Lorpius Prime

[lorpius-prime]

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[karcatgirl-vantas]

the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck

[skluug]

this is what ancient greek philosophy is like

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

False! “Sightly” is a positive word, so the default way for things to work is good as well.

The true most ordinary object is beautiful, horrible sounding, very smelly, intangible, and delicious.

I still don’t think it matches anything in existence but to truly understand a thing one must know its true nature.

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

"touchy" is also a word! however it's mostly used for things that aren't objects, like subjects of conversation. it either means "oversensitive and irritable" or "requires careful handling/wording, delicate"

i think the second one works well for our hypothetical object. so we can use that.

therefore, the Default Object is:

beautiful

makes a horrendous sound

smells absolutely awful

is very fragile

tastes delicious

and i still cannot think of anything that matches this

[and-a-pidgey-in-a-wepear-tree]

behold, the default object!

[lorpius-prime]

tumblr recommending Linkara’s tumblr to me definitely says something about my friends here, but I’m not sure what

[lorpius-prime]

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[lorpius-prime]

I am going to need to know the good tumblrs to follow if I’m to be back here, however.

Give them to me.

[lorpius-prime]

I’m on tumblr again.

[lorpius-prime]

What is a hi!Chat?

What is going on here?

[lorpius-prime]

Tumblr was never my favorite.

Because you can’t reply.

[elianyaa]

thats not true youre crazy

[lorpius-prime]

oh maybe I am

[lorpius-prime]

Tumblr was never my favorite.

Because you can’t reply.

[lorpius-prime]

Tumblr was always my favorite.

Because it lets me write more words.

[lorpius-prime]

President Obama will appoint Vice-Chairman Janet Yellen to replace Ben Bernanke as Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

[lorpius-prime]

"Storey" is one of a very few instances in which I prefer the British to the American spelling of a word.

Homographs are one of my arch-enemies as a writer.

[lorpius-prime]

I do believe this is my favorite food criticism ever:  "It's like Upton Sinclair nightmare bratwurst."

[lorpius-prime]

Just encountered the largest cockroach I have seen in my life.

It was making so much noise I thought it was a cat.

[lorpius-prime]

Pervez Musharraf apparently just ran from a courtroom, hopped into a getaway car, and sped away.

Even for Pakistan, this whole thing just sounds completely nutty bananas.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/18/pervez-musharraf-pakistan

[horseysurprise-blog]

[lorpius-prime]

I had one of these on Wednesday.  It wasn't very good.  And I say that as a great lover of junk food, so I'm sure most people will find them completely awful.

Oh, also the little cheese cups at the crust don't actually break off easily.  It was a disappointing pizza built of lies.

[lorpius-prime]

Perspective

You know, my country has done some great and terrible things in its history.

We sent explorers to the moon.  The furthest from our planet humans have ever ventured.

We built the largest network of roads ever conceived, making every corner of a vast country accessible within a matter of days to any traveler on an individual basis.

We channeled the power of subatomic forces to annihilate two cities.

We twice led the foundation of global conclaves of nations in order to preserve and strengthen international peace.

We sent an entire fleet of iron warships on a cruise around the world, in peacetime, for no other reason than to show off to everyone how cool we were.

We once had an argument over the rights of man and the nature of government that saw us set 3 million men to fighting and slaughtered a third of them.  In the end, we preserved the Union and freed the slaves.

On two occasions we picked a fight with the global superpower and fought them to a standstill.  The first time ended with us founding a government built on the strongest, most lasting set of liberal principles that yet survives in this world.

Whatever criticisms and confounding examples one may have or find about the United States, this country has done some truly epic shit.

Today our government is almost completely paralyzed with indecision over whether and how much to curtail spending on public services and transfer payments.  In the eyes of American leadership, finding the correct ratio of government spending to GDP has now become the most vexing issue of our time.

I don't think there's anything wrong with having an opinion on that issue, I certainly have one myself.  And it is a question that our government, like all others, must contend with simply as part of its ordinary custodial duties.  But I also wish that everyone would take a step back, look at the matter in the context of everything else that affects our individual lives and our societies, and ask of our politicians: Really?