:100: :up: Sure thing. The phrase "toxic masculinity" doesn't mean "masculinity, which is toxic", but "a form of masculinity that is toxic". There can...
Sure, but it's also not something you're going to try to convince other people to agree with you about, right? You love your wife, I don't, and that's...
Do you apply this same standard to reasons to believe something? Do you fall down an infinite regress there too, or else stop at an arbitrary point? O...
Because the difference between those is binary: can multiple contrary opinions on the same thing be simultaneously warranted, or not? If you think yes...
But whether you think that its wrongness is objective/universal, rather than just a matter of opinion, is a part of how you relate to it. I don't like...
Toxic masculinity isn't about "too much" masculinity, but about a faulty construal of what constitutes masculinity. In other words, it's when men are ...
I'm reminded now of the four-part structure for absorption that my old intro to philosophy class outlined: - lecture for breadth - reading (original t...
That's the kind of expression that elicits the question "why not?" in a normal person. It calls for an explanation of what un-enjoyable thing will hap...
I actually disagree with this pretty strongly. The biggest thing I took away from my formal philosophical education was an impression of how almost ev...
Their original logo was a complex drawing of Isaac Newton under an apple tree: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Apple_first_logo.pn...
Politics is the context this is all about. The kind of people that you could productively engage in philosophy with are all in groups 1-3, and only gr...
If being alive is in and of itself something you want, something you value intrinsically rather than just instrumentally, then every moment you’re ali...
Isn’t that something that’s unpleasant to feel? Is not an unpleasant condition the very definition of a sickness? Consider also: if you want to live, ...
It’s called “the Mind argument” (after a philosophy journal called Mind where it frequently appeared). It’s the argument that actions caused by random...
Because it makes absolutely no experiential difference, and therefore it doesn’t matter whether it’s true or false — it’s completely meaningless. If s...
I don’t even see HOW you could categorize people in advance of engaging with them, so I’m certainly not advocating that anyone somehow do that. But af...
It might help you see better if you realize that it is proposed in juxtaposition to the common practice of treating people as only being in groups 1 o...
I know all about index funds and active vs passive management thanks. I’ve got tens of thousands of dollars in a variety of different kinds. An index ...
“An index fund (also index tracker) is a mutual fund...” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_fund However: “Hedge funds are not mutual funds as hedg...
Disclaimer: I haven't been reading this thread so far. Sometimes life feels like it has negative value: like there's an emotional hole, and you just f...
The is/ought divide cannot be overcome, but that is no loss to ethics, because the “is” side is just as subject to the problem of infinite regress / a...
:100: Also, if we just help people in proportion to their need, disproportionately needy demographics (e.g. black people) will receive a disproportion...
So people who are not thinking critically may nevertheless think that they are thinking critically. So merely thinking that you're thinking critically...
One can use the notion of social constructs without endorsing constructivism, just like one can use science without endorsing scientism. In rejecting ...
Do you think those we disagree with realize that their evidence is bad? Do you deny all possibility that despite your best efforts, at least some of y...
I don’t think there is any good evidence to support such beliefs, which is why I don’t believe those things, but no doubt they would point you at thin...
Constructivism claims that all assertions of supposed facts are in actuality just social constructs, ways of thinking about things put forth merely in...
At least one of those for most people, I would expect. They either think they have something to teach other people, or they have something they hope t...
To learn, and to teach. Those on the farther parts of the spectrum are those who show little sign of having anything to learn from and little hope of ...
What I read about AMC was that the lender they owed had the option to convert the loan balance into stock holdings instead, and as the stock price sho...
Because what you call "common sense" someone else may call "crazy nonsense", and vice versa. It sounds like you and I broadly agree on what is common ...
My understanding is that the problem lies entirely with margin trading, which it seems was Robin Hood's bread-and-butter. When trading on margin, the ...
We're only disagreeing about terminology, and since this is about the terminology I used in my OP, you are not free to disagree about what I meant by ...
I'd just like to be clear that nowhere am I advocating disrespecting anybody. Even group 5, I think, still see themselves as good people holding their...
Right, that's what I'm talking about. I once worked for a penny-stock company and their whole business strategy seemed to be to look promising enough ...
This is basically the position of most pro-choice people: we should increase access to birth control and decrease the circumstances in which women wou...
Thank you. I think the “horseshoe theory” of political spectra can be better understood as that authority breeds hierarchy and hierarchy breeds author...
Does it not protect Gamestop from potential liquidation? Like if the total market cap of GME drops below the total assets of Gamestop that will incent...
Is it not RH, rather than the dummies, who would be doing the lending? And in requiring 100% margin, RH is basically refusing to lend toward the purch...
As I understand it, that means that you must have 100% of the purchase price on hand, i.e. you may not borrow to purchase; not that you are required t...
Whoops yeah, similar avatars (both mostly white with the mod badge) confused my tired brain. So, was what Robinhood etc were doing earlier something m...
I noticed my brokerage limited purchase of those stocks to a 100% margin requirement, i.e. you have to actually have the cash on hand to purchase them...
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