Or maybe you have a soul.
The soul is an emergent property of the mind and body interacting with the world.
Readit Newswombatmobile commented on The mystery of social behavior in octopuses hakaimagazine.com/feature... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
I changed the title from "Can We Really Be Friends with an Octopus?" to "When octopuses are social with humans, are they reaching out or simply reacting?" (the subtitle, more or less) in the hope of avoiding shallow comments like this. (A comment reacting purely to information, or lack of information, in a title is pretty much shallow by definition.)
Since that didn't work, I guess it's time to look for some more representative phrase from the article text.
Edit: ok, I've combined two phrases from the article to try to that. Commenters: please discuss the actual material now.
… in the hope of avoiding shallow comments like this.
Shallow? It’s profound.
Have you tried to respond to the question, in the human context?
wombatmobile commented on Ask HN: Why are we so at the mercy of Google and Mozilla for web browsers? · Posted by u/mattwilsonn888
> Or start a new browser project by rounding up a dozen friends who feel the same way you do and going for it.
You severely underestimate how much work needs to be done to create a new web browser.
I know the code that I and my team contributed to Mozilla was only some trivial part of the whole beast, but for us it was drawn from years of work.
And that’s the whole point.
Mozilla has made a browser. So has google. Why make them out to be bad actors for providing something that is too big for mortals to even contemplate?
Yes, actually it would be. Those are all things required to live a life that I find fulfilling.
It’s your life, your money, and your choice.
The book itself is $100. I get that it’s a scholarly work but … I find it hard to justify spending that much as someone not in the field professionally.
Would your life be better if you spent $100 on junk food, alcohol, pot, gasoline or Netflix instead?
wombatmobile commented on Dinosaur food: 100M year old foods we still eat today borischerny.com/food/2022... · Posted by u/bcherny
Soda and other beverages are also 98%+ H₂O though. By most standards even beer would count as technical grade H₂O.
Soda is 98% water and 46% sugar.
It's still significant because it speaks to people being more willing to admit to being part Native.
My father actively downplayed his 1/16th Cherokee blood quantum -- and a lot of Natives are quite vocal about hating the whole idea of blood quantum, but that's probably more than people here want to know -- and I grew up in a house in the 'burbs bought the summer I turned three with his military mortgage benefits.
In the New York and northern New Jersey suburbs 67,000 mortgages were insured by the G.I. Bill, but fewer than 100 were taken out by non-whites.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill
He never said much about his Native heritage. I think he did so to be white-passing in a world where lynchings still happened.
I am actively trying to learn about the cultural heritage I was denied apparently largely due to fear of violent white supremacists, basically.
Dismissing the interest in their heritage of people like me is just more erasure of Natives and Native culture. It actively reinforces racism in subtle ways. The subtlety helps make it insidious and hard to combat, unfortunately.
> It's still significant because it speaks to people being more willing to admit to being part Native.
More people are proud to proclaim being First Nations people.
wombatmobile commented on An open letter on E.O. Wilson's legacy razib.substack.com/p/sett... · Posted by u/leephillips
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin
wombatmobile commented on Dinosaur food: 100M year old foods we still eat today borischerny.com/food/2022... · Posted by u/bcherny
I’m a big fan of H2O.
The reason I’m posting that here is because for many years I don’t drink it. I was so used to hydrating from soda and other beverages advertised on TV I completely lost touch with plain old H2O.
Then one day I rediscovered its pure refreshing goodness. What a surprise! I savoured it and marvelled at the pureness of the way it quenched my thirst.
Water! Quenching thirst since before the dinosaurs.
Affordable. Convenient if you have a tap. Amazing on a hot day if you have a fridge and a pitcher.
Were a comment to contain new and interesting information about a profound, i.e. generic, question, that would be fine. But this is precisely what internet comments bringing up generic questions don't usually do. It's not a good fit for the genre. Someone who really has something original to say about a profound question would be better off writing an essay, or a book. Certainly not a one-liner to an internet forum.
This is so much the case, in fact, that changing the subject from a concrete topic to a more generic one is a frequent form of trolling.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Bringing this question to conscious awareness is a different category of social discourse to “What is the meaning of life”, which is not really a social question at all.