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We should be more pro-active or we’ll see more of such sad fates of honest people.

dataandphilosophy replied to your post “I just wanted to get on and read some rationalist posts on tumblr and…”

But Kelsey, how can I solve my problem of not having read the Silmarillion by converting to Orthodox Judaism?

Now that you’re observant of Shabbat and don’t use technology from sundown Friday-Saturday, you have a lot of free time, which like any sensible person you spend catching up on all the books you want to read. Thrilled at the prospect of ensnaring someone in two of my interests at once, I send you a pocket Siddur and a pocket Silmarillion, and you end up reading them at the same time, having strange dreams, and writing a long, revolutionary essay on the compatibility of Beresheit with Middle-earth’s revised cosmology. The Christians get mad at us for cultural appropriation. 

“Sir – that was my emotional support archduke!”

Is anyone else forever frustrated that hearting a single post in a long and vicious argument on here means every previous iteration is hearted too and how will people know which side I’m rooting for? I dunno

anyone who says “the bible is clear” about an issue, is 100% of the time wrong. the bible wasnt clear once. the bible couldnt be clear about how to make a table if it came in an ikea box

this also happens prospectively (as opposed to retrospectively) which may possibly be worse

Is anyone else forever frustrated that hearting a single post in a long and vicious argument on here means every previous iteration is hearted too and how will people know which side I’m rooting for? I dunno

If you read the big CHAZ/CHOP post I made in early June, most of this won’t be new to you.  But I wanted to share it.

I don’t agree with everything in the video, especially not the jumps to attribute malice to the SPD when mere incompetence is a plausible explanation.  The guy is clearly pushing a particular angle, and the timeline jumps quickly from one event that makes SPD look bad to another, almost implying that nothing except those events took place.

But the concrete facts he does report – those all happened.  And the tone of the video captures how I felt about them then, and still do.

(I want to draw particular attention to the June 20 shooting and the claim that the cops were met by a violent crowd.  The “body cam video” mentioned is not some obscure thing you have to look up a database – the SPD provided that footage in their official post about the incident, the same post that mentions a violent crowd.  Do they … just think you’re not going to watch the video???

All this stuff was like that.  Stuff that feels to me like a carrier wave for a fundamental message, reiterated again and again: I know I don’t have to make sense.  No one cares if I’m lying.  I have sovereignty and so I create reality.  I cannot be held responsible for my actions, because I am the one-who-holds-responsible.  Morality and law are things for you mortals, not me.)

Responding to a pandemic in the world’s wealthiest and most powerful nation:

This lady is Alethi and you can’t tell me otherwise

By Jan Lehner for Russh Magazine

I’m very very sad because as a kid I had learned that Thomas Pynchon was really good (I knew this from oral tales about books he had written, from fellow high school students knowing about him in hushed tones)

Then I discovered he was a crackpot and an eccentric and he thought that he was Jesus Christ’s replacement (I’m paraphrasing here)

And then I found out he was a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, reactionary zealot, he’s the guy who wrote V for Vendetta

And now I’m wondering if he’s ever going to stop being an interesting, unique and ultimately terrible human being