Stop using the term kraut, Grand Spook lover.

Stay mad barbaroi

Sounds like an Anglocentric wehraboo and a bunch of self-hating Krauts spouting autism at each other, neither entirely wrong but both missing crucial parts of the big picture.

Did any of you fags even read the link

and we shouldn't live based on instincts.

you're right.

So I can assume you're going to join us at the next anti-gay anti-birth control rally?

Remember when Recon banned me for a year for impersonation when I told everyone to change their name to Elegiac in solidarity with him?

Does a bad kill really make the meat taste bad?

Yeah. If an animal is wounded, but not killed, it will panic. Adrenaline can then flood the muscles, making the meat taste godawful.

Someone with a better grasp of biology could probably explain it better.

Just out of curiosity, because I can't be assed to read the rest of the thread, how many vegans/vegetarians here would be fine with consuming meat in a non-industrialized society? That is, if meat products weren't mass produced, and we weren't wrecking the environment, would you eat a pork chop?

The fuck is "alternately abled"? Fancy way to say crippled?

P sure you can also use it for retards and amputees.

I Am Not My Body Lisa Sandin - Big Rapids, Michigan As heard on The Bob Edwards Show, July 6, 2012
I believe I am not my body.
Every day, we see images of perfect bodies we can never have, and we become convinced our bodies are who we are. Passing through puberty, into adulthood and now into middle-age, I’ve
wasted a lot of time lamenting the size of my hips, the gray in my hair, and the lines in my face. Finally, as I approach my 50s, I believe my parents were right all along: I am not my body.
I was born in 1959, at the tail end of the baby boom. Unfortunately I arrived without all my body parts fully intact. My left arm is a short stub with a small hand and three fingers, reminiscent of a thalidomide defect. To my good fortune, I had superb parents. They were fighters who struck “I can’t” from my vocabulary, and replaced it with “I will find a way.” They believed the
development of the mind, heart and soul determine who you are and who you will become. My body was not to be used as an excuse; instead it was a catalyst.
My body was not neglected, though. It endured surgery; it was dragged to physical therapy, then to swimming, and finally to yoga. But it was not the focus of my life. I was taught to respect my body, but to remember that it was only a vehicle that carried the important things: my brain and soul. Moreover, I was taught that bodies come in all shapes, colors and sizes, and that everyone was struggling in some way with their physical inadequacies. Infomercials have convinced me this must be true, although through adolescence I found it difficult to believe the cheerleading squad had any self-doubts.
In my alternately formed body, I have learned lessons about patience, determination, frustration and success. This body can’t play the piano or climb rock walls, but it taught all the
neighborhood kids to eat with their feet, a skill it learned in the children’s hospital. Eventually it
learned to tie shoes, crossed a stage to pick up a college diploma, backpacked through Europe and changed my baby’s diapers.
Some people think I am my body and treat me with prejudice or pity. Some are just curious. It took years, but I have learned to ignore the stares and just smile back. My body has taught me to respect my fellow humans — even the thin, able-bodied, beautiful ones.
I am my words, my ideas and my actions. I am filled with love, humor, ambition and intelligence. This I believe: I am your fellow human being and, like you, I am so much more than a body.
Lisa Sandin lives with her husband and their two college-age children in Big Rapids, Michigan. She owns Heart and Sole Yoga studio, where she teaches yoga and meditation to students with both able and alternately-abled bodies. Sandin’s essay was originally published in USA
Weekend magazine.

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I like nigger bass in my car for sure, but when I'm using headphones I'm after a more clear listening experience.

Quote from: Grozny on August 31, 2016, 12:42:30 PM

The nature of subjectivity eliminates the possibility of objectively proving anything.

It's pretty clear that, in this instance, "prove" means "demonstrate the probability of".

You can't absolutely prove any synthetic proposition.

So why worry about anything beyond the immediately practical?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragility


Antifragility is a property of systems that increase in capability, resilience, or robustness as a result of stressors, shocks, volatility, noise, mistakes, faults, attacks, or failures. It is a concept developed by Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book, Antifragile.[1] As Taleb explains in his book, antifragility is fundamentally different from the concepts of resiliency (i.e. the ability to recover from failure) and robustness (that is, the ability to resist failure). The concept has been applied in risk analysis,[2][3] physics,[4] molecular biology,[5][6] transportation planning,[7][8] engineering,[9][10][11] and computer science.[10][12][13][14][15]

Taleb defines it as follows in Nature:

Taleb defines it as follows in Nature:

    Simply, antifragility is defined as a convex response to a stressor or source of harm (for some range of variation), leading to a positive sensitivity to increase in volatility (or variability, stress, dispersion of outcomes, or uncertainty, what is grouped under the designation "disorder cluster"). Likewise fragility is defined as a concave sensitivity to stressors, leading a negative sensitivity to increase in volatility. The relation between fragility, convexity, and sensitivity to disorder is mathematical, obtained by theorem, not derived from empirical data mining or some historical narrative. It is a priori".[16][17]

Quote from: Grozny on August 30, 2016, 10:36:38 AM

I find I hear all I need to from talk on campus and on imageboards.

Do you believe this results in an informed, well-rounded opinion of current events?

Well-rounded, yes. Informed- depends on the matter. The more relevant the matter to my interests, the better I understand it. I couldn't tell you shit about Harambe or the state of British politics post-brexit, but I consider myself up to speed on the situation in Syria and the upcoming election.

The nice thing about these imageboards is the wild diversity of the userbase- I can get input from people on the ground anywhere, usually multiple perspectives on the story, and I can understand what the government or media narrative is in different parts of the world.

Good to see parents respecting the NAP.

Now we just need to stop them enrolling children in school against their will.

I know the US has some socialist policies. Medicade and Medicare are one of them, which is why I find it so funny a lot of far right Republicans freak out at the very things they support.

Thanks for the info on the other stuff.

Republicans and Democrats should be seen less as competing factions and more as two schizophrenic heads on a monstrous body.