In the space of less than 6 months, my remote first job turned into first 50% in office, and now "were pushing for 100% rto".

Guess it's time to look for a new job, yall ain't paying enough for me to be in the office every day for no/made-up reasons.

Wish he was on bluesky, would be an easy follow.

Fucking hell conservatives are fucking weird ass people yo.

Political Violence Can Be Justified And saying it cannot be is a thought ending cliche.

The discourse around this has been driving me mad. People on all sides keep making the same mistake, so I thought it was worth addressing in detail.

100% ready for my MAGA coworkers to be insufferable today.

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Yes, yes I did.

Most apologist: *post loads of one-sided analysis of a topic*

Also most apologists: "how dare atheists post a one-sided analysis of this topic"

Thanks for continuing to not be like most apologists and having a thoughtful response to this.

I doubt Hegseth actually cares. This has gotta be a Trump fragile masculinity move because he thinks "defense" is a weaker concept than "war".

I'm so confused as to how MAGA thinks this would work given their insane refusal to do *fucking anything* when it comes to gun control.

Like, seriously? How would they fucking know?

Its not about not wanting to keep kids safe. They generally get that keeping kids safe is a good idea. This is a symptom of their deep mistrust of expert opinion after years of propaganda about the liberal brainwashing at colleges.
In many of these peoples eyes not vaccinating IS keeping them safe.

That's an interesting idea, but 4 of the 5 autistic people in my house are pretty good at math. Might depend on if you get the demand avoidance flavor or not.

It's not clear to me how qualitative to quantitative wouldn't be just as unbridgeable. Structure seems to be definitionally a quantitative concept, so anything capable of forming structure seems like it must be Essentially quantitative.

I thought it was a very well articulated summary of the things I've heard/read you say on the topic, but don't find it particularly compelling. I'm not entirely sure if the quantitative to qualitative chasm is as unbridgeable as you need to make your point. But even if it is,

Kinda depends 60/40 type tendencies doesn't move me much at all. But if it's closer to 80% of relevant experts hold to one view, that could be decent reason to sway ones own view.

Assuming comparable levels of theoretical cost, withhold judgement while awaiting the relevant experts to advance the field to a point of broad consensus on a best theory.

The keyword though is profess. While there certainly are Some apologists interested in outreach, it's very obvious that many are only interested in selling confidence to the flock. Which I don't hold against them so long as they are upfront about it.

As traditional religions have. At which point, why bring in the tribalism of religion? Let's just have more people get on board with modern liberal values, the best science, and be more philosophically literate.

Also, while "best science" is pretty easily arbitrated, "best philosophy" seems like it can't be. The topics most relevant to anything in the vaugely religious family all seem pretty hotly contested. Making the effort either not feasible, or likely to have as many "denominations"...

I get the sentiment here, but I feel like the thing Goff describes is so far from how "religion" has been understood for the last 5 to 10 centuries that calling it that makes it less appealing to the people who would otherwise agree with him, and less appealing to people that want Religion.

My software lead calls it vibe coding, and we even have a chat channel now called vibing-with-cline

It's very silly, but apparently I'm also one of the most aggressive adopters on the program despite the fact that I've never been very into the space.

I'd love if you and Lance did some more stuff together. The last conversation I saw between you two felt like it ended just as it was getting to the real juicy stuff.

I've been clanker codung for work a bit the last couple weeks. It's utterly fascinating.

And add a Concrete, it'll change your life.

Their regular burger is kinda mid, but if you can get the A1 burger or green chilli it's much better.

For reference, the whataburger we have in Alabama has neither and their regular burger isn't even fancy BK quality.

Find you a Culvers though. Swap your fries for cheese curds,

I'd assume not if your correct about most stuff in philosophy of mind. I think on physicalism it would be pretty hard to argue that they aren't.

So yes, they are slaves.

I used to write quite a lot about politics, since 2016 I basically can't cool my seething rage long enough to put anything down worth sharing.

I hope that changes some day.

I can't speak for Randall obviously, but I have no interest in pandering to fundamentalists on either side of the theist/atheist divide.

If they want to have kiddie table discussions of the topic they are welcome to it, but I don't have time for that shit.