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
Sollen wir ihr verraten, dass deutsche Gesetzesvorschlaege in Amerika nicht anerkannt werden?
chief of social-democrat youth organization demands expropriation of twitter from musk
Super, hoffentlich macht er alles richtig und die Bundesregierung verlässt Twitter.
Lying Little Injun: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/lying-li…
RT @WalterIsaacson:
At Twitter headquarters’ coffee bar, @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/vy5Cw7zttf
Also, instead of simple words like 'learning', use scary words like 'cortices' that will impress laymen. Label the curvy arrows with similarly scary words. Make it a paper and have it peer reviewed. Publish in a prestigious journal. BOOM you have a neuroscience paper. twitter.com/Meaningness/st…
seems like an awfully complicated way to eat an egg
RT @elonmusk:
Falcon rockets to orbit as seen from LA pic.twitter.com/r8L2SbLC3p
Nein. Jeder beliebige Gesamtsteuerbetrag x ist x Euro zu viel.
RT @TCSparents:
“[Students] are learning this stuff to pass exams. [...] And, if some of what they learn should someday prove useful, they…
@Tabley_Offical @HeldtMax @welt
allein es als übervermögen zu bezeichnen ist parasitär
Leider gibt es selbst in den USA, dem vermeintlichen Land der Freiheit, Anstrengungen, eine Vermoegenssteuer einzufuehren (seitens der Senatorin Elizabeth Warren). Ich fuerchte, kein Buerger auf der Welt ist sicher vor dem Parasitismus seiner jeweiligen Regierung.
Wieso eine Vermoegenssteuer generell eine ganz schlechte Idee ist: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/wealth-t…
Ganz genau. Der amerikanische Politiker Ron Paul (umschrieben): Entwicklungshilfe ist, wenn die Armen eines reichen Landes dazu gezwungen werden, die Reichen eines armen Landes zu finanzieren.
Ekelhaft. Die Deutschen sind den Politikern ausgeliefert.
Dann soll er eben keine Buerger dazu zwingen, dafuer zu bezahlen, wenn ihm der Otto-Normalverbraucher doch so sehr am Herzen liegt.
Und der Fraktionschef der Linken, Dietmar Bartsch: „Wir brauchen eine europaweite Beteiligung der Superreichen. Es darf nicht sein, dass der normale Steuerzahler, der schon unter Inflation und Energiepreisen leidet, allein auch die Kriegsrechnung bezahlen muss.“
Nein: "Die Ukraine wünscht sich von Deutschland 500 Millionen Dollar pro Monat, um das Land durch den Krieg zu bringen. SPD-Chefin Saskia Esken hat eine Idee, wie das dafür nötige Geld eingetrieben werden könnte."
RT @jbrowder1:
At @DoNotPay, we run a very frugal company culture and try to reduce unnecessary expenses.
Here are 7 things that I think e…
RT @FoundersPodcast:
Linus Torvalds —creator of Linux — on the importance of sleep: pic.twitter.com/6S483z5pkc
Well, if even thinking of leaving is already disaster, changing the relationship to one where thinking of leaving is okay may not be so easy. So the word “just” seems misplaced here, and I don’t agree that this solution is “obvious”.
ja. oder 'fahrrad fahren ohne helm ist illegal also macht es keiner'
“Politicians, I think, should […] be a little more modest about their abilities […]. We can’t run everything, and we shouldn’t try.” twitter.com/MrsMThatcher/s…
RT @DayTechHistory:
On this day in 2001, Apple introduced the 1st Generation iPod. pic.twitter.com/g5vFsoWyVR
"No one should be a billionaire" only means that it should be illegal to pay yourself a billion dollars from the profits of your company.
Aren't most billionaires' assets not cash?
I had the idea for a cart like this years ago. Surely I’m not the only one. What’s taken them so long? twitter.com/HowThingsWork_…
*except certain government employees twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/…
RT @LegendaryEnergy:
Still one of the most epic minutes in television. pic.twitter.com/uEKltp5Cmo
What almost nobody talks about is that most forests are public land, and government tends to do a worse job at ~anything than private companies, at least in the long run.
Privatization is the answer. Same for trash in oceans btw.
looks like maybe he was briefly talking to someone who was off camera?
RT @RNCResearch:
BIDEN: "Over a billion, 200, a trillion, 200 billion dollars!" pic.twitter.com/teJqJ1wBPb
@BrutusTB2000 @AdamColeman2022 @meaimanlee
Galt, exists in the same Realm, as Roark.
Why the commas?
RT @JackPosobiec:
Be a shame if this went viral pic.twitter.com/DBUzUCVkZZ
Ein Traum von Sokrates: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/ein-trau…
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
It's all in a confined structure.
Children learn language playfully, however they want. It's not like school where there's a syllabus they are not allowed to deviate from.
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
A child is not given an option of languages to freely choose from.
You seem to think 'absence of force' = 'having at least two options to choose from' but that's not true.
@Thomas190163 @JanAlbrecht @welt
Auch wenn sie "zum Wohle der Steuerzahler" eingesetzt werden, ist es Raub. Raub ist, wenn dir jemand dein Eigentum gegen deinen Willen wegnimmt, auch wenn er es dann 'fuer dich' einsetzt. Wohlwollende Raeuber sind immer noch Raeuber.
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
That force isn’t transitive applies to children, too. I don’t think you understand what force is, and I think you come up with ad-hoc reasons to reject my arguments.
RT @DavidDeutschOxf:
Das weitgehend eigenständige zehnte Kapitel aus meinem Buch Der Anfang der Unendlichkeit ist jetzt als Audioversion ve…
Dominic Kolb. Finde seine Stimme auch klasse.
@BBeckerPhotos @sukramTM @a_nnaschneider @JanAlbrecht @welt
Richtig. Wuerde ich gerne alles entweder selbst machen oder freiwillig Firmen damit beauftragen. Darf ich nur leider nicht.
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
No, force isn't transitive like that. For example, someone can be in prison against his will while voluntarily learning a new language in the prison library.
Also, children learn language outside the home, too, so I don't think that's what you had in mind originally.
@a_nnaschneider @JanAlbrecht @welt
Ich wuerde an der Stelle mal einen Juristen fragen, ob die Unterstellungen der "[V]erfassungsfeindlich[keit]" und "Demokratiefeind[lichkeit]" nicht oeffentliche Verleumdung sind. Vielleicht sollte das @JanAlbrecht nicht so salopp von sich geben. Stichwort Rechtsstaat.
@sukramTM @a_nnaschneider @JanAlbrecht @welt
Altes Standardargument. Man kann es dem Individuum nicht anlasten, wenn ihm staatliche 'Dienstleistungen' aufgezwungen werden, schon gar nicht wenn diese unerwuenscht (und teilweise auch unvermeidbar) sind.
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
Yes, that's another example of force.
RT @FoundersPodcast:
Steve Jobs on avoiding “the bozo explosion”
(companies fill up with second-rate talent as they grow) https://t.co/8w…
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
The child is not allowed to leave the classroom for as long as he likes.
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
How is learning a language forced?
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
Yes you've said that: twitter.com/GoodAsYoucloth…
Isn’t sex already everywhere? Why not talk about hypergamy?
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
You were able to respond with 'no' here: twitter.com/GoodAsYoucloth…
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
And I have explained that you'd probably consider any evidence "groundless" so it really doesn't matter. But I'm not even talking about that here. Different topic.
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
No.
OK. Just making sure. Lots of people equivocate these things.
Am I not using American grammar correctly?
Sometimes, yea. Like when you wrote "it seems like forcing a child to speak a language they didn't personally chose or against they will"
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
Amazing how many ppl have trouble responding with a simple 'yes' or 'no'.
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
"It's forced and out of necessity."
To be clear, do you think 'force' and 'necessity' are the same thing?
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
"It even has a reward system for proper usage."
What does the word "It" refer to? Learning a language?
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
I understand that, but I'm asking you to respond explicitly to my question. Again, were you asking for evidence of something else, yes or no?
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
So what evidence could I possibly provide that would convince you otherwise?
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
Since you claim that not even language is learned voluntarily, and since ~everybody learns language (so everybody experiences force by that logic), for any examples I could give of ppl who developed genius despite this force you can claim they developed genius because of it
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
Is that a 'no' to my question?
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
I'm saying that learning the basics of a language is an example of what ~all children do voluntarily. You had asked for evidence that children don't just pursue frivolous things when not coerced.
Or were you asking for evidence of something else?
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
[F]orcing a child to speak a language […] against they will .. is against what you spoke about earlier...
I'm not talking about forcing a child to speak a language.
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
You are saying all the human genius in all time history was a mistake in the learning process?
No. You seem to be attributing genius to forced learning. Consider that genius occurs despite force.
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
Did you mean to say 'it just seems a folly'?
I invoked morals and interests, not comfort.
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
Me teaching my child to count is immoral?
No, but teaching your child to count against his will is.
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
Based on what evidence?
Children learn language basics and how to walk, without force.
Where in history has a child been left to pursue whatever they want.
Assume never – so what? Should we continue a mistake just because we've always made it?
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
Because being forced to do math is immoral. And no, 'letting' your kid pursue what he wants doesn't only lead to what you consider 'frivolous' pursuits, as you seem to imply.
Ja ganz furchtbar, die armen Ginkgo-Bäume. (Übrigens nicht "Gingko".)
Inwiefern stellt ein Kompromiss keine echte Lösung dar? blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/inwiefer…
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
By forcing children to learn things they’re not interested in and filling their day with that instead of letting them freely pursue their interests.
Would being forced to learn about things your teacher finds weird make you curious?
Children are extremely curious until school forces them not to be. So the answer is: get rid of compulsory schooling.
Simple Way to Get Rid of Smelly Feet 🦶🦨👃: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/simple-w…
RT @TechEmails:
Google looks at acquiring YouTube
February 7, 2006 pic.twitter.com/7ukM47RUBJ
@AntLeonard73 @rheangelseehorn
What did you think about Walt’s and Jesse’s appearances? Seemed like fan service to me…
And don’t get me started on the whole time-travel thing. WTF lol, so out of place…
@AntLeonard73 @rheangelseehorn
Totally.
I recall hearing about how they changed the story involving Jeff when the actor changed. That probably didn’t help.
@AntLeonard73 @rheangelseehorn
the ending felt rushed to me. and something just didn't connect. hard to put my finger on it. kim's new life was weird. plus i don't think they explained why she quit the law. she could have just quit jimmy right?
i liked the first ~half of the season. then it went south. :(