I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.

Himbos, there is a grand and exalted future for us under the feminization regime of Western Civilization

I believe every Roman historian now

Our real government is some combination of Elon Musk, Stephen Miller and Natalie Harp

British value of ‘tolerance’ apparently too much for a Labour MP

Shot / chaser

ME: I’m not saying *actionable threat.* I’m just saying if someone wanted to *actionable threat* at *specified location* by *detailed instructions,* they could. FBI: You’re under arrest, you stupid bitch. ME: Wrong. I didn’t say Simon Says. FBI: Curses! Foiled again.

found an NYC Teamster whose tiktoks are just skate tricks he dedicates to other unions.

And out of picture, India and Russia are doing the same thing

Me when I’m 30 years late: eh, it’s no big deal. I’m sure they’ll understand. Me when someone else is 30 seconds late: I am friendless and abandoned, despised by all.

this is insane at every level; the UK's determination to institutionally harass trans people is deeply evil.

Something I really love is the way the movie constantly contrasts Nausicaä's emotional, naive, feminine-coded objections with the Hard Men Making Hard Decisions, and then repeatedly shows us that Nausicaä is the only person who has actually done the research to understand the logic of the world.

Try not to fiction-post outside the thread, but this was very fun and Nathan asked far smarter questions than I deserved, I tried my best to answer them. Some spoilers in it, but nothing that hasn’t been posted yet in thread or pdf. If you’ve been enjoying Glasslands you’ll likely enjoy this.

this is as pure of a media-driven lie as you can get, an actively harmful attempt to limit medical treatment whipped up by a rancid little clique

Let's not lose sight of the real failures in this discourse: philosophers, who have somehow never managed to come up with an accepted account of how the ground's grounding the ground grounds the ground

TERF now a slur somewhere between cis and batty boy, for those keeping up at home.

Many voters are cross pressured this cycle, between their traditional commitment to the principles of making things worse for everyone but a little bit worse for Those People with their addiction to the noxious ooze slowly killing the world.

In the Great Chart War I am unequivocally on the side of the Bloodless Quants, who are usually correct on the specifics, and totally correct in general on the need for quantifiable data analysis. But today they seem to be reacting *extremely* uncharitably to a Tweet that is, at worst, poorly worded.

The well-known social dyad [lover and beloved] implies the existence of the slightly lesser known but no less important social dyad [muse and bemused]