Angular Ocean

At a high enough resolution, all oceans are angular. Probably Ambitionposting

[Angular Ocean @AngularOcean]

Just had a baby girl, she is 1.5 days old

Mama and Baby are both healthy and doing well

We are about to go home from the hospital

I am JOYFUL

[Angular Ocean @AngularOcean]

@woke8yearold Kenneth Clark’s articulation of this answer is particularly beautiful

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

The Sikh kirpan originates in a religious edict from Guru Singh in 1699.

In 1689, ten years earlier, the Bill of Rights granted all Protestants in the UK the right to bear arms.

It’s a traditional right for everyone in the UK. The British government should give it back.

[Visa is doing marketing consults (see pinned!) @visakanv]

@liminal_warmth in the good old days, everyone was a cop, so no one was a cop

[Guy @nosilverv]

great moment in every optimizer’s life when he finally runs the EV calc on running EV calcs on everything, realizes the whole thing has been catastrophically negative EV, deletes the spreadsheet and goes outside

[anna @hard_boiledbabe]

In Kierkegaard's Works of Love, he explains that, much like how prayer is meant to change the heart of the one who prays, the task of love is not to find someone worthy of love, but to build the capacity for it in oneself

[Angular Ocean @AngularOcean]

@an0n_Nic “I’m a lifelong labour voter but…”

[Angular Ocean @AngularOcean]

@J_Von_Random @mauddweeb *419 years

[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

Every thing you do is an act of faith and love for your future spouse and your children

[Angular Ocean @AngularOcean]

Imagine thinking you aren’t already governed by the first 300 names in Aella's clients list*

* plus the gay cabal, obviously

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

Imagine being governed by the first 300 names in Aella's clients list

[John Loeber 🎢 @johnloeber]

All the dystopian fiction I read as a young adult was always about a large, poor underclass exploited by a small elite. The social priming to expect this, and to oppose it, was massive.

Today’s reality is that there’s a large, highly subsidized voting class of net consumers, and a small class of highly productive people, mostly struggling to build wealth, and so stressed that they barely reproduce.

Because “highly productive” confers its own social elite status, and being “on benefits” confers the opposite, the financial or contributory reality is obscured. The predominant media messaging is about the guilt and obligation of the productive, and the worthy need of the subsidized.

As usual, Europe is a couple years ahead of the US down this road. Memes about “Nick, 30 ans” and the increasingly byzantine social-financial contract are well known. The incentives are becoming so twisted that it makes less and less sense for a young person to be productive and more sense for them to be subsidized. The conventional social contract is tearing rapidly, which spells big problems. Here in the States, there remains some time to course-correct.

Reflecting on this: what’s most interesting to me is that while much of the future-looking media I consumed ten to twenty years ago had some ideas that proved relevant to today, the reality has often played out in ways that are ironically the opposite. Many such cases, all of them humbling.

[Angular Ocean @AngularOcean]

@powerbottomdad1 I missed my chance to live like this and now I’m too old :(

[Angular Ocean @AngularOcean]

@GarrettPetersen @goblinodds Utilitarians should be against this

[Angular Ocean @AngularOcean]

@eigenrobot I got Charles Ryder. 😅

[ourania, elderly milkmaid⁷ @ouranometrian2]

Spanking kids this spanking kids that...what about spanking your wife

[Sivori @sivori]

Oral cultures promote shared identities. In an oral culture, you cease to exist if you cannot socialize and link to the collective.

Literate cultures create individuals because reading and writing are private experiences.

[Angular Ocean @AngularOcean]

@amelapay @visakanv My first (🤞) is a deep sleeper so far (🤞) (day 23)

[Angular Ocean @AngularOcean]

@amelapay @visakanv As I learned!

[Strix @strixperegrinus]

One law for all? One can almost imagine an alternative timeline in which this became a cornerstone of English law, and we exported it to the Anglosphere and other civilised countries, and it ended up a key facet of the modern world. Spooky thought. Doesn't bear thinking about.