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Tonepoet

00:01

Since nobody's using the chatroom right now anyway, I'm going to just go ahead and use it as storage for the text of the editing queue rejection reasons. The queue is never available when I want to reference its provisions. XP

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Cerberus

00:44

@Mitch Now, now. Think of poor Hitler.

@Færd Why not? Anarchism wants a weak state. And it wants progress and more personal freedom.

Oh, wait, that was about Mitch's graph?

I meant my two dimensions.

9 hours ago, by Cerberus

1. Socio-culturally conservative/reactionary versus progressive. This generally coincides with less personal freedom versus more personal freedom.

9 hours ago, by Cerberus

2. Less state intervention versus more state intervention. This generally coincides with less redistribution of wealth by the state versus more redistribution.

@MetaEd OK. I mentioned static variables because it was my way of trying to make sense of closures. No doubt there are differences.

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Mitch

02:14

@Cerberus His mother surely loved him.

Feeds

02:31

Q: A Term for a writer producing a lot content

This might be a very straightforward question. I am looking for a word to describe an author who is going through a very creating phase and is churning out a lot of work. I am unable to recollect a very commonly used adjective for this. Usage might look like: From 1905 to 1908 he published seve...

Cerberus

02:49

@Mitch Comme Jesus?

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SmokeDetector

04:27

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, +2 more: www.ifirmationeyeserumblog.com/tryvix-italy/ by jicwongd on english.SE

Færd

05:00

@Mitch "removal of as much government control as possible" doesn't necessarily mean "100% personal and economic self-governing". The latter is an extra assumption you add to the former (as a corollary, I suppose). And I don't think anarchism challenges only government control.

@Cerberus Yeah. Of course there are clashing definitions for anarchism, as are for any of these political terms. But to me, anarchism is not after maximizing personal freedom. Absolute personal freedom doesn't mean anything to me. That's chaos.

Anarchism seems to me to be an attitude, a kind of hope, and an untamable approach to the question of power and tyranny, without setting a definite state of society as the goal, because it's not clear now what utopian human society would look like. It's an open problem of a complex system. Anarchism offers a way to try to solve it.

I think any sensible anarchist is after striking a balance between various layers of society by means of always challenging the status-quo narrative of power that is taken for granted at the time and trying to dismantle it for the better, if it can't explain its existence.

And those layers range from individual persons to smaller to larger associations of people (eg families, corporations, nations, etc, if any of these are to have a place in a sustainably and stably "just and free" human society).

Therefor you can find anarchists sweeping the whole spectrum between anti-state nationalism to various forms of socialism. I find some of them contradictory and ludicrous, but nevertheless I think they all come under the umbrella term of "anarchism".

I realize it's too vague to fit somewhere in those squares with sharp vertices and well-defined axes.

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Faheem Mitha

10:20

@Færd Yes, that's approximately Chomsky's explanation of anarchism.

I don't personally know anything about it, though.

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Faheem Mitha

12:47

And I think (if it needs to be said), that political positions are far too complex to fit in a two-dimensional diagram.

skullpatrol

yeah, left-wing and right-wing is an over simplification

which is one-dimensional actually :)

Martin AJ

Which one is correct?

- I make the user login manually

- I make the user logged in manually

skullpatrol

1 min ago, by Martin AJ

- I make the user login manually

that^ one

Martin AJ

thx

skullpatrol

Feeds

13:14

Q: Single word for the emotion of being alone in a crowd?

Can anyone suggest to me a single word for the emotion of being alone in a crowd

single-word-requests

Mitch

13:56

@Cerberus Hm...interesting comparison. Whose mom was nicer? But I think that's unfair. It's hurtful to moms in general.

@Færd I don't understand your understanding of the words. Those two sentences are pretty close, except for your leaving out the 'personal' part.

I'm pretty sure anarchism challenges -all- government control. What other control are you thinking of?

@Færd the second dimension, of government control of personal situations, is things like freedom of speech, freedom of religion, sex choices, alcohol/drugs.

@FaheemMitha yes, it's all very complex, but there are general trends and categories and the diagram helps explain some of the terms.

Feeds

Q: Expression for something being the right target / solution for something else

Expression that would describe the group of things / people that are the target for the particular purpose. They found the customers _______ software developers. The message that the sentence should convey is that the software developers were the right people to sell the service to. In the...

single-word-requests expressions

Feeds

14:40

Q: What is it called when you accidentally mix two thoughts with the same meaning and end up saying something with the opposite meaning?

A common example would be a famous story on Internet that spawned a meme where someone accidentally combined Are you okay? and I'm fucking sorry and ended up saying Are you fucking sorry? A recent example was when someone I was discussing something with accidentally combined handy and useful and...

single-word-requests

Q: I worked for Gestamp a few years ago and forgot what my job title was so I need a little help

I used to work for Gestamp and inspect car parts as they are taken off of the plasma cutters and put on molds that clamps that specific part in several different places. Then I would take the part after it was clamped down and take a handful of plug gauges and check the holes, then I would check ...

single-word-requests word-usage

SmokeDetector

15:25

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive body detected: Explain the image of Elema head which "holds more time warps than Einstein".. and how "dubbing him and his perennial rash" ironic by Muhammad Ahmed Nasir on english.SE

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Faheem Mitha

17:35

@Mitch Government control is only one kind of power. The other obvious one is private power, notably corporate.

@Mitch Yes, some of them.

@Mitch Actually, Hitler's sisters, who don't get a lot of press, were apparently quite fond of him.

And he seems to have to gone out of the way to keep them from harm.

Though he also seems to have thought they were morons.

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Mitch

18:47

@FaheemMitha He supposedly referred to them as "stupid geese"

as far as insulting their intelligence goes, that's pretty weak tea.

Gigili

19:32

@Mitch Isn't that the sound of a train riding on a railroad?

Mitch

19:48

@Gigili No, that would be clickety-clackety. Tippety-tappety is an entirely different repetitive mechanical sound.

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Feeds

23:19

Q: What is an English word that describes being terrified and jealous at the same time?

I’m looking for a word in the English language to describe feeling terrified and jealous simultaneously. For example, say someone in a particular sport who considered themselves at the top of their game witnessed someone else display a higher level of performance in the same sport. In this case a...