@IngriPauline I got on anti departments/therapy and started building/painting Warhammer models. Now when I stare down the barrel of another 30+ years of watching my county destroy the world I at least have thousands of dollars of Tyranids to keep me company.
“Not to be stuck to any person ... Not to be stuck in any homeland ... Not to be stuck in some pity ... Not to be stuck in some field of study ... Not to be stuck in our own detachment ... Not to be stuck to our own virtues ... the greatest test of independence.
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— Nietzsche
Smoking weed is only cool like 5 times a year and only if you’re handsome and only in the summer at 4am afters and only if you’ve been doing stims all night and only if you’re rich and girls like you.
@leamaric My grandma on one side was 100% Polish. They had a saying "Polish Clean" in Chicago area where a lot of Poles lived. Not a speck of dust lol. Everything in perfect order. Nothing comes close to that.
@Kayc16y@buckthebigguy77 Well.. the reason is to ruin something you love. They LOVE doing that. That’s why they have invaded all our favorite game/movie franchises and ruined them
it's almost tautological to me that the "real world" is made out of math
sure, quantum field theories don't have "matter" in any real sense, but also, i can just look around me and observe that i appear to inhabit a Cartesian space locally
@Aristocles69183 Gender in itself is a meta expression of symmetry, a symmetry which cannot in itself be separated from the facets of reality we occupy. Nominalism lacks orientation. At face value, that makes it worthless.
ATHENIAN: Do you think there is any truth in tradition?
CLEINIAS: What sort of tradition do you mean?
ATHENIAN: This: that the human race has been repeatedly annihilated by floods and plagues and many other causes, so that only a small fraction of it survived.
CLEINIAS: Yes, of course, all that sort of thing strikes everyone as entirely credible.
(Plato, Laws 3.677a; tr. Saunders)
Sprezzatura. Leaving your top shirt button undone because you had to rush off to something before your servant could finish buttoning it, which I was taught is where the custom comes from (being busy and in demand/important can produce the fragmentation from task switching that is absent mindedness, which is then worn as a goodharIMean status symbol). Same constellation of thing as zuck wearing a hoodie, musicians not being literal about what’s on the page, us not ending sentences with periods
The opposite trying too hard is very obviously low status behavior