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West Elm Caliban
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Joined November 2009

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back on my bullshit today but not passively. embracing the nietzschean eternal recurrence of my bullshit and choosing it joyfully, for all joy wants eternity
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It's funny how, no matter what the field, you see the same pattern of "practitioner starts to despise the more popularly-loved things belonging to that field."
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@wmarybeard: "The meditations of Marcus Aurelius is the worst sort of platitudinous self-help manual. 'Always think of the future.' We don't need a Roman Emperor to tell us that." Mary Beard & @peterfrankopan talk Twelve Caesars @JLFLitfest @soneva Fushi
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2yo snuck into the garage, climbed a ladder to my camping bin, extracted a hatchet and ran around the backyard swinging it before daughter saw it and narcd him out parenting achievement unlocked
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I won’t respect them on a train I won’t respect them on a plane I won’t respect them on a tram I won’t respect them Sam I Am
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Respect women at work. Respect women at home. Respect women at school. Respect women in politics. Respect women on the road. Respect women in the streets. Respect women on public transport. Respect women online. Respect women EVERYWHERE. RT if you agree!
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Just a good old boy, never meaning no harm. And if this be not enough to keep a man alive, then in good faith, I long not to live
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Half baked idea that this is Newcomb’s paradox irl, you can’t causally affect your child’s upbringing that much (except negatively) but being the sort of parent who would want to positively affect them, does in fact affect them bc 🧬
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This is such a funny topic. What he’s saying is true, parenting styles don’t affect long term wellbeing of a child, but parents are extremely offended by the idea that they can’t deeply shape their kids. You can’t, and it’s unhealthy to try to. twitter.com/BarneyFlames/s…
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Of course, if the Turquoise Serpent was truly insatiable, Itzamma would tell us, wouldn't he? After all, we pay this guy 1000s of gallons of blood to provide us with safety. It's their job. Well, that's where it gets interesting. Our producers reached out to Cayucali...
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"Berkeley doesn't have affirmative action" is a good example of a technically defensible but straightforwardly false argument that obscures rather than elucidates. As soon as California banned affirmative action, Berkeley openly and urgently looked to circumvent it.
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I believe there's anti-Asian racism in college admissions, but, uh, UC Berkeley doesn't have affirmative action, it's been banned since 1996. twitter.com/cmarinucci/sta…
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I am tired of this cucked argument strategy. "Imagine if this was about jews, wouldn't that sound fucked up?" bro it's fucked up regardless stop accepting the frame that things can only be fucked up if analogized to Official Fucked Up Things or whatever
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Alarming how this kind of anti human propaganda is consider even vaguely respectable in academia. Pick an ethnic minority, and imagine an academic advocating that this minorities numbers should be reduced. How long would they keep a job? twitter.com/PopnBalance/st…
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So the conclusion is that the inscription means “the glory of a new age” which is reasonable, but the inscription ITSELF has been garbled to “Gloria novae aetatis”~=“The glory of a new birthday” *** RETVRN ***
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GPT confidently bullshitting here. If I read this right: -it’s trying to guess what “aecvl” (???) could mean -Maybe a typo for “saecul__” (age, epoch) - a reasonable guess in itself -Now, Latin for “age” is “aetat(is)”, but this is in the sense of “12 years of age” only
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Replying to @cauchyfriend
Exact same here. Well said 😌 GPT is like making the intro section to a Wikipedia page that’s dedicated to whatever nuanced question you’re after It even told me about the history surrounding specific ancient coins when I typed in their metadata 😂. Really unbelievable
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