Just A Fool Finding Their Path

“PHEIDIPPIDES: Zeus? You old fogey, are you so stupid you still believe there's such a thing? STREPSIADES: Of course there's a Zeus. PHEIDIPPIDES: Not any more there isn't. Convection-Principle’s in power now. Zeus has been deported.” - Aristophanes, The Cloud

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Morning hike:

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Guy who’s so attuned to the sublime he pre-ejaculates every time he sees a sunset

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“I swear it’s not a micro aggression it’s a very normal sized aggression. Just…just gimme a second im sure I can muster up a slur or two”

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Crested Caracara being allopreened by two Black Vultures! This is such an interesting behavior and one that's typically one-way (preening by vultures to caracara). Here you can see the caracara either attempting to reciprocate but getting rebuffed by both vultures, or telling them to stop for now.

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“Under a one-sex model of gender, male/male pederasty should be considered heterosexual” <- something that I think is too much of a stretch to really argue but I think would make a good bit

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Obviously Harry Potter is still very popular, I get that. It’s weird there’s still rabid fans though. That feels off

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💬 0  🔁 153  ❤️ 172 · A lot of people are ragging on the 'cable diverted to avoid Dobby's grave after Harry Potter fans raise a stink' thing

Ahh see, now that makes sense

[fission-mailure]

A lot of people are ragging on the 'cable diverted to avoid Dobby's grave after Harry Potter fans raise a stink' thing and while I also love ragging on Harry Potter fans being weird, in this case it looks like the story was completely made up.

tl;dr: There's no evidence the interview that this was mentioned in even exists, no evidence the route of the cable has ever changed, and the whole story seems to originate from one dude's podcast.

The story also broke into mainstream via the Daily Mail, who are ... rarely if ever honest or accurate.

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Obviously Harry Potter is still very popular, I get that. It’s weird there’s still rabid fans though. That feels off

[argumate]

people joking around about the Fauci hearings but the right-wing views of covid that it was fake, that it was murder, that it was deliberate conspiracy, and that it was incompetence still makes no real sense when combined, like you can rescue one of those theories in isolation but you can't make an effective coalition of all of them simultaneously.

[collapsedsquid]

Freud relates the story of a man who was accused by his neighbour of having returned a kettle in a damaged condition and the three arguments he offers. 1. That he had returned the kettle undamaged 2. That it was already damaged when he borrowed it 3. That he had never borrowed it in the first place\

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Historically, some of the US’ best allies against communists have been communists.

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Protestants are like “Protozoa” anyways. Wastebasket taxon

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i think of them more like passerines. half of the species in Aves but almost none of the genetic diversity.

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Protestants are like “Protozoa” anyways. Wastebasket taxon

[machine-saint]

putting the phrase "protestant work ethic" on the shelf

[aorish]

given the origin of it was seemingly "Max Weber hated his Catholic father for being an alcoholic layabout" I think it'd best go in the dumpster

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Political activist gf and business major bf except she’s a guerrilla for the Red Brigade and he’s a capo for the Neapolitan Camorra.

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We should automate consumption. Just release a bunch of LLMs attached to bank account loose

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The Eternal 21st Century

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odysseus was actually north macedonian