Aaron

“Every word that is uttered creates an angel.”

[Aaron @Rongwrong_]

@FlaggHazel2 I liked it. But yeah it was kinda depressing with one of the most unpleasant main characters I’d ever seen.

[Aaron @Rongwrong_]

@sentientist @MeganTStevenson I don’t think eugenics necessarily means top-down control, I think it means for the sake of the collective (race, nation, society, etc.). So what would matter is the intent behind those policies.

[Aaron @Rongwrong_]

I don’t see that it matters. If they stipulated the meaning of “species”, while explicitly refraining from endorsing them as right, then they each spoke truly.

If they defined “species” (ecological/biological) without any such disclaimer, then their sentences still expressed true propositions and ADDITIONALLY implicated (is that the right word?) that their conception of species was the correct one.

Those two things are separate: the proposition about M being an ecological (resp. biological) species, and the implication that ecological (resp. biological) species is the appropriate species concept.

Of course in Talia Bettcher’s case, she both defined “resistant” meaning of “woman” and said explicitly that she believed that should become the general meaning.

[Aaron @Rongwrong_]

Not beating those Procrustes allegations

[Tomas Bogardus @TomasBogardus]

When Rachel Dolezal identified as black, everyone knew what she meant: "black" in the ordinary, mainstream sense.

When Therians identify as cats, they mean "cat" in the ordinary sense.

Likewise... when trans folks identify as women, they mean "woman" in the ordinary sense.👇No?

[Aaron @Rongwrong_]

My feeling is the opposite: Greta Garbo was amazing in this movie. When she wasn’t on screen I was just waiting for her next scene.

John Barrymore was good. Lionel Barrymore was hammy and awful as usual. Joan Crawford was fine, as were the others. But it was Greta Garbo’s movie.

[Hollywood Yesterday✨ @HollywoodYeste1]

What do you, personally, think about Grand Hotel (1932)?

My rather unpopular consensus: Joan Crawford (the star of the show IMO) and Lionel Barrymore are the only reasons to watch. As far as I’m concerned, they’re the only two in the whole thing who seem to even be awake… and I am as big a fan of John Barrymore and Greta Garbo as anyone. They simply “Benadryl” me in this one.

Killer poster though!

[Aaron @Rongwrong_]

@HollywoodYeste1 Maybe that’s right about Garbo, but as I remember it, for most of the movie after meeting John Barrymore her character was ecstatic, right? I don’t know, I thought her performance worked, as a normally depressive person in the ecstasy of infatuation.

[Aaron @Rongwrong_]

@estherzelda0514 Israel isn’t the only country where the West was obsessed with its relatively minor injustices. White-ruled South Africa was the same. Westerners were obsessed with it and ignored the atrocities in black-ruled states.

It’s not only antisemitism. It’s also anti-“white” hostility.

[Aaron @Rongwrong_]

@AndreasShrugged Right. He should have said, the Palestinians could have a state in historic Palestine (something the Romans would never have given the Judeans). But that doesn’t work, because the Palestinians demand a state in ALL of historic Palestine, including present-day Israel.

[Aaron @Rongwrong_]

@byrne_a @politybooks You can watch his three-part lecture on it on YouTube

[Aaron @Rongwrong_]

@OyVeyPope @pangram how much of this was AI?

[Aaron @Rongwrong_]

@MeghanEMurphy I wish I could watch horror movies, because some of them are really good movies! But I can’t except for the old, non-graphic kind from before the 1970s. And even with some old movies there are horrific scenes that have stayed with me.

[Aaron @Rongwrong_]

@TomasBogardus (I just realized I basically gave the riddle attributed to Abraham Lincoln, “If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?”)

[Aaron @Rongwrong_]

I don’t understand the first phrase (as you know, I’ve never studied philosophy). E and B agree that lions and humans are species, and they agree M is an ecological species but not a biological (fertile offspring) species.

Anyway, is there anything at all a speaker could say to convince you that he means what he says he means in such a case? Would it help if he used the magic word “stipulate”?

Take a silly example: “When I say ‘triangle’ I mean a polygon with four (sic) sides. A square is a triangle.”

Would you say, “No, when you say ‘triangle’ you really mean a polygon with three sides, despite your saying you don’t mean that”?

[Aaron @Rongwrong_]

@deadwronghist Sam Kinison was funny and Andrew Dice Clay was not

[Aaron @Rongwrong_]

@TomasBogardus Also another comment about concepts. I think most of the time when we categorize things we don’t use concepts. The phenomenologist Sara Heinämaa has written about this regarding gender.

[Aaron @Rongwrong_]

@TomasBogardus I guess I should have said labeling concepts. I think scientists consciously use concepts when talking about species.

[Aaron @Rongwrong_]

@statistocrat94 @TomasBogardus Since that sounded like an accusation against me, I’ll respond too. I agree I’m being accusatory. Am I being passive-aggressive? I thought I was being actively aggressive.