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the prima donna scientist. mother of mankind. offline is another state of mind.
“He turns wooden utensils in a lathe for exercise, and fancies he can turn men in the same manner. He has no great fondness for poetry, and can hardly extract a moral out of Shakespeare. His house is warmed and lighted by steam. He is one of those who prefer the artificial to the natural in most things, and think the mind of man omnipotent. He has a great contempt for out-of-door prospects, for green fields and trees, and is for ever referring everything to Utility.” - W. Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age (1825) Sure does sound like my man here is describing your average techbro. Classical liberalism has reified itself into such a naturalized static state of existence that your layman capitalist isn’t even aware of his own history yet alone the true reasons why civilization’s progress has stalled. WILD.
soooooooo like does anyone know how much the Israelis are charging for all that juicy high-density surplus population urban combat data? ooooooooor are we not supposed to talk about that ? :3
There sits a cat at the base of a tree, intently watching a little bird perched high on a branch. The little bird looks down at the cat and ponders, Mr. Cat, I think you and I can come to an understanding that we both value freedom. But which kind of freedom? Is it a “freedom from-” or a “freedom to-“?
late at night do you ever get stuck existentially thinking about how much you don’t know and will never know, and how terrifying that is, and that there is an unquantifiable amount of knowledge that has been shed from our history and that this separation is increasing at an exponential rate that none of us can individually comprehend. or is that weird.
There once was a fellow from Perth Who was born on the day of his birth. He got married, they say On his wife’s wedding day, And died when he quitted the earth. tautology 🤓