I think rationalism is more about even being able to acquire true knowledge rationally and that rationality should be our main source of knowledge (in contrast to spiritual revelation for example, or empiricism for that fact, but that doesn't exactly hold up well). In other words it's an epistemological position about being right, not an outright proclamation that rationalism itself is right.
Just wondering, why wouldn't you want to run Android? AOSP is fully open source, google free, and runs on linux anyways, these other OSs are just bound to be buggier...
There are legitimate uses for a knife besides using it as a weapon, for example slicing bread for a sandwich, opening packaging, slicing fruit etc., stuff that I could see myself doing at a beach...
My point was that even if you ban knives, that won't prevent people from carrying them, and this is confirmed by the fact that knife crime has been rising in the UK since the regulations have been put in place.
Tbf I thought it was a complete ban on knives in public, but apparently small pocket knives under 7cm are allowed, and you probably don't have any legitimate reason to carry anything larger than that, so I don't think the law is harmful, but it fails to address the core of the problem. And yeah, carrying a steak knife "for protection" is pretty strange...
Nowadays every country is involved in capitalism, whether they like it or not. Also, non-capitalism doesn't imply authoritarianism, take for example democratic socialism.
Classic capitalist brutality, whoever dares to speak out is crushed.
Step 1: start with noise
Step 2: make it look a little more like a crab
Step 3: repeat step 2
How the hell do you, of all people, add the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic? The fact they acknowledged and defended this makes it seem like some kind of PR stunt, though a very strange one at that. Maybe this is like some soft introduction of their new anti-european rhetoric...
Well, they don't actually sequence your genome, afaik its a SNPchip type of thing, so only some select polymorphisms, probably not much useful data, especially if the stolen data was already processed results.
I don't know how they let him publish this, but thank god they did! I've accepted I'll never really understand it, but it just keeps getting better with every listen. Interstellar Space is a similar level of insanity if you haven't heard it yet.
Yeah, I did not know that existed...