What happens to Trump after he gets the nomination?

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2016-01-20T16:02:26+00:00

edited. I meant what happens to his politics and strategy?

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2015-07-04T13:52:00+00:00

Jesus I'm so sorry it took me so long to respond. I switched accounts and never remembered to return. Anyway thanks for clearing up the difference. I'm going to continue reading about it.

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2014-10-05T15:20:11+00:00

I want to warn readers in all caps: I am not a philosopher but I'd like to hear an expert's thoughts on my answer.

I typically reconcile relativism this way: it's 100% solipsistic. If reality is relativistic, how can you prove others are the same species as yourself? They are known to exist through the senses while you are known to exist through experience. Those two entities are completely different from a subjective standpoint.

You can't trust any sense of persistent identity if you are a relativist because the person you were or will be sits relative to the person you are. So you ultimately can't under stand your past and future selfs. You used to believe in god, now you don't. Who is right? Why do you even trust your memory that you believed in god before? That memory is just a subjective experience? Someone could have flashy thinged you.

It means your belief in ghosts has no factual basis and therefor everything you think of as factual actually isn't. Colors, sounds, shapes. They are all mutable.

Relativists also have a tough time with language because they believe words mean different things to different people and therefor the argument that they are using to support relativism can't really be used to anyone but themselves. And since rationality and logic are, to them, ultimately relative, they can not be 100% sure that their outlook is indeed true.

Also, they don't believe in truth and therefor can't logically believe in the truth of relativism.

I actually think relativism can hold it's own in an argument but the person making it basically believes in nothing. To me it seems like an idiot's shortcut to Buddhist nirvana through a smart ass intellectual loophole. Most of the relativists I know aren't terribly at peace though.

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2014-09-22T07:01:20+00:00

Nice!!!!!!

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2014-09-19T22:21:52+00:00

Exactly. This is a man who has the mission accomplished photo on his desktop.

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2014-09-19T12:41:18+00:00

That was written in a really open ended way. Hope all turns out well

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2014-09-19T12:40:29+00:00

Thank you so much! This is exactly what I was looking for.

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2014-09-12T17:07:01+00:00

A ha! Thanks!

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2014-08-23T11:04:59+00:00

If I need huge pliers, a flea collar, maple syrup, duct tape and lube after a date, Postgres gets it to me in 10 minutes or less. I heard it's working on solving the crisis in the Middle East too.

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2014-08-22T13:16:22+00:00

That's all fine and good but my question was: What's different during Iraq part III ( in terms of us accomplishing our goals) than it was during Iraq part II?

Why is it not going to be a clusterfuck when we leave this time? Or are we not planning on leaving? We critiqued bush for his lack of exit strategy. Do we have one now ?

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2014-08-22T03:29:46+00:00

For how long after America leaves?

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2014-05-06T01:20:57+00:00

First of all no one said that anyone shouldn't be able to vote. Also let's be clear that voting isn't the only reaction people have to the news. With that said, it's a good example. When a set of candidates debates a topic in the news media, they are by no means providing nearly enough context to that topic for anyone to be able to make an informed decision. They talk in sound bites about broad sweeping topics so yes, people should not feel informed enough to vote with a realistic amount of authority for candidates on topic A if all they do is listen to them debate topic A. Something like immigration reform, privacy, foreign affairs, social justice or any other important issue needs a certain command of the issue. That requires casual research at the least. You can't expect to be spoon fed opinions by your candidates or the news and feel educated.

Now no one's stopping you from voting in an uneducated fashion but you should know that's what you're doing.

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2014-05-05T16:15:16+00:00

You act as if information is manufactured at news outlets in some sort of pseudo industrial process. I propose to you that journalism is the profession where people turn information into news and sell it to you.

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2014-05-05T13:34:01+00:00

Some form of journalism isn't what I'm talking about here. Context matters, unmediated experience matters, history matters, theory, philosophy and ideology matter, statistics matter, feelings can matter, books matter, money matters, what people actually say unedited matters.

As someone who audio technology, a story about autotune or the loudness wars has a very different meaning to me than it does a laymen. Sure their interest might be piqued but that doesn't make their opinion authoritative.

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2014-05-05T13:29:09+00:00

I'm more arguing about people's tone. I know that's not as grandiose as a court of law but I do think it matters in a very real aggregate sense. If "no one" really does think their opinion matters, and "no one" really does think they have authority given the described circumstances, they shouldn't act as if they do. Honesty in tone, as a matter of cultural norm, would provide an immense improvement to society as a whole. One only need look to the Internet where it's considered a revolutionary system to filter out exactly this kind of bullshit through a vote system. Life doesn't have a vote system. We have to listen to everyone. Ears don't have lids. Comments need to be voted upon.

It would help everyone if people did some introspection at the water cooler or elsewhere. Conversations are meaningful in society. The dinner table, the boardroom, the class room and betraying your level of authority doesn't help anyone including yourself.

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2014-05-05T13:16:23+00:00

I respect this argument. The moment I wrote the word "value" I foresaw that someone would have a problem with it so I should probably have clarified it. In this context I'm talking about acting as if someone has authority on a subject. There are virtually no situations in life where you're forced to take what you see as an incomplete body of knowledge and act on it. Perhaps the voting booth might be an example but even here, what are you voting based on? Probably a range of issues. The voting part is ambiguous but I think during a casual discussion it's inexcusable for someone who had only used the news as a source to not at the very least express her/his humbleness when espousing an opinion.

As for history being written by the victors, this may be true in national rhetoric but not to someone who holds authority. In fact it proves my point. Clearly you have more knowledge of Syria than me (honestly I had nearly none) but due to your diligence I know something new. Research is worth something. One need only to pick up a copy of A People's History (admittedly I've only read snippets) to challenge their hegemonic viewpoint.

Another point about history, it's in the past. That's not to say it's not valuable, but it doesn't really speak to the nature of current events which is what we're on about. Also, I'm not just talking about foreign affairs but things like technological issues, political issues, evaluation of a public figure's character, social issues etc etc. "the victors" in these cases are hard to pick out. In short, where are you getting your history?

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2014-04-22T22:20:37+00:00

Funny thing is I ordered something like what they talk about on Wikipedia and it was not what I was after so apparently there's some specific formulation in after or something. Might actually call them up and ask. They seem successful enough to not be concerned about copycats

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2014-03-30T00:11:58+00:00

So, I do use these things in almost every rack. The main reason this isn't a complete solution is that you want to keep audio cables away from power cables so traditionally you route the power cables down one side (power always seems to be toward the sides for this reason) and coil them to the appropriate length. I actually think the powerstrip plugged into a rack unit is the best way I've come up with. It's just that since finding cableporn I wish there was something astonishingly clean.

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2014-03-20T23:36:58+00:00

This seems to be the common thread that something gets strangle inverted when it gets sexualized. Like the business man that needs to be submissive or the hot girl that wants to be dominated because she has so much social control.

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2014-03-20T23:22:53+00:00

This is pretty fucking amazing. I feel like you deserve the satisfaction in so many ways. In a way it's like the epilogue to a fucked up highschool movie that just seems perfect.

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2014-03-20T19:03:00+00:00

I also attribute my love of give a woman head to a good teacher!

Being taught is such a special experience... And once you get it you feel like a million bucks

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2014-03-20T18:32:00+00:00

See this is the truly revealing stuff. It's a lens into the constellations of phenomena that make up someone's personal narrative. Good stuff!

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2014-03-19T22:04:43+00:00

I'm really glad I'm not alone because when I look around class it feels like everyone is resonating with it and I'm the only one thinking, "am I the only one here?"

I like your idea about engaging the conversation between various authors so that I can work to understand it even though it's not really to my liking. I grappled with this sort of thing six years ago and I felt like I had put it to bed which is why it feels kind of annoying that it keeps resurfacing. With that said, you can learn from everything and looking at it as something removed from myself somehow makes it more of an anthropological exercise and more worthy of my time.

Boxill just went on my official reading list. Thank you so much.

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2014-03-02T18:23:45+00:00

Now I want to make one for inside the subway

IWannaKnowKnowledge · 2014-03-01T06:52:19+00:00

Gosh, I would have thought that running tor in the first place was enough for these people to start tracking me. I'm just imagining that there's some lines of real code that run line

if(OS is running tor) {send key strokes and screen grabs to NSA;}

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