i'm trying to understand what actually makes life horrible and otherwise, which has every appearance of a profoundly and voluminously misunderstood subject i don't understand it well enough to make sweeping recommendations at this time
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Replying to @chaosprime @endlessbats
except insofar as "stop doing things that are clearly and blatantly shitting the bed" is a sweeping recommendation
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Replying to @chaosprime
that really sounds a lot like giving up and hoping we get better if that's the best you've got, I'm gonna say triaging the situation by limiting the harm people can do, or making it harder for them to do harm so it happens less often, is an extremely useful path to chart
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Replying to @endlessbats
wanting to understand the effects of your actions before you just crash in like a bull in a china shop like every other asshole before you, then practicing your innocent look about ~unintended consequences~, is not giving up
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Replying to @chaosprime @endlessbats
charting the incapacitation path is a great idea, i think people should do a lot more charting it and a lot less blithely embracing it
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Replying to @chaosprime
how are you going to learn to anticipate the consequences of action through this 無爲 path of inaction? you want to try nothing and contemplate your navel until you've decided you know more? that's not an experiment and it's not a "this would almost certainly help," it's nnnothin
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Replying to @endlessbats
developing understanding is action, not inaction not breaking the eggs until you've read the recipe is not desistence this is why i tire of revolutionaries
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Replying to @chaosprime
but what is the process you're using to develop understanding, and why aren't you reading the recipe of "other nations that don't have this same problem," which would be the answer to so many of the US' problems
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Replying to @endlessbats
observing phenomena, trying to develop models of how they work, seeing if the models can predict outcomes, studying other people's models, shit like that. the usual because that recipe smells rotten
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Replying to @chaosprime
that's the weirdest brand of American exceptionalism I've encountered this week good luck, I guess, it seems like your thought process on this matter is too abstract to be nailed down to specific examples so idk if there's any point in continuing to press you on it
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