Darcy

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

Good propaganda does not need to lie, indeed it may not lie. It has no reason to fear the truth.

But propaganda is still necessary if a good cause is to succeed. A good idea does not win simply because it is good.

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

For some reason Nate Silver has always occupied a place in my head as someone who epitomizes our so-called elite class.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Like honestly "it's going to take us several weeks to tell you who won the election" is failed state shit and should be much more stigmatized.

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

@ToadOfYuggoth Regarding paying for the entitlements. There is actually a path on the horizon that you can see where the U.S. is able to manage the debt by growing so much. All the other nations default though.

The way it works is Hormuz -> Global Depression -> thousands of factories in USA

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

A sign I am of my times is that I did not simply assert “yes I think I am at least as great as Schopenhauer.”

Instead falling back these millennial tendencies of “I don’t *really* mean it, I’m just having fun, let people enjoy things.”

Make of that what you will.

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

One of the precise reasons I enjoy using this account so much is that I have very little erudition in philosophy proper, having studied entirely different disciplines in university.

Mostly, I learn from the other posts I read. What are you trying to accomplish here?

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

@ToadOfYuggoth I’m always happy to say I don’t have a strong opinion about something, and it doesn’t seem to be a core goal or driver of what he’s trying to do today as opposed to a political coalition to toss in the pocket but it seems like MAHA reflects his honest views more than Warp Speed

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

1) trade deficit, large benefit, guaranteed
2) hurt China, large risk reduced, guaranteed
3) no one can stop drones: multiple implications of this, benefit guaranteed
4) small chance Iran overthrown: huge benefit if it happens, obviously not guaranteed, unlikely

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

When you look 5 years out at the geopolitical game board you realize there are at least four good reasons for the U.S. to blockade Hormuz. Don’t let a fifth bad reason involving it helping your enemies stop you from seeing this.

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

@Axiokratikos One thing they fix is they mostly stop talking about the damn video game and realize no one cares and they should just immerse in the universe

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

The prerogative of the master.

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

@Axiokratikos 2 and 3 are way better than 1

It’s basically the only series I’ve ever watched where that was true

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

@Axiokratikos The books are pretty good but it’s always a bit of a shame that I can’t read the original language and I can’t at least get a translation paper copy easier as that’s a better reading experience

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

@Axiokratikos The visual technique goes into the gutter second season. It’s the same thing I talk about in those threads comparing pretty derby and Cinderella gray. Basically the information density reduces fivefold.

If you don’t notice it then just watch it.

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

@shishio44 I have played a lot of Chopin because he is the best piano composer but symphony and opera are so much better than solo piano

The best anime OST are ones written by Iwasaki Taku and the one from Overlord, nothing else is particularly close. The one from Fate Stay/Night 3rd

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

@shishio44 There are a lot of good German composers with song-music. Strauss, Schubert

Rachmaninoff is one of my favorites but I didn’t mention since there is already this video
https://t.co/FMg6boYWO2

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

Don’t watch these if you want to watch Code Geass later without spoilers (I sampled E10-E13).

This is Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances conducted by Kondrashin, mvt. 1. The excerpts are in chronological order for both the music and the anime.

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

The prerogative of the master.

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

When you look 5 years out at the geopolitical game board you realize there are at least four good reasons for the U.S. to blockade Hormuz. Don’t let a fifth bad reason involving it helping your enemies stop you from seeing this.

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

@_lupaneta violin, viola, piano, voice, conductor

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

Yes! The essential feature of music is that each impulse passes before you are given a chance to contemplate it.

[Cadvan @Heil_Yr_Haul]

Music is 'defective' for expressing ideas but at least it can express the immediate - the forces of nature which vanish if language attempts to capture and express them. In this sense we could think of music as wholly pre-rational.

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

@ToadOfYuggoth I'll look into it

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

I'm not going to say "the powerful handlers of Trump whom Trump obeys and are actually responsible for America's geopolitical strategy" every time I'd normally say "Trump." I'm going to say "Trump."

Feel free to insert that clarification yourself. It's not relevant to my points.

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

It's an opinion and this account is now replying to my other posts with insults so, fine, let's talk about it. Acting is a skill.

I don't like how so many snipes at my Iran threads take the form of personal assaults on Trump. Often Trump himself is immaterial to my analysis.

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

Oh. I see. Your comprehension of what I said is so different from my comprehension of what I said that you perceive my statement as utterly beneath you.

That makes sense. Thank you for clarifying.
https://t.co/7gxiO1yawJ

[Freischütz18 @ToadOfYuggoth]

@FromPemberley I think it’s kind of pretentious to wax-poetic about the essence of music. I don’t think the claim that “time cannot be stopped” is some kind of novel insight that needs to be put forth in the form of a tweet.

But to each his own

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

One of the precise reasons I enjoy using this account so much is that I have very little erudition in philosophy proper, having studied entirely different disciplines in university.

Mostly, I learn from the other posts I read. What are you trying to accomplish here?

[Freischütz18 @ToadOfYuggoth]

@FromPemberley Bro thinks he’s Schopenhauer

[Darcy @FromPemberley]

I would consider changing whatever aspect of my behavior this account finds irritating, but nothing he has said gives me the slightest idea what that even is.