Bathcat
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I never thought we would see a day where Chelsea have regressed so much, we’re reminiscing over Michy Batshuayi
TheEnzoLad (World Cup Era)@TheEnzoLad
Imagine a player like Enzo Fernandez spamming through balls to Michy Batshuayi 😮💨
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@millerman What you’re noticing is that space and spatial objects are informed by their temporal unfolding.
Not space and time, but spacetime
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There's some cognitive dissonance in going from a heavy emphasis on the slow reading of old books to the euphoria of moving at cyberspeed through the frontiers of computational psycholinguistics, or whatever in these new systems are, but I love it. To each thing its season...
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You don’t say
Cato Institute@CatoInstitute
Spain froze rents and capped increases at 2%, but rent control is already cutting supply by up to 50% and not improving conditions for renters. Spain should follow Argentina, which ended rent control in 2023 and has seen housing supply rise 180%, reports Cato’s @hiperfalcon. ow.ly/k7Mx50YztmZ
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Time should be healthily integrated. The obsession with urgency and immediacy indicates that it hasn’t been thus far
NN@NnPnemck
Notice how he specifically says, “it will take a little while.” That’s the part the retard right refuses to accept. There is no magic wand. You don’t undo decades of policy, culture, and bureaucracy in a year. Real change is slow, deliberate, and built piece by piece. Encouraging people to sit out because everything isn’t fixed overnight isn’t a strategy, it’s surrender.
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The “crises of the sciences,” as Heidegger points out, stems from the unconscious realization that the foundations for rational sciences are arational.
In truth, these arational foundations do not undermine the rational, but inform its efficacy, as Einstein’s relativity also illuminated the in-itself nature of nature.
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It’s not religious necessarily.
The “abuse is bad” cannot be logically tested because it’s not logic, but a qualitative valuation.
The “hidden causality” you reference is a product of our pre-rational faculties. It’s the same hidden causality that operates with synchronicities or the idea that speaking Voldemort’s name will magically cause his evil presence to appear.
The hidden causality happens on both sides: on the left, it’s systemic racism; on the right, it’s “the matrix.”
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It is, in essence, a religious claim: "Sodomy is filthy" (oral sex was included too, recall).
Next level: this is true of ALL woke claims - "All gaps in human performance are caused by hidden bigotry that cannot be reliably tracked."
You are discussing demons.
Kali@Kali_de_Armas
the thing about the endless radfem discourse on here is that the average radfem is genuinely operating from an extremely neurotic place, and they will never respond to reality testing. you can't "debunk" the statement "anal is abusive" because it isn't a logical or testable claim
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Thank you!
I refuse to live a passionless life devoid of magic and meaning. If I want to get upset over my favorite soccer team losing, so be it, and idc if I’m “getting mad” lol. Yeah, no shit.
Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙♀️@SketchesbyBoze
For every person who’s passionate about something, there’s another person going “who cares?” But isn’t life richer and more rewarding when you take an interest in things rather than trying to stamp out the joy of others? Your lack of curiosity is making you miserable.
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You got it backwards buddy. The progressives don’t sit from the sidelines detached from the world, but actively participate in it. They go after our institutions in the world, that is, not just in theory.
They will take your children and try to fill their heads with ideas about transgenderism or other subjects that are inappropriate.
It’s really the rationalist right that has a problem with actually participating.
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The idea that the only ethical and moral stance is total passivity is spot on and is a deep issue with there are two broad, important aspects of it
First - this is an aspect of the progressive world-view where *the only actors are villains* - in fact, to act is to *be* a villain
Second - this view of passivity is fundamentally feminine and reflects the domination of the culture by female norms - "I don't care who started it, you both did and that's unacceptable" - the default mode stamped onto their brains by evolution of "just don't let anything *happen* and eventually the children you're watching over will grow to adults [and then men will take responsibility for them]" applied to *everything* because that's how brain heuristics work
This was the first generation raised under unchecked female norms because it became illegal to tell women they're wrong about anything starting in the mid to late eighties which was then codified into law by the Civil Rights Act of 1991
Yeerk.P 🦆@PYeerk
I think in the final analysis the millennial sensibility comes out of the conviction that total passivity is the only ethical life
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I pray for revival but I fear that what you're witnessing is Oswald Spengler's second religiousness
Returning to Christianity because your society can't function without it is better overall but it shows a lack of vital spirit
A religion of utility is no religion at all
Matthew Schmitz@matthewschmitz
Two things killed the New Atheism. One was a book, one was a meme. x.com/ryanburge/stat…
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What I find hilarious is that everybody thinks AI is going to replace us. AI is based on a paradigm of imitating the PAST. It is completely incapable of fresh creativity or innovation of any kind. It can only remix, replicate and synthesize what has already been done.
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@GadSaad @ComicDaveSmith @joerogan You don’t have epistemological humility. I like you a lot but you overestimate your philosophical knowledge.
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Dear @ComicDaveSmith, I'll engage with you here because you were apparently very upset on your most recent appearance on @joerogan's podcast. I don't engage with your positions because in a world of fixed resources, one does not have the time to engage with everyone in possession of an opinion. You've managed to catapult yourself onto the conversation; more power to you. Quantum physicists should not bother with my opinion on the topic since I readily admit that I'm hardly an expert in that field; I dare venture that my knowledge of quantum physics (very little) is orders of magnitude higher than your "knowledge" of Israel and the Middle East. I have epistemological humility; you possess none. Cheers.
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I think it would be better if the quizzes didn’t force you to choose between one or the other. A lot of these questions admit both or all possibilities.
Unfortunately, they’re “de-worlded” as Heidegger would say.
But like you said, it’s fun and free. Nothing to get bent out of shape over
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I've put out enough high quality material over the years (books, translations, articles, essays, interviews, courses, shitposts, videos) that I don't feel so bad posting more popular and interactive things like quizzes, which by the way are good and fun and free
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@krishnanrohit They use economic policies as magic spells that compel their desired goals into existence rather than systems that allow us to allocate scarce resources with alternative uses effectively an efficiently
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The feminine and masculine are clearly complements: one balances the other, one informs and heightens the other. We don’t need to do the see-saw from hell anymore where we oppose one against the other and necessarily forfeit the benefits of both.
Both have their own efficiencies, both have problems when leaned on exclusively
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They simply can not understand that order requires masculinity. Systemization. This is why the feminization of all our sense-making institutions has been catastrophic for civic order.
David Shane@david_shane
Was struck again today that progressive women, especially (in my experience): 1. They actually do, nominally, want public order, and they do, nominally, want the government to "move along" the folks who are disturbing the public order. 2. But where their brain gets blocked is that they cannot support any muscular solution to the problem. Muscular solutions are supported by bad people, and they are good people. So, they really want to believe that education will solve the problem. We just need to tell this guy who is misbehaving in the public square everyday that his behavior is not OK, and he'll stop. Or, we need to offer these folks some kind of other support (like drug rehab)... but even then, you can't FORCE them into rehab, because that would be a muscular solution. So you want to tell them... OK, you want us to help the drug addict on the sidewalk, but you also want him to have an inviolable right to refuse all help. What do you think will probably happen? And they know, actually, what will probably happen, and when forced to think about it, it bothers them. But it doesn't bother them as much as supporting a muscular solution to the problem would bother them, because that's a thing bad people support.
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