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beedeebeedeeon Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis

Top-notch philosophical argumentation. All of your rare, educated and informed opinions really shine.

beedeebeedeeon Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis

> That was never a question

You originally made the statement that "Hegel is irrelevant in the age of measurement", to which I objected. Unless you're going to back pedal further, you did find studying Hegel questionable.

I'm not going to go on the attack, but your pronouncements and self-certainty do not sound well considered.

beedeebeedeeon Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis

I don’t want to punch down, but that comes across a lot like trump saying he has the biggest words.

You may not have the time or inclination, but there is a lot to learn from studying Hegel and the history of philosophy. No ‘measurement’ is required.

beedeebeedeeon Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis

> there are better heuristics to use and using old ones means you’re operating on old software

You’re making a lot of pronouncements that are arbitrary to you

beedeebeedeeon Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis

> Hegel is irrelevant in the age of measurement

That’s bs. Even just the preface to Phenomenology of Spirit is chock full of ideas that folks would be better off if they contemplated. Hegel can be considered a visual thinker (or visionary) whose ideas don’t need “measurement”. If folks understand his thoughts on the master-slave dialectic, for example, they would have an idea as to why we have such incompetent leaders like trump. His thought suffers from the same problem of any thinker who tried to be systematic, but it is still worth being inspired by.

beedeebeedeeon Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution

Saying “he conned us” is easier for people to accept than being introspective, taking responsibility and experiencing ego dissolution.

beedeebeedeeon Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

That’s an interesting idea. I think the fiber optics for drones works because it is only used once over a short period of time. It seems like a cable connected to a mine could be easily disrupted by dragging an anchor with a small robot boat.

And as another commenter noted, mines get moved by currents, so the cable could get tangled and snap.

beedeebeedeeon Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

Israeli propaganda. America is fighting this war but not leading it

beedeebeedeeon Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

Please apply your thoughts to Israel then. Israel is the greatest destabilizing force in the middle east. From Gaza, to false flags in Iran, Saudi Arabia and who knows where else.

beedeebeedeeon Atlassian says it had right to fire engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'

But effectively, that means no empathy. Both Musk and you (explaining Musk) have set it up in such an extreme way that it makes it appear as if empathy is bad and there’s really nothing you should do.

Short of lighting yourself on fire, you could (1) invite them to use an unused space to sleep, (2) donate your time, money, food, water or other goods, (3) advocate for better solutions on a local, state or nation level, or (4) at least not foment hatred against them.

There is a wide variety of empathetic actions that one could do other than burning yourself or nothing. This directly applies to every social, political or economic issue that Musk has tangled with, but instead he sets it up to convince himself and others that actually there’s nothing he can do and empathy is for losers.

beedeebeedeeon Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

Your comments make it clear that you are a propagandist and maybe even a bot. I assume that you can comprehend English, but are choosing to be obtuse. If that is not the case, and you still cannot understand the warnings, ask Claude or some other AI to help you.

beedeebeedeeon Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

Google is your friend

To get you started: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington...

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/23/iran-strike-trump-gen-dan-c...

beedeebeedeeon Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

> I think many in the Pentagon are relieved that they were finally able to convince a president of what needed to be done a long time before

Like your other comments, this is abjectly false. Our generals and admirals specifically warned against going to war with Iran.

beedeebeedeeon Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

> I know that

Do you? Your whataboutism and dismissing concerns about this war as being butthurt is the dumbest and most morally bankrupt response anyone can make. I absolutely condemn the Iranian regime for what they have done, but that in no way excuses what the Israeli and US regimes have done. This was an unnecessary, unprovoked, world-destabilizing and ultimately counterproductive war. Please stop

beedeebeedeeon Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis

Interesting that you equate having time for sport, contemplation and art as wanking off. I suppose you have your priorities.

beedeebeedeeon Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis

Then UBI. This is a failure of our economy, which creates perverse incentives. Clean air, clean water, good food, plentiful housing, and opportunities for sport, contemplation and art are the things we need, but our economy incentivizes people to pollute, sell slop, restrict housing, and exploit ourselves and others.

beedeebeedeeon Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar

Yup. I used to work at an academic research center that held a yearly conference that attracted CEOs and other ‘elite.’ It was shocking to witness them unable to get coffee, find the bathroom, or accomplish any number of basic tasks, without a small gaggle of assistants to lead them.

beedeebeedeeon Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments

There are also some people in power who believe climate change is related to the end of times and eagerly welcome it to hasten their idea of ‘Armageddon’

beedeebeedeeon U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for "Armageddon,"

The irony is that it’s happening in Iran, the home of Zoroastarianism, which is the religion that Judaism and Christianity ripped off about the messiah, heaven, hell and the apocalyptic battle at the end of time (amongst other things)

beedeebeedeeon Amazon cuts 16k jobs

It is refreshing to hear someone mention that when discussing the printing press (however horrible it is). Most people only paint a rosy picture.

beedeebeedeeon Outsourcing thinking

That is absurd and is not supported by any facts

beedeebeedeeon Outsourcing thinking

Or how about that vast majority gets a decent education and higher standard of living so they can spend time learning and thinking on their own? You and a lot of folks seem to take for granted our unjust economy and its consequences, when we could easily change it.

beedeebeedeeon Around 1,500 soldiers on standby for deployment to Minneapolis

Yes, but these state militia units would not be capable of offering much resistance to any federal forces (I was a trooper in the CT Governor’s Horse Guard. My company did have some guns, and we got a little bit of firearms training, but nothing compared to the National Guard or Army).

beedeebeedeeon AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage

At this point, scarcity is an artifact of our economy

beedeebeedeeon Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines

Reminds me of the barb wire telephones

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41412221

beedeebeedeeon Woman in Minnesota fatally shot by ICE agent during raid, video shows

You are wrong on several points. It is policy not to shoot a car like that even if it is driving at the officer (which this vehicle was not doing and can clearly be seen from multiple camera angles). Shooting the driver will not stop the car, it will just kill the driver.

beedeebeedeeon Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies

I’m a little confused as to which country Vietnam is in your comparison.

beedeebeedeeon Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies

That’s an interesting point, and if we follow that logic, we move the blame from the Israeli soldiers and place it in totality on Israeli culture.

beedeebeedeeon Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies

I don’t think your comparison works because Israel does not have a comparable anti-war movement that the US had during the Vietnam War. In fact, if the media is to be believed, there has been enthusiasm on the part of Israelis to take part in the fighting.