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Tho recently I saw somebody make the point that if you try to remember humiliating mistakes made by other people in your life, it's actually surprisingly hard to think of any. So in all likelihood nobody else remembers your mistakes either.

My version of this is my brain deciding to suddenly remind me of my humiliating failures from years and years ago for no apparent reason. What're ya doing brain, you know you have to suffer the cringe too right...

Plus, some philosophers of science like Hartry Field in Science without Numbers argue that while math is a useful tool, physics can in principle be formulated without it. If he's right, then physics isn't constrained by the incompleteness theorem at all.

I think Godel's incompleteness theorem has limited applicability to physics. Unlike math, physics is tested empirically, so even if there are truths that can't be deductively proven by the axioms of physics, they can still be confirmed by experiment.

and entails that we should be ontologically committed to the existence of the entities and properties that are referenced by our best theories of physics. I don't think that any entities or properties not referenced in those theories really exist.

On a metaphysical level, I'm a scientific realist and a physicalist, and an error theorist about morality and normativity in general. I think the predictive success of physics justifies us in claiming to know mind-independent and stance-independent truths about the world,

For sure, religion has been an important progressive force at various points in history. I just think that in the present day US, if you were to increase the percent of the population that's religious, that would have the net effect of increasing Republican vote share.

This is why I've always found it weird when people make the vaguely conservative-coded complaint that most people are incompetent at their jobs. They're really not! People are generally smart and competent at things that they're incentivized to do well... i.e., not political discourse.

As an atheist I struggle with the question of to what extent religion has instrumental value. Many people crave something like it, and in some cases it makes them better people. But on average it seems to make them worse--I'm pretty sure the net effect of religion in the US is to move people right.

Honestly the answer to her problems is read philosophy. There's no such thing as meaning, lol... and if you want to produce the feeling of meaning, there are plenty of ways to do that have got to be more effective than watching people die on your TV.

May said watching the strikes gave her a sense of comfort and closure, as she believes Iran helped extremist and insurgent groups fighting against the US-led coalition in the Iraq War. "I'm not ashamed of it," May said. "We had to do what we had to do to protect the American people. And people like my son, and many others that passed in the beginning of the Iraqi war... It makes us parents, family members feel like they didn't die for nothing." She said she has struggled for years with the fear that her son's death was in vain. "I was really tired of thinking that maybe my son died for nothing, but with President Trump, I have full confidence in him," May said. "And to me, it's not a war — it's payback."

This woman's son died in Iraq, so the attack on Iran gives her "closure," because it makes her feel like his death had meaning.

Years ago Chris Hedges wrote a book called War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. This story illustrates exactly what he was talking about.

www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...

Also the whole thing smacks of Gender.

Just watched The Society (2019), and holy christ was that topical and prescient. Failure to use a limited window of opportunity to impose consequences on a fascist leads to him carrying out a coup, by means of false claims that his opponent is going to steal the election.

Boy this sure doesn't seem like a policy that could have entirely foreseeable side-effects causing it to cost more money than it saves

Right, but he is far ahead in recent polls.

Platner can't be expelled from the party or otherwise formally sanctioned, since he's just a candidate in the primary at this point. But Sanders could withdraw his endorsement of him.

Yeah I was 100% on he sucks, I was just agnostic as to the precise nature of the suckage, lol

Extremely cursed vibes

Video title: "Zoran Mamdani's campaign fooled everyone." Depicts Mamdani surrounded by men in Orthodox Jewish garb.

This is a video on the YouTube channel that Graham Platner says he is a "longtime fan" of.

Until now I'd assigned roughly equal probabilities to the "just a dumb guy" theory and the "straight-up Nazi" theory, but this tips the balance substantially towards the latter.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

YouTube video by KAWAII LAB. 【MV】FRUITS ZIPPER「JAM」

She always does the coolest hand movements. She also did Fruits Zipper's Jam last year, and the part where they pretend to open a jar of jam is adorable.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbe...

He always acts on the principle, "maximize my power and bully people until they submit to me," because the public spectacle of making people submit is what he likes best.

It's also like acting surprised when a 5 year old acts on the principles that govern a 5 year old's psychology. He's mercurial and his promises are worthless, but his overall behavior is actually super predictable.

Later, he flew to Palm Beach for the weekend, where he mingled with supporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort Friday evening, looking tired but otherwise in good sprits before exiting to his private quarters to record a speech he would give announcing the attack, according to one person who was there and interacted with him. The decision to launch the attack was in some ways foretold by the massive buildup of U.S. forces over the past two months. But there was little in Trump’s record to suggest that he would embrace a war of choice in the Middle East with the goal of regime change.

"There was little in Trump's record to suggest he would embrace a war of choice in the Middle East."

Yeah, you know, except for the fact that his supposed isolationism was an obvious pretext for unrestrained patrimonial imperialism.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

There's no way that any left-NIMBY or AI-safety regulation could've ever done as much damage to the US AI industry as Hegseth's attempt to bankrupt Anthropic. Turns out if you trust Trump with your business interests then he will betray and humiliate you, who could've guessed!

Has any constituency ever been more thoroughly humiliated than right-wing effective altruists like Sam Hammond who voted for Trump for techno-optimist reasons?

They've been getting owned over and over again ever since the nomination of RFK, and AI policy was the one win that they had to cling to.

Nobody can know my love of black metal and idol music, I would be ruined...

-Why do you play punk music instead of painting/horseback riding? -I once went horseback riding and it was... I was falling off, and I thougth I was gonna die, and was very scared. And that's why I play punk music, cuz I'm scared. (laughs)

The songs are tiny flashes of brilliance. We're talking sub-grindcore song lengths here, but they manage to cram hooks and breakdowns and tempo changes in there and somehow make it all work.

Cool zine interview from 2012:

allsortazines.neocities.org

YouTube video by Musical Fanzine Undark and the Radium Girls - Discography (2010-2012)

Forgotten gem of hardcore: Undark and the Radium Girls, Boston hardcore band active from 2009-2019.

Named after the infamous case of radiation poisoning suffered by women who painted watch dials with luminous radium for the U.S. Radium Corporation in the 1910s-20s.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjYq...

In order to be truly liberated, the horses must also free themselves from the burden of having friends

It's kind of funny that he advertises himself as a Brown dropout, basically trading on the reputation of the institution while at the same time trashing its value and working to undermine higher education as a whole.