Absoluto
10mo ago
Nah, there being an ocean of half-believers makes it easier for people to leap to total belief. It’s easier to compare your virtue against a hypocrite than a total alien.
Absoluto
11mo ago
How can you say that when you’ve already failed at colonizing your own country while on easy mode?
Your fantasies are entirely dependant on the fertile ground that exists in the west.
Absoluto
11mo ago
Yes I think I would too. I might be a little surprised if they weren’t very grateful at the end of it, but otherwise wouldn’t feel like I wasted my time.
Absoluto
11mo ago
A doctor thinks I have a SLAP Shoulder labrum tear, and I’m not exactly hyped to pay for the surgery he is suggesting I need. The pain isn’t scary, it’s just dull and occasionally annoying in certain positions, some loss of strength, and I can’t sleep on one side, so I’m bargaining in my mind about whether or not I can just find some other doctor who will recommend exercises that fix this.
Regardless I think I’m going to need a couple of MRIs looked at my multiple doctors before I go through with the procedure. The post surgery recovery doesn’t sound great either, and the idea that these injuries will set back my fitness goals, and only continue to occur in the future has me bummed out about aging. What’s the point of trying to be fit if you’re guaranteed to run into injuries which cost a chunk of change, hurt, and ruin your fitness habits in the end? I always loved going to the gym and lifting weights, so this really feels like the door on something I love is closing forever slowly. Have any of you guys deal with a similar injury or situation?
Absoluto
11mo ago
No bites at $50 for one big ass chair.
Really!! This is hard to swallow. I would do so and I’m very comfortable.
Would you gauge them radfemmish or modern western lib feminist? In my experience it’s much more the former.
(Poor poetic execution of an idea) His justification for Jewish particularism is their trauma, but also they are a group he conveniently belongs too. His feelings that “it’s creepy” are entirely subjective, and he’s granting his own group special status based on it.
Jesse is also a hypocrite when it comes to hate speech against whites. A couple of episodes ago he was faced with the example of Saira Rao, who called Zionists “bloodthirsty” in one tweet, but rails endlessly about whites. He sputtered out nonsense trying to justify why her real sin was crypto-antisemitism but overt anti white tweets are kosher. Groups that are scared get priority over groups that aren’t his. His principles have their limits. Katie is much more of a freethinker.
Episode 192: 00:17:00
Absoluto
11mo ago
A Jewish American manager just forbade our European office from doing a Secret Santa precisely because Christianity might offend people who don’t celebrate Christmas.
Absoluto
11mo ago
So a bizarre spectacle plays out on London’s streets, as two bands of aging white communists try to appeal to young Muslims (who likely neither know nor care about Marx) in the waging of this strange internecine war among Leninists.
I believe they will do a good job attracting a flock. I saw plenty of brown immigrants in the communist orgs back in university, and it was clear that Marx provided their Palestinian loyalty with something that other thinkers did not.
Absoluto
11mo ago
Your use of that metaphor is telling, we need hard objects to cling to, we need something to serve as an epistemological bedrock. Something is going to be unquestionable in whatever worldview we eventually settle on, and so far us/the secularists haven’t done a good job building something on top of the bedrock of rational observation.
Absoluto
1yr ago
If any of you needed to start considering looking into egg donation, and didn’t have many familial-social hookups, what would your strategy be to get a good quality egg?
Absoluto
1yr ago
I’d like to suggest that for historical explanations we use their pronouns at the time, then change after the transition comes in the story.
Yes after his most recent response to me(not in in this comment branch ) I am sufficiently convinced he’s not being forthright
Absoluto
1yr ago
However westereners have made sex completely and utterly profane to the point of total ignominy. I want them to experience the logical consequences of their professed belief system, and I want them to expeirence these consequences good and hard.
Seems strange that you are siding with Aella in this, considering she is not the one experiencing the lesson learning for the sin she is committing worse than her audience.
Absoluto
1yr ago
You’re not that Indian guy who moved to London and then had a lengthy post about noblesse oblige are you?
Humans don’t typically have moral systems(and the ones that do do not operate on that system 99% of the time), and applying Philosophy-as-a-sport doesn’t make them suddenly bad people. Humans have a huge number of values which become inconsistent in specific scenarios, and Aella’s question is all heat and no light. Professional and dignified philosophers have demonstrated the same much more tactfully in the past, why did she not do the same? It’s molesting neurotypical people’s brains, and she is smart enough to know that(I recognize she says she doesn’t “get” why people don’t like these questions, I think she’s lying). This appears to me as an egoistic and irresponsible display of her social position. The normies are smart to know when they are being fucked with.
Absoluto
1yr ago
What if you were executed at gitmo that would be so crazy
Is actually a good response, what is she actually getting at with this question? It’s just a hard question and no clear lesson at the end of it. Shit, can my disgust reaction of child sex come into conflict with my desire for a child to be happy before death? woah dude that’s wild.
I really don’t see what moral discovery she’s made. How about you ask me what I would do if this story happened to someone else and how I would react to hearing about it? The answer is “I would feel sad for their difficult situation in which I am epistemically paralyzed to help or judge”. That’s my answer, Aella, this isn’t philosophy, this is “would you rather fuck your dad or your mom”, and casually throwing this on twitter is probably inspiring a bunch of similar behaviour amongst impressionable young adults.
Absoluto
1yr ago
My shoulder/delt has been fucked for 6 months this year, and I’ve waited and waited, and done PT and more PT, and gone to the gym and worked out around it… and I’m slowly but anxiously moving towards the conclusion that no one seems to know what’s going on mechanically and I may as well just lift the weights and push through the pain. So it’s nice to read your experience with this
Absoluto
1yr ago
The most charitable read here is that Musk thinks Wikipedia deserves less money, not no money, and, like, ok Elon, I think you deserve less money and if you don't care about that opinion, why should they?
Musk isn’t running a charity. If Redditors want to convince companies that launching satellites on SpaceX rockets into space is a bad deal financially, they can make that argument.
Dems haven’t gotten tired of screaming over nothing yet, ergo, there is still some screaming left for them to do.
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