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And "To whom are they speaking"?
What you are giving a succinct overview of is Aristotle's _Ars Rhetorica_ Cracking read, BTW.
I'll just leave this here:
“How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?”
~~ Ecclesiasticus 38:25
I can think of two very influential books that have caused (are still causing) untold human misery.
> The more you pump the place dry, the more the place sinks lower.
See also: Mexico City
Aristotle's already got you covered with "aporia".
_Ars Rhetorica_, BTW is great read.
Oh my. Cucumber! There really is nothing quite like it to my nose. I've only known two other people who are quite as sensitive... and one of those is my eldest child.
I've come to physical blows with asshats who think it is funny to test me, because it tastes of nothing to them.
Seems to me that the more we sharpen our mental and methodological tools (in all areas of human inquiry), the weirder and more interesting things become.
Shit's messy, yo!
Here's a thought... Americans can't live with ambiguity.
> It's problems are more corruption and political than anything else.
So it's different from any other country how?
I had never thought of that. That's cynical genius of the highest order. AND they get to play the moral high-ground card of "seriously, we're sorry! We're on your side-- look at what we're doing to help!"
On the totem pole of tech nous, I am very close to the bottom. So can someone explain to me "remote browsing" is not a thing? Login to your VPS (or whatever), start and encrypted X session, and browse away.
That is very unusual traffic, of course, and others connecting from my inet-facing IP probably make it even more so: Steam after school, missus hitting the foreign news sites in the AM, the traffic peaks and troughs at certain times of day... we're fucked.
True.
But the water company should not bill me differently if I choose to water tomatoes, but not chillies.
>Maybe when I have children and they are pre-teen / teen then I will be able to understand their needs again.
My eldest is about to turn 15, and he and his mates use IRC. He's a wee bit geeky, so "retro", "techie", and "obscure/mainstream unpopular" appeal greatly.
Kinda funny 'cause dad is mostly on Slack/Telegram/WhatsApp these days. To the extent I use IRC at all it is on the channel he set up for the fam.
> I just hope that technology is serving "kids" today as well as it served me in the past
Amen.
>> I thought he’d live forever...
In one of his universes, he does.
>> that their decisions are based on past experiences and that their free will is actually just the evaluation of their perceptions (of their truth)
This might be pretty close to the mark, actually. Our conditioning to past, even collective, social, experience can become so all encompassing that we cannot imagine something "other". Perhaps psychopaths can? And that's a pretty scary thought.
When (if!) the US legalises at the federal level, you can bet the UK will follow shortly thereafter.
Do you now of any research on the potential downsides of the opposite of this? I have a pre-teen son whose confidence with-- and enjoyment in-- maths outstrips his ability (although this might change in either direction). He's not cocky about it; he is more like "Damn. Only got a C. Oh well, next time..."
I can't see him hurting himself with maths, but if he decided he's gonna fix something electrical in a few years time, well that could be very bad indeed.
>> of those who sleep in him
Interesting. I've always thought of the ocean as being female, like the earth.