@facsimileglib in truth everyone’s story stops in the same place. most writers ignore this. McCarthy does not
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@stimpdimpy "If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."
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if you don’t like stories where the main character dies at the end then maybe you should reconsider life
Glib Facsimile@facsimileglib
@bumbadum14 The missing piece is that Cormac basically writes noir-style where everyone is doomed. Most people want some kind of upside in their stories.
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@facsimileglib @bumbadum14 ultimately everyone quite literally IS doomed
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@bumbadum14 The missing piece is that Cormac basically writes noir-style where everyone is doomed. Most people want some kind of upside in their stories.
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The "right wing art doesn't exist" taste-maker couldn't read Cormac McCarthy lmao.
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️@christopherrufo
I read the first hundred pages of The Road last year, and read the first hundred pages of Blood Meridian this year, and in both instances, gave up, because the books never clicked. Lyrical writing, but the characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy, and the tone is so relentlessly bleak, with almost no humanity breaking through, it was difficult to feel anything besides the flint clicking against the cold steel in the overwhelming darkness. I know many of you love it, but to me, it's overwrought, overstylized, and overhyped.
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@christopherrufo Try again starting with All The Pretty Horses and the rest of the border trilogy Chris
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I read the first hundred pages of The Road last year, and read the first hundred pages of Blood Meridian this year, and in both instances, gave up, because the books never clicked. Lyrical writing, but the characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy, and the tone is so relentlessly bleak, with almost no humanity breaking through, it was difficult to feel anything besides the flint clicking against the cold steel in the overwhelming darkness. I know many of you love it, but to me, it's overwrought, overstylized, and overhyped.
Kristen Rudd@kristenrudd
About to start Blood Meridian for the first time. Give me all your best advice.
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Trump: "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"
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“Now, remind them of WWII”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump: "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"
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I don’t understand how anyone could hear about salvia trip reports like “I spent 5 years in the bug dimension” or “I was a sentient inanimate hose in my back yard for 20 years” and still be like “well maybe I’ll just try it once…”
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@Nick_Decap Unfortunately all too many with influence in our institutions cares about this type of stuff
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This is all so dumb. They are arguing over whether someone is an expert and entitled to employment based on whether or not an ancestor in the 1800's was indigenous. Who care?
Jeffrey Sachs@JeffreyASachs
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you know who ELSE should have thought through some wars
Clash Report@clashreport
German AfD Leader Alice Weidel: Trump is now requesting help for Iran. This suggests that they entered this mission without a clear concept. They should have thought about this beforehand, and I would warn against invoking Article 5 of the NATO treaty. Obviously, the Americans did not think about an exit strategy or how this is supposed to continue.
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@notcomplex_ @notcomplex
My son is on the right side of this graph. Trying to influence school outcomes to be better than my own (I was misdiagnosed as on the left and bounced between remedial and gifted programs)
Got a link to source for the graph data?
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@keysmashbandit It’s brutal. Most people I know still stubbornly defending our healthcare system and they don’t even know that tons of nations they seninadmire have mixed public private systems. It’s a sad state of affairs up here
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The last time I checked my wait list for a family doctor it said 8 months and now it's 14. The MAID wait list is like 6 weeks. Get me out of this fucking country man!!!!!!!
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@eigenrobot what if that sperm is Steven Hawking though? (do we still like him?)
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I think, in hindsight, we will come to view the development of AI as more akin to a Eukaryotic Revolution than an Industrial one.
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animal products contain all the nutrition you need btw
you: an animal with needs
them: also animals, with the same needs, and if not malnourished full of the same stuff you need
very straightforward logic here. dont believe the fda. just eat well-fed animals and animal products
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@kittypurrzog If it’s a cedar tree then it could have been a person. Cedar bark can be peeled off from the ground to very high up in the tree. West coast indigenous used it for fiber and rope and clothing
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Please help me solve the Mystery of the Naked Evergreen. No sign of lightning strike. No bite or claw marks. Claude’s best guess was elk but it’s debarked like 25-30 feet up.
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oh my god I hate winter I'm going to dig through the walls with a spoon
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next Feb/March we're leaving for ten days somewhere warm and this is just going to be a thing we do every year. goes in the budget. idgaf anymore
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@MiTiBennett So the eternal question remains: how do simple things jump the void of the unviable to become complex and self repairing?
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@MiTiBennett Encode the history of the environment but don’t specialize further than you can predict.
Our ravenous curiosity serves to expand the encoded horizon so we can strongly specialize without closing off future branches of the probability tree.
We specialize as generalists thusly
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@MiTiBennett Can we instantiate a conscious mind into a decentralized network of nodes that communicated at light speed across solar system or even interstellar distances?
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