@MysteryGrove @captive_dreamer His son holds a political and symbolic post precisely because he's his son. It's not like they are calling to fire him from a totally unrelated position. Surely you must understand it's a fair game.
English
Stan
2.2K posts
I understand in part why Tucker has become deranged and a harmful influence: People who call for career reprisal against his children for doing nothing other than being related to him are not immediately rejected and shunned.
Joe Slither@JSlither92565
@MysteryGrove @captive_dreamer What Tucker has been doing is far worse tbh
English
@QualiaNerd @ArtemisConsort I agree. I haven't read Dennett et al but I can't conceive how you can have a theory where there is no room for qualia, which is the primary data point from which everything else must be deduced.
English
@emptorpreempted @ArtemisConsort But that’s not accurate. Materialism/functionalism/Dennett cluster/eliminativism/qualia anti-realism (call it however you want, it’s all the same really) is materially (pun intended) different from idealism. It’s not just a terminological disagreement.
x.com/qualianerd/sta…
QualiaNerd@QualiaNerd
Dennett cluster distinguishing beliefs: 1) The very concept of qualia isn’t meaningful. The question "Where is 🔴🟠🟡 located?" is pointless gibberish because 🔴🟠🟡 is pointless gibberish. 2) The question of the location of qualia isn’t meaningful. To even ask where…
English
Theories of the self/mind/consciousness that are at least philosophically plausible:
Interactionist dualism. Just bite the bullet and believe in actual, causal magic. This is not logically impossible, though it opens itself up to empirical falsification.
Any variety of monism. It can be panpsychist idealism, eliminativist materialism, whatever. They’re all isomorphic. You can put some bells and whistles on like an Aristotelian-esque pattern/attractor realism if you want (I do, personally).
Theories that are not philosophically plausible:
Non-interactionist dualism/epiphenomenalism. This means your self/soul/consciousness cannot be the cause of you talking about your self/soul/consciousness since talking impacts physical reality. End of this whole line of inquiry, as far as I’m concerned.
“Uh souls do things but this will somehow always be just out of reach of falsification” mkay.
Hunter Ash@ArtemisConsort
“There is no way to scientifically test a soul because it's immaterial and can't be observed.” A lot of people don’t seem to understand that this also means souls can’t *do anything*, can’t have any causal impact on the world, because any impact is observable. If your soul impacts your behavior, we can study those impacts because your behavior is observable.
English
@QualiaNerd @ArtemisConsort He's making the dubious assertion that materialism and idealism are functionally the same because it doesn't matter what you call the stuff that everything is made of.
English
@ArtemisConsort Well eliminativism is in-principle impossible given the existence of qualia. Epiphenomenalism is at least logically possible (but definitely in the "flying spaghetti monster is manipulating us to believe the Earth is round when in reality it is flat" category).
English
A disappointing but obvious realisation about humanity is that most of every group doesn't really want equality, they want privilege. And nobody with proper insight into the nuances of every group-based conflict of interest would say otherwise.
The Atlantic@TheAtlantic
“Heterosexual women of a progressive bent often say they want equal partnerships with men,” Ellen Lamont wrote in 2020. “But dating is a different story entirely.” theatln.tc/DQUjGghR 📸: Debrocke / ClassicStock / Getty
English
Ironically, "racism" turns out to be super meritocratic. Want racists to like you? Just be a good race!
hoe_math = PsychoMath@ItIsHoeMath
Question for brainless shitlibs: Why do "racists" love the Japanese? (Answer: because they're not a shitty, ugly, violent, theiving, stupid, dirty, obnoxious race)
English
@Noahpinion @pegobry_en I'm in favor of euthanasia for violent "youths."
English
Offering euthanasia to depressed people is state-sponsored murder. There is no ambiguity. It is murder.
English
@mattyglesias There's is no good reason to use "all U.S. adults" as the denominator. This group includes janitors, demented seniors, and the nutcases threatening you on the subway, let alone actual prisoners. Most people don't really matter, and that's inevitable and fine.
English
@sentdefender The Philippines would benefit greatly by Japanese colonization. Their governing class is a bevy of corrupt baboons.
English
President of the Philippines Ferdinand “Bongbong” Romualdez Marcos has signed Executive Order No. 110, declaring a State of National Energy Emergency throughout the country due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
English
@burkeanorder @captive_dreamer I see only two possibilities: he's gotten mentally ill, or he's always been a television sock puppet without his own views.
English
In Ship of Fools, Tucker Carlson wrote that “immigration from Muslims has led to a wave of sex crimes,” that “medieval Islamic customs” are the “biggest threat to Western social advances,” and that “Islamic law is distinguished only by its level of violence.” That was 2018. Today, he’s unrecognizable.
captive dreamer@captive_dreamer
Tucker Carlson: Sharia Law has made Islamic societies more advanced than the West
English
@apokolokyntosis @St_Rev Seems like a huge peer review failure. Anyone can make a mistake.
English
@St_Rev yeah it’s gotta be devastating to see your work invalidated by something that could be an example from Munkres
English
I don't care about the metoo stuff but Biss's academic career was pretty fishy. He had several papers retracted, including one in Annals. Went from a postdoc at IAS and a professorship at Chicago to dropping out of the field entirely. #Academic_career" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Bi…
Benjamin Ryan@benryanwriter
Analysis on the Illinois congressional district MeToo accusations: *Everyone on Bluesky sympathizes with Megan Wachspress, the 42-year-old accuser, who is a lecturer at Stanford Law School. They call her brave for coming forward and talking about how she was harmed. *Everyone on X is exasperated by what they see as MeToo over-reach and sympathizes with Daniel Biss, the 48-year-old mayor of Evanston, Illinois, and a leading candidate in today's congressional primary in the Chicago area. Wachspress wrote on Bluesky and in a Substack that when she was a 20-year-old junior at U. of Chicago, Biss was her professor in a math course. He was then an assistant professor a the university and was 26. He was very friendly to her during office hours and then, after the term ended, sough a romantic course of action with Wachspress. The two dated for a little while and did some making out, she asserts. But then each of them decided this wasn't appropriate and they cut it off. Biss' campaign has since confirmed this account. Neither has reported that there was any sex between them. Wachspress says she found this, among other elements of what she described as demeaning sexism, so demoralizing that despite her mathematical prowess, she pursued a different field in her graduate studies.
English
@rwvalefar Who has ever given Jews credit for developing modern capitalism?
English
Giving Jews credit for the development of modern capitalism, when Anglo-Jewish merchants by the mid-18th were practically consigned to irrelevancy stuck in the metals trade, robs us of an opportunity to exalt early-modern British bourgeois merchants like the Tobacco Lords.
English
Stoicism is at bottom the doctrine that the only good is moral correctness, which implies indifference to morally neutral facts. This obviously can't provide a complete guide to action, and may be psychologically incoherent, but it's a mistake to suggest it *causes* decline.
Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy
Stoicism is popular because apathy is the sickness of our age and stoicism glorifies it. Stoicism is cope for living in a dying society. Stoicism is managed decline. You need to become anti-stoic. You need to become so passionate it’s self-destructive.
English
@captive_dreamer @bronzeagemantis Probably the most disqualifying thing he's said. He knows nothing about anything.
English
Utterly deranged post. Will never understand this level of self loathing
English
@sentdefender Would be a cakewalk for the F-35, except their GPS jamming negates that.
English
Major fighter movements by the U.S. Air Force towards the Middle East are currently underway this morning, with 3 KC-46A “Pegasus” Aerial-Refueling Tankers, ROMA01/02/03, currently up over the Northeastern United States, supporting the transfer of 12 F-22 Raptors with the 1st Fighter Wing stationed at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia to RAF Lakenheath in Europe.
While 6 KC-135R Stratotankers and a KC-46A Pegasus, CLEAN21/22/23/31/32/33, are preparing for the crossing of 12 F-16CJ with the “Swamp Foxes” of the the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing from McEntire Joint National Guard Base to Naval Station Rota in Spain.
In addition to the crossing of at least 24 fighter jets from the United States to Europe, 4 KC-135 Stratotankers from bases in Europe, LAGER12/13 and LAGER10/14, are actively in the process of towing 12 F-16C Fighting Falcons with the 31st Fighter Wing at Aviano Air Base in Italy and 12 F-16CJs with the 52nd Fighter Wing at Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany, to air bases in the Middle East.
English
@h3dd1s @paul_hundred @AlanMCole @SaladBarFan The phenomenon in quotation marks is already very near to ethnic cleansing, though. It's normally the consequence of losing a war, not the deliberate policy of your elected "representatives."
English
@paul_hundred @AlanMCole @SaladBarFan I don't think so, I'm fairly restrictionist myself but a lot of people like to conflate "my demographic will lose political power, culture will change" with ethnic cleansing.
English
I mean isn’t this just an inevitable result of democracy? Political power is a zero-sum game.
English