"Our ancestors would be astonished to learn that they were fighting for a "proposition."" sounds to me like purposely rejecting the Gettysburg address head-on
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"Our ancestors would be astonished to learn that they were fighting for a "proposition."" sounds to me like purposely rejecting the Gettysburg address head-on
breakthrough, i how obsidian enables this by allowing you to easily dash off a bunch of things and then see how they connect together.....really helped just now
I feel like a big issue of the popular conception of Chiang comes from historians viewing chiang kai shek as a military dictator and not what he was, a political one that led primarily through the KMT and not NRA. This is currently being addressed but the popular conception is still their.
Fuck
in all seriousness, extwitter really retards men's self-growth by making them believe that competing to gain the favor of other men will automatically make them happy in their personal lives
Rei: Shinji-kun, what did the five fingers say to the face? Shinji: I....don't....know? SLAPPPPP
I think this disregard, which you see a lot of in econ-brained world, has become utterly nihilistic
This sort of ties into another idea I’ve been kicking around, that if I was an actual theorist I’d take a shot at writing up coherently: we have freedom of the id, when we need freedom of the superego. We live in the tyranny of revealed preferences, totally disregarding expressed ones as legitimate.
have worked with Bruno, will work with Bruno again, I vouch for Bruno
extwitter is a containment board
they dropped both fatman and little boy at the same time
holy shit
"wherever I fly is hell" man is emo af
i can believe anything at this point
“You will never look at another woman again.” - Medusa’s Tinder Bio
his youth was dedicated to graphics
I think it gets at something deeper and more complex and poetic than this but quite a few parts of the book really do read like the Doctor’s fear of the monster being out in the world represents a discovery that people will think he’s gay.
yeah, that and Steve Metz's book
i think this is what makes the creepiness work so well bsky.app/profile/aelk...
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A fascinating example of Cultural Telephone really:
"i have created the ultimate husbando"
bsky.app/profile/fern... 2025 update of this would have a vibecoder string together a bunch of parts from bishonen men
Like Frankenhooker is kind off closer to the spirit of the novel than most film. The titular creature being an amalgamation of human body part to create the perfect body.
most people think its an uggo with a ratchet through his head tho
the internal link function gets a workout and i'm going to try bases bsky.app/profile/unah...
victor frankenstein intended the monster to be some kind of modern adonis
it is really funny how much people's perception of the character has been shaped by a few movies
Look, the problem is baked into the cake. Even a reasonable noble concept like "Restraint" is poisonous if it is treated as an end rather than a means.
Hey who put all this Romanticism in my 19th century Romantic novel adaptation :(
[bursting into the room where everybody is watching live footage of the atomic bombing of New York] CHANGE THE CHANNEL, THEY FOUND A NON-RUPERT CONVEX POLYHEDRON arxiv.org/html/2508.18...
So I *thought* it would be apparent I learned those portuguese phrases because we talk to my cat a lot. It turns out, in a tragic but predictable error, "gatinha" both means "little cat" and "cute woman." So when I said "a fat little cat! how pretty, how cute, how naughty," it did not read well
this really is extremely fun
right, there's a precedent for it. it just needs to be integrated into the video display bsky.app/profile/shar...
the entire thing is livestreamed
the top subs to President Aella's OnlyFans get to hit the button
this is just the beginning. i would not discount at some point something akin to the "twitch plays pokemon" where they crowdsource the targeting to stans
Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material. Oh my.
are these the ones in which the aliens wipe out earth and humans have to re-invade earth
there are people that live like this in my head, in both my personal life and elsewhere. i do my best to replace them with better tenants. however, it's not always easy
e.g this is actually what it means a good deal of the time to live "rent free" in someone else's head
there's nothing wrong with this desire, it is just that the pain of life is that there is no guarantee the consolidating agent will cooperate with it
you gain a lot of power out of the realization that 1) people need others to consolidate their identities, even others that they want to be insignificant to them 2) others not cooperating with this desire for identity consolidation is the source of a lot of human misery
has Latour written about boats
"I am an exceptional delivery rider, Mrs. McClane. And since I'm moving up to kidnapping, you should be more generous with your gratuity." #DieHard #HansGruber #UberEats
the romance of the 2x2 table
broke: birds aren't real woke: canada isn't real
although in fairness to Roko there isn't much unique about his sentiment in his corner of social media
this would keep getting posted on X when I was on it
maybe i have lost my humanity because i barely blinked at it
being a hater is an art form and marie is doing van gogh right now
Got his ass beat so bad they let A DOG CALL THE GAME
what a clown
speak of the devil bsky.app/profile/aelk...
i think i am going to have to get the horse girl game, you all are selling it to me
montana max voice: "truly, you have become a monster beyond all salvation, elon"
and now he has become fixated on the only kind of woman he cannot impregnate, a virtual waifu
short form video will be worse
they are doing struggle sessions now too and its really giving off woke twitter vibes
this is just so tiresome
the nitpicker
the kind of guy who yells at porn videos “don’t pull out!” the same way people yell at horror movies “don’t open that door!”
the BPD thing is great audience-based marketing. so many people in very online circles either have it or are attracted to it
ace attorney’s parody of japanese justice system (prosecutors have hilariously lopsided advantage) is reminder of how universal problem is
that screen name Toxic Cowboy is rare case of truth in advertising
it is story of how bad management incentives corrupt institutional professional ethics
i feel this ought to be mandatory reading bsky.app/profile/aelk...
humanism or lack thereof doesn’t have much role here, management decisions have enormous role
overwork leads to cutting corners, which leads to other forms of ethical erosion
useful analogy is press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/4...
he is part of same kind of vocal tradition as dylan and tom waits, but with a guitar playing style that demands something more polished and vigorous
the vocals aren’t really as charismatic as the music either
or st bernard
i myself have found the undergraduate ethics coursework i took mostly useless in every single situation where i faced a real struggle of conscience
it is worth noting that many people who have done the right thing did so either without knowledge of ethics or as a part of an ethical tradition organic to a faith or secular community
you: [complicated political opinion] comes out as ARF ARF WOOF WOOf human, patting dog head: whose a good boy? its you! such a good boy
monkry’s paw curse where this results in the requested effect but you are also turned into a golden retriever
who do you have to Be Like This cate
found the responsible party spreading misinformation about doggos
MyHouse.WAD? How about MyHouse.EXE!
kevin was such a raw sadist that I think he could have plausibly replaced the Donald and even outdo him
2PM tomorrow: "my fellow Americans.....Donald Trump actually disappeared during the filming of Home Alone 2...." "Then who are you?" "I am Kevin McAllister"
That too.
after me and my first real girlfriend broke up (relationship lasted from junior year of HS to right before sophomore year of college) i couldn't watch a lot of particular animes for some time
this is generalizable to a lot of other hobbies, unfortunately
Back on Twitter there was an UK politics-themed one called Clickbait Robot that was especially good at it
I've followed enough (non-LLM) bots that generate headlines like this that have this both seemingly random yet semi-coherent feel to them
Chessie Interlude 00110.01 I have a brother I teach him about high ground Someday he will learn #CatsOfBluesky #poetry
I've felt for a while now that these headlines are just markov bot outputs
extwitter is a containment board
"my fellow Americans..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ3B...
in all seriousness it will at best be something forgettably stupid or at worst something catastrophic, as usual
He cannot resist
Okay sure everyone loves Zohran but have you considered Sliwa's feral cat colony proposal
obsidian has changed my life in far-reaching ways and i only use a tiny percentage of its features
borges needed to live to see this
tiling window manager user that can use it without googling documentation