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@RajivChowk__ @SchopenhauerNow I agree. I also found some of his passages convoluted when they really didn't need to be. A lot of his meditations could have been much shorter and to the point.

@SchopenhauerNow Almost anything by Rene Descartes. For a man with such a name and reputation I found his philosophical writings trite and simplistic. His mathematical work on the other hand does honor to his name.

what's the worst philosophy book you've ever read?

@PAHoyeck That makes sense! Honestly sounds like a good trade off for it being socially funded. If you jack up on your insurance over here, you might be screwed for a while.

@1KinggingK1 Long wait times for some things (esp. if you go to the emergency room for something not all that urgent), but all in all, pretty great!

I think there might have been one or two worse ones...

@PAHoyeck That's really interesting actually. I'm not well educated on Canadian politics, but I'd be interested to learn some more at some point. What's is like having socialized healthcare? The joke in America is that we eat and live like we have free healthcare haha

@1KinggingK1 This might not be entirely accurate anymore, but ten years ago, people would often say that our most right-leaning mainstream politicians were further left than the most left-leaning American politicians.

@PAHoyeck That makes sense. I'm probably similar to you then. Though, I'd probably be closer to the American middle (as I'm American), but who knows what that even means at this point.

@1KinggingK1 I'm happy to call myself a liberal, a moderate, or a centrist. From an American perspective, I'm definitely on the left, but from a Canadian perspective, I'm basically right in the middle.

@PAHoyeck Yeah this is why I don't play left or right games anymore. I'm just hard center at the moment, until I can study some more politics.

I do find it perplexing how willing some people on the political Left are to excuse atrocities as long as they're committed by the right side.

@PAHoyeck Time to eat Phil.

A lesson on the importance of commas:

@PAHoyeck @leisetritt Good man.

@leisetritt Tying to take the system down from within

I know there's a lot of hate on genre fiction within the literary community, but I think some of it is definitely undeserved (not all of it). Two people I can think of off the top of my head that I would say qualify as literature: - Thomas Ligotti - Clive Barker

@PAHoyeck Yeah, Nietzsche is a lot more nuanced than a lot of his readers realize. At least the ones I have come across.

@PAHoyeck You can never be too careful.

@1KinggingK1 Have people been spelling it like that??

"If it costs you your peace, it is too expensive." —Paulo Coelho

@its_mizuko_ it's either doubling or adding 5 each time, there is not enough information to tell which one it is. The answer is most likely 38 though, but if you are just adding 5 each time it would be 33

What comes next? 🤔

@Simi_2210_ add the y's to equal 3y^3=81 81/3=27 cube root of 27 is 3

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@WilliamZepponi @JayDyer you're*

@JayDyer Hm. Funny I see , funny how ? I don’t mean to disrespect your conceptions of religion just know that dogmas you cater to is what’s keeping humanity’s ascension behind schedule . And if you think spiritual ascension is also demonic and deception I’m sorry your just very limited

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@PAHoyeck Yeah pretty much tbh

Amusingly, since Twitter and other social media are basically rhe moden agora, this might very well be true.

Gen Z prefers to debate the Athenian elite in the agora instead of having sex.

@Stormer285171 @PAHoyeck Yeah em dash goes hard too

@PAHoyeck The pre-ChatGPT em dash had mega aura. Sadly its usage has been watered down because of those darn clankers 🥀.

What's the best piece of punctuation and why is it the semicolon?

@PAHoyeck Yes, but people don't seem to know how to use it. I was one of those people for a while, but then I learned what a subordinate clause was.

@PAHoyeck Nah, the backpack works. You look as if you are a weary traveler searching for the truth, but perpetually uncertain of it

Question: Is the backpack-less AI modified version better? I really like it. This is my favourite picture of me, but the presence of the backpack has always kind of bothered me.

New profile picture! Taken at Westminster Abbey when I traveled to England in 2014 to see Slowdive's reunion show at The Village Underground in London.

@PAHoyeck People really say "Phi-lee-pay"? That's wild 🤣 I'm not sure how they ended up there

(Also changed my name, in part because no one calls me "Philippe-Antoine"; in English, people call me "Phil"; in French, "Philippe." But also, English speakers keep pronouncing it "Phi-lee-pay" in Spaces, as if I were Spanish, so I figured I'd nip that in the bud!)

@PAHoyeck I just saw the name change. I didn't realize you went by Phil. I'm just being dumb

@1KinggingK1 ?

Must be a slow news day.