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m-malyar

Bran

kettledemon

Song lan cant catch a break from crazy people

miraligner

mammalianmammals

Javelina aka Collared Peccary (Dicotyles tajacu), male, family Tayassuidae, Arizona, USA

photograph by Sheryl Hester

gnar-slabdash

Actually: Game Time! Every character gets one fuckword in the whole original series. Where do you put it? ex. i just put in a vote for nate to say “i fucked up” instead of “screwed up” during his performance in the Long Goodbye Job

gaygrimoires

I'm still so surprised so many people liked my last Bashir ahhh thank you all!!!!! The Star Trek fandom here is so sweet ahghghgjgghhhh

moosekleenex

dorimares

she don't speak. but she remembers.

pikaole

Tag yourself and learn about your bees🐝

boobcareer

I dont live in pervert kingdom? its regular here? maybe you live in prude kingdom.

quannaix

I want everyone to see this section of a mostly unredacted judgement I’ve been reading. Mostly it’s fine, but occasionally they have to X out a word or a profit margin or something. But then I encountered paragraph of the year.

quannaix

faustandfurious

Oh so you’re a real Tolkien fan?

Tell me the duration of an elven pregnancy, the number of Sun Years from the Awakening to Fëanor’s Rebellion, and the name of Gil-galad’s dad

armenelols

Tolkien is not a real Tolkien fan, then.

faustandfurious

Yes

galileosballs

There are a lot of philosophical concepts that I wish were in more common parlance, but the one I wish people broadly understood most is 'merely verbal dispute'.

beansproutking

care to help me add it to my parlance?

galileosballs

So, not infrequently in philosophy you'll have a debate with someone, go back and forth for hours, and eventually realize... you don't actually disagree on any point other than the definition of a word or two. Your actual positions are the same, you're just calling them something different. You see this a lot in some of the slipperier areas of metaphysics, like in debates over free will. But it's everywhere.

Once you get to that point in the debate, there's simply no reason to continue. You're not going to be able to logically compell someone to use different words, it'd be pretty pointless to even try, and there's nothing else at stake. For a philosopher, realizing that you're in a merely verbal dispute is realizing that you're arguing about nothing, and thus, that it's time for the debate to end.