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you believe, I believe too, that you are the river of light

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this is the cornerstone of my entire social/political philosophy

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the older i get, the more i realize that this is everything

homes, churches, cities, water, power, courts, relationships, everything, everything must be tended with care and dedication, or it will be devoured

civilization is an act of creation, and therefore love

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@frideswyth oh, this tribe believes they can spot "this tribe believes"

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@mielure sluthood as a community service

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@gaptoothdummy John because of the beginning, mainly. Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος

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@geofflangdale @amaldorai @Kirsten3531 @catehall I mean, he's not wrong, it just hinges on who that culture considers to count as "anyone"

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@Aella_Girl it's really impressive how much no one got this

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@sergeantsup sometimes I call myself "queer" even though I'm like 90% just into the opposite gender, just to distance myself from The Straights being At It Again

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@eunifiedworld <3 platform holly, the crystal ship

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@QiaochuYuan like resignation to the end, always the end

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@RachelZader then you get called cruel, "abandoning", "making it all about you", "punishing" them, etc etc

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@NaylaDeyuti right, such as milk of magnesia, which comes from ... magnesium cows?

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@jmrphy everyone is over-indexing on the "never finished a thought" part of the quoted tweet and missing the point: that Civilization is made&maintained by those raising families&doing day to day work, not by guys writing longposts about decline on X The Everything App

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nature, red in tooth and Claude

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@cpaik I actually do want Claude to scroll twitter for me and summarize/cluster the few decently insightful posts so I can break my addiction to this goddamn site

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@BoringBiz_ How are the second category of people paying for or obtaining rent/mortgage, food, electricity, health care, etc etc ?

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@seashell_luvr not to discount you, but "influencing or manipulating" are in fact powerful means by which to reshape the world and author reality

(tbh I think many men fail in their ambitions bc they discount the importance of such means to achieve their goals)

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@nanransohoff with a restoration to a functional government and civic pride, we could do this

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@DionysianAgent if you want to do this you should have kids instead of trying to use an adult woman for this, your children actually do like this and want this from you

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@CathyReisenwitz BAP is #5 in "humor"?? what

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All it took for software engineers to finally start writing comprehensive, detailed documentation was inventing billion-matrix-multiplying machines to read it

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@1thousandfaces_ it allows you to feel you're Doing Something to Save the World, while still operating entirely within the comfortable frame of academia, intellectualism, words, abstractions, instead of the uncomfortable frame of direct action (see also: EA and x-risk)