flerp

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[–] flerp@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago
[–] flerp@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Train them for longer. Actually train them to fight. There are ways to bring someone down safely and if you know them you are less likely to hurt the person you are trying to subdue as well as yourself. Put them in a ring once they know how to fight and have them fight each other in a safe and sanctioned way. Once they graduate that level, have them spar against two partners to see what it's like to be outnumbered. Train them to be honourable in combat ie. defensive and not out to hurt people as a priority.

And of course train them that civilians are not their enemies.

None of this requires barbaric hazing.

Oh and just as a matter of note: people don't learn skills through chaos. You learn through repetition and once you have burned the action into your muscle memory through hours and hours and hours of practice, only then do you put your skills into chaos. Nobody gets into the ring in combat sports off the street. They practice until they can do what they need to do without thinking and only then will they be able to hopefully maintain the discipline to take the right actions under stress and chaos.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's still a true journalists job to try

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

The problem with that is that most of the poor are not really smart either. On average we're a pretty dumb species.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

We need a media bias fact checker fact checker

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You often refer to Germany by the state then in place you mean

No I don’t think I do…

Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_you

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Explain the joke

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What is your idea of a good meme so we have a frame of reference to compare to

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They're also misunderstanding Buddhism. Fair to assume they're probably misunderstanding quite a lot.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

"I donated a million dollars to a charity for impoverished children and I also murdered a few people for funsies. Hey, they even out right?"

No. That's stupid.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Choices are already limited... by our brains. Some people choose to stick objects up their urethra. Based on statistical probability, I would guess you do not. Does the fact that your brain limits you from making that choice mean your will is not free? You didn't choose which brain you would get. Or are you going to go stick something up there to prove how free you are?

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Prove there is free will anyways. All modern studies of the brain and consciousness indicate our free will only exists in a compatibalist way, in other words we can be free to act without another actor forcing us. But libertarian free will, such as would be required for any being to act against their "design" has no evidence whatsoever.

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