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  • The way i distinguish:

    property in that you have a piece of paper saying something is yours and you can prevent people from using that thing or extract value from it, while not using it yourself. That’s theft.

    But possession, ie. having things that you use, a house you live in etc. that’s not theft unless other circumstances that lead to the possession are theft.








  • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneCuddles!!!!
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    9 months ago

    I love the cute vibe, but I feel the need to rant:

    “strengthens the immune system” doesn’t mean much. And if you take it at face value, it’s probably a bad thing, atleast in the West, more people suffer from overactive immune systems (allergies, autoimmune diseases) than underactive ones.












  • Well quatre-vignt-dix is literally translated to “four twenty ten” (why not just nine ten? because historically french evolved with a base 20 counting system).

    But when a french person hears that, they don’t hear those numbers, to them it just means ninety.

    Just like an english person won’t hear. “four-ty”, and think “four-ten” “oh that’s 40”. Because “fourty” was originally “four-ten” (written differently because old english so I rewrote in modern for simplicity) and got shortened down.

    To them “fourty” is just a word that means 40. Just like to metropolitan french people “ quatre-vignt-dix” is just a word that means 90.




  • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneAbsurdirule
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    9 months ago

    Ah. That’s what existentialists say. While most absurdists would vehemently disagree.

    Depends how you see it.

    Existentialism is about creating meaning for yourself because there is no objective meaning.

    Absurdism is about accepting there is no objective meaning, even though humans naturally seek and see meaning in everything, acknowledging therein lies an absurd contradiction to human experience. (Then what Camus would say is you should rebel against this meaninglessness, by embracing the absurdity and enjoying it, which I agree sounds similar to existentialism).