Yeah, well, y'know, that's just like uh your opinion, man

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Replying to @matt_olma
If you can’t see the humor inherent in this clusterfuck of a cosmos, idk what to tell you. If we saw the world for what it truly is, we would be laughing hysterically all the time.
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Setting aside the particular target of theism here, gut feelings are orders of magnitude more valuable than any amount of reason. The Enlightenment was pure reddit cringe. Retvrn to the enchanted world.
What if a person feels that God is real but doesn't know it for a fact? Should this person rely on their feelings?
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Crossed 20k words on my novel draft this morning. May not seem like much, but I’ve written the bulk of that in the last 6 months, amid a whole host of time- and energy-consuming life events. If I can hit 50k by the end of the year, I’ll feel really good.
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Replying to @IkkyusDen
The answer is not an answer to the question per se. The “no!” (exclamation mark very much necessary) is a repudiation of the question. It’s like saying “you’re asking the wrong thing.”
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Ain’t no fuckin way you can look at this guy and not acknowledge that we are tangentially related with a common ancestor.
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Famous gorilla Kiyomasa falls into deep contemplation after spat with mate — caught on camera in Japanese zoo
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Replying to @johnvvariety
Being high in outer space would be literally the worst trip setting humanly possible. You would be swallowed by The Void so fucking fast.
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If you perceive someone online and/or their statement, behavior, taste, whatever as fundamentally beneath you, then you just simply shouldn’t engage with them. It will never accomplish anything. (It’s me, this reminder is for me).
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Confession: I don’t really know the difference between mimetic and memetic, and it feels too late to ask at this point.
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This is allowed in my case for everything except a small handful of prized copies like signed and first editions.
If someone is perusing my home library and sees a book they like, I just give it to them 🤷‍♂️ You can literally come to my house and take whatever book you’d like.
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Replying to @japan_nobunaga
Noble Nobunaga-san, your true enlightenment will come when you understand that *everything* in America is exactly like this. We are a nation of simulacra. There is no Democracy in “democracy,” no Education in “education,” no Culture in “culture.” It is “spice” all the way down.
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This guy, whoever he is, is so good at this Tocquevillean “foreigner doing ethnography of Americans” thing, I’m obsessed.
USA. A backyard. One man guarding a grill for four hours. He never left it once. Everyone else drifted and drank and laughed. But one man stood alone before the flames, turning meat with a long fork, immovable. I knew him at once. The keeper of the sacred fire. I took my place beside him and said nothing. After a while, he spoke. "Low and slow," he said, eyes on the coals. "You can't rush it. Rush it, you ruin it." I bowed my head. A blade, a tea, a life. None can be rushed. I had crossed four thousand miles to hear my grandfather's words from a man in a "KISS THE COOK" apron. "Everything worth doing is slow," I agreed. He glanced at me. Something passed between us. "My wife says just use the oven." He shook his head at the fire. "She doesn't get it." "They never do," I said. And this is where it turned. For the first time in years, this man had been understood. And he rose to meet it. His back straightened. His voice dropped low. A teenager reached for the grill and the man lifted one hand without even looking. "Not yet." The boy retreated. He was becoming what I already believed him to be. A woman asked when the food would be done. "It's ready when it's ready," he told the flames. Three people approached. Three were turned away with a single word. By the fourth hour, no one questioned him. The whole party had arranged itself around the man and his fire, the way a village arranges itself around a shrine. Then he handed me the fork. "Watch it a sec. I gotta pee." I have been trusted with castles. I have never been more honored. He served everyone before himself, and ate last, standing, still watching the coals. We never traded names. We did not need to. He believed he had finally met a man who took his cooking seriously. I believed I had finally met America's last samurai. Neither of us will ever correct the other. So tell me, America. Who is the man at your gathering who will not leave the grill? Have you ever once asked him why? I think he is still standing there. Guarding the fire. Waiting for one person to understand.
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What’s Ted Chiang up to these days? Feels like it’s been a while. He’s one of a handful for whom I would smash the preorder button within seconds if he announced a new story collection.
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Obvious answer is the verified existence of a Dyson sphere, which is much much much more insane than finding a microbe on Europa or whatever.
What is a (theoretically possible?) scientific discovery that would make you flip, froth at the mouth in excitement, and force you to temporarily lie down?

ALT Avatar The Last Airbender Foaming At The Mouth GIF

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I have enough of a publication history now that I think it may be time to create a real account to promote my work. If you’re a literary-minded mutual or lurker who’d be interested in following, DM me so I can follow you when it’s up.
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Airport bars while flying solo, ladies and gentlemen. Thank me later.
you can microdose the freedom of the past by going to a bar in a different city and lying about your identity to strangers
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Man I touched so much grass today (literally, I mowed the lawn and also went to the farmers market in the park). I am what the therapists call “neurodivergent” and I am here to tell you: doesn’t matter, moods are malleable. Go for a walk or whatever.
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I want every booktok person who “skips everything but dialogue” to read Stella Maris. Surely it would be their favorite novel(la) of all time, right? Right?
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Apocrypha retweeted
Books are timewarping psychic communication and symbol magic.
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There is nothing magical or special about books. you can get arbitrarily smart without ever finishing a book
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Yes, yes, very monastic and privileged of you to find God in the silence, but can you find Him in the horrid deafening cacophony?
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Spotify is a specific piece of tech for which I give zero fucks about data privacy. Sell my music listening info to whomever will buy it. Monetize my auditory taste. Tell Meta that the guy who spends way too much bandwidth on alt-J sent you. I’m just a Geese casual? So be it.
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I already wrote this as a screenplay for a Twilight Zone episode in college. I called the device the “iCon” (short for Conscience), and it ended disastrously. So if you want to do the “I invented the Torment Nexus” thing, go ahead
Idea: AI earrings that whisper to you and help you make decisions
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Stolen word for word x.com/thinkingshiver…
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