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a tired philosophy student

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That part

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UAW strike bless up

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please laugh, it’s 4:17am here and i’m GIGGLING

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finals time

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influencers have become a puppet for brands to convince us to buy their product, they are truly some of the worst psy-ops to be created

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as graduation nears, i surely do hope that does academic weapons who have fizzled out and reignited themselves over the years feel validated in knowing their hard work paid off.

shoutout 2024 grads! i

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wine and cig post midterm bliss

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why did no one tell me a gap year would be so calming yet daunting

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academics and protest:

the student protest has long been a beautiful, longstanding tradition. many of the famous talking points politicians, historians and the like will use as an instance of powerful outspoken voice originated or are student protests. physically protesting in some ways is a privilege. but protesting, whether it be physically being at one, donating, volunteering, reposting etc..will always be a right. furthermore, i think it may fall in line with the duties of a student to protest in a way they see fit, for causes they believe in. a part of being a person/adult is standing up for what you believe in after all. but, regardless of how you feel about reason why protests going on at campuses around the country (including my own), from an outside scope these protests should be respected within their safe parameters. protesting is a part of healthy engagement. we should allow this to happen in the environments that directly market themselves as being venues for thought exploration and development.

join the encampment or don't. protest or don't. it is your right, duty and privilege. attacking protesters, unfairly arresting them, photographing people exercising their rights are all threats on free speech and thought exploration.

solidarity binds forever. never forget!

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two wolves within me: both equally strong:

loves public philosophy.

hates interacting with the public.

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its finally happened.

he is unavoidable, inconceivably so.

kant serves cunt.

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modern day sentences have become so complex, long and filled with jargon from a variety of fields that is repeated misused and yet they say so little

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by far one of the most radical things i think women can do about their own self-perception isn't be positive or neutral or even negative. i think just a fundamental redirection of your self-image away from the physical and into something more permeable is more worth while. i could hate or love myself, my body, my face what have you. but it is a waste of effort, at least that is what i delude myself into believing.

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im back from the philosophy conference all i have to say is this:

substance over argumentation!

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there is two constant battles in my mind about what i would like to do my dissertation on. i'm pretty sure im leaning towards researching incels but im not entirely sure. maybe the alignment problem but idk how i could explain the internet in a meaningful academic capacity.

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there are two wolves within me:

the yapper and the nonverbal

oftentimes, they collide

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the art of being a lonely smart woman

i read somewhere, long ago that subjectively smart men, say men who worked in career fields that required a high level of academic entry, often said they wanted a "smart" wife or girlfriend. this sounds basic and uninspiring. oftentimes the secondary comment regarding the perfect woman is her intelligence. but those same men in this same study when encouraged to rank different women on level of subjective "would make a good wife/girlfriend" list, women whose subjective intelligence surpassed or were at a similar level consistently ranked lower. disturbingly so, these same men resorted to base physicality in this study, which i know a lot of people would say is an important factor in spousal choice but in the long term is it truly?

it is hard being a brilliant woman. this isn't me gloating or woeing about being smart or academically successful or whatever. it is an objective fact. it is hard being brilliant and female because a woman in this position must at some point recognize a few key factors.

this life will be uniquely lonely at times. this is different from what most people would be able to accept. you will be ostracized and feel othered because of the unique combination of being both a woman from the inferior second class and brilliant--which is not something a woman is supposed to be. you will not be asked out on dates a lot for sheer personality nor for the supposed intelligence you possess which is deemed to be surface level attractive. you will be asked for beauty or sex. it is disheartening.

you will be routinely overlooked and underlistened to. words will come out of your mouth only to be misunderstood (purposely more often than not) or represented by someone else.

people will put unfair expectations onto you, including yourself. it will be covertly done to avoid any real accusations. if you complain, you will be punished. if you comply, you will be rewarded with more of these expectations that may push you deeper into the overworked and underpaid status women as a whole have generally accepted.

every man, if you do find men attractive, no matter how kind or empathetic they may seem is going to put the emotional responsibility of the labor of your relationship onto you exclusively at least twice. even if you have work to do, even if you can't deal with it, even if you don't want to. you will comply at least once but you can never hide from the nagging feeling of injustice.

if you do decide to remain emotionally unattached or single, it will still feel lonely. it will always feel just a bit lonely.

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its so interesting that influencers used to be this really cool instance of the public electing one of it's own talented creators to be famous vs. the traditional nepo baby hollywood cycle but it's become a shadow of itself

but how could something as shallow as influencership become a shadow of itself?