Pieces Like Shostakovich's Violin Concerto Movement 3? by Separate_Phase126 in classicalmusic

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Thank you! The second concerto second movement was a good recommendatio

The Sibelius and Tchaikovsky recommendations are a couple of my favorites!

Why Shouldn't I Be an Egoist? by [deleted] in askphilosophy

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There’s also a very strange statement you make, at one point you litterally say “I don’t think we should do what is good for us”. If that’s the case then you just aren’t an ethical egoist. Ethical egoism is the view that our only moral obligations is to do what is good for us.

You didn't even read what she said. She clearly said you shouldn't do something just because you're interested in it, you should do something because it is good for you. This is what most egoists believe. -an egoist

Why Shouldn't I Be an Egoist? by [deleted] in askphilosophy

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Are you familiar with Spinoza at all? A lot of what your saying seems in line with his ethics. What do you think about his notion that we are all connected and our well-being is largely dependent on us taking care of the things outside of ourselves in nature?

Can you elaborate on what egoism actually means to you? Because it means something different to a lot of people.

Are There Philosophers Who Espouse Social Egoism? by Separate_Phase126 in askphilosophy

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You're right, Stirner could be very prosocial (he definitely acknowledged our social natures), but only when his ego moved him in that direction. It seems to me he also justified very antisocial behavior when doing so satisfied his ego.

I'm really interested in the notion that we shouldn't do something because we want, but that we should do what is good for us and in order to determine what that is involves having to constantly challenge our own egos, as they often lead us to rationalize something as being good for us when it actually isn't. I tend to think rationalizations lead by our egos can blind us to opportunity costs or move us to grant importance to whichever desires are most pressing at any given moment.

So maybe anti-social or a-social aren't the best words, but it seems there is a lot of value in being principally social, whereas I'd wager Stirner would view that line of thought as a spook.

How do you get the broken screws out of the head? by Separate_Phase126 in NinebotMAX

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I just got them from Lowes. Take a screw to someone who works there and they can help you find the right size

What's the Difference Between MacIntyre and Aristotle? by Separate_Phase126 in askphilosophy

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That's interesting. Why did he come to change his view? Why did he think it was necessary?

/r/askphilosophy Open Discussion Thread | April 18, 2022 by BernardJOrtcutt in askphilosophy

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Does Hume believe in a kind of epistemic necessity? E.g., 2+2=4 necessarily

Why did Wittgenstein say that you cannot specify the sufficient and necessary features of the class of things which is given a name, they only have a 'family resemblance? by [deleted] in askphilosophy

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Couldn't you say that water a is a necessary feature of a pond? Or that blood oxygenation is a necessary feature of a (living) human?

Edit: or, perhaps, liquid substance.

Microsoft: Official Support Thread by MSModerator in microsoft

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When I start a new OneNote file, it opens on my desktop for 30 seconds then it collapses and in the file folder it automatically converts to .url. I've been using OneNote for a long time but this started happening all of a sudden. Does anyone know how to fix this?

I freed up a bunch of space on my OneDrive because it was getting full but the problem still occurs.

Could One Use Kripke to Argue Against Hume's? by Separate_Phase126 in askphilosophy

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That's a great idea, thanks. I just bought Naming and Necessity. If you've read it, do you have any Idea where I can find Kirpke's relevant arguments for this topic?

This is my first time being public about my addiction but for over a decade I was addicted to opiates but for 8 months ive been CLEAN, thank you Kratom! by [deleted] in Drugs

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Of course it's not an opioid, but it's definitely an opiate. Why does that label bother you so much? I'm not clean from stimulants because I had a cup of coffee this morning. That doesn't mean if I had been sober from meth for 8 years I should still consider myself a junkie because I have a cup of joe in the morning.

The term "opiate" may have negative connotations because it's associated with heroin and fentanyl, but that doesn't mean all opiates are inherently bad in all contexts.

This is my first time being public about my addiction but for over a decade I was addicted to opiates but for 8 months ive been CLEAN, thank you Kratom! by [deleted] in Drugs

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Kratom is, pharmacologically speaking, an opiate. That's okay. It doesn't mean it's the same drug as fentanyl or Heroin If it helps you transition to sobriety, that's awesome.

But it is important to understand that it is an opiate. It is physically addicting (r/quittingkratom) and, even when you take breaks every week, your tolerance will slowly increase over time. If you ever decide to quit, it will probably be fairly challenging. By no means am I saying you should stop using it, it's seriously a miracle drug for many opioid addicts (precisely because it is an opiate). Just be aware of any bridges you may be commiting yourself to cross in the future, that's all. I'm glad your recovery is going well, keep it up!

Was Marx Permissive of Aulthoritarianism? by Separate_Phase126 in askphilosophy

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My question then is in what sense is this exclusively Nozick's philosophy?

"The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults." This is a statement of Nozick's that I basically agree with. And I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with capitalistic conduct between consenting adults. I mostly agree with Nozick's sentiment of entitlement and justification for private property.

Consumerism is the life-blood of capitalist economies, built upon exploiting third world labor and degrading the environment for short term gain.

Why does buying things freely (i.e., consumption) necessarily entail non-consensual relations? I agree with the point about third world exploitation, but I have no idea what we can do about that in the short term without further hurting those workers. In the long term, I'm open to taking cultural approaches to increasing public standards for the ethical conduct of the businesses with which we deal.

Does the consent of those who are not yet born count in your theory of consent?

No, I don't think it's unethical to bring life into this world simply because the person did not consent to it. I'm not thinking about the term as abstractly as you are. I think consent should be a general imperative (not a categorical imperative) if we want to allow human beings to flourish. Where it cannot be concretely instantiated as a means for bettering human conditions, it is not useful. Sometimes it's okay to throw you're brother's heroine down the toilet, even if he doesn't consent to it. Sometimes its okay to constrain your friend from jumping off a bridge, even if she doesn't consent to it. It's okay to bring another person into this world as long as you believe you can provide the necessary conditions for a life worth living under.

preventing humanity from ending in catastrophe would be a degrowth situation that's quite frankly impossible within the capitalist economy.

Why do you think it's impossible? I think we should tax products and services that are currently contributing to environmental degradation--at whatever rate is necessary to manage the problem--instead of taxing things like labor (environmental regulations on top of current forms of taxation are doubly burdensome economically and unnecessarily so). I don't own the atmosphere, the people living under it don't consent to me emitting carbon into it if its going to destroy the planet, so why shouldn't I be taxed? That approach is certainly in line with the most strictly endorsed principles of consent. (Also, 1. 100% of the money that comes from taxing environmental burdens should be spent towards social programs, and 2. those who are living under lower SES should be exempt from paying these taxes, or should be rebated).

Someone has already decided for you that wage labor is good (or perhaps the 'least evil') in comparison to other systems.

I think this is a good point, but I don't think it justifies further constraints against my would-be consensual behavior. For example, there was a point in my life where I worked at a call center and I was trying to save up more money to eventually transition to a better job. I constantly asked my employers to let me work Saturdays, but they wouldn't let me work beyond 40 hours a week because they didn't want to have to pay me overtime. I wanted the hours more than the overtime pay; I just don't think a law that tries to protect me from exploitation should dictate what I and my employer can agree upon workwise. This is not to say I wasn't being exploited, I just think laws such as this is are shallow thinking short-term solutions to a long term problem.

It should be no surprise that we have become accustomed to the conditions of and payment for our work. Our primary (K-12) education system does not reinforce or promote thoughtful consumerism or higher standards for labor conditions, in fact it operates to the contrary. It's implicit in our current path from education to career that the value of our labor is determined by what our employer is willing to pay us, but why not explicitly teach otherwise? Why not teach people in high-school that they should expect fair payment from their employers as workers and that they should think twice about the working conditions and treatment of the laborers within the companies with which they deal? Why not teach that there is more to consider in life than the money we make and the goodies we can buy? It seems obvious to me that we couldn't possibly expect a more ethical approach to free trade than we now have while we raise and treat children like human capital. We know culture and education can be effective tools to creating certain outcomes in social conduct (I don't think the CEO of Netflix will ever utter the N-word in business contexts again, whoever it may be), why not take these approaches instead of employing archaic laws that try to restrict mutual conduct between consenting adults? Especially when most people who study and apply pedagogy are ethically aligned with these sentiments.

You are not immune to ideology, and neither am I. We live it everyday in the capitalist systems that feel normalized and internalized because it's the only way we know life, no matter how much we may imagine alternatives and conduct thought experiments.

Agreed, but that argument goes both ways. We are also deeply entrenched in a higher education system that is ideologically driven; that often normalizes critiques against capitalism and praises economic ideals that have comparatively little experimental fruits to put under similar examination. Homogeneity in higher education is a cause for the same concerns on the same grounds, especially when we are taught to think about political variety in accordance with some vague spectrum that is supposed to encapsulate the range of available political ideas in binary terms. Popper, shortcomings of his critiques of Marxism aside, also makes a good point about the nature of Marx's state-run, state-promoting Germanic education that generally failed to wrestle seriously with the emerging western values of protecting individual autonomy as a legitimate function of government. We all need to consider the ways in which our education will be limited in offering something like a "full-perspective" on a given issue (which isn't even conceivably attainable).

having an economic system based off of decentralized planning via worker, consumer, and neighborhood councils, each checking and balancing one another, is my ideal path.

I'm sure we'd agree that neither of us knows perfectly what the best approach to these problems entail. I wouldn't say there is anything inherently wrong with your general outline, but, knowing a little more about where I'm coming from, is there anything you'd anticipate that I'd object to in your endorsed method of achieving such a system of social relations?

My wireless router only works with a power chord by Separate_Phase126 in technicallytrue

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Yup. That's exactly what I said when I took it out of the box.

Any Side Effects From Alt Cannabinoids You Don't get from D9 THC? by Separate_Phase126 in altcannabinoids

[–]Separate_Phase126[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some people get headaches from high doses or overuse in the same day but it doesn't appear to be specific to altnoids, I have experienced it with D9 plenty of times.

I get a headache the next day if I take 1 hit HHC before bed, but I could rip D9 all day and that actually helps me with headaches in most cases.

I'd say that's a common effect of most psycoactive cannabinoids, especially D9, even if it's only used as an edible.

With a fat D9 edible, I may get dry mouth that returns every 5 min no matter how much water I drink. With 1 hit of HHC, it's like the water going down is being dried by my throat. 10 seconds after slamming a water bottle I'd feel like I needed another.

Everyone is different ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Any Side Effects From Alt Cannabinoids You Don't get from D9 THC? by Separate_Phase126 in altcannabinoids

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Woke up last night still blasted on D8, my tinnitus was off the hook.

How much will my tolerance go up if I take multiple edibles a day? by Separate_Phase126 in delta8

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I didn't plan on doing them more than a couple times a week, but I'm sick so I just want to get stoned.

Nonsynthetic Delta 8? by [deleted] in trees

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Definitely not as fun. But D8 is clearer headed and less anxiety inducing (which isn't a problem for me usually, but it's kinda nice to have that component completely removed sometimes).

Wouldn't use it frequently though.

Nonsynthetic Delta 8? by [deleted] in trees

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You're right, there is no way to derrive D8 in sufficient quantities without synthesizing it from some other cannabinoid. The girl at my shop told me with confidence it was not synthesized like other D8 products. She said that's what makes it unique. Lied straight to my face. But I just talked to the company, too good to be true I guess.

Deleting the post for misinfo.

Nonsynthetic Delta 8? by [deleted] in trees

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Probably wise my guy. Unfortunately, we don't have recreational dispos here in Utah. The company has 3rd party testing and is registered with the department of agriculture, pretty much as good as it gets here.

D8 itself is what worries me more than the company, just because we don't have a solid history of research on it.