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> what is the psychological label for people who do not distinguish artist from art?

There isn't one because you can dislike a person and/or their works for literally any reason you want.

Is there a label for insisting that people put aside their feelings and engage with something because you have deemed their reason for not doing so invalid?


I said nothing about like or dislike.

I only implied that implied psychological traits of a fictional character are not evidence of the same psychological traits in the author. It's merely evidence that the author is capable of observing or imagining such traits in others.


‘Shoulding’?

Did you forget dialup was a thing? No one created anything for home users thinking it would be behind some firewall because as said Windows didn't ship with one, and because the dominant way of customers getting online was dialup, giving a public IP to every user.

Software was created with no security because no one demanded it because no one cared. Technologies that came later did not create that situation.


> Corporations need to say 'no' to governments far more often than they do.

When those corporations need the government to look the other way about things they're doing or want to do, they're going to suck up to it every time as hard as they can.

This is such an easy thing to do to make the little baby happy, of course they did it before he forgets he did it in the first place.


This is because of the US's unwavering support of Israel no matter what they do.

You can not blame all of the worlds ills on Russia, seemingly the most powerful and least capable nation at the same time.


Why not both? Seriously. The USA's current leadership cabal certainly appears to be dancing to the tune of several corrupt world leaders. Even when they contradict each other.

Trump is threatening to bomb Oman? Trump is talking smack on South Korea and cuddling up to North Korea again?


> ... Russia, seemingly the most powerful and least capable nation at the same time.

Trump and his cult are working very hard to wrest this title from Russia as quickly as possible.


It's a local TV station, the target audience already knows where so the information is superfluous.

And the breadcrumbs at the top of the page give you enough information to find out if you're not in the target audience.


None of these definitions are universally accepted.

A taco is a sandwich A hot dog is a sandwich A burger is a sandwich

There is such a thing as an open-faced sandwich, which has one slice of bread.


I agree that none of these is universally accepted, as there are people who disagree right here!

Open-face sandwiches often have multiple pieces of bread, go by many names, and are similar to toasts and tostadas, which are neither sandwiches nor tacos.


Why do you think changing PM's is a bad thing?

The PM is selected from the party that has the majority in Parliament (typically the party leader), so if the PM changes without a national vote, it's still a MP from the majority party.


So there is no such thing as unintended consequences? Everything always works to the master plan?


Don't you know? Our great leaders are playing 4d chess on a higher dimension and everything they do is carefully planned and executed. Every failure and blunder is a move beyond our comprehension as part of the supreme master plan. Haven't you read The Art of War???

Obviously sarcasm... But in all seriousness, it's scary how many people genuinely believe this.


How about this:

"Our great leaders are playing 4d civilization in multiple dimensions beyond 4. Most of what they do is carefully planned and executed but there are many unknowns and there are also "unknown unknowns". There are players not sitting at the table who are pulling levers elsewhere. There are unknown players. Most moves' results are beyond our comprehension due to purely complexity and the "fog of war", not necessarily b/c of any (of many different) superficially clever 'supreme master plans'."


> at least to predict that a quake we see is likely to be a precursor to a much larger one or is likely that peak.

That we can basically do. "Observations show that the chance of an earthquake being followed by a larger one nearby and within a week is about 5%."

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-probability-earthquake-a-fore...

It is an incredibly safe bet that any earthquake is not the sign of a larger one.


5% within a week is a very high set of odds for such rare events. Or to look at it from the other more relevant direction 70% of magnitude 7 or larger quakes have detected foreshocks...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreshock


And that's your choice. Mars decided that they were going to limit serving sizes to 250 calories or less, and products shrank or were dropped in line with that.

This was a better idea than simply saying a single use package really contains more than one serving in it to look like the company was being responsible.

You choosing to eat more is just that, your choice. It has nothing to do with any company.


If the original larger bar contained more calories as well as higher quality ingredients requiring more time to digest, then the older bar may actually have been the healthier option.


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