Like Hegel But Stupid

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i think that the secret to the english breakfast is that the variety of ingredients helps you forget the individual mediocrity of each one

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the dwarf fortress ost actually goes so hard, such sick music

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imagine, if you will, a beautiful commie block built out of corrugated laminated timber that has all of its parts standardized and can be assembled in 6 months anywhere in the united states

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if i had a nickel for every time my favorite metal album was whale-themed, i'd have two nickels, which isn't much but it's weird that it happened twice

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all these tech bros trying to become part of the "propertied class" in the coming "AI revolution" should instead be thinking about trying to become part of the "not-first-up-against-the-wall class" in the coming people's revolution

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step 1 in learning to hit on strangers: learn to complement strangers, step 2: --- do you need step 2? isn't making other people happy good enough? why are you trying to get anything out of this?

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in the same sense that only nixon could go to china, only trump can systematically dismantle american hegemony on the global scale and create a new world order not lead by america

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no artist is as free as jimi, i love that man with my heart and soul

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me having my morning coffee

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there is a massive gap between the unwashed masses and being a man of culture, and that gap is only traversable via intense, unashamed nerdery

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some of you all don't believe in the universal fellowship of all humans and it really freaks me out

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18th century hits different

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the year is 2026, i wake up in the morning and log on to a decentralized social media network to discuss type theory with the greatest minds in europe, life is good

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having closely known someone with severe anorexia, every time i see someone with anorexia on the street i want to beg them to be good to themselves, but you can't do that it would be inappropriate

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the concept of "horse lattitudes" is so psychically potent to me (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_latitudes)... idk why

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just watching andor season 2, and i think that the genius of andor is focusing on the little guy, the small parts of the rebellion and the small parts of the empire, once it becomes "main plot" it is in some ways worse than typical star wars because we have the "gritty, realistic" atmosphere but it completely fails in presenting believable actions or scale on either the rebel or empire side, if it were sillier and more operatic then we wouldn't mind so much though

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it is still really confusing to me how people have not got the memo re tackiness of consumer culture, it's like are you trying to look stupid on purpose?