most disagreements in this sphere come from ignoring the meaning & difference between people consciously and deliberately being something as such vs by implication

Communism always claims to have been sabotaged; liberal democracy is the only ideology that actually says that crime and disorder are the "price of freedom"

True liberalism is when each generation only has access to stone tools they've created by hand

It is entirely legitimate to say Hipsterism is Woke because both emerge from "Neo-Sincerity", the idea that if other people disagree with you they are only pretending to disagree with you.

Jackson waiting until ch.17 for this is like the end of Euripides' Electra w/ its justice w/o just action, faulty oracle, and - "btw: Helen never went to Troy". It being usually much more frustratingly simply swept under the rug explains the "E- &B-fields magically propagate e/o"

Given how united the ai-crowd and eugenic meritocrats are in reveling in the paradoxes of taking basic common sense out of basic contexts and to absurdity -the former by treating matter as life, the latter by treating life as matter- one wouldn't expect them to be so segregated.

"But if you diminish me we will both disappear" said the E. "lol" said the dB/dt, "lmao"

"Just talk 2her. What's the worst that could happen?" She could flat out ignore you in a way that leaves you wondering whether you're ugly af or she just didn't hear u, or is rude, or shy, leading to spirals of mutual misunderstanding and disorientation. One actually needs plans.

The chilling possibility that she assumed all those instances of me teasing her, being condescending & weird, forgetting to introduce myself, ignoring her presence, not asking for her #, were me actually not liking her, instead of pretending not to like her. Very bad implications

One important lesson we’ve learned from this whole mess is that if you are going to cut off fresh water to a military base, you should have some military assets in place first to defend the water. Classic Obummer blunder

If you think about it, women are like the incels of eating/food.

What is understood as the 'modernism' of the period (expressionism, Bauhaus, etc.) takes its abstract character from a desire to break into a world of pure forms - this was the ideal of the dying 19th century (quite literally the ideology of Buddenbrooks), and in the new age of..

This is going to be cringe, but I keep thinking back to a teaching assistant in a course that I eventually almost gave up on, who then apparently didn't give up on me, but became very generous with advice and also with grading. She had this reserved and very deliberately polite attitude with spontaneous playfulness just underneath. I regret the last time I saw her. She waved at me from across the street, but I just smiled, nodded and looked away, ashamed of what I had been handing in for her to grade (she called in sick the day I thought would be my last chance to talk in person). Don't want to feel this way again. She was exactly like this:

I'm almost certain that I've accidentally rejected a one in a million literal incarnation of Asuka that somehow ended up sharing classes with me. We were alone, and as I was focussed on showing her a textbook (and actually intending to ask for her number), she almost certainly literally said "I can just give you my number so that...", which, in my sleep-deprived state I convinced myself to be a different phrase that would have sounded similarly in German, but made little sense, and which I simply ignored. Instead, I actually simply opened a door for her. It now dawns on me why she unexpectedly hesitated and stood back for a moment, even though we were simply in front of a lecture hall that we were going to, with her friend group in it. The other possibility is that I'm delusional. I've never actually felt like losing my mind over a woman but I do now. I'm pretty sure the girl of my dreams has jovially offered me her number, and in response I showed her the door.