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Comment · 4 years ago
I wonder who designed this website? This looks great, from a visual standpoint.
Comment · 4 years ago
What do you like about hey.com?
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks! This comment made me happy :-)

I do think about how photography’s claim to authority - its claim to represent some objective reality we all live in - is being questioned by the prevalence of filters and photoshop on social media.

It is not that social media is a digital reflection of the physical world, but more of an alternate reality in which we all have digital avatars that may or may not correspond to a physical self.

Comment · 4 years ago
I can see how this could work in English. I’m not sure if there are other languages in which 3/4 of a word carries more meaning. (I’m a primary English speaker, so this concern could be unfounded.)
Comment · 4 years ago
I like the design of your website!

What do you mean when you say words are disentangled, standalone concepts? I see words as being very much related to each other.

I assume I may be misinterpreting what you mean by "disentangled, standalone concepts”.

Barbara Tversky's research seems to contradict linguistic relativism. I definitely don’t think language is the foundation of cognition.

Comment · 4 years ago
I agree - this article is a bit scary.
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Comment · 4 years ago
In my opinion, objective truth does not exist. “Fact-free argumentation" is good and desirable.
Comment · 4 years ago
Stuttering is not a disease and does not need a cure.
Comment · 4 years ago
Most of my professors in college were awful. I didn’t understand why.

I just read a great book - Teaching Community, by bell hooks - which helped me understand why my college education was of such poor quality.

Comment · 4 years ago
Those what?
Comment · 4 years ago
Corporations exist to make money.

1. People who can’t afford housing can’t pay corporations.

2. I’m not sure what you mean.

3. Inequality makes the billionaires who own high-tech companies even wealthier. I think inequality is very acceptable to them.

4. I’m not sure what you mean.

5. Bullshit jobs make corporations a lot of money.

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