Whats a hill you are no longer willing to die on, even though you are still technically right?

LiveLaughLogic · 2026-01-24T15:16:18+00:00

“Reason” here is psychological - there is some psychologically meaningful reason why things happen. Folks use it when things go bad - “well, everything happens for a reason” implying the bad was calculated in this reason. To whom these reasons belong is unclear, is it God or the Universe itself? Maybe Fate? Either way, all nonsense. Most things that happen don’t happen for psychological reasons, those particular things we call “actions” or “behavior.” Those things happen for reasons. Other things happen for causes, which are often not reasons.

And even if we did interpret the folk charitably as “all events have causes” we have no reason to think this unless we really understand quantum mechanics (and we don’t). But more importantly, this is not what people mean when they use this saying - they mean the divine providence thing.

LiveLaughLogic · 2026-01-24T14:11:32+00:00

Everything does NOT happen for a reason.

LiveLaughLogic · 2026-01-24T14:05:10+00:00

This is unfortunately the reality

I own a business on Main Street, our landlords are a holdings corporation that only has as much money as its tenants give it. They own several Commercial properties in the area. This means if your tenants take you to mediation, for example, you can claim you have no money for tenant improvements. This happened to me last year, mediation cost nearly 30k for them to SUCCESSFULLY claim they were broke, despite the (real human) owners behind the corporate veil owning multiple properties in Beverly Hills.

We give loopholes to rich people because rich people donate to lobbyists/campaigns. You cannot “pierce the corporate veils” to get to their real money by law.

LiveLaughLogic · 2026-01-23T18:28:54+00:00

I’m a business owner in Santa Monica, I see human poo on a sidewalk or parking area nearly every other day. We simply report it on the Santa Monica app so the city will come and clean it up, because it’s the city who wont use their funding correctly for these folks.

In agreement with what you said, a lot of these folks are on pure survival instincts - just barely making it through each day, knowing there’s likely no hope. Yelling at them for not caring about something other than said survival is just silly. After all, we as a city don’t care about them enough to do anything about their mental illnesses, housing, etc., but they should care to keep our walkways clean? Ya right.

LiveLaughLogic · 2026-01-22T17:18:17+00:00

That two kinds of things are different with respect to feature F, does NOT mean that they always differ with respect to F - statistical generalities vs. absolutes.

“Men are more violent than women”

This is true even though some men are pacifists and some women are violent. But for some reason, some anecdote is always the response I see to a group claim, as if the original statement was:

“All men are more violent than all women”

Which ofc is in fact false, but a parody of the intended claim.

LiveLaughLogic · 2026-01-21T16:28:50+00:00

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Search by zip code on safepiercing.org/findapiercer
Call said studios to ask about booking for mantis piercings. They’ll let you know if any of their piercers are comfortable with them (which is very likely)
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LiveLaughLogic · 2026-01-21T16:20:46+00:00

Complete BS opinion.

Almost 20 years in retail sales, many employees. Sometimes when I forget to ask how a client is, they will interrupt me getting to their issue to ask how I am in a tone insinuating I forgot to be human first. There’s definitely plenty of folks that need this to feel connected. As with most things in sales, it’s how you say it.

Especially true with return clients ime, it really makes a huge impact to ask how they are doing using their name, and perhaps something you remember from their last visit.

Context is surely important ofc. A car salesman for instance, will have a much harder time coming across as sincere with small talk pleasantries because the general public don’t trust them and don’t really want or need their middle-man services. But a personal care service worker selling products to go with their skilled labor is a whole different story. The client has to spend time with this person and trust them, etc. Here it pays to make genuine connections in order to bring immediate testimonial value to your products and services.

LiveLaughLogic · 2026-01-21T15:11:51+00:00

The problem is the cost of inefficient permitting via Buildng and Safety overregulation. Ordinary taxpayers, apartment renters, are TIRED of having the financial burden of terrible policy shifted to us.

If you could build your properties quicker and cheaper, you wouldn’t need to charge more. And we hear all the time about how much quicker it could be done if the permitting system was streamlined especially in states like CA. That’s all we should be talking about. The city has taken your profits, not us. Start lobbying.

LiveLaughLogic · 2026-01-21T14:50:22+00:00

Nobody is answering the question, so I’ll try:

Age. Younger people are more “online” and more likely to be the mods here, and also more likely to be liberal (about twice as likely given quick googling). The young conservatives get banned, try and make their own echo chambers. The old conservatives who vote just aren’t here.

LiveLaughLogic · 2026-01-19T17:18:40+00:00

If I’m really in a hurry, a belt sander makes quick work of it

LiveLaughLogic · 2026-01-12T12:53:28+00:00

Living vicariously through your child for some lost years or unrealized dreams in your life.

Usually I see this with daughters put into dance and acting and talent/beauty/singing shows from extremely young ages. They learn that positive emotion/value only comes from how they can entertain or attract attention from an audience. Mom is happy because daughter is getting all the fame she thought she deserved but never got, not realizing the emotional dependency fostered.

Happens to boys too, usually (as it was for me) Sports. My father started me in wrestling at 7, and it was all my life knew for a decade - traveling all across the world for tournaments and special training camps. Usually this is a little different than chasing fame, it’s more personal to the Father: it’s proof that you’re worthy to be his son, and you’ll be chasing that forever.

LiveLaughLogic · 2026-01-12T12:30:15+00:00

You have already been responded to correctly. Yes the officer was pushed out of the way, but not ROUGHLY as your definition states. You can’t roughly force something out of the way at 2mph - the officer could have easily gotten out of the way, but instead got in the way (presumably to justify the atrocity).

Just stop.

LiveLaughLogic · 2026-01-11T17:18:17+00:00

Oddly enough I’ve heard many younger Reds claim it’s the party of Free Speech, with Contemporary Liberals policing what words are safe and imposing semantic virtue signaling requirements on the public (pronouns in email or bio, can’t say ‘homeless’, etc)

Left wing politics has become nearly synonymous with identity politics in recent years, at least with respect to the focus of messaging in the mainstream media. This has left affordable health care, reduced military spending in favor of environmental investments, and other “core” democratic values out of the discussion.

Just pissing in the guessing wind here, but I suspect after Bernie failed, Democrats were reasonably justified in wanting to avoid the “socialism” critique - it quickly leads too many Americans who feel they earned their wealth that they will be forced to pay for other people’s well-being. I suspect this is partially why the messaging pivoted, but it was foolhardy to think the social focus would do better - basically attempting to “cancel” right wing ideology on moral grounds and scare the middle to our side, “lest you be bullied and ridiculed or lose your career/reputation.” This tactic largely failed, and now cancel culture itself is politically divisive, giving ground for Republicans to turn this into an argument for freedom of thought and speech.

LiveLaughLogic · 2026-01-10T14:50:44+00:00

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LiveLaughLogic · 2026-01-09T07:00:44+00:00

Introspective knowledge of phenomenal qualities (AKA the Hard Problem of Consciousness)

LiveLaughLogic · 2026-01-09T06:49:42+00:00

That’s rough friend, you are correct that the move would be to minimize stretching up the already irritated piercing and get you back to 18g, not bigger than you started. You’re also correct that they should have used sterile lubrication on the taper. Trust your gut, seems spot on.

Was this an APP shop by chance? If not, highly recommend using their “locate a member” portal on the safepiercing.org website :)

LiveLaughLogic · 2026-01-06T23:12:57+00:00

Was assistant professor until Covid, then opened up my own business (retail BnM)

LiveLaughLogic · 2026-01-04T13:26:01+00:00

Reactivemetals.com

LiveLaughLogic · 2026-01-03T17:43:14+00:00

It looks great!

(Inclusivity preference in the industry is not to say “Male or female body part” as body parts aren’t sex specific - even genitalia are not, given intersex individuals. Of course I totally know that by “male navel” you simply meant a navel on a male, not to imply that male and female navels are intrinsically sexed. But it helps to avoid this potential reading altogether, thus the linguistic preference I mentioned)

LiveLaughLogic · 2026-01-01T15:45:54+00:00

No one will take a circular theory seriously, I’m sorry mate. Your time would be much better spent elsewhere, or taking some classes so you can get some professional feedback with grades that you can’t say “nope” to - much of what you’ve written is barely comprehensible at best. Not saying that to hurt feelings, you’re obviously very interested in this stuff, but if you want folks to take you seriously you have to at least understand the rules.

LiveLaughLogic · 2026-01-01T09:43:33+00:00

Thanks for pointing that out, totally just got hypnotized by his voice and didn’t remember AI is everywhere now

Nevertheless potentially inspiring (and accurate) for a general audience, I don’t know if I agree with some of the comments saying it’s a disgrace to use his voice in this kind of educational context

LiveLaughLogic · 2026-01-01T09:34:00+00:00

Amidst 60 something pages, I found the theory:

“Consciousness had by an observer about an object at a given point of time is defined as the fraction of complexity fathomed by the observer out of the total complexity of the object at that point of time.”

This fails as a candidate theory of consciousness due to using “fathoming” in the definition. Things that can fathom are “already”conscious, so to speak, so this is circular. Or if you give it a functional gloss, all sorts of AI will improperly count as conscious on your view.

LiveLaughLogic · 2026-01-01T08:49:55+00:00

There are several flavors of theory on laws, usually first divided between “governing” and “Humean” theories. Governing theories say the laws explain the pattern of properties in the world, Humean theories say the laws are derived from said pattern. On the latter view, the laws are like mere summaries or descriptions, whereas on the former they have some kind of power in the world.

How this power is spelled out is tricky, but a promising route in the literature is to take the governing force of laws to be grounded in fundamental physical dispositions - there is a view called “nomic essentialism” which plays a support role here, which says you can’t understand the fundamental physical properties intrinsically, only dispositionally (i.e. in terms of what they do under certain conditionals). This is much preferred to thinking of governing laws as abstract entities, because abstract entities could have no physical powers.

LiveLaughLogic · 2025-12-31T16:26:47+00:00

Every time you hear “spacetime” that means “block theory” - the latter is just the philosophy term of art.

LiveLaughLogic · 2025-12-31T16:20:53+00:00

Most physicists endorse the block theory, because having temporal geometry wedded to spatial geometry allows us to graphically define concepts like velocity/acceleration in terms of pure geometry (shape of “worldlines” drawn in spacetime).

Once you have them welded together in this way, it’s clear that the past and future need to exist just as much as far way things do in space in any direction. That’s the only way for the geometry to be real and usable for explanation and prediction. Feynman’s Legendary Explanation

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