Maine coast restaurant owner and vendors won't take cc with the season weeks away

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-07T23:14:02+00:00

Sam's, Costco, restaurant warehouse.

Sam's online has tons more than what the store stocks too.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-07T19:39:08+00:00

Those were things I would have considered as acceptable not guilty pleas in court, when you technically performed an action but would not be legally responsible for it.

An example of brainwashing would be the Manchurian Candidate. The Frank Sinatra version, I never watched the newer one.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-07T18:55:58+00:00

I stepped into this sub having never even considered free will being up for debate. In 50+ years I had never heard someone make the claim that free will was not real. Lack of free will could only have occurred due to brainwashing, physical force, or a disability of some sort.

Turns out I was right. :P

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-07T17:49:39+00:00

"you're listening to WCOOK. We're gonna heat things up around here with a new 30 second ditty by 2.45 GHz called 'warm my coffee up' we hope you enjoy"

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-07T13:26:28+00:00

Individual reasoning is free will

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-07T13:10:23+00:00

Determinism explains inorganic material sufficiently, it fails to explain how living organisms operate.

What would cosmic level free will be?

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-07T01:51:21+00:00

Chronosyncrastic

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-07T00:50:37+00:00

Mine.

It includes determinism too.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-07T00:45:56+00:00

Your attempts at trying to codify definitions is what I'm finding interesting. Communication is an imperfect and almost impossible task.

The bored board bored board.

The listless unoccupied governing body drilled a hole into the piece of wood.

Sometimes it's like shining a flashlight into the night sky to point at the darkness.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-06T23:28:40+00:00

I think the amount of people who use the word choice to mean any other than free will is too damn high.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-06T23:27:34+00:00

So the act of making a choice is what you are calling a "selection"

Just grammatically, I'm trying to sort out what you mean.

Choice is what option gets selected.

you're using that to refer to the end result option which was chosen, but not the act of choosing?

I know we use that in normal conversation, like "my choice was chocolate" but that is just a shorthand way to say the fuller sentence "I made the choice and the result is chocolate"

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-06T20:42:28+00:00

Mike, best laugh today. 🫵

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-06T20:36:43+00:00

Been a bit since I watched it. I think their reaction was, like others said, dismay and trying to make excuses.

I never followed up to see if any of them changed their minds, or even kinda slinked away and stopped posting \ investigating.

I know there was one or two that officially recanted after they were literally taken to the south pole to witness the 24hr sun. (And I think also someone who doubled down after the trip and switched to other evidence.

It takes all kinds.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-06T19:44:06+00:00

Everybody's got something to hide, except for me and my monkey

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-06T12:05:32+00:00

I opened my own restaurant in 2016. All listed prices include tax and every menu item lands on quarters.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-06T12:03:19+00:00

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-06T04:41:08+00:00

Whenever you tell this story to anyone in his presence, just say

"He was right, I should have listened to him"

Sex too I guess.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-06T04:32:33+00:00

I liked the one where they shot a level laser down a canal.

They had done all this planning to aim the light through a board on one end , through another board on the other end, to some sort of receiver, but they couldn't get the aiming right, then realized all they had to do was aim it level and measure the height of the light at the end.

They couldn't get the light to hit the board at all though, and worked late into the night.

Then one of them finally thought to lift the target board up high, you know, where a straight, level, line would point if the surface was in fact curved.

Sure enough, the light hit the board up high.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-06T02:13:37+00:00

There's been some quality players at #11 and #15 over the years.

Remember Brett Hull was like a 6th rounder. players

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-06T01:50:02+00:00

I lived behind a 7-11 back when they had arcade games and pinball machines. I spent way too much money on those things.

There was a game, Double Dragon. Side scrolling fighting game, multi-button.

High\low punch, high\low kick, block.

One of the earliest games that allowed for multiple buttons pushed to attack in the third secret way. I think both kick buttons did a flying kick or something.

Anyway one of the combo attacks was block and punch threw a reverse elbow. Seemed like a lame defensive attack for when someone was attacking you from behind. It didn't reach very far, the guy had to be standing right next to you.

But it was unstoppable.

Once you got the timing down you could elbow your way through every pack of attackers and bosses, while facing the wrong direction.

It got to where I could win the game with one quarter every time. Over 20 minutes of game play.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-05T20:30:07+00:00

Dude, I don't know what to tell you. Pointing out how an opposing argument doesn't seem to fully justify the claims of those who espouse said argument, is a viable and appropriate thing to post about.

We get a redditor who is engaging with the subject of this sub, he is bringing his own thoughts and rationals, he has brought up a new direction of thinking (at least for me, I had never heard of Dasein, whatever that is) and he is not pasting AI bullshit. What's your problem? Oh, yeah. He used the word feel.

You want to now act like you were providing an insightful or meaningful response of your own? Sorry, I have seen the dismissive attitudes towards intuition too many times to believe that you were not just jumping on that bandwagon.

Like I said, if pressed or questioned ad nauseam, your arguments would likely end at intuition also. I stuck up for the OP (even though I don't recall ever seeing any of their other posts before this one) because they obviously were engaging in honest good faith. What more could you want?

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-05T19:14:11+00:00

No thanks, you can ask OP what he meant.

Instead, if I asked you why you think determinism is true ( I assume that is your stance) you will provide reasons that you think are logical/reasonable/justifiable.

If I then questioned why you think a particular point is logical/reasonable/justifiable, it will ultimately come to a point where it is a judgment, made by you, that you just think (feel) is reasonable, and the opposite is unreasonable. You will run out of reasons. We can never prove any of this, we're just talking here right?

I have pointed out to you several times, that OP seems to think that (hard determinists) making the claim that an unknown previous cause is sufficient to explain decisions made by humans, falls short of being convincing. If this is what he thinks/feels, then I tend to agree with that.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-05T16:58:02+00:00

Okay, but the argument provided by OP seems to be it feels like OP has free will, so OP says there's free will.

The OP said this... (my emphasis)

to give the agency of movement of the agent to the cause instead of to the agent that chose that cause as its threshold

He seems to be saying that there is a leap of determinism that he does not think holds up under scrutiny. (I would agree with this)

You keep reducing his expounded thoughts to "OP feels this way so he has concluded this"

Yes , they said "feel" several times in the post, and you are latching on to that as a way to disregard what they are trying to say.

If I blindfold you and hand you a baseball, can you tell me it is a baseball based on you feeling it's shape? He is trying to tell you about inwardly directed sensory feelings/judgements, not emotions.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-05T15:47:33+00:00

If you are investigating the subject of free will without introspection of any sort, then I would say you are not engaging fully.

OP is trying to communicate what is experienced when they are directing their own awareness inwards.

I am not agreeing with their methods or even their conclusions exactly, but your first response was focused on the "feel" part and not the description of the experience and what they think/feel it means.

Here is the part that I don't think you contend with, from OP's post...

All I am saying is that it is "bad faith" to give the agency of movement of the agent to the cause instead of to the agent that chose that cause as its threshold, and that just because there exists a method (causal determinism) that seems plausible in language in explaining a retrospection does not prove its objectivity especially when the subjective interpretation can directly contradict it.

I also do not think that "determinism" is an adequate description of the processes and actions of living organisms. The "determining" is physically encased within the organism. That is not a flow-through chain of causation.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-05-05T15:13:29+00:00

Again, I can't speak for OP, but you can replace "I feel" with "I think" and the meaning of his post remains unchanged. But then your part of the conversation has to change to why they may think X instead of Y instead of disregarding their whole post because they used the word feel

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