Stop calling it pedantry.

It isn't children doing it. It's adults. It should be called adultery.

I don't want to hear any of this "Form of the Big" bullshit from Platonists. There's simply no equivalency between me having a big heart, and you being a colossal asshole.

NO EQUIVALENCY!

Short term stupidity for long term insanity

Leftists are delusional. Fascists win and they want to focus on why democrats are bad and not fascists. And then call their only party ally who can win an election nazis. Nonsensical. There is no will to any real change. Nothing based on materialism. Just the visuals

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …

So things seem really bad in American politics, huh?

Pro tip:

If a societal problem isn't being dealt with to the extent you want, the simplest explanation is that society at large—or at least those in power—don't view the primary victims of this problem as fully human.

Direct application of Occam's razor.

A woman hits the wall.

"Ouch", she said.

Bipedalism is an interesting tradeoff because, on the one hand, you get chronic sinus infections and debilitating back injuries, but, on the other hand, you get butts.

Now that we've decoupled "woke" from leftist policy ideas, we should just admit it means proximity to incomprehensible continental philosophy.

"Woke left" just means like Derrida.

"Woke right" just means like Heideggar.

"Woke centre" just means like Hegel.

I'm a true centrist (I drink lattés for the protein)

Genuine question: does Kantian ethics mean that you have to actually read the terms and conditions before clicking agree?

There's a trope in TV where a couples councillor will get a husband and wife to role play each other in front of each other.

It's popular with writers, presumably because it's an easy way to play with characterization. But it seems like atrocious therapy!

Ever noticed how every chicken place has a cute cartoon chicken mascot, but you don't have that for any other animal?

Kind of a bummer that I'll never have as cool an adjectival credit as "Cartesian"

Hello BlueSky!

First interaction I've seen does not disappoint.