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grognor.stacky.netJoined September 2010

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person B means a lot to person A, but person A means nothing to person B. I'm person A a lot. it makes me very sad
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what if the finite, temporary, and contingent actually matter more than the eternal, perfect, and consummate
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labeling something important doesn't increase the amount of people that look at it, but it might change *which* people look at it
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clear thinkers are attracted to clear thinking, so none of them enter the academic fields that are run by muddleheads
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my speech acts so often have the opposite of their intended effects that I wonder if I should take a vow of silence
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a very high RT/fav ratio is evidence that the tweet has too much memetic virulence relative to how good it is. must strike balance
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a low RT/fav ratio is a pretty grave insult. people enjoy the tweet, but don't think other people should see it
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smh if you measure your "productivity" with anything other than how much less doomed the human race is after you've put in your work
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having more options is only "always better" in the narrow, circumscribed situation of there being no other agents
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Attention is scarce. Remember this fact! Consider it often! Think of it always, and think of nothing else
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tired of seeing uncritical assumption that any time money changes hands something overall good has happened
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my goal is to become a node in your head that looks at you disapprovingly whenever you're about to politics or meme
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jokes that anyone can get are less funny because humor partly functions as an in-group/out-group separator
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why is it always, always, always an illusion whenever things seem to be changing for the better!? let me keep something good! god damnit
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something that is x^2 as bad can be described as "exponentially worse" with no impropriety. did I mention I hate humans?
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who takes responsibility for an outcome is a political question, not a factual one, and will be determined by who is more powerful
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aversion to making seemingly minor concessions comes from the precedent it would set for more and more concessions.
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