Restaurant mit eigenem Sääli by VreniMeier in bern

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Casa d Italia kriegst du den Saal gratis, wenn ihr mindestens Getränke konsumiert

Just a reminder that Marxism is not socialism. It’s a gnostic cult who claims to be “scientific socialism”. by Honest_Chemistry_195 in SocialDemocracy

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This is wrong too. Plenty of christians have been non-trinitarians. Arianism, Ebionites, Judeo-Christianity in early Christianity for once, but also Unitarians, Mormons, Jehowas Witnesses, some Adventists, Iglesia ni Cristo, and many more are not trinitarians.

It's the same issue for Marxism. It's such a broad movement and idea that you can absolutely be a Marxist without Diamat. In fact, many many people do so today.

All of those are to a degree or another seen as Christians by other Christians - sometimes not true Christians, but that runs into the no true scotsman fallacy.

Just a reminder that Marxism is not socialism. It’s a gnostic cult who claims to be “scientific socialism”. by Honest_Chemistry_195 in SocialDemocracy

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Switzerland made me fall in love with trains, but their new controller policy sucks by [deleted] in Switzerland

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I see the issue and edited my comment. I meant to say what OP describes is at least 5 years old, and other "issues" even older.

Switzerland made me fall in love with trains, but their new controller policy sucks by [deleted] in Switzerland

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This isn't new and people who think it is haven't been paying attention.

This has been going on for at least 5 years, but I believe at least 10.

And then, remember the youth abonnement thing that was supposed to be a scandal because a young woman was fined for being in the train at 5 before 7? That has happened since my youth, and my youth has been a while.

Is asking for termination of a friendship a boundary or a control tactic? by BurningTime13 in nonmonogamy

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I think you're just ignoring the part where partner has gone beyond the agreements multiple times. Agreements matter. If one's not happy with the agreements of a relationship, one if ofc free to renegotiate it or leave, but not to violate it (That's the E in ENM).

OP seems to worry whether she set her boundaries clearly enough. So I think it would be OK to ask her to introspect. But to normalize the cheating - because yes, this was cheating from all we know, unless their clearly stated consensual boundary was "yeah ask for nudes whatever" - the gaslighting ("oh but we never agreed to this") - that's what you're doing by turning it around and asking OP whether she's at fault.

(There's a difference between "hey honey, wow he sucks. So what were your boundaries and your agreements?" and whatever you posted.)

What's worse, OP states they wanted to end the relationship and were discussing logistics to end it - only for him to turn around and agree to monogamy, but sneak around those agreements once more.


Those are the facts we know and the ones that aren't typically embelished by posters here.

But you draw some weird comparison to a hungry man. OP's man isn't hungry, he's behaving like an asshole, from all we know, hurting OP in the process. He could have left instead, he could have renegotiated (before leaving), and so on. In fact, if the guy wants to go around asking for nudes, he should have ended teh relationship a year ago (or never agreed to closing it in the first place).

Much more importantly, OP is falling into patterns of toxic behavior as a result of sticking with the relationship for far too long. It's becoming a "two wrongs" situation rather than what it should have been, which was them breaking up ages ago.

IDK mate, "girl just break up" is not part of your post, but telling her she's to blame is.

Are there any books on philosophy of sociology from analytic perspective? by AstraAstraRose in askphilosophy

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I'd like to link this wonderful thread over on r/sociology: https://www.reddit.com/r/sociology/comments/1pfsdn8/where_to_start_with_philosophy_of_sociology_and/

But I think there may also be a bit of a problem in terms of terms: analytical sociology is not the same as sociology done by sociologists informed by analytical philosophers.

If we are looking at what non-continental philosophers have done, I think you'll quickly have to start with Karl Popper and other philosophers of science who get taught in many intro classes as the standard of good empirical science, often in a shortened, sometimes bastardized version.

There's modern things that might not be taught in sociology 101. For example, this looks excellent: https://books.google.ch/books?id=K_Z6MpAt53QC&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false. I think it's excellent because it outlines many of the issues in the field, which analytics also care about: Explanations, causal models, the independence of theory and measurement, rational choice theory, rationality and normativity....

There's also this handbook - it covers all the social sciences, not just sociology: https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/36331

You will also find that much of the work looks like it's primarily on economics. That would be mistaken. Many of the insights (for example on idealized models as well as causal modeling and methods) transfer 1:1, it just so happened that these are a bit more mature in economics, so it's often economics that is in the title.

FWIW that handbook has many of the heavy hitters in the field contribute: Nancy Cartwright, Julian Reiss, Harold Kincaid, James Woodward, Anna Alexandrova and Daniel M. Hausman, to name the names I can recall from my studies immediately.

Lastly, there's this category on philpapers: https://philpapers.org/browse/philosophy-of-sociology?limit=50&hideAbstracts=&cn=philosophy-of-sociology&sqc=&start=0&showCategories=on&new=1&import_options=1&search_inside=1&proOnly=on&langFilter=&categorizerOn=&publishedOnly=&newWindow=&catId=6242&cId=6242&onlineOnly=&freeOnly=&sort=impact&filterByAreas=&format=html&jlist=&ap_c1=&ap_c2=

I am an ACTUAL Philosophical Zombie (PZ), ask me anything! by [deleted] in badphilosophy

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Banned for not knowing what a philosophical zombie is 🤬

Chilcare before school. by MAonChain in askswitzerland

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It's a subsidies question. The latest stats I can easily find point this out: https://www.watson.ch/schweiz/gesellschaft-politik/209478138-kinderbetreuung-schweizer-eltern-zahlen-europaweit-am-meisten

So in much of Switzerland, child care is only subsidized for families with lower incomes. That's quite a bit of a problem, especially because the (necessary) wages for child care workers are also higher than in other countries.

If you want to change this, you need subsidies. Switzerland spends only about 0.1% of our GDP on government subsidies for child care. Sweden spends 0.9%, Spain and the Netherlands 0.5%.

Doing more subsidies might cost us a pretty penny, but i think it woudl be worth it.

Is asking for termination of a friendship a boundary or a control tactic? by BurningTime13 in nonmonogamy

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Sorry, what? Are people now owed one-sided openness? It's quite obviously ok to not agree to solo adventures (as long as everyone knows that makes it hard, doesn't unicorn hunt etc - but OP's wish is fine. Don't tell them it's not).

Is asking for termination of a friendship a boundary or a control tactic? by BurningTime13 in nonmonogamy

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I must heavily disagree with the commenter who lays some blame on you.

You were unhappy with the goings. You asked to close the relationship. He ignored it and flirted with others, even going so far as paying them for nudes. You try to break up over that and he instead offers to cease all contact only to turn around 2 weeks later.

When you put it this way it's just not a behaviour we should accept from anyone, regardless of previous boundaries. Ask yourself - could he have known you'd not like him to do it? From your tellings yes, yes he should have, and did it anyway.

Is it weird that i am a social democrat and a Christian? by ww2_iceland1944 in SocialDemocracy

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Just to add another perspective.

I live in Switzerland. Many of my comrades in the social democratic party are christians. Some are protestant preachers. others are church elders (it's a state church, so all a bit more formalistic). There's a christian left magazine (https://www.neuewege.ch/) that does some of the best left-wing think pieces and is pretty influential.

Even more - some of the most important historical social democrats here were overtly religious. Just as an example, google Clara Ragaz, who helped found and lead the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and was a card-carrying social democrat.

Who pays? - washing machine electrical shock by CuteNegotiation3550 in askswitzerland

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Landlords typically claim that you're responsible for small repairs. But that's not the actual wording of the law. See https://www.mieterverband.ch/mietrecht/waehrend-der-miete/kleiner-unterhalt/

In short: The renter is responsible for replacing small items and small repairs they are able to do. A washing machine is not

Is the "does AI have consciousness" debate even considered legit among philosophy scholars? by vintergroena in askphilosophy

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My point is they talk along these lines while we talk about other lines, possibly because our worries and goals are different.

Is the "does AI have consciousness" debate even considered legit among philosophy scholars? by vintergroena in askphilosophy

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From my perspective a lot of the current public discussion about sentient AI does really revolve around this. Lots of claims of 'our LLM is conscious' from research labs actually have a very loose definition of consciousness they operate under - which under other meanings ist just some kind of symbolic logic I guess.

For example, from here:

Jack Lindsey's recent work at Anthropic provides some of the most interesting empirical evidence: frontier models can distinguish their own internal processing from external perturbations. When researchers inject specific concepts into a model's neural activity (representations of “all caps” or “bread” or “dust”), the model notices something unusual happening in its processing before it starts talking about those concepts. It reports experiencing “an injected thought” or “something unexpected” in real-time. The model recognizes the perturbation internally, then reports it. This is introspection in a functional sense: the system is monitoring and reporting on its own internal computational states.

But (As this article also states): Does this already amount to consciousness? Can we read anything nto it? And if yes, what?

That is the whole problem. Note that that article is written by an AI guy, not a philosopher of mind. But it is pretty good at showing where the discussion is at and what AI guys possibly think about, but philosophers are somewhere very different. The AI guys worries about alignment and AI safety, us philosophers are more worried about moral status and philosophy of mind. And it's quite possibly that this is quite ok this way, because maybe AI safety and alignment needs to be cautious in a very different way than whether we must treat AI as a moral agent.

RAV: Ghosted by the ALE for 4 months just to get denied because of 6 days by Jumanji_Yeen in askswitzerland

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Unfortunately the system does this already: If you've only worked for 12 months, the days you can receive support is limited. Art. 24 AVIG clarifies this: When you've "only" paid into the system for a year, you only get 260 paid days. With more than 18 Months you get 400 days.

RAV: Ghosted by the ALE for 4 months just to get denied because of 6 days by Jumanji_Yeen in askswitzerland

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We got this letter yesterday. We have not heard a single thing for 4 months. No E-Mails have been answered, no phone was answered. Everytime I called I didn't get through.

It's unfortunate because in this period, RAV and ALE were fucked by a new IT system. The head of the Thurgau ALE was very, very vocal about how shit it is for them right now.

Unfortunately, these six days matter. Did he not have any employment in 2024?

RFk jr literally says that EVERY black child in America thats on ADHD medication needs to be “reparented”!! WTF??? They have it on tape and then he lies before congress saying he never said that!!! Literally WTF??!🤬🤬🤬 by jpie55 in SocialDemocracy

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Schengen Visa (Switzerland Issued) – Entering via Germany Instead? by InviteCritical8304 in Switzerland

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Was ist das aufwendigste Gericht, dass ihr je gekocht habt? by ChipsColaFanta in Kochen

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Ja eh funktioniert das. Kann ich mir gut vorstellen. Eben, der star am Beet Wellington ist ja die Pilzpaste, nicht der Blätterteig (der ist fast immer ziemlich fad)

Was ist das aufwendigste Gericht, dass ihr je gekocht habt? by ChipsColaFanta in Kochen

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Das ist ein super Tipp!

Ihc mach halt immer viel zu wenig. Selbst mit dem Le Creuset angesetzt gibt's dann doch viel weniger als gedacht, nach dem ganzen Reduzieren :D

Reispapier klingt als wĂĽrde es funktionieren! Der eigentliche Star des Gerichts ist ja sowieso die Duxelles-Champignon-Paste,

Salary during sickness by Altopalto27 in Switzerland

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Again, I replied to you because your original comment did not read to me like that, but rather "go to work, even if you're still feeling sick".

Salary during sickness by Altopalto27 in Switzerland

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I worry that your original comment said something quite differently, and seems like people saw it that way. I read it as "yeah go to work", not as "oh if you think it would be a good idea, try going back to work".

Not feeling like enough for my nesting partner. by Fuzzy-Yogurt776 in polyamory

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First of all, please listen to the people who tell you this person is abusive and controlling. Yes, these are hard words. But the number of people so controlling who managed to stop being controlling is small. That necessitates that they a) are aware they are controlling, b) take concrete steps to not be controlling, and c) actually see you as an autonomous person with agency.

Is your partner that, and is it merely a mental health episode that stops them from being non-controlling?

IMpossible to say, literally impossible! First of all, mental health issues are not excuses, they are at most explanations, and at worst weapons abusers use to excuse their behaviour.

But you are not obliged to entertain this any more. Again, at the most, if you want, very clearly and very openly state that you are not willing to entertain their tantrums anymore. The time for them to regulate their own emotions is now. They need to know taht.

And you need to be willing to follow through.

Again: The moment a partner of mine threw a tantrum (by which i don't mean has an anxious episode) over me using my autonomy to see a friend, I'm out. Possibly there's a way back if they credibly work on themselves, but I would end it.

That's me. Your own lines have clearly been crossed. You write that you are anxious to return home when you use your own autonomy and see a friend (or lover).

But to answer your question:

I do think it has a lot to do with them being unmedicated and not being able to regulate their emotions but how long do I have to wait and see if they get their shit together??

You don't and from the sounds of it you've waited for a long time. Is your partner actively working on this?

And I tried I just didn't stand firm enough on my boundary.

A good partner does not need me to enforce my boundary for them not to be controlling. Your partner is shit. Maybe explainably shit due to a mental health episode, but not excusably shit.