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  • You're just covering my third paragraph. Yes, everybody is a philosopher because we don't have the tools to do away with philosophical arguments entirely yet.

    Once a mathematical proof has been verified by computer, there is no arguing that it is wrong. The definitions and axioms directly lead to the proved result. There is no such thing as verifying a philosophical argument, so we develop tools to lift philosophical arguments into more rigorous systems. As I've shown earlier, and as another commenter added to with incompleteness, this is a common pattern in the history of philosophy.

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  • They are clearly mathematical. Starting with definitions and axioms and deriving results from there using mathematical statements.

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  • But that's math. And its proof is math. And that proof is true everywhere forever.

    I see philosophy as a place to make nonrigorous arguments. Eventually, other fields advance enough to do away with many philosophical arguments, like whether matter is infinitely divisible or whether the physical brain or some metaphysical spirit determines our actions.

    Since this is a question that math hasn't advanced enough to answer, we can have a philosophical argument about whether other fields will eventually advance enough to get rid of all philosophical arguments.

  • I still have more beef for that hack

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  • I think a reasonable game could be played with those rules, given how quickly goals are scored and how hard it is supposed to be to catch the snitch. It's just that it didn't make sense at all that Krum was celebrated. Catching the snitch was worse than scoring an own goal in soccer because it directly and immediately caused his team to lose the match. The rioting of the death eaters after the match is understandable, but the way everyone else behaved towards this obvious fraud is not. The Ministry should have started a match fixing investigation.

  • Tucker Carlson says he regrets backing Donald Trump and is ‘tormented’

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  • The way to cause pain on both sides is to primary the Democrats who aren't helping and vote against all Republicans because none of them are helping. If you vote against Democrats in the general election, you are not causing pain to both sides. You're telling Republicans to continue.

  • I still have more beef for that hack

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  • You might enjoy Vinge's Zones of Thought series.

  • I still have more beef for that hack

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  • In The Goblet of Fire, Ireland beat Bulgaria despite Bulgaria getting the snitch. The problem with the snitch isn't that the team that gets it automatically wins but that this particular match didn't make sense because Bulgaria knew that getting the snitch would cause them to lose, so they would have instead focused on preventing Ireland from getting the snitch while they tried to get within 150 points.

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  • The American Immigration Council is a better source than Al Jazeera for describing what ICE might be doing that is wrong, so I don't consider that a valid criticism of this summary.

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  • I asked about the Strait of Hormuz, and it summarized information from Al Jazeera, the BBC, and Wikipedia. It added the following disclaimer:

    Disclaimer: This information is based on reports from April 18–20, 2026, and the situation is highly volatile.

    This seems reasonable.

    When I asked about ICE illegal operations, it summarized and linked to the American Immigration Council.

    This is not as good. If I'm asking about something done right now being illegal, I would like to see ongoing cases challenging the legality of the actions. I'd hesitate to call that bias instead of just bad results though.

  • tech never works for long

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  • I also didn't get Internet connected thermostats until the utility company added demand response discounts. It's really a smart grid technology. This does mean that it should be secured as such, otherwise it's another vector to attack the power grid (set all thermostats to maximum and cause blackouts). Regulations haven't caught up.

  • Progressive Democrat Wins Special Election in Huge Rejection of AIPAC

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  • Abraham Lincoln thought black people should not marry whites. I guess we should have let the slavers win because we don't want to vote for the lesser evil. The slaves will just have to suffer — I can't have voting for the lesser evil on my conscience.

  • Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire U.S.

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  • It is about California. The comment you replied to was about California. My comments replying to you have been about California. That original comment you replied to and my own comments have said that California's law is reasonable. You keep saying it isn't, but you have yet to present any reason why.

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  • Once again, that post is about age verification, so it doesn't apply to the California law. If there are no documents or pictures stored for age verification, there is nothing to breach.

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  • He said exactly the same thing I said: laws like the California one that don't require age verification are fine.

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  • what is the point of the OS asking

    Because for the purpose of securing kids accounts, it doesn't make sense for the kids to enter their ages themselves each time they create an account at a new website.

    Tell me how it can be used against me. It doesn't give out any information beyond what I let it give out about me, and that information (an age range) is derived from information I get to make up. Remember, the California law doesn't require any verification of the age data that is given to the OS.

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  • Companies are already required to ask if their users are kids because, among other reasons, there are laws against creating ad profiles for kids, and companies have been sued for doing this even accidentally. The California law just changes how they're required to check if they're a kid from asking them at account creation to asking the OS at account creation, where the parents have set the age for them when the OS account was created. It gives the company checking if they're a kid no more information than they had before. I agree with Havoc8154@mander.xyz that this is totally reasonable.

    This particular federal bill, on the other hand seems closer to the Florida bill in that it requires some form of age verification instead of just accepting what the parents enter when creating the OS account. That is unreasonable. Complain to your representative, and we'll see how it gets amended.

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