the explanation is the thing that’s claimed to have truth value but it’s complete bullshit.

The truth in this example is that you can make iron stronger by adding bones. Being incorrect about the process doesn’t make the result any less truthful.

Observing a process and not having an explanation for why exactly it works is not beyond anything

In that case, it’s elephants all the way down. I can understand how trees work and discover new things about them without understanding how sub-atomic particles interact in their leaves. You think having no understanding of the underlining phenomenon makes the things you observe and discover above it untruthful. But everything we know about the universe today relies on principles we don’t understand yet. By your own definition, all of modern science is false because we haven’t yet filled in certain gaps.

the story they made up isn’t finding truth at all.

Was the Plum Pudding model just something J.J. Thomson made up? In a historical epoch in which ghosts, werewolves, and gods were presumed to exist, this was an extremely logical explanation. Being wrong doesn’t mean these people were just guessing and talking out their ass.

Alchemists formed the basis for modern day Chemistry. They were wrong and had no idea why they were able to do the things they did but that doesn’t mean they weren’t able to find truth.

Vikings commonly threw bones of their ancestors in smelting furnaces because they believed the souls would strength the iron. They were right, bone and poor quality iron formed a rudimentary type of steel which did indeed make a stronger blade. The explanation is entirely chemical, but they were able to reach a truth beyond their current level of scientific understanding.

Acting like people from the past were just big dummies who did things for no reason is idealism. They couldn’t scientifically understand why these things occurred but they still understood the effects of the world around them.

Interesting example of religion being used to gain truth beyond scientific understanding. Gnostics considered themselves strangers in a strange land. They were among the first to reconcile the belief of a good God with a shit world without “might makes right” apologism. They also identified the conflict between the ideals religions preach and the fact that humans are base, unconscious animals. Consciousness/personality is only an ad hoc phenomenon for most people. Their brains make decisions based on instinct then the personality is tasked with justifying those decisions to other members of the social group.

What the Gnostics get wrong is adding in a bunch of Christian themes and stories to an already complete pseudo-hermetic philosophy. It could be considered a Christian “Skillful Means” vis-à-vis Buddhism. But I think you would have to assign an intention when it was probably just a mixing of religions.

You have to file a 84-G with the gender police.

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I’d say people were still on the high of Bernie and were decidedly more optimistic about the future at that point. It wasn’t that long ago that Chompsky, Bernie, and other faux progressives were very well liked here.

I still remember when admins made changing the name from “chapochat” to “hexbear” a moral imperative because “We have to appeal to more people and the podcast would prevent that.” Then deciding a month later that converting people is hard and no one wants to do it.

Yes and no. Hexbear as a political project is more or less dead. It’s been that way since the first year or so. It’s more or less just a club for commie shitposting now. I used to do organizing/theory on Hexbear, now I just use it for non-political posting.

Hexbear, barring some huge shift, will stay around this size for the next few years and experience a slow decline until shutdown. It is a site just past its peak experiencing a slow fall to obscurity that all things must go through eventually.

I support them but only as far as they’re a convection oven. If you already have a small convection oven then you’re more or less set.

I got a ninja foodie thing that’s a pressure cooker, air fryer, oven, and 40 other things in one and 95% of my dinners use it.

You can tell this one is a troll tbh.

as only the opinion of the employer matters … there would be absolutely no right of appeal

Come on, liberals love bullshit appeals and that’s the only reason they say atrocities are okay because “uh technically, you can appeal it so not sucking the boot of the law is actually terrorism commie.”

Babel is a mesopotamian city. It would be built using forced labour, would involve more intensive exploitation for the construction of monumental architecture and upkeep of an urban ruling class.

Whew! Good thing different languages prevented slavery and coerced labor from becoming a thing.

No, they required all participants to be aged verified which means companies will just block them because they don’t want to do that.

The closest I got was meeting another internet commie who went to my rural high school in some grand kind of cosmic coincidence. They did browse r/chapotraphouse which I consider to be more or less hexbear at this point.

Stopped clock etc etc

I have a family friend in the direct path down in Texas. But then I would have to deal with Texas so idk.

r/chapotraphouse

Worst-estrshire Sauce

Also Woke-strshire Sauce

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If you’re younger, I think social media/pandemic has fried most people’s brain. The few older folk I know will ask me about my weekend and do other small talk but anyone in Gen Z is a dead end.

In my experience, if you just start talking about your weekend you can get them interested. Others just don’t want to make that step for some reason.

mb mb, terrible at picking up /s and stuff.