Tom Quinn ⚜️

New Orleanian stuck in South Florida. Father, husband. Former Naval Officer. *I don’t read DMs*

[Tom Quinn ⚜️ @doublespeak152]

My ideology is somewhere between @MattWelch (*not* @MattWalshBlog) and @charlescwcooke with a helping of anti-Jones Act animation a la @scottlincicome. Pinning this so no one that follows me is confused. I don’t like Trump or identity politics or FP “realists”. I do like the USA.

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If a corporation could save on labor by hiring women *they’d already be doing it*. Is the point of that argument. One of the only places children are allowed to work free of those laws are in small family owned farms which Cross lionizes and in Hollywood as actors ironically lol

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When having only access to Prime of the streaming services for a while you end up on a series like “Cross”, which has the most trite political views I’ve ever heard of, but it is informative. There is an economist in season 2 who is said to have made an argument in the WSJ …

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About how if firms could make more money hiring women because their labor is “cheaper” they should hire only women. It’s a real argument. The show took that to mean: so they’re saying they should hire children and that’s the whole plot of season 2 lmao

It’s opposite argument!

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@Chimpnnout Jfc. Walmart is not a public facility.

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And then leave the story in the middle of the second act, to restart it with minor differences in a different format lol. Maybe the “act” thing was a western conceit all along and stories are just a river

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I’m growing to love anime. What I find so hilarious is they’ll spend like one episode covering the heroes wandering through 8 different towns that all have call backs and then like 3 episodes covering a single philosophical argument in the midst of a battle lmao

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@Alicoh1 @DerekPederson3 Speed of causation. If it could be exceeded then all the paradoxes exist. There needs to be a hard limit if we live in a universe that makes sense.

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I know this guy was controversial but holy fuck he was talented. This movie reminded me of that. We can separate the things.

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@Hoang_HQ This guy was unreal. I thought I was actually watching MJ.

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@brivael Vous nous avez aussi donné Lafayette.

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@MerriamWebster I’m here for etymology tidbits all day. Keep them coming

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@FloridaTropics1 @PPinesPD It’s not just the visible ash there’s a whole bunch of things you’re inhaling that you can’t see, stay inside

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@FloridaTropics1 @PPinesPD The view from Pines and 196

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@jk_rowling @SwipeWright @DuncanHenry78 @tlitb I am not going to lie, continuously picking verbal fights with one of the most popular authors who has ever lived always seemed like a thing I wouldn’t personally choose to do but to each their own lol.

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@d1111111111113 He is smart but he also knows he’s smart and can convince himself of things with circular reasoning and then just read his press clippings to avoid having to confront any inconsistency

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Ironically categorizing such things as “deepities” is itself a “deepity”. Banalities are useful in certain contexts. Not everyone has the IQ of Daniel Dennett and therefore capable of peering behind the blanket of trite wisdom. But it’s comforting to some to hear it nonetheless

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Daniel Dennett on "deepities" the profound-sounding claims that are secretly empty

Philosopher Daniel Dennett has a name for a type of statement that sounds wise but actually says nothing: a deepity.

He explains it this way:

"A deepity is an apparently profound observation that is ambiguous. It has two readings. On one reading it's obviously false, but if it were true it would be very important. And on the other it's trivially true."

The trick is in the ambiguity. When you hear a deepity, part of your brain registers the trivially true reading and thinks yes, that's correct. But another part is reaching for the dramatic, important-sounding reading and that's where the illusion of profundity comes from.

Dennett's favourite example, which he uses when teaching the concept to students:

"Love is just a word."

It sounds deep. Think about it for a moment and it feels like it's gesturing at something real. That love is intangible, constructed, perhaps even illusory.

But Dennett dismantles it immediately:

"Whatever love is, it isn't a word. You can't find love in the dictionary."

That's the "use-mention error" confusing the word love with the thing love refers to. Once you put quotation marks around it properly, the statement collapses into something utterly banal: "love" is just a word. Well, yes. So is "cheeseburger." So is "word."

The deepity survives only because we don't slow down enough to ask which reading we're actually accepting.

Once you have the word "deepity," you start seeing them everywhere: in self-help, in politics, in philosophy.

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@d1111111111113 I’m not sure whether I should like this post or not which means it’s probably an excellent post.

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@TheVintageMMA Lucky Strike is the best possible sponsor for this I’ve ever considered lmao

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@gofishh77 Why is this a thing now. It’s a stupid thing. Like yes he has a right to do it. There are many things I have a right to do that are stupid.

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@GigglingGanon I needed this today lmao

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Friendly reminder to *not* return your 18 Amazon packages on the day when everyone’s taxes are due, thx