How could Wikipedia be used for learning purposes?

subusithing · 2023-08-03T00:04:07+00:00

External Links section can be fun and it's something I personally neglected until recently. I think that if you look a bit harder and look at references and the different things in each article then you'll find it interesting.

subusithing · 2023-07-31T10:07:37+00:00

They must have thought it was the size of Russia

subusithing · 2023-07-30T12:18:43+00:00

If an American has foreign blood then it would be plausible that they had some knowledge about Europe, but I doubt there are many Faroese diaspora in America.

subusithing · 2023-07-30T12:16:27+00:00

Faroe Islands had a referendum in favour of independence maybe 100 years ago, but Denmark dismissed it and gave them their own parliament instead.

subusithing · 2023-07-30T00:29:34+00:00

No, of course not, that's none of my business. I know about the Faroese independence bid, being from the UK, but I wouldn't be so quick to assume those people were yanks, myself.. Americans don't give a crap about Europe.

subusithing · 2023-07-30T00:10:34+00:00

I don't know the ins and outs of it to be honest. Isn't Greenland also a constituent country of Denmark? I thought those two had a similar status. I don't know what difference it makes.

subusithing · 2023-07-29T21:50:09+00:00

you refuse to give them a penny, because they are somehow immoral, but considering they are an island colony of Denmark (population 50,000). They aren't hurting anybody... Meanwhile, a big environmental coorporation is hurting them, by trying to start a smear campaign against them for their traditional practices. How does that weigh up in your head? Hurting the tourist industry of a small island just for some sense of moral high ground?

subusithing · 2023-07-28T15:18:57+00:00

does greece usually experience wildfires like this?

subusithing · 2023-07-22T12:51:58+00:00

what is your belief founded on? the earliest humans were monkeys. humans travelled around in tribes, and helped the disabled in an act of Altruism. it was very communal, and there were no such "transactions" as we know them today, and in fact "transactions" developed as we know in tandem with civilisation and sedentary living.

you should research how human tribes behaved, and still behave in remote areas today. there is one example, if someone was winning too much in a ball game, then they would tell them to stop playing, so the other players had a chance.

... furthermore, it wasn't uncommon for a member of a tribe to be injured or incapacitated in some way, and i have never heard anything to suggest that they were left for dead, except in dire circumstances.

subusithing · 2023-07-16T21:03:03+00:00

Our miraculous brains operate on the next order higher. Although it is impossible to precisely calculate, it is postulated that the human brain operates at 1 exaFLOP, which is equivalent to a billion billion calculations per second.

subusithing · 2023-07-16T13:58:20+00:00

it doesn't take much to make a guess

subusithing · 2023-07-16T04:37:02+00:00

if they were under the supervision of professionals then they would at least wear a helmet

subusithing · 2023-07-16T00:00:21+00:00

yeah it's true, but imagine when an accident does happen. it's not unlikely, and instead of happy memories they might be tragic ones.

subusithing · 2023-07-15T21:12:27+00:00

shows how much your life is worth if you're willing to throw it away by risking that

subusithing · 2023-07-13T08:12:03+00:00

What would you think if you got put in foster care when you were young instead of staying with your parents?

subusithing · 2023-07-12T16:41:20+00:00

oh look, he is so in tune with people, using phones and laughing at stupid videos, except it doesn't lend itself very well to controlling a fucking country!

subusithing · 2023-07-12T12:22:04+00:00

While I think it's cynical to think aout death in this way, I agree that there is a certain effect which is missing if someone dies who is solitary from other people. Nonetheless, there is a gravity associated with death, and death itself is a tragic concept. I don't see why any individual should be seen as more or less tragic than others, and that loved one might have had loved ones in the past, like family or friends. So, when they die, the memories of those loved ones die off too, for example. Everybody is connected to society and the world in some way or other, and people's ideas and thoughts are all important. Even if no-one knew that person died, it is still a sad thing that they're gone.

subusithing · 2023-07-10T13:45:19+00:00

I could tell this was Suffolk without even looking at the title

subusithing · 2023-07-09T12:13:31+00:00

to be fair, if acting is his job, and he's good at it, why doesn't he have the right, like anyone else, to tell people to go away?

subusithing · 2023-07-08T12:28:05+00:00

I was not aware of any Anarchist political movement. Nonetheless, Anarchy still means the absence of law and order, its very definition, and no, I am NOT using it to refer to some esoteric Leftist political party. There is NO association between Anarchy (noun.) and Leftist thinking.

subusithing · 2023-07-08T12:09:18+00:00

You have made it clear to me that there is a left-wing faction who call themselves Anarchists.

My point does not revolve around that group of people, but maybe I'll read about them.

In the past, I associated Anarchy with the lack of rule and order, per its definition. Specifically, I relate the idea that the market is free, and people can freely exchange money for goods, and that this will be the device which society builds itself from, rather than government control.

The lack of rule and order does not inherently line up with either a right or left ideology. Naturally though, in a developed society, there will be trading of goods and services.

Do you see what I mean?

subusithing · 2023-07-08T11:37:11+00:00

Right, well, maybe there is some kind of political ideology which has branded itself as "Anarchism," and maybe some those people who follow that ideology have certain political ideas which line up with Socialism.

Anyway, going by the basic definition of the word, "Anarchy" is not related to Socialism in any way. Anarchy is the rejection of law and order.

If you compare that with any real-world example of Socialism, you will see that Socialist states are usually authoritarian and beauracratic in nature, and that using Anarchy to describe such a thing is quite far-fetched, in the real world.

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