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Este perfil es de un servidor federado y podría estar incompleto. Explorar más contenido en la instancia original.

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Sokal affair but with more rat ballz

Scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don't have free will (phys.org) en

Before epilepsy was understood to be a neurological condition, people believed it was caused by the moon, or by phlegm in the brain. They condemned seizures as evidence of witchcraft or demonic possession, and killed or castrated sufferers to prevent them from passing tainted blood to a new generation.

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That is a very good point. It seems like his argument is that, since we have no free will, we should stop trying to do anything to control others' actions... which in itself is suggesting to control others' actions. Furthermore regardless of whether we have free will or not, however you want to define it- punishing bad behavior discourages it and provides better outcomes for the world at large. It's like he's saying people just blindly act according to some non-free-will principle without taking in any environmental input, which just seems ridiculous. And implying that specifically applies only to bad behavior, which just seems like he's being smugly pessimistic as a gotcha. "Ha ha, the world is bad, if you disagree with me you're just a hopeless optimist" sort of thing.

Curious and cryptic: New leaf insects discovered (phys.org) en

An international research team including the University of Göttingen has described seven previously unknown species of leaf insects, also known as walking leaves. The insects belong to the stick and leaf insect order, which are known for their unusual appearance: they look confusingly similar to parts of plants such as twigs,...

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I'm going to guess they weren't discovered before because the scientists thought they were really just leaves.

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Can't wait to watch my computer dissolve the next time I spill tea on it

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This is awesome but also somewhat concerning

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Snakehead? Where's the rest of the snake?

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I came to kbin hoping for exactly that, a moderate platform, and these upvote-downvote patterns are extremely concerning.

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based, me too

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