See thats more like what I imagine them actually doing. Some part of me wonders whether their posting like this is some kind of disinformation - like you expect it to be so much worse and it turns out to be kinda reasonable

That’s not what we’re seeing in the vast majority of similar posts tho

Oh Im pretty aware of both the official and unofficial income of Cubans (only urban ones, I admit) and know how insanely broke the vast majority are - but the political elite with such connections from even the most dirt-poor countries flex harder than this.

The government is a kleptocratic dictatorship that impoverishes the people and hypocritically lives as though they are successful capitalists.

That said, all these posts of the dirigentes on vacation are incredibly ineffective at sending that message. They always look like things that middle-class Americans can afford here and there - and I literally cannot think of a nation in the world regardless of economic system or poverty where the family of the most high-profile leader in the country’s history wouldn’t have access to comparable things.

It’s making me think they live more humbly than I expected - and that’s not the messaging I want to see out there.

The most expensive-looking thing in these photos is the pelirroja lol.

Yeah sure - the money means way more to her than some transcendent dick.

I think he was just hazing him and expressing hostility toward Junior. He knew Bobby’s family from way back and he would have stood out as being nice. He didn’t doubt him, he just didn’t care.

So I’m from Hawaii and we had the reverse circa ‘95/96. All we had was incredibly expensive pretty nugs. 70 bucks in 1995 money for an 1/8th. Smoking joints was just unimaginable to me - it was well into the late 00s and I was a junior executive who had just inherited an unexpected 70k when I started seeing it as a reasonable option.

I mean, this is weird - in such a situation, Im actually most concerned that the prisoners have been sentenced appropriately and everyone genuinely believed they would serve that time.

To me, sentencing is someone is largely about making a point and only some of it is about retribution. It’s kind of like the society sticking to its values and deterring crimes rather that retribution/rehabilitation. So I could accept some freak circumstance outside of the legal process that freed guilty people without being nearly as mad about it. If they were freed because their lawyers were cunning, that sucks way worse.

Its like Oliver Wendall Holmes or Jeremy Bentham when arguing with eachother I think?

Well I think that if you believe that physicalism is a necessary claim, then the argument needs quite a bit of treatment to dismiss.

What I do think is that most physicalists don’t think of themselves as holding a straightforwardly necessary position - so Chalmers has to go on to convince them that they do. He’s less successful there.

I don’t know how that follows

I think the issue is that you’re not taking physicalism as a necessary claim but rather a contingent one.

For #2:

Is “gravity is physical” a necessary claim or just a contingent one? I could imagine it all happening due to the intervention of the hand of God in some possible world.

Chalmers says that physicalism is a necessary claim - mental=physical brain processes in the same way that water=H20. According to people who believe this about water, is no possible world where water isn’t H20 and if someone acknowledged such a world as possible they’re not a real H20 theorist. He thinks that for physicalists, acknowledging the p-zombie world is wrong for the same reason.

Just do the gender reveal at the wedding

My old maltese used to do it naturally, and we just encouraged it with the clicker and treats and he would walk further and further. Ive seen other dogs take one or two steps naturally and I can’t see a reason why that couldn’t be shaped similarly.

My pussy and my crack

She’s not stupid, she’s just more prone to freezing/panicking.

Why do you say that?

Yeah but would aggressive PTSD treatment immediately after the experience (like you’re immediately met by a psychologist as you walk out and are packed off to some kind of retreat) and perhaps pre-emptively assure that most people come out functional? Maybe those kinds of things work well? You may also be able to be placed in a drugged state that makes you far more durable to it - twilight anaesthesia?

Dude, a lot of people would trade unbearable trauma for 3 million.

Sometimes poverty is so damaging (depending on the family system) that having a parent with immediately, aggressively (and perhaps pre-emptively) treated PTSD could be way way better.

I think it would be comparable to being tortured yourself - which again could be worth the money.

If you need 2500-3000 size, Daiwa Airity is only a few bucks more expensive than that if you buy JDM and it’s lighter than the Vanford. I think one has to foreground this reel among their choices if ultra-lightweight is your goal.

I think the answer is horrible but true. The tougher/harder thing is to play for higher and higher stakes. We all think toughness is prestige. People chase prestige in the form of toughness and it’s only when the subcultures rules put boundaries that the ambitious ones stop. If your frame of reference just doesn’t have boundaries, you don’t stop.

Its about your social context and how ambitious you are rather than your general character. Growing up, I noticed that a fair amount of the time, when bullying/challenging wasn’t a factor because you were at work or something, some of the gnarly gangster kids who did this kind of shit were nice.

Certain towns/subcultures are just like that - fistfights are about destroying people rather than defeating them. Just idiotic.

Tucson has always been kinda gnarly by reputation as someone who has never been.

One way to do it is to start by reducing 100mg/day. Pause when it gets way too shitty until you feel normal again. Then try 50/day and when that gets too shitty, pause again and try 25/day. When that gets miserable try 25 every two days.

After 3.5 months there are a good amount of people who just are fine with the 100mg/day rapid taper and finish it out without much in the way of problems. I did 100mg/day till it was over the first time I was addicted at around 1.5 gpd and felt very little discomfort. So go in with zero expectations and don’t think about it much until you feel undeniably shitty.

So how different do elements of the universe have to be to not count as the same essence?