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when i was in arkansas i saw a billboard advertising a “Krazy Karnival” and it had a picture of a ghost with a white sheet. super sus lol
also at one point during testing i just created a new list item record for *my own* DID instead of each followers', so i just had a list with myself 200 times 😭
yea go for it, i just had to use it for like one big smelt job but it would be way more useful as an auto smelter
i've been wanting to mess around with whitewind for a while but i've been lazy, psky is the obvious choice if we just wanna check the box
as long as one member has created a record that uses a non-normie lexicon we should be legally in the clear
it will be official once we convince hailey to join
i started watching yuru camp as a way to strengthen my parasocial relationship with mary
i’m grinning from ear to ear, you’re my favorite
yeah this was more of my own personal reflection,
i do think it’s worth keeping in mind that what you perceive as mistreating others could just be chill and fine lol
but again i don’t know your situation super intimately
hahaha ily
my answer will be the same as always - virtues are context dependent.
some change is generative, some change is a hindrance, and the difference cannot be antecedently determined.
although it is certainly correct that comfort is extraordinarily dangerous, and worth skeptical interrogation.
but she’s right chat her ux and ui are way better, PDSls 4 lyfe :>
this is the most normie feedback but do you have any thoughts about supporting boring old bsky urls? i know it be against the grain of atproto purity, but selfishly it’s annoying to convert a url to uri when i’m on mobile lol
the above is framed harshly but honestly i don’t think there’s anything with not forcing yourself to feign interest or attention. personally id be more offended if someone humored me like that rather than simply ignoring me
hair is still frizzy and shit but less bad ig
adorable i love it
forgot how atrocious this stuff is for my sleep lol
the summary of my view is that equality is:
1: not philosophically generative, and is at worst incoherent
2: not necessary or useful for “progressive” political goals
3: actively harmful, misleading, and counterproductive when thinking about the social world
1 replieshowever, this kind of undermines one of those primary appeals of equality, in the sense that it can no longer be some freestanding moral bedrock. i’m saying we’d be better off ditching the concept altogether, rather than trying to add bells and whistles to keep it afloat.
oh no not at all, i much prefer you share your mind, imo it’s cool that people are extra nice but sometimes it prematurely forecloses interesting convo
tbh i was really impressed when you said you were confused before, i feel like most ppl would have just let it go to avoid potential embarrassment
sorry sorry
basically a lot of people can get into left-of-center politics out of compassion for others, and things like “equality/equity”, “human rights”, “(social) justice” seem like good orienting principles to genuinely help people. but theoretically (i believe) those are dead-ends
1 repliesi was gonna post the following but i hope it doesn’t seem overbearing
“mhm i getcha, i just tend to think that we can do without it (and would be better off for it, as i see a rather great danger in abuse of appeals to concepts such as these for achieving political goals directly)”
it’s hard because a lot of the moral and sympathetic intuitions that lead people to be interested in “the left” actually end up being a massive hurdle if you want to make any significant progress, both theoretically and practically
this is engels’ gothakritik. both marx and engels disliked equality as a political virtue, and a frequent rhetorical tactic of theirs was to reference equality and identity - that no two things could be equal *in all respects*, lest they be one and the same thing
1 repliesi feel like their point is often misinterpreted (ex. article). they aren’t saying “you can never describe any two things as equal in some ways” but rather that it’s most obfuscating than helpful, and will lead you into theoretical moralistic knots while in reality the demands are quite concrete
1 replies“abolition of wages” is more enlightening, clear, and less co-optable than “equality of classes” or “fairness” or whatever other bourgeois virtue
my third favorite exchange is:
“you have two older brothers”
“yes and i believe both women are my same age”
“i believe in equality… i believe everyone is the same age”
engels thought all of his opponents were katie in disguise
hi eris :3
i kept getting this earlier today too, glad i’m not the alone ig lol
a long time ago kasey blocked me on twitter because i was all up in her shit and she had to be mindful of it
you could do the same thing i spose
alice found it while repeatedly falling over herself on the api
