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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 13 Jul 2015

    There should be a law that says “the moment you use ‘in the real world’ in your claim, you lose the argument. #appealtostatusquo

    6:12 AM - 13 Jul 2015
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      2. Craig Moore‏ @Shoseki 13 Jul 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral So... the only people who say "in the real world" are people appealing to the status quo? Or to contrast to digital worlds?

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 13 Jul 2015
        Replying to @Shoseki

        @Shoseki Wasn’t referring to that usage but, that too, is a fallacy — there’s only one world, digital is part of it :)

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      4. Craig Moore‏ @Shoseki 13 Jul 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral So if I say "I'm going to hunt you down and brutally destroy you", I can only be referring to real life and not an avatar in a game?

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      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 13 Jul 2015
        Replying to @Shoseki

        @Shoseki Well if you do hunt down and destroy my avatar that happens in real life :)

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      6. Craig Moore‏ @Shoseki 13 Jul 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Reality is messy and emergent, don't you think "in the real world" is to contrast to "in an ideal system".

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      7. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 13 Jul 2015
        Replying to @Shoseki

        @Shoseki Again, every time I’ve seen it used, it’s an appeal to status quo. The “ideal system” being that which is being proposed as alt.

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      2. @acb@mastodon.social‏ @andrewcb 13 Jul 2015
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        @aral To hell with the real world! *rewrites everything in Haskell*

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 13 Jul 2015
        Replying to @andrewcb

        @andrewcb :))

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      2. Lewis‏ @LewisDorigo 13 Jul 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral But, in the real world, that’s not really tenable. 😊

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 13 Jul 2015
        Replying to @LewisDorigo

        @LewisDorigo :)

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      1. Simon Harriyott  🎸‏ @harriyott 13 Jul 2015
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        @aral That really is the most patronising way to lose an argument.

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      1. Nick Kirkman‏ @NickKirkman 13 Jul 2015
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        @aral Really? Want to think about that one bit harder Aral?

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      1. Lawrence Meckan‏ @absalomedia 13 Jul 2015
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        @aral also known as "reality is defined by me" fallacy

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      1. cari machet‏ @carimachet 13 Jul 2015
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        @aral good idea except law is not a catch all and the legal field has many flaws -i am more into community agreements - raises consciousness

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      1. Martin Pilkington‏ @pilky 13 Jul 2015
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        @aral You know who else was "in the real world"? Hitler.

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