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@lacancerous
This was always an unholy project: the symbolic, the imaginary, and the real, and so on and so on.
I’m waiting for IKEA and Lego to merge into the mega corporation that runs our lives. It will be a prison of our own making.
That the real reason French wines were so good was the bacteria on a Frenchman’s unwashed feet stomping the grapes rather that the natural yeasts from the unwashed grapes. Foot bacteria should have been archived like cheese bacteria
What's a conspiracy theory you believe with your whole heart?
Hot take: before you get married you should have kids names picked out and should both change you last name to the one that makes the kids names you picked sound the coolest
Hey @grok, based on my tweets, I am: -which dictator? -which philosopher? -which fictional character? -which politician? -which religious figure? -which historical figure? -which artist?
It would seem I am unabashedly evil
there’s a philosophical mistake that ethics works like math it doesn’t lots of effective altruists / rationalists get this messed up
the destitute and the ultra-rich have much more in common with each other than they do with anyone in the middle
When I was 14 my mom found a book I had taken out from the library that was ostensibly about art history but was realistically all drawings/paintings of naked women. She asked my dad to “have a talk with me about it.” That talk went something like this “I told your mom that I…
I would like a library service where I put in the age and general interests of my kids and I get a curated bag of 10 books that I can pick up weekly. Is that so lazy? Yes. but my kids pulling every book off the shelf just for me to say “that’s not appropriate” isn’t working lol
The disappearance of coins from daily life has done immeasurable damage to the semiotic substrate of our civilization
Very, very few people who say they are their own greatest critics are not in fact, their own greatest critics. And the person who most closely approximates this ideal will probably not need to tell you this.
As a man who spent most of his life playing punk rock “maybe nothing and no one is beautiful anymore” is much closer to the universal truth the ethos was aimed at. The community of the punk community has been cannibalized into a conception of empty rebellion as a parallel…
“you think everything and everyone is beautiful” “maybe that’s the real punk rock”
Every musical key has a distinct personality. G-major is sunny, D-minor terrifying, B-major royal, Db-major rich. Most distinct of all is D-major, the key of magnificent power. Nothing competes with the indomitable strength of D-major.
Build skyscrapers with Gothic architectural elements.
Last night I saved someone’s life and I haven’t been able to sleep. I am watching the sun rise and am asking myself if the reasons to put an end to it for me have changed. I just don’t know what to feel about seeing someone take a grasp of air after I found them on the sidewalk…
Luxury is most often measured in what was lost from the world to allow me to hold this in my hand