Just enough of a bastard to be worth liking

If the devils want to dance then the piper wants his pay

[device--conduct]

[everyday-cutephoto]

[tyrannosaurus-rex]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[lostsometime]

ok sorry to double reblog BUT I just looked him up and he does these fantastic videos where he breaks down HOW he actually mimics the other artists’ styles. Like for ed Sheeran, he explains how he brings his voice forward in the mouth, while Adam Levine sings in the back of the mouth, stuff like that. It’s SO COOL, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone actually break down how to do this sort of thing, as a skill, instead of just treating it like a neat trick they just happen to be good at. https://www.tiktok.com/@justinjmooremusic

Check him out he’s so cool

[sentient-tent]

This is Tie, she is going to eat all of the notes

[sentient-tent]

reblog to feed her notes

[elodieunderglass]

How is she doing this

[monamoni]

104 skydivers, 20 nations and one beautiful world record breaking moment

[plothooksinc]

For the people in the notes, this is not AI. A simple search online will find it on news sites.

[brennacedria]

A link to a news report for quick reference

[reactionimagesdaily]

[busket]

important that you never forgive ice agents, ever. even years after all this is over (and I do believe we will make it out on the other side, alive and for the better,) they live in shame and disgrace forever. no excuses, no forgiveness. they ruined their own lives when they decided that human freedom and liberty was an acceptable sacrifice for a paycheck

[brightlotusmoon]

[assumptionprime]

[depsidase]

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[lamignonette]

[suddenlyprompts]

I fell for her like Troy fell to the Greeks; quickly, and in the most embarrassing way imaginable.

[poniatowskaja]

I’m guessing you’re referring to the incident with the horse, but that came at the end of a war that lasted 10 years. Speed is relative, but if it takes you ten years to fall for someone, I would not call that ‘quickly’.

[rareandradiant-maiden]

I fell for her like Troy fell to the Greeks: slowly, then all at once, and with the aid of a giant livestock model

[basingstokemercury]

"character deserved better" (but they were never going to get it that's the stuff great tragedies are made of) vs "character deserved better" (but the writers really blew it)

[dragon-in-a-fez]

there's a group of high school boys in this McDonald's and I just heard one of them say "I bet you you cannae break your own arm" so something interesting might happen shortly

[dragon-in-a-fez]

update: they are settling the bet by googling whether or not it's possible for a person to deliberately break their own arm. narratively this is a letdown but I suppose in other ways it's for the best

[technofinch]

I have GOT to stop spending $30

[rainformation]

formative years? aren’t they all?

[absolutejamer]

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse

[tanadrin]

'should a pure utilitarian kill innocent people apparently causally remote from others to save their lives, if it saves lives on net' is i think an example of a thought experiment that is on the one hand kind of useful for exposing the way pure utilitarianism stresses our moral intuitions, but also where IMO starting from the abstract idea and moving toward real-world applicability illuminates useful ideas.

like if it were true that by committing one act of wanton murder in Spokane you could save the life of everyone in India, i would say you should at least consider it. but the less uneven you make the tradeoff, and the more you try to find real-world situations that look like this, the more you approach the naive utilitarian's fail states like "we should choose random citizens by lottery and harvest their organs to save lives on net."

and that's a situation where like. suddenly you have an in-theory implementable policy, and also a lot of obvious practical objections like "this would destroy the legitimacy of any government that tried it, if it didn't it would be intensely socially corrosive and everyone involved would have massive incentives to rig the system to protect their loved ones, and there would be huge political incentives to turn this into a weapon against socially disfavored groups." and i think this in turn tells you something useful: that naive utilitarian reasoning is really good at tricking you into believing stupid shit, and any decent moral philosophy has to be pretty engaged with how the world actually works to produce useful policy prescriptions.

and that's not an indictment of utilitarianism at the end of the day! in fact, i think the intelligent utilitarian would happily acknowledge "yeah ok this policy saves lives on net if you ignore how it would work in practice, but we don't live in a bad 1960s sci fi short story, we live in a society and the best outcome here is that before you can ever implement it every member of the Utilitarian Health Ministry gets dragged out in the street and beaten to death." non-stupid utilitarianism is pretty capable of reasoning its way out of those kinds of traps. ergo, the no galaxy brain shit rule, which is really just a heuristic to remind you not to get so far up your own ass you decide moral intuitions have nothing useful to say or that the absurdity heuristic is never useful. that you do live in the world, and not in Gedankensburg, and you have to account for the difference.