Box Of

I’ve been observing that for years. Unless a house is completely custom-designed and custom-built to very rigorous specifications, a $5 million house is constructed with the same low-quality shitbox materials as a doublewide trailer. It just has more floor space.

Makes no sense at all. But that’s the way it is in the good ol’ USA.

Commonality

wanye (@xwanyex) / X

Really? I felt I had nearly nothing in common with my mother or father. There was hardly any ground we shared. Not absolutely nothing, of course. My dad liked computers and my mom liked reading horror books. Other than that, we were just about strangers in most respects.

Anyway, the Rawlsian veil in this sense was not what John Rawls was talking about and is not really applicable in this context.

Clown Point

SpaceMoth๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@spacemoth2500.bsky.social) โ€” Bluesky

Bluesky clownery is freakishly clownish. Why would this be a point of pride? What do they think this will get them? It just disadvantages them in the world and means they don’t even have an inkling of what they are talking about. Fewer competitors with me, though, so it’s not wholly bad.

Hamper

Rona Dinur (@RonaDinur) / X

Invariably, STEM types make the most mind-numbingly idiotic kindergarten-level philosophical and epistemological errors because “philosophy is useless” that then hamper their advancement and progress — and the progress of their fields — by decades.

Knowing what questions to ask, why you’re asking them, and what it means to ask and to answer them is extremely important. Without that, you have nothing. And that is what philosophy grants to you.

Bad Boy Blues

Women: Men are bad and evil for liking attractive women!

Also women: This unemployed meth fiend who will definitely smack me around and steal from me is the hottest thing EVER.

And don’t even act like tons of women aren’t that way. We all know they are.

IQ Test

I like how you can ascertain who the low-IQ people are very quickly now because they complain AI “doesn’t work” and “can’t do anything.”

Meanwhile, I performed a complex analysis on part of my company’s infrastructure that would’ve taken me 4-5 full work days in 4-5 hours with AI.

Zen

What Zendaya Leaves Unsaid. Her films rarely center onโ€”or even acknowledgeโ€”her race, seemingly out of concern that focussing on identity might limit her charactersโ€™ emotional palettes. But why couldnโ€™t it expand those palettes?

I mean, who gives a fuck about Zendaya’s race? She’s either an effective actor or not. She’s not a favorite of mine particularly, but she’s pretty solid in most things I’ve seen her in. That’s all that matters to me.

This focus on race over all else makes the country worse, not better. We were doing this in a far superior way in the 1990s when we were attempting to include, rather than divide. We should get back to that.