in which salt writes

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[soapmoth]

[dogpuppy]

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it's fucked up they're making another toy story, but at least it means we'll be good for another dozen or so versions of debian

[vile-things]

[datelinepentagons]

[captainkupo]

[papayajuan2019]

it's almost a miracle that anything is even understood at all. the older i get the more i realize how rare it can be

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The truth is that every day I resign myself more to the opinion that all human activity is utopian. We dedicate ourselves to the pursuit of knowledge without ever succeeding in knowing anything fully. Our attempts at justice invariably result in some act of villainy. We believe that we have loved and then realize that in fact we got no further than promising to do so. Do not take these words as moral satire, as if intended to criticize my colleagues because they fail to do what they set out to. My intention is precisely the opposite; rather than blame them for their failure I want to suggest that none of these things can be done, that they are by their nature impossible, that they can go no further than mere intentions, vain endeavours, and failed ventures. Nature has endowed each animal with a program of actions that can be performed satisfactorily without difficulty. This is why it is so rare for an animal to be sad. Only among the higher species – the dog or the horse – can any sign of something like sadness be detected, and it is precisely in such moments that they seem closest to us, most human...Our fate – our privilege and honour – is never to achieve what we set out to and which is pure intention, a living utopia. We set out always for failure, and even before entering the battle we already bear the wound upon our brow.

The Misery and the Splendour of Translation I: The Misery - Dialogos

José Ortega y Gasset The essay “La miseria y el esplendor de la traducción”, written in 1936, is to this day one of the most widely quoted e

[rabbiteclair]

auto immune disorders happen when the immune system ignores regulatory factors and begins attacking healthy bodily tissues, due to what scientists refer to as "sheer love of the game"

[yama-bato]

Farewell Kilkerran

Lola Dupre

[jommeez]

[theehorsepusssy]

[clearpills]

[markovchaingang]

you guys do realise walking doesn't actually move you anywhere right? it just destroys you entirely and places a perfect copy of you right in front of where you were standing

[goth-queen]

[fieriframes]

[AMAZING. IT'S VERY SPICY AND FLAVORFUL. AND GUILT IS NEVER TO BE DOUBTED. SO THE FIRST THING WE'RE GONNA START OFF WITH IS THE PAD THAI? PAD THAI.]

[cryptotheism]

I feel like the more you know about something the higher the bar becomes for "a thought worth sharing"