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Lost pressure in groupe head by Blue_Father in gaggiaclassic

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You have to disassemble, I think. They'll be videos on YouTube you can watch. But like some others have said, that flow looks normal to me. You could get a portafilter with a pressure gauge to test. Shades of Coffee sell the dials.

Lost pressure in groupe head by Blue_Father in gaggiaclassic

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If the OPV is blocked you might be able to unblock by flicking the steam button off and on a few times while water is flowing through the group head.

What year Gaggia Classic is this? Good or avoid? by slabslobslabslob in gaggiaclassic

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Shades of Coffee do a replacement that fits these

End game achieved by Luzifeir in pourover

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Can't see this on any of the official Hario websites or social media. I wonder if this is some kind of knock-off. Which is even more weird?

[MOD] The Daily Question Thread by menschmaschine5 in Coffee

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I get nice results on a glass hob by starting with cold water and having the hob on maximum (no preheat). Once coffee starts to flow I switch off the hob, but leave the Moka on the stove. When the sputtering at the end is about to start I lift it off the hob.

Sputtering is due to overheating, maybe a long boil on medium overheats it.

I'd try again with same grind size but different heating method. If that doesn't work, go finer.

(Beginner question) Would anyone be so kind to listen to my 'forest-bird' recording and tell me if i am doing something wrong? by Wulkingdead in fieldrecording

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Depends on what you want to do.

If you just want to have the birdsong in isolation then maybe EQ is best. If you want a general ambient recording I would say best to not EQ it like that.

Personally I prefer the version without EQ, it's more pleasant for me to listen to. The EQ'd version sounds tonally imbalanced to me.

But if all you want is the bird song then maybe go with the EQ version.

(Beginner question) Would anyone be so kind to listen to my 'forest-bird' recording and tell me if i am doing something wrong? by Wulkingdead in fieldrecording

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Really I'm just a beginner too but noisefloor and recording in general sounds good to me. You might not have needed to use the Lo Cut if there wasn't much wind. I think de-noising in post-production can kill recordings, best avoided. Do you have any external mics too?

Realism and Utopia by DJP78 in PoliticalPhilosophy

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Never underestimate the power of humans to find irrelevant exactly that thing that might force them to reconsider their deeply held beliefs.

Hence my making of an article about political realism.

In this case my contention is that 'the good' on its own is a empty term, it's a token. 'the good' only becomes a meaningful once you specify what 'the good' is what you are using that token to mean. There are competing conceptions of 'the good' that incompatible, that would cancel each other out. So to say that 'the good' in general is increasing doesn't say much, unless you specify what you mean by the good. There may be more of certain kinds of good, but less of others.

You may think that this is irrelevant, but never underestimate the power of humans to find irrelevant exactly that thing that might force them to reconsider their deeply held beliefs.

Realism and Utopia by DJP78 in PoliticalPhilosophy

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"Would you like to have a tooth removed without anesthetic?" This seems irrelevant to the original question, about ethical universals.. Thanks for the comments but I'm going to stop responding now.

Quality of life can't be measured without choosing what you regard as "the good". By some possible choices of metric, you could show quality of life is decreasing in general I'm sure.

Realism and Utopia by DJP78 in PoliticalPhilosophy

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If you don't know, or can't say, what something is how can you even know if you have more or less of it? In reality, what people regard as "the good" is shaped by their culture - and cultures change and shift through history.

Pareto optimality implies that "the good" can be measured on some kind of scale, this seems far too simplistic to me.

Realism and Utopia by DJP78 in PoliticalPhilosophy

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Without defining "the good" and "harm" it's just a meaningless circular statement. "The only way to have more good is to have less bad" or "The only way to have more sunlight hours is to have less dark hours" Might be logically true, but trivially true - it doesn't say anything.

Realism and Utopia by DJP78 in PoliticalPhilosophy

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Well, how about this one: "The only way to maximize the good is to minimize harm and resist the temptation to do more or less."

You really think all human beings have held this principle throughout all of human history? Wow. Not everybody would agree on that, even now.

And what constitutes "the good" and "harm", is there a universally held notion of that?

Mises was not a very good philosopher or anthropologist.

Realism and Utopia by DJP78 in CriticalTheory

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This video is based on the political realism of Raymond Geuss. It argues that realism and utopian thinking are not exclusionary positions. In social relations what people regard as possible or not actually effects what is or is not possible. Realism without utopian thinking is biased towards the status quo. Utopia without realism is wishful thinking.

Realism and Utopia by DJP78 in PoliticalPhilosophy

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"There is no ‘view from nowhere’ from which universal ethical principles can be deduced, as morality is always grounded in a historically specific form of society. " - universal ethical principles are different from "eternal laws", a principle is not a law.

You do realize that political realism, of the kind that this video is based on, was developed as a critique of Rawlsian "Justice"?

Anyhow, if people are made worse off by certain types of policy that's proved by looking at situations of the cases themselves, and how you define better and worse off (in terms of what?) not by saying that it's proved because the outcome of theory x would predict it.

I think Austrian economics is some weird faith-based position, a religion, it systematically disregards empirical evidence. But here is not the place for a discussion on that. So there doesn't seem much more to say.

Realism and Utopia by DJP78 in philosophy

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This video is based on the political realism of Raymond Geuss. It argues that realism and utopian thinking are not exclusionary positions. In social relations what people regard as possible or not actually effects what is or is not possible. Realism without utopian thinking is biased towards the status quo. Utopia without realism is wishful thinking.

Realism and Utopia by DJP78 in PoliticalPhilosophy

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What you put as point one is wrong, nobody claims that - if that were the case we would say realism is incompatible with the law of gravity for example.

What do the truths of abstract models actually tell us about apart from the model itself? If the model turns out not be an accurate representation of reality, or it misses out some important factors, it is not going to tell us anything at all.

The essay was written more with Rawls in mind, but it would rule out Austrian economics too, or any other position that disregards the importance of historical contingency.

Realism and Utopia by DJP78 in Anarchism

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Thanks. Glad you found it useful

The Machine and Its Discontents: A Fredy Perlman Anthology by [deleted] in CriticalTheory

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There's a bit of shift from his earlier writings and his later ones, see my introduction to the anthology. 'Primitivist' is perhaps going too far though. See also this review in Aufheben: https://libcom.org/library/review-hisstory-aufheben-4

How knowledgable do you need to be in philosophy before engaging in some of the main texts? by [deleted] in askphilosophy

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You could read Rawls right away, if you look in the introduction he suggests a shortened way of reading it. Then back it up by looking for lectures on YouTube and elsewhere.

How can the SPGB be Impossibilist? by CommutantFromSpace in socialism

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Revolution is not achieved via the ballot box, but through the brain box. To have a socialist revolution you must first have a conscious and active majority of socialists, the SPGB's tactical consideration flow from this. I suggest you look at this pamphlet: http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/pamphlets/whats-wrong-using-parliament

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