Dennis Hackethal’s Blog
My blog about philosophy, coding, and anything else that interests me.
Tweets
An archive of my tweets and retweets through . They may be formatted slightly differently than on Twitter. API access has since gotten prohibitively expensive – I don't know whether or when I'll be able to update this archive.
But in case I will, you can subscribe via RSS – without a Twitter account. Rationale
‘But without government, who’d beat the scary ‘rona out of people??’ twitter.com/ClimateWarrior…
RT @aginnt:
What COVID democracy looks like in Europe. pic.twitter.com/QRPgJRyXOW
These scientists are going against THE SCIENCE (TM).
When personal responsibility is exactly what they want you to negate by acting in the interest of the collective. twitter.com/ThomasEWoods/s…
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Rest assured, they are all being beaten and savaged by dogs perfectly legally.
These people were outside, and it's il…
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Imagine living in 2100 when the sea level has gone up 100 metres on the US East Coast and only 30 metres on the West C…
RT @aginnt:
Amsterdam living under the thumb of “public health”.
From today. pic.twitter.com/n1FqABqoEQ
RT @aginnt:
An unbelievable turnout today in Amsterdam to end lockdowns and COVID law. pic.twitter.com/lDnLU05uvi
RT @reitschuster:
Frage an die Polizei (nicht nur) in #Amsterdam: Wie weit seid Ihr bereit zu gehen? Werdet Ihr auch schießen, wenn ein Sch…
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Great news for unvaccinated Italians. Now some of them will starve to death.
RT @aginnt:
Huge protests break out all across Germany on New Years to end COVID restrictions.
Koblenz, Germany tonight👇🏼
https://t.co/yQv…
RT @diemauerthewall:
Press kit regarding PAN AM's inaugural first direct flight New York to Berlin on May 30, 1964.
#Berlin #PanAmerican #T…
RT @therealrukshan:
It is being reported that a man distressed by vaccine mandates has set himself and his car on fire in Victoria, Austral…
RT @hubertus_knabe:
@secondhanduser
Da unterschätzen Sie den wissenschaftlich-technischen Fortschritt im #Sozialismus! https://t.co/6K75dJF…
RT @hubertus_knabe:
Mein Vorsatz für 2022: Mehr Nachhaltigkeit im Alltag!
#neuesjahr #Neujahrsvorsatz pic.twitter.com/Lhi8GKka9o
RT @dvassallo:
Work-life balance has almost nothing to do with how many hours you work, but whether it's your work that fits within your pr…
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Rugged individualism is white supremacy in its purest and most genocidal form. pic.twitter.com/WyrXtSBs56
RT @TheBabylonBee:
Unvaccinated Man Feeling Left Out As All His Vaccinated Friends Have COVID babylonbee.com/news/unvaccina…
RT @aginnt:
The Munich mayor bans COVID protests. Here is how the people responded. pic.twitter.com/Ltf3EQNp42
So schlimm wie in der DDR ist es wohl (noch) nicht, aber es ist schlimm genug. twitter.com/rebew_lexa/sta…
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Science, science, why have you forsaken me?
RT @Jonas_Hermann:
Kanzler Olaf Scholz hält Rechtsextreme für die grösste Bedrohung. Die Zahlen der Bundesanwaltschaft ergeben ein ganz and…
RT @aginnt:
Germans continue to protest tonight against looming lockdowns and vaxx mandates. pic.twitter.com/U9skZojO8S
RT @ANothlich:
Würde man die Menschen massiv auf Herpes testen und jeden positiv getesteten Toten einen Herpes-Sterbefall nennen, könnten w…
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Sorry but if you've caught covid, you've done something wrong. You broke social distancing rules or didn't wear enough…
It’s bad. I don’t recommend it. I mentally hold it in a separate category from the other three so as not to ruin the memory.
“[M]an kann ja das Einhalten von Abständen am besten gewährleisten, indem man die Menschen auf möglichst engem Raum zusammentreibt.”
RT @aginnt:
An anti-mandate protestor makes a scene at an Australian cricket match. pic.twitter.com/9WL5oXmgyt
RT @diemauerthewall:
Berlin, August 1961. Kurz nach dem Mauerbau winken Westberliner in Richtung Osten.
#Berlin #ColdWar
#berlinermauer #b…
RT @aginnt:
Every major town in Germany experienced a flood of anti-mandate protestors last night. pic.twitter.com/D44LMv2LiS
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Death will walk the face of the Earth. The dying will flee screaming from the dead; blood, pus and vomit spewing from…
RT @aginnt:
Nightly protests continue in Germany against COVID mandates.
Kaiserslautern tonight👇🏼
pic.twitter.com/pf7iP4ezGh
People in the UK have a right to work and a right to rent? Is this for real?
RT @GregAbbott_TX:
Biden says there's no federal solution to COVID and that this gets solved at a state level.
He should immediately end h…
RT @reitschuster:
Wenn die Polizei Pfefferspray gegen Demonstranten einsetzt, die mit Kindern unterwegs sind, und dabei ein Baby Pfefferspr…
RT @aginnt:
A Christmas rally in Berlin against the COVID police state. pic.twitter.com/9DhAiAvQu3
RT @ThomasEWoods:
"We never said the vaccines stopped transmission"
Liars gonna lie
RT @libsoftiktok:
The state of the rental market in NYC pic.twitter.com/GKeQIwgR5i
RT @joergnicht:
Bülowstraße. #Berlin pic.twitter.com/zdKfTEPNNy
RT @aginnt:
Merry Christmas from the streets of Barcelona! No more COVID mandates! pic.twitter.com/Iwdma9pjXQ
@Markgsparrow @ClimateWarrior7
Exactly. By some projections, in the next ten years 20 billion ppl will die and 50 billion will immigrate to Berlin alone.
RT @aginnt:
Protestors march in Germany for Christmas to end COVID mandates. pic.twitter.com/vtPi5RuJ0E
I can’t tell if it was a cash grab. They may have genuinely tried to create something great and just failed.
It sucked. Really bad. It felt like a parody at times. Acting was bad (including Reeves'). Story shallow, not enthralling. I won't consider this a sequel to the trilogy.
If you disliked the third one and thought it couldn't get worse: it actually got a lot worse.
Important article. Hope to see you guys on the other side as well. twitter.com/NickHudsonCT/s…
RT @jreichelt:
In unserem Haus, das "Dem deutschen Volke" gewidmet ist, bröckelt der grundgesetzliche Gedanke der Gewaltenteilung. Stattdes…
RT @textklang:
Stasi surveillance as natural history documentary: covert (or not) filming of #Punks attending gig at Berlin's Erlöserkirche…
RT @hubertus_knabe:
Die Gleichschaltung des liberalen #Hongkong durch #China geht weiter: »Säule der Schande« zum Gedenken an das #Tiananme…
RT @BNicholsLiberty:
Brought to you by progressive Democrat hero, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. pic.twitter.com/zByzKI29ZY
"Etwas. Unterschied bei schweren Verläufen weiter unklar." Panikmacher
RT @re_develop:
I‘m very excited to read this book @DavidDeutschOxf pic.twitter.com/mNXyFJrD5u
RT @catturd2:
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES !!! pic.twitter.com/prgEgUPUbC
Medical tyranny. Scientism at its worst. twitter.com/disclosetv/sta…
Kenne den Mann zwar nicht, ist aber keine schlechte Aktion! twitter.com/politicalbeaut…
Es nimmt überhand 😡 pic.twitter.com/OXAMSDpDmv
RT @twittonreg:
Mutter und Sohn trugen an der frischen Luft keine Masken und wurden brutal festgenommen! Leute, was ist hier los? Masken an…
RT @ben_brechtken:
Lockdown bleibt Lockdown, auch wenn man die Scheisse "Kontaktbeschränkungen", "Neujahrsruhe" oder "Solidaritätswackelpud…
(That's assuming it's not a parody account.)
There are some clues here that Chely is a second-hander if you'd like to analyze together @IamtheWay13.
This tweet isn’t actually about Breaking Bad. Click bait. twitter.com/PhyllisSilver/…
A good example of how systems that haven’t yet undergone what Deutsch calls the jump to universality can be more difficult to implement than their universal counterpart. twitter.com/PR0GRAMMERHUM0…
[You have] certainly no way of falsifying your accusation.
Somebody I accuse of being second-handed could in principle persuade me that he isn't one and that I'm wrong.
You have no direct access to another person's thoughts.
That's always true, of course, but it doesn't imply that we should never judge. Or we'd have no way of judging!
Yes, but without a good way to distinguish between the two.
Did you read the linked page? I think it contains good ways.
One way to tell is if someone is scared to do something he thinks is right (to the extent that he can) because others might not like it.
Everyone repeats ideas shared by other people – that's just enacting memes. I see nothing wrong with that per se.
What I'm referring to is the concept of second-handedness: aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/second…
I did read it in its entirety and analyzed it in detail. Why did you assume otherwise?
Karl asked me what I oppose, not about how to persuade pathetic sheep not to be pathetic sheep anymore.
But yes, I'd guess in the process of persuasion ridicule can sometimes be productive but there are definitely times when it should be avoided.
Warren lies constantly, don't trust a word she says: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/lying-li…
Still, even using the definition “A man who causes trouble in a playful way”, how can saying something mainstream be said to meaningfully cause trouble?
If they do it in a setting where most around them disagree they may not be sheep because that takes courage. (But it gets tricky eg if they're missionaries sent to such settings, or if afterwards they post on social media about how courageous they were being.)
No, they could still believe that spreading 'the word of god' is virtuous AND show off what goody two-shoes they are. They'd be merely mistaken about the first part while also being pathetic sheep for the second.
I don't understand your second paragraph. I'm guessing the word "guy" refers to yourself, but I was saying that what Deutsch says is mainstream, not what you're saying.
AFAIK it also roughly means 'bad guy', which in the context of your tweet I took to mean 'unconventional enough to be perceived as a bad guy/troublemaker'. But English is not my first language so what do I know.
Those who post on social media about what good, committed churchgoers they are, sure.
I oppose making them mandatory. And those showing off their mask on social media to score social points – they are pathetic sheep.
RT @NorbertBolz:
"Gendern" ist ein Schulbeispiel dafür, dass auch in einer Demokratie eine Minderheit eine überwältigende Mehrheit tyrannis…
Da "uns" Plural ist, haettest du doch bereits wissen muessen, dass "nur in Deinem Kopf" falsch ist.
In "uns" bist du mit drin, oder?
Verstaendlich, dass du es so gelesen hast, war aber so nicht gemeint. Ich meinte es solidarisch.
Was willst Du damit bezwecken?
Dass Drosten aufhoert, Leuten Angst einzujagen.
Drosten et al haben vielen Tausenden Angst eingejagt.
Mir uebrigens nicht. So oder so werde ich natuerlich nicht aufhoeren zu lesen.
Little injun has covid. Maybe there are some indigenous herbs she can use for healing. Wishing you a speedy recovery @ewarren. twitter.com/disclosetv/sta…
Na prima, dann koennen Sie uns ja weiter Angst einjagen.