygun bir şekilde örneklendirebilen bir şey oluşudur. Bu tek başına ahlaki iyiliği veya kötülüğü gerektirmez, fakat rasyonel hayvanların kendine özgü rasyonelliğini ve özgür iradesini işin içine kattığımız zaman ahlaki iyilik ve kötülük de işin içine dahil olur. (Hikâyenin tamamı için Aquinas’ın 5. bölümüne bakınız.)
Bununla birlikte, bunu metafiziksel olarak anlamlandırabilmek için, çoğu modern filozofun elbette desteklemeyeceği, Aristotelesçi biçimsel ve nihai nedenler gibi bir şeye ihtiyacımız vardır. Ve bence bu, Mackie’nin argümanının birçok çağdaş okuyucuya neden güçlü göründüğünü anlayabilmek adına çok önemlidir. Tartışma sırasında açıkça söylenmeyen şeyler de söylenenler kadar önemlidir. Ve söylenmeyen şey, “nesnel” doğal dünyanın esasen Galileo, Descartes ve halefleri tarafından tanıtılan anti-teleolojik, anti Aristotelesçi “mekanistik” bir şekilde anlaşılması gerektiğidir. (Bu entelektüel devrim hakkındaki hikâyenin tamamı için The Last Superstition’a bakın. Elbette bunu blogda da defalarca kez tartıştım.)
Paradigmatik olarak gerçek olan şeylerin, fiziğin yöntemleriyle araştırılabilecek şeyler olduklarını savunduğunuzu düşünün. Yani maddi dünyanın katı tahmin ve kontrole duyarlı olan, tamamen niceliksel yönlerinin ve matematiksel bir tasvirinin gerçek olan şeylerin paradigmatik örneklerini kapsayabildiğini düşünün. Renk, ses, koku, tat, ısı, soğukluk ve genel olarak niteliksel özellikler, sağduyunun düşündüğü şekilde nesnel gerçekliğin özellikleri değil, nesnel gerçeklik algımızın özellikleridir. Orada var olan yalnızca, yüzey yansıtma özellikleri, sıkıştırma dalgaları ve benzeri şeyler cinsinden yeniden tanımlanmış renk, ses ve benzeri özelliklerdir. Bu görüşe göre ne teleoloji ne de hedefe yönelmişlik (Aristotelesçi nihai neden) dünyanın gerçek bir özelliğidir. Ereklere ve amaçlara sahip olmamıza rağmen (ya da öyle görünür) fizikçe tanımlanmış hiçbir şey bunlara sahip değildir. Dünyada gördüğümüz türden şeyler arasındaki sabit ayrımlar (Aristotelesçilerin maddesel biçim olarak adlandırdıklarındaki farkı yansıtan farklılıklar) esasında yoktur. Su, taş, ağaçlar, kurtçuklar, köpekler, kediler ve insanlar nihayetinde aynı şeyin nispeten yüzeysel olarak farklı şekillerde düzenlenmiş halinden başka bir şey değildir. Kısaca, dünyanın doğru tanımının, tür bakımından birbirinden farklı; nitelikler ve anlamlar bakımından zengin olarak algıladığımız her şeyin aynı kuru tabakanın devinim halindeki, sonu veya amacı olmayan, ancak şuursuzca hareket eden renksiz, kokusuz, sessiz, tatsız, anlamsız parçacıklarının yanıltıcı görüntüsü olduğu antik atomcu düşüncenin modern varyasyonu tarafından verildiğini varsayalım.
Nagel’in Mind and Cosmos’u üzerine yazdığım yazı dizisinde belirttiğim gibi, çağdaş natüralistler genellikle fiziğin bize doğal dünya hakkındaki bütün gerçekleri vermediğini kabul etmeye isteklidirler, gerçi ben zaten böyle bir imtiyazda bulunarak ima edilenin -natüralistler bunu fark etseler de etmeseler de- Aristotelesçi, düalist, idealist, ya da bir başka natüralist olmayan madde fikrinin sonuçta doğru olduğunun kabulü olduğunu öne sürmüştüm. Öyle olsa bile, çoğu natüralist (Nagel’in kendisi bir istisnadır) indirgeyici görüş karşıtlarına vermeye hazır oldukları diğer tavizler ne olursa olsun, Aristotelesçi nihai nedenlerden ve benzer kavramlardan kaçınmaya kesinlikle isteklidir.
Bununla birlikte, geniş bir ölçüde natüralist metafiziğin ışığında bakıldığında, değer, özellikle iyilik ve kötülük dahil olmak üzere, gerçekten de çok “tuhaf” görünmeye mecburdur. İyi ve kötü bir ağaç veya sincap örneği arasındaki fark bile, dünyanın nesnel bir özelliği olarak algılandığı zaman tuhaf görünecektir. Çünkü buradaki iyilik veya kötülük, indirgenemez derecede teleolojik ve özcüdür. Sırf bu indirgenemez belirgin türden şeylerin işaret ettiği amaçlar yüzünden hastalıklı kökler, bir ağacı ve bir bacağın eksikliği, bir sincabı kötü bir örnek yapar. Her ikisi de nihayetinde “gerçekten” aynı türden şeyler ve içinde bulunacak hiçbir teleolojinin olmadığı bir tür şey ise- diyelim ki ikisi de “sahiden” amaçsız, sadece hareket halindeki parçacıklarsa- o zaman farklı “ağaç benzeri” ve “sincap benzeri” varlıklar, tam olarak doğanın nesnel özellikleri değildir. Onlar olsa olsa faydalı kurgulardır. İyiliğin ve kötülüğün -renk, ses, koku vb gibi, teleoloji ve anlam gibi- bu dünyada gerçekten kendisinde olduğu gibi gördüğü bir şeyden ziyade, zihnin dış, doğal dünyaya yansıttığı bir şey olarak kabul edilmesi çok daha makul görünmektedir.
Benim görüşüme göre Mackie’nin iddiasını etkili bir şekilde çürütmek, öncelikle, dolaylı olarak kabul ettiği natüralizmi veya bilimciliği çürütmeyi gerektirir. Bunu yapmanın özellikle temelde Aristotelesçi bir doğa felsefesine geri dönmeyi gerektirdiğini savunuyorum. Bunun dışındaki bütün görüşler, Mackie’nin argümanı güçlü olmaya devam edeceği için nesnel gerçeklik hakkında bildiğimiz başka her şeyden büyük ölçüde farklı ve kopuk görünen “değeri” – daha doğrusu iyiliği ve kötülüğü- kabul etmeyi bırakmaya mecburdur.
İşte Grisez ve Finnis’in geleneksel doğal hukuk teorisyenlerinin Aristotelesçi biçimsel ve nihai nedenlere olan bağlılığından büyük ölçüde kaçınan, Humecu “olgu/değer ikiliğini” kabul eden, ve göz önünde bulundurulan insan doğasının metafiziğinden ziyade, doğal hukuk teorisini, failin öznel bakış açısından ele alınan pratik akıl açıklamasına dayandırmaya çalışan “yeni doğal hukuk teorisi” nin etkisizliğini gördüğümüz önemli bir alan. Bu görüş maçı Mackie’nin kazanmasına neden olmasa bile, bunu kıl payı yapabilmektedir. Şimdi, yeni doğal hukukçu Robert P. George’un, In Defense of Natural Law adlı kitabının birinci bölümünde Mackie’ye verdiği yanıtı düşünün. Okuduğum kadarıyla, George “tuhaflık argümanına” karşı iki temel argüman sunuyor. Birincisi, Mackie ve benzer düşünen düşünürler bu özelliklerin en azından bazılarının gerçekliğine dolaylı olarak bağlı olsalar da gerçekliğin eşit derecede “tuhaf” görünen ve doğal dünyayla bağdaştırılması zor görünen başka yönlerinin olduğunu belirtmektir – George bilinç, anlam ve nedensellikten; ve mantıkta doğruluğun ve geçerliliğin normatif statüsünden bahsetmektedir.
Şimdi George’a natüralist bir bakış açısından bakıldığı zaman, bu özelliklerin iyilik ve kötülükten daha az “tuhaf” olmadığı hususunda katılıyorum. Ancak, Mackie’yi çürütmek için salt bunu belirtmek yeterliymiş gibi buna dikkat çekmek doğru olmaz. Çünkü Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong adlı kitabında bu tür bir itirazı bizzat kendisi değerlendirir ve buna bir cevabı olduğunu düşünür (George’un değinmediği bir cevap). Cevabı, nesnel değerler kadar “tuhaf” görünen herhangi bir fenomenin, günün sonunda ya Mackie’nin metafiziksel saygınlığı olduğunu kabul edeceği bir şekilde analiz edilebileceğini, ya da bu olmazsa onların da nesnel değerlerle birlikte tuhaflık argümanının hedefleri arasına dahil edilebileceğini öne sürmektir (s. 39).
Alex Rosenberg’in The Atheist’s Guide to Reality’sinin okuyucularının bildiği gibi, bazı çağdaş filozofların natüralizmle bağdaşan bir görüş savunabilmek için fazlasıyla “tuhaf” olarak niteleyip yok saymaya istekli olabilecekleri şeylerin neredeyse hiçbir sınırı yoktur. Rosenberg’in kitabı hakkındaki bir dizi gönderimde, sonuçta ortaya çıkan konumun tutarsız olduğunu uzun uzadıya tartıştım, ancak bilinç, niyetlilik ve benzer şeylere dair indirgemeci ve eleyici açıklamalarla ilgili sorunlara işaret etmek yeterli değildir. Bilinçli deneyimlerin, kasıtlılığın, değerin ve benzerlerinin diğer yönlerden natüralistik olarak açıklanabilen varlıklar olan insanlara iliştirildiği Dekartçı bir düalizmi benimsemek bile yeterli değildir. (Gerçekten de, yeni doğal hukukçular Dekartçı düalizmin ne kadar sorunlu olduğu hakkında konuşmaya devam etmektedir.) Tek bir gezegendeki küçük bir doğa tarihi şeridinden ayrı olarak tüm doğal dünyanın tamamen yukarıda açıklanan doğanın mekanik açıklamasıyla açıklanabileceğinin arsayımına dahi izin verdiğiniz sürece, büyük ölçüde farklı türden özelliklerin -nesnel değerlerinonları kavramak için yeni bir bilişsel yetenekle birlikte aniden, çok yakın jeolojik zamanda tek bir türde, ortaya çıktığını varsaymanız “tuhaf” görünecektir. Nesnel değeri bir tür bilişsel yanılsama olarak ele almak, genel arka plan metafiziği göz önüne alındığında daha makul görünecektir.
George’un Mackie’ye verdiği ikinci yanıt da aynı dezavantajdan muzdariptir. George, nesnel ahlaki değerin varlığının, yaşadığımız ahlaki deneyimimizi daha iyi anlamlandırmasından yola çıkan bir “en iyi açıklama çıkarımı argümanı” önermektedir. Bu doğrudur, ancak genel olarak natüralist bir metafizik kesin kabul edilirse, kendi başına çok az etkiye sahiptir. Çünkü natüralist her zaman ahlaki tecrübemizin, hesaba katılması gereken tüm verilerin yalnızca küçük bir bölümünü sağladığını söylemektedir. Ve eğer doğal düzenin geri kalanını yukarıda özetlenen mekanik şeylerle bir şekilde açıklanabiliyorsa ve nesnel değerlerin varlığı ve onları bilme özel yetisinin işleyişi bu resimde tamamen gizemli görünüyorsa, o halde eldeki verilerin tamamını ele alırsak bu şeylerin varlıkları aleyhinde bir sonuç ortaya çıkmaktadır. Mackie’nin yazdığı gibi:
Ahlaki nitelikleri, doğal niteliklerin tespit edilmeleriyle nedensel olarak ilişkilenebilecek, söz konusu doğal niteliğin nedensel olarak etki edebileceği türden öznel tepkiler olarak görmemiz halinde durum ne kadar da basit ve anlamlandırılabilir bir hal alırdı? (p. 41)
Zihni, anlamı ve değeri doğal düzene düzgün bir şekilde uydurmak, sadece insan doğasını değil, genel olarak doğal düzeni yeniden düşünmeyi gerektirir. Özellikle, Grisez ve Finnis’in kesip attığı NeoSkolastik anlayışın dahil olduğu doğa felsefesindeki neo-Aristotelesçi projeye geri dönüşü gerektirir. Nagel, metafizikteki neo-Aristotelesçi yaklaşımıyla bunu dolaylı olarak kabul etmektedir. Değişim ve nedensellik gibi beşerî olmayan dünyadaki şeyleri doğru bir şekilde anlayamız için her halükârda doğal düzeni bağımsız bir şekilde yeniden düşünmemiz gerektiğinden (Aristotelesçilerin iddia ettiği gibi) Aristotelesçi kavramlara başvurmamız zaten gereklidir. Böyle bir yeniden düşünmenin haricinde, nesnel değeri onaylayanlar, Mackie’nin Josie Cotton tarzı meydan okumasına her zaman açık olacaklardır.
Edward Feser– “Mackie’s argument from queerness”, (Erişim Tarihi: 23.10.2020), Erişim Kaynağı: Mackie’s argument from queerness
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Sauf qu'entre conscience et conscience religieuse il y a un océan. Ma conscience n'a que très très peu de rapport avec la moraline prônée par les religions.
je n(ai rien contre Dick, bine au contraire. C'est ton choix de citation que je critique.
En philo, Dieu ça ne veut plus rien dire de religieux. C'est un machin pour dire un rapport spirituel au réel. Et je n'ai pas choisi cette citation de Dick. J'ai choisi une des citations de la vidéo. Cela dit, je l'aime bien. Mais je ne mets en effet rien de religieux sous le nom de Dieu. Si tu ne veux pas dire conscience, tu peux dire énergie. Celle de l'anti-enthropie qui resiste, un temps, à sa dispersion.
Je n’ai rien contre la conscience, qui ne signifie ni dieu, ni énergie, pour moi. Par contre, dire que dieu n’a aucun rapport avec la religion… cela a rapport certain avec une croyance religieuse. Sans religion, le mot n’existerait pas Quand à l’entropie, si elle se limitait à l’humanité sans détruire tout ce qui l’entoure, je n’aurais rien contre.
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Hey @WeirdWriter. Thanks for the re-blog, moron. It's appreciated. It's not about not caring or thinking it's anti-accessibility. You are a presumptuous little twit, and really should stop assuming things when you apparently don't know your head from your asshole. I get it; you're an author, so you think your opinion counts more than everyone else's. It doesn't. I'm guessing your books likely suck as badly as your personality does. Thanks for the laugh though. It's appreciated. I'd try to explain why I'm okay with AI, but I get the feeling you're not smart enough to understand, so I won't waste my time. You're a hilarious little idiot though, so you've got that going for you.
It is about caring. Just because you and I are blind, that doesn’t mean we live in a blind vacuum. Other social justice issues matter.I forgot to thank you for giving me a platform to speak about broader Social issues, so thank you for giving me the opportunity to educate others!
LOL...No offense, but you seem like a nobody, so won't really be educating anyone. Most people on here, Blind or sighted, I've seen on other platforms for years. You're just some random author whose post I saw and happen to disagree with completely. Keep up with the times. AI is the future, like it or not. Yes, human narration is superior, and I'll always take it if I can get it, but I won't turn my nose up at an AI-generated audio book. If these people supposedly care about sustaining themselves and making a living, they'd find a way for up-and-coming authors to hire them. I do have a major problem with AI being used in certain things, such as music that's actually for sale...Nothing wrong with using AI platforms to create tunes, share them among friends, and play them. But AI of artists who are dead or can no longer sing, I can't get behind. Even the Randy Travis thing, which did get his blessing, was weird to me. But again, we don't get to decide who uses AI and what they use it for. That's where you come off as a presumptuous, egotistical ass not to be taken seriously...Acting as if you're some authority on the subject and as if your opinion should be taken as gospel from the world at large.
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Honour to the Combative Memory of Snizana Paraskevaidou
On the 3rd of May 2025, at 5 am in the morning, Snizana Paraskevaidou lost her life because of the premature detonation of an explosive device she was placing outside a branch of the National Bank of Greece in Thessaloniki. The tragic death of this comrade lead to a widespread media terror-lust and so far, two arrests and the search of the cell of imprisoned anarchist comrade Fotis Tziotzis. We recognise and remember Snizana as a fighter and a heroine who died in battle, whose name and life is not forgotten.
In the underbelly of Thessaloniki, life is a brutal struggle. It was for Snizana who came from a Georgian background that emanated from the working-class districts of the city, that emanates the everyday war that we all face there, to climb out of the poverty of the streets. She had the courage to make the fear change sides against the state, against the cops and the wealthy.
Our memories of her are of a female comrade with strength who we met when she was supporting the comrades in courts and in prisons or the moments on the barricades where she emboldened all of us. She was there in Exarcheia rioting until we dropped exhausted in countless battles over a decade. One moment we will always remember is her alongside us all armed to the teeth on the roof of the Thessaloniki university for another 6th December.
It was no surprise to us when she was imprisoned for possession of a kalashnikov. She knew how to do the essential, how to take the brutality of life and weaponise it. She had the ability to see with open eyes, and she always had time for others, she always cared for fellow comrades. Snizana always had an ear for the next moment of attack, which was directed by her rage against this existent system. An insumountable rage that never compromises, that never snitches, that goes face-to-face with authority with a dagger gripped in the teeth. Even if she fell in the act, she will live on in us.
We didn’t see her for some years. We parted two ways on those streets where we met but we will never let her be forgotten because the insurrection continues. She has inspired us with the same rage to continue it.
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in reply to MountainStateNomad • • •If you're interested in the Indo-Europeans, you might consider following Razib Kahn, AKA the "Brown White Supremacist", because he might have claimed intelligence is inheritable.
razibkhan.com/
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You know what's funny? I have a friend from Sri Lanka. Dark skinned, islander looking dude.
Many years ago , we'd be smoking blunts and bullshitting, and he'd get into how the Indians were a bunch of 3rd world savages (neighboring nations rivalry). Show me video of street shitters and how they pile on top of the trains like rats. LMAO 🤣
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MountainStateNomad
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Some mix kid would go by and he'd say shit like, "Man those white genes are strong AF, huh? It's no wonder you guys civilized the world."
Back then, I was like huh?
Then he'd go into how, back home, when a half white person bred with a full dark native, their kids would always come out looking light. Never an oddball, extra dark kid. He (or their culture?) perceive it as dominant vs non-dominant traits, but on a genetic level. That whites are dominant, all the way down to the DNA
MountainStateNomad
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I had never really thought about it much before then, but the reality is, if it wasn't for that brown skinned Sri Lankan, I may not have ever realized that we Proto Indos European ancestors have always been the high culture of the world.
Pacific NW Viking
in reply to MountainStateNomad • • •Indians, Sri Lankans, Pakistanis and Bangladeshi love having pissing contests.
And to complicate things, there are Bengalis from India and Bengalis from Bangladesh, as well as Tamils both in Sri Lanka and India.
I remember an Indian restaurant owner saying: "Even the crows cover their assholes when flying over Pakistan", referring to the widespread sexual abuse of boys.
MountainStateNomad
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To explain what he called "the third world mentality", he told me this:
Say you brought in a complete structure kit, with every last thing you would need to build a brand new home or whatever. Tools, equipment, material
Instead of building the house, what would probably happen is that everyone would run in and grab some wood and shit, take it home, then use it to expand their shack. Equipment would be crudely dismantled and pilfered for bits and bobs
MountainStateNomad
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He said that most of the island doesn't even have real roads. There are a few, but most are old British mining rail paths that you can barely make it across in the dry seasons.
The few bigger cities are kinda 1st world, but a few miles out, you're lucky to have power on a reliable basis
He said that it's not that they're all too poor to live better, it's the culture, and nobody cares to try. It's the third world mentality. Like when you tribes wearing modern t shirts.
Pacific NW Viking
in reply to MountainStateNomad • • •Apropos Indians:
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nag sy ni darta
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