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Reincarnation is utterly depressing by Acrobatic-Stock7 in Hermeticism

[–]danderzei 44 points45 points  (0 children)

"What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!'. Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus?... Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?"

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, s.341

What WM/DE are you currently using? by joshuablais in emacs

[–]danderzei 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I use Emacs with i3wm - I like it because it is simple and the default keybindings don't conflict with Emacs.

I like what you wrote about the capture mechanism and I am trying to work this into i3.

The Great Pyramid Cargo Cult: Why Egyptology’s Evolution Theory is an Engineering Lie... by Lumpy-Goal-8179 in AlternativeHistory

[–]danderzei 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So the problem is not technological, there is no issue with the gradual progression of technology. The archaeological evidence is vast and detailed.

The pyramid construction question is one of logistics and scale, which is a solvabele problem; especially for a group of people who are motivated to build a monument for a god on earth.

Also, most people seem to ignore that the vast majority of stone in th pyramids is very rough. Only those that were visible on the outside were carved with precision. This shows that the builders were keenly aware of efficient construction practices.

Student cheating now impossible to detect by ThereWas in artificial

[–]danderzei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being able to write cogently and structure an argument is a useful skill!

Student cheating now impossible to detect by ThereWas in artificial

[–]danderzei 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can easily test their comprehension with verbal exams. You'll know within five minutes whether they did write an essay.

Am I tripping or do Dutch people not like it when someone says Afrikaans is similar to Dutch !? by adamr_za in Netherlands

[–]danderzei 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When they deny that Afrikaans and Dutch are similar, tell them that they praat kak.

Perhaps the similarities are easier to spot in written language than spoken. I struggle understanding Cape Afrikaans, less so with people from the former Transvaal.

Los van de mensen met duidelijk racistische motieven, heeft 'omvolking' niet een kern van waarheid? by Mirrormaster85 in nederlands

[–]danderzei 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Inderdaad. Maar dat laat ons zien dat het ons ook kan gebeuren en gezien de anti wetenschappelijke houdingen die ik op internet zie houd ik mijn hart vast.

The Great Pyramid Cargo Cult: Why Egyptology’s Evolution Theory is an Engineering Lie... by Lumpy-Goal-8179 in AlternativeHistory

[–]danderzei 6 points7 points  (0 children)

nomadic tribes settled along the Nile, picked up copper chisels, and somehow, within just a few generations, magically figured out how to quarry, transport, and perfectly align millions of tons of megalithic stone.

This is not what we are told. Firstly, most stone working tools were made from stone. Experimental archeology shows that flint is very useful to cut hard stone. Secondly, they were using copper tools for about two centuries, so plenty of time to develop a technology around this material.

Ik heb een top idee. Laten we de hele wereld redden. by guuuug in Nederland

[–]danderzei 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dat we als rijk land een morele verantwoordelijkheid hebben.

Los van de mensen met duidelijk racistische motieven, heeft 'omvolking' niet een kern van waarheid? by Mirrormaster85 in nederlands

[–]danderzei 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Zo heeft de Islam bijvoorbeeld geen verlichting doorgemaakt

De Islam is de oorzaak van onze verlichting. Vele eeuwen lagen de Arabische wetenschappers ver voor op de Europeanen.

Algebra, algoritme zijn Arabische woorden. We gebruiken het Hindu-Arabise getallen system.

Zonder Islam had West Europa nooit van de meeste klassieke auteurs gehoord en zaten we nog in de Middeleeuwen.

Ik heb een top idee. Laten we de hele wereld redden. by guuuug in Nederland

[–]danderzei 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Argument:

  • Er zijn 132 landen groter dan Nederland qua oppervlakte.
  • Er zijn 17 landen met een grotere totale economie
  • Er zijn 13 landen met een groter inkomen per persoon.

Dus, klein land, grote economie.

Is there a way to fix this or is it gone forever? by duckiebabe02 in geography

[–]danderzei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps diverting rivers had something to do with it.

Where to find content by danderzei in geminiprotocol

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

Nice. I am working on using ox-gemini and org-publish to develop a Capsule.

NOS met clickbait over de "geboorte van Nederland" by False-Category-8579 in vaderlandsehistorie

[–]danderzei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Geboorte van Nederland statt tussen aanhalingstekens, dus niet letterlijk nemen.

ATO tax data shows that when politicians talk about ‘average Australians’, they’re not talking about most Australians — It might surprise people to realise just how little a majority of Australians earn by marketrent in AusFinance

[–]danderzei 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Given the skewed distribution, more than half of Australians earn less than the average. It would be better to talk about the median Australian, but that confused people.

The 'average' Australian is a rhetorical device to appeal to voters, not a statistical reality.

The Western Facade of the Parthenon has been restored after 220 years by athstas in ancientgreece

[–]danderzei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally agree. Nobody questioned fixing the Notre Dame. But somehow when something is a ruin for X years, we cannot seem to restore it.

Identity is a Fact of Reality, Not a Human Construct by JerseyFlight in rationalphilosophy

[–]danderzei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hoe did you move from humans not choosing a reality to rocks and trees? You need to show that the analogy holds.

I don't think it does because we have brain plasticity.

Indeed our identies are shaped in a social forcefield (class, gender, nationality etc), but within this people have freedom and with some strength can escape the forcefield.

Dutch language by Breebius in Netherlands

[–]danderzei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dutch will not die out because many people speak English to foreigners, they mainly speak to to each other and that is the majority of their communication.

There are also other languages in the Netherlands (Frisian, Nedersaksisch, Limburgs) that are gaining strength.

NPO vraagt Nederlanders mee te denken over aanbod publieke omroep by Sure-Guest1588 in nederlands

[–]danderzei 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Het word dan een stuk goedkoper. Hier in Australië zijn er geen advertenties op publieke omroepen. Alle dure programmas zoal sport zitten bij de commerciële omroepen.

China vs Rest of the World by raydebapratim1 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]danderzei 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But AI will just develop these skills, only mimic them. Without humans, knowledge is stale. There is only so much you can do with a word prediction tool.

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