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Gunton Blurpus retweeted
It's not that there's never situations where the centrists are wrong or that ideologues never have a point, but you should be very skeptical of people who commit the fallacy of the excluded middle. They want to exclude the middle to force you to make an ideological choice.
Me whenever anybody makes any sort of sound around me at all or approaches me in any way, no matter how ginger their footsteps or sweet their vocal tone, as they plead with me to please calm down for even a second
Gunton Blurpus retweeted
This type of thinking produces a very interesting type of person - one who thinks that because they hold Good opinions, it's the same as being a Good person and therefore they don't really have to actually _do_ anything Good. I've met several over my lifetime
Gunton Blurpus retweeted
dinosaurs went extinct and it became really hard for megafauna to exist and to maintain and engineer landscapes/open up the canopy so rats were like whatever it can’t be that hard
My takeaway from Dune generally is that Herbert shows the world as a great big ecosystem - Paul is not a "Great Man" in the sense that he's super swell and neat, but he is an aberration within the universe's ecology, and it's interesting to see his downstream effects
I enjoyed this one as a kid watching it on Channel 11, but it deserves an Actually Good adaptation. Hell, combine it with The Mangler.
Gunton Blurpus retweeted
You peeps are the people I expect to be well-researched and granular to contribute cases of this to me: directors who use a film to explore ideas or concepts from a film they were not allowed to make
This is legitimately much more entertaining than what I see in most normal travel shows.
Gunton Blurpus retweeted
we talking about biggest contributions to the internet again and in my case it's certainly this image
Gunton Blurpus retweeted
There’s an old saying among sociologists, that civilization is subject to constant invasion by barbarians, in the form of children. In order for an institution to persist over time, the incoming cohort of young people must be persuaded to reproduce it." josephheath.substack.com/p/r…
I would never dream of asking this of people for my birthday. A wedding, no problem. But not a birthday.
My friend wants to plan a couples, no-kids weekend getaway, splitting the cost of a large AirBNB, in January for her 30th birthday. I really do not love this idea (husband is mortified), neither to spend the money nor to get someone to take the toddler for 3 days. It would be a 2.5 hour drive away for us, too, so it’s not like we’re close if something happens. I haven’t been away from him for even 1 night yet and he still just seems so young! It would be very hard to leave him for that long.
Am I just a party pooper who needs to get over it? Genuine question. Like I actually need advice here guys
Gunton Blurpus retweeted
"Jampack all schools and museums with glowing screens that are infinitely glitchy" is one of those 2000s-10s Terrible Ideas. At this point I think a kid taught to do math with a stick and a ground of dirt, like Euclid, will turn out smarter than the "raised on tablets" kid.
