@fleshsimulator Alternative trolley problem: no one is on the tracks but you have the opportunity to kill a fat
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Genuinely: what is the steelman for NOT summarily executing someone who pushes a stranger in front of a subway train?
Like, can anyone point to a singular positive contribution made by someone who does this
☉rthonormalist🧭✡️@orthonormalist
Just found out a mutual of mine (who many of you know but I won't identify on the TL) was shoved in front of a NYC Subway train early Saturday morning by a disadvantaged urban citizen, was nearly killed, and is in the ICU. luckily in one piece
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Is there an actual explanation for this aesthetic trend at the time, or was it just the right time period for that particular vibe in video games, design, advertising, etc?
Nostalgia@nostalgiaa
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Having a breakdown for the same reason today
Jorge of the Wired@saturnine_grace
I feel overwhelmed because i feel like i have to master every single philosophical or spiritual system that has ever been developed so as to avoid false beliefs and i don't have enough time and i have a bad attention span
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@dxristias I think you take up a number of the most fruitful themes in her work, though (e.g. embedding normativity in a naturalized process ontology). Regardless, I’d love to see more explicit engagement in future works since I’m a big fan of what you’ve put out so far
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@noidedmoid agreed, though I have (regrettably) only cursorily used her work in my attempt at a Sellars-Deleuze synthesis
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