Philosoraptor

joined 4 years ago
[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 2 points 23 hours ago

He observed that the world cannot be analysed by isolating one of its aspects, since "the book of nature is one and indivisible", and includes the environment, life, sexuality, the family, social relations, and so forth. It follows that "the deterioration of nature is closely connected to the culture which shapes human coexistence".

That seems totally correct to me. Just not in the way they want it to be.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The problem with “weak” (low-power) poses is they make you look smaller… and feel smaller.

With your arms and elbows brought close to the body, and the shoulders and neck bending down – it practically looks like you're curling up in a shell.

So go against the norm and adopt “strong” (high-power) poses when it comes to using your phone. It takes a good amount of confidence to do… as well as accepting the fact that it'll raise some eyebrows.

Caring about this kind of thing sounds so exhausting.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 56 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Basically every war in history has been fought by teenagers and 20-somethings. That is the primary military demographic.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 28 points 2 days ago

I have taught long enough to whiteness karma work it’s magic though.

Hmm.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

allow 15 year olds to be groomed by a wealthy, elderly ~~procurers/panderers~~ lawyer

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago

Simply take the Vatican instead of sieging it.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Wrapping up Clair Obscur. I was a little reluctant to try it because I'm not generally a huge fan of JRPGs and I'm terrible at dodge/parry timing stuff but I'm glad I gave it a chance. After some initial adjustment I found the middle difficulty manageable and the story/world was exceptional. I'm trying a few of the harder optional bosses now. Great game.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I imagine the idea is that by relying on LLMs people can "get by" for a while, appearing to be functional and learning. Eventually, though, that lack of genuine thinking is going to come due. It's like buying everything you need with a credit card: it works for a while, but eventually you have to stop.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Secretly vaxxed?

 
 

What happened is that one morning you woke up from a terrible dream about molluscs to find yourself gagging on something in the back of your throat. You retched for what felt like half an hour, until your face was slimy with sweat and spittle and tears. You thought you were dying but you couldn’t cry out past the thing in the back of your throat. Finally you managed to spit it out. It was covered in a thick coating of mucous and phlegm, but it was a small plastic spoon, containing all the microplastics that had accumulated in your brain. Tiny letters on the underside of the handle said THANK YOU FOR YOUR CUSTOM.

Something similar must have happened to everyone else, because from that day on the world started to change. The immigrants went home, or maybe they were forced out, or maybe they were rounded up and shot, but they’re all gone now. The schools stopped teaching critical race theory and started teaching stoic philosophy, Roman military history, tax avoidance, and crypto. The women all signed a statement acknowledging that they would lose 90% of their eggs by the age of 30 and agreeing to stop being so choosy about who they’d allow to fertilise them. Slowly the world began to glow with a golden and slightly hazy light. It started to resemble a perfect shining image. But ever since you spat out the spoon, written language has stopped making sense. Not all of it: the stop signs on the street still say STOP and the sign above the charming little public library says LIIBRARB which is almost right, but all the books inside are unreadable. They’re crowded with dense black shapes that really do resemble letters, just not any letters in particular. All of them faintly smudged into the page, like crushed insects. The message on the spoon was the last coherent sentence you read; the world is splattered with dead mosquitoes now. It’s amazing how little the disappearance of all written language actually changed your life.

 

Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree goal and are examining how to maintain profits

 

More than half of all fossil fuel carbon emissions came from just 36 companies in 2023, a new analysis has revealed.

These firms, including Saudi Aramco, Shell, ExxonMobil, Coal India, and several Chinese companies have been tied to more than 20 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions in 2023.

The latest Carbon Majors report calculates emissions released by the burning of coal, oil and gas produced by 169 major fossil fuel companies in 2023. Of these firms, it found that 93 increased their total emissions compared to the previous year.

The report also includes historic data from 1854 to 2023, showing that since the Industrial Revolution, two thirds of carbon emissions have come from 180 companies - 11 of which no longer exist. Just 26 companies were linked to a third of these historic emissions.

 

Signing on to Hexbear this morning and seeing dozens of "I'm curious" posts across every comm, realizing that we must have really gotten a live one while I was gone, and tracking down the Patient Zero post. It's like a scavenger hunt for a dumb take. Good times, comrades, keep up the excellent work. rat-salute-2

 

Biggest surprised-pika ever.

“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” @nullllptr tweeted on X in September, the Journal reported.

“Normalize Indian hate,” the account wrote the same month, in reference to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley,” according to the Journal.

 

Brought to you by the guy who also monitors his son's overnight erection quality and compares it to his own.

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Things are getting bad to the point that ordinary people are not able to tune it out anymore, and the pundit class' answer of vote is looking less and less compelling. Regular people are looking for explanations and guidance. Talk to them. They want to know what has worked in the past, and what can work now. They're open to new ways of understanding the world, and we have that. Be accessible if you can.

 

Should have happened a long time ago, but good.

 

Death to America

 

New bootlicking world record dropped.

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Putting this in slop because melon-musk is really just providing context here.

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