"lewis once said that philosophy is a matter of gathering together our intuitions and then finding the way to keep as many as possible. i think its a matter of treating both intuitions and accusations of paradox as the voice of the past and as possible impediments to the creation of a better future"

people clown on sam harris but the moral landscape is essentially on par with the rest of the supposed groundings for ethics, albeit more clumsily presented

this is more humiliating i wanna die LOL

yea its like the most pythonic lua you'll ever write and it messes w my head

its pretty cool and i enjoy it, but interacting with the actual os has always been a little wonky in my experience (because i'm inexperienced and bad)

again in my defense, this is what it looks like to run a simple cat command lmao

lua through mpv (the documentation is mostly fine its just much more frustrating to troubleshoot when i do retarded things, and there's a lot fewer people actually using it [aka fewer previous retards making the same mistakes i am and posting on stackoverflow])

oh no if it was python i would have figured this out ages ago, the problem is its scripting with terrible api documentation lmao (and i have no reading comprehension, my complaints are invalid and i didn't rtfm hard enough)

it was haunting me while i tried to sleep so i rose from the grave

omg it was fucking c) im gonna rope

in my defense it's unbelievable that you have to explicitly specify capture_stdout = true on a subprocess

its interesting how much William James consistently uses money as metaphor in his writing - i'm not sure if this is a reflection of the American idioms of the day but it doesn't feel irrelevant to his thought as a whole

its clear that he's very connected to his time and place, which is fitting for one of the founders of pragmatism i suppose, for some reason its still a little [strange? no. disappointing? no. idk] how politically moderate they all are.

(yes its clear hes disagreeing with the the highlight but its still very reflective of his context)

what i'm trying to say is: neitzsche's anti-democratic pragmatism is far more compelling than the consensus-seeking liberalism of the early american pragmatists

rorty is philosophically correct but politically wrong

one of the following is true: a) this is designed poorly b) there is a good reason for why it was designed this way and i'm too stupid to realize it c) it can actually do exactly what i want, i'm just too stupid to figure out how it works

sorry heidegger i'm busy bash scripting rn, i'll get back to you in a moment

guy who thinks trannies make up a large enough portion of the population that they will singlehandedly tank global fertility rates

the comments on my audiobook upload are hilarious

coming off the back of Rorty this comment is fascinating tbh

hey remember that time i saw a friend of a friend at the highly specialized eating disorder therapy place

she was pretty chill about it and i was a little dumbstruck and anxious (as per usual for the time)

those edifying philosophers with the bravery to be hermeneutic in the face of systematic epidemiologists, those will be our heroic companions while untangling ourselves from the stultifying familiarity in which we find ourselves

how did autocorrect change epistemologists to epidemiologists

reading Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature reminded me how awful philosophy of mind is i never want to hear about c-fibers or neurological subroutine correlates ever again

imo the book gets much more compelling as it goes on (it gets less tied down to the analytic over time, but still, the time spent in its presence is dull)

if i had a vore fetish i'd be so happy rn

i can only hope that after the great cannibalization of humanity, my fangirls are a representative sample of the population at large so that we can maintain agriculture after the non-fan stock has dried up as a food source

unfortunately my marketing manager tells me i'm not terribly popular with their kind, something about inducing an allergic reaction in those with testosterone?

oh my god i fucking love you

one million is too many fangirls what will i do with all this attention

autistics are predisposed to admire brechtian estrangement because it has the potential to resonate with their daily experience

the familiar is strange, some need more help seeing that than others

^-^ glad u think so and yea its all nonsense anywayz owo

sometimes i think that i am no longer as impressed with geuss as i once was, and then i read him again and fall in love all over again to repeat a sentiment i had in an entirely different context: "i doubt i really ever 'get over' anyone, i just get distracted"

what an odd persistent little trait, if i had to levy a conjecture i imagine it would be some sort of mangled historicist position became lodged in me in such a way that i could never convince myself that severance from ones past relations was productive, even aspirationally

perhaps more peculiar is not that the fact that i am unconvinced of the relevance of the notion, but rather that i am recurrently disrupted by it despite its apparent shortcomings.

something like Truth or morality that is so much of the air we breathe, fills a multiplicity of social purposes, that simply untethering oneself purely ideationally is a fool's errand. i'm skeptical of this answer considering how much more muted a case can be made for 'getting over'.

nevertheless, i've previously attempted to deconstruct the notion into constituent functions and components, in hopes of dispensing with the vestigial and retaining the vital. this project failed, likely due to to my own ineptitude, but it also now strikes me as wrongheaded, or at least incomplete.

i ought to have been pursuing creative alternative ways of thinking about my relation to the past, and seeking out admirable instantiations of enlightenment. of course there is still time for this, although the issue isn't as pressing now as it was previously for me.

in the interest of brevity, Freire really could have trimmed this paragraph down to “Their ideal is to be men.”

so true so true

🙈 i’m sorry my gremlin and i invaded your replies, it will happen again <3

i’m running on like 4 cumulative hours of the worst sleep of my life i have no charm receptors active

it’s all boring and i’m embarrassed in front of raizel

👍

uh oh she’s talking to herself again, hallucinating events. impressive that you can fabricate images though, you’re a more powerful model than i thought