Whatsthat

Swimmer, hiker, yogi, aspiring flâneur and reader of weird books. Lathe biōsas 🥸 @[email protected]

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@compostavl Are you guys still in business?

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@ikesharpless @fredleept 😜🙃

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@ikesharpless @fredleept I’m intrigued by Nomadology’s point about how the State is not a newer “more evolved” form & that nomadic tribes intentionally foil centralization of power to stymy the development of a state. Also I’m a little depressed at how poorly US laws have held up against abuse of power

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@ikesharpless @fredleept I hope history proves us all wrong. In that I hope our imaginations will invent new ways to live together that none of us could currently conceive of. Not the end of history, my friends. 🙃

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@ikesharpless @fredleept Maybe cynical, but what does our history as a species prove? States lead to concentrations of power which always attract the wrong types who want to wield that power. Wars follow shortly after. Is the utopia of a non aggressive powerful state possible?

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@ikesharpless @fredleept Is there any other kind? Prior to WWI, some optimistic elites hoped the world was close to the end of needing nation states and borders. Nations by their very nature create an us-and-them dynamic. The paranoid part comes in with the fact that humans are involved.

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@EpicureanDeal “So ugly it’s cute” worked for the gremlin, but never for that industrial monstrosity

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@buitengebieden The feline bicameral mind in action

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@qikipedia Also there’s more to the feel of lifting something than weight and mass.

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@antaeus I left him a dozen eggs and a half full peanut butter jar a couple of weeks ago. The bear gods are appeased

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Good morning ☀️ 🐻

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@looneyfox1 @justin_garson Perhaps reading the literature about how intestinal flora appears to have a profound affect on mental health. You can’t fix that with therapy

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Looks like I had a visitor and we missed each other. He tried the front and back doors. Was I not home? Could he not reach the doorbell? Does he lack the appropriate knuckle bones to knock? 😕

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BRILLIANT!!

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Just learned that in 1980 the @AmerMedicalAssn removed a tenet in their ethical code forbidding commercializing medical treatment 🤬 What’ll they do for an encore?

The For-Profit Catastrophe of Kidney Dialysis https://t.co/6Js8UwufFm via @ListenNotes

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@ethicistforhire What Would Baudrillard Think?