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[BONESAW 🕊️ @BonesawMD]

The more you live your beliefs, the less you debate them.

[dior ✞ @deeore5]

they stop asking you for ID once the light in your eyes is gone

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

Sometimes, God tells you to go fuck yourself by conjuring an anti-miracle - by making the improbable, real - your assumptions destroyed and hubris crushed, just to prove a cosmic point: you will not have your way. You will not bend reality. This time, reality will bend you.

[Jim Cramer @jimcramer]

Not buying the 2007 scenario...

[The Secret Sun Speaks @SecretSunBlog]

Prediction: the most intelligent people - the best writers, artists, musicians, doctors, lawyers and engineers - will go back to doing their core work with pencil and paper, as it becomes inarguable that reliance on computers withers the brain.

[signüll @signulll]

the irony is that ai medical/legal info disproportionately helps people who can’t afford actual doctors & lawyers so the net distributional effect of this bill is protect the credentialed class, & screw the poor.

which is really funny cuz these guys supposedly seem to be platforming on affordability.

[Old Hollow Tree @OldHollowTree]

How my wife looks at me when I send her a meme that requires two decades of deep internet lore knowledge.

[LindyMan @PaulSkallas]

If you're an expert, choose the first option that comes to mind without hesitation. Every option you choose after is worse

[Max @minordissent]

As an atheist who has spent two decades wrestling with this question, I can confirm your only options are Nietzsche or Jesus (or some other religion).

The ethic of the cosmos is power. That which best expands itself across space and forward through time wins. From this fact, lots of “altruistic” behavior can develop.

In fact, it’s entirely possible if not likely that our religions are just that: memeplexes which mutated over thousands of generations of believers to optimize maximally for power. For all Nietzsches critiques of Christian “Slave morality”, it pretty clearly optimized well for power by taking over the world.

The problem with seeing ideas as mutating memes which survive based on how well they acquire power is that it means there is no objective ideological truth similar to how there there is no objective biological good.

There is no best phenotype. Only a best phenotype for a specific environment and point in time. And as soon as it gains dominance it will quickly lead to a change in its environment such that it is no longer the best.

In this vein, in a material universe, there is no ultimate ethical or moral truth. Rather, all are in a Darwinian meme war, competing to infect as many hosts as possible and help those hosts maximize power (expand their genes across space and forward through time), and as the environment changes, so too does the “optimal” set of ethics and values.

This is the only possible viable conclusion for a materialist description of morality. And it has two paths: psychopathy or religiousity.

The first because morality and the cosmos itself is optimizing for your genes gaining power while you are optimizing for your singular consciousness gaining power. If all that matters is power for yourself, then you should exploit everyone and everything to gain more power for yourself.

The second is because if you realize correctly that you and your consciousness are simply a vehicle for your genes to gain power, and that the religious frameworks evolved as the optimal means to maximize that end, then the only logical conclusion is to become religious to maximally achieve your gene’s power.

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

Jaxson Dart's head butt with Cam Skatebo before being carted off is enough to make a grown man cry

[aaron @aarondotdev]

grindcore is highkey retarded lol

einstein slept 10 hours a day and took hella breaks.

not even about working smarter vs harder, anything worth doing requires an amount of creativity which you can’t harness if you’re working 16 hour days.

[tommy @tommytrinh]

YOU CANNOT COMPETE WITH SOMEONE WHO IS HAVING FUN

[Candace Owens @RealCandaceO]

Everyone please stop what you are doing and pray for Charlie Kirk.

Please.

🙏

[Luis Vercetti @97Vercetti]

Dentist: "You've been grinding in ur sleep"

Me: "I appreciate it big dawg"

[Orson Scott Card @orsonscottcard]

Trust your unconscious mind to guide your fiction into original spaces. You will sound like yourself, and no one else. Don’t worry about originality. Concentrate on being truthful and clear.