David Rutledge

Philosophy podcaster/broadcaster, maker of sounds. Personal account

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@WKCosmo @fvguima “It want just an extinction. It was a complete and final erasure”

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@cdfoudy @JoyceCarolOates The Holy Sinner never seems to get rated as a canonical Mann text, but it’s a delight. Sharp and hilarious

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@dieworkwear Classic AI style

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@secondzeit Dicksplainer DECIMATES wokester with FACTS and LOGIC

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@ImGinnyRobinson Obvious AI slop is obvious

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@atrupar You know he’s really mad when he doesn’t thank you for your Attention to this Matter

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@marcus_auraa @craftyplanet @dieworkwear It’s so cool that you care so deeply about these poor benighted countries. Seriously, sir, you are a paragon of selfless empathy and deserve way more than 161 followers

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@thirty3i8ght @DAMendelsohnNYC @zenahitz @nytimes Pretty sure the NY Times can use prefer/than and passenger jets will still stay in the air, contracts will still be legally binding. A resounding Yes to strict linguistic accuracy in engineering & law. Everyday media reports bowing to the demotic on prepositional use? Unimportant

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@thirty3i8ght @DAMendelsohnNYC @zenahitz @nytimes It’s how the language works. Constant slippage into vernacular forms has been a feature of English for centuries. It’s only since the (relatively recent) invention of usage rules that people have had a problem with it

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@earlofwallst @DAMendelsohnNYC @zenahitz @nytimes You really think someone won’t be understood if they say “prefer X than Y” instead of “prefer X to Y”?

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@wendelltalks 99% of Western atheists are just getting on with their lives and have no interest in this performative “debate me, bro” bullshit

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@MVHarper @AmityShlaes Particularly in academic circles. If you hear “With all due respect…” at an academic conference, get ready for the most brutal of takedowns

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@themgmtconsult @robertskmiles I dunno, caring about it one way or the other seems way more insecure

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@JohnRuddick2 @Matt_Camenzuli Such hysteria. A generation from now, Australia will exist. It just won’t be an Australia you happen to feel comfortable with. But if you want people to have more babies:

1: Make housing affordable

2: For extra points, do it without blaming immigrants for the housing crisis

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@Rich_Cooper I used to fold my arms like that with my hands jammed under my biceps to make them look bigger

When I was like 8

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@Zemoeki1 @Kulambq Yep & also odd when ppl talk about the bible as one single “literary work”. It’s a bunch of texts, some of which are great but others are pedestrian & dull. As for the KJV, NT is great (although heavily cribbed from Tyndale) but large swathes of the OT are pretty average

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@HJNRose1 @RollingStone @gtconway3d You seem very confident there’s going to be a free & fair election in 2028

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@DEEP_RED_BELLS You sounds like a dude who’s never heard What’s Up by 4 Non Blondes

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@DeathMetalV @Sportyster I think you’re right about the fantasy thing, but not sure how much genuine belief plays into it. Obvs in some cases, but often I think it’s more like the willing suspension of disbelief, which is what we bring to games, movies etc (again this goes to your point about fantasy)