Luc Perkins

I'm so excited to get this out into the world

Go away

Headlights are now so bright that I as a blue-eyed person have to wear sunglasses walking around cities at night

Ah yes, praise of exactly one project must surely indicate a broader sense of entitlement on my part

Ummm, bit dramatic there?

As far as voyages go, I can’t say that Tbilisi to Chieti, Italy is one that I’d recommend in a single day

I only let myself drink Coke about once a month and let me tell you, it is the highlight of my month

At the very least, restaurants should figure out some way to not let anxious dudes in motorcycle helmets staring at their phones be the dominant human aesthetic of the place

I feel like Google Maps, Yelp, and others need to figure out some way to mark restaurants that are just delivery thoroughfares as being such

I’m so deeply resentful of the ways in which food delivery has thoroughly degraded the restaurant experience

“You take vino’s name outcha f***in mouth!”

No state punches above its weight like Washington

Bananas are not that good

Did he get injured?

It’s an amazing learning exercise! And might even yield something useful.

This one, too

I can’t believe you talked me into going to this hellhole

503 represent!

Blazers legend Yang Hansen

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
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Nothing makes me more anxious than the concept of “relaxing”

You have to go to Stepantsminda before you die 🇬🇪

Sadly my rental car contract forbids me going to Ushguli 😭 But Mestia will be no problem.

It’s so sad that both sides of the Mtkvari river in Tbilisi are covered by highways. One of those horrid planning mistakes that is nigh impossible to recover from.

I love that I now feel empowered to make my own PDFs

GitHub - loqusion/typix: Deterministic Typst compilation with Nix Deterministic Typst compilation with Nix. Contribute to loqusion/typix development by creating an account on GitHub.

I am now officially having way too much fun with @typst.app and I'm so amped that there's dedicated Nix machinery for it (and published on FlakeHub): github.com/loqusion/typix

Whenever you have a positive Venmo balance that is basically Monopoly money

Be strong 👊

I’ve reached a phase in life called “I am likely to soon be 10 years older than the mayor of NYC”

Trying to get my various 401k sums into one account has been the biggest bullshit waste of time of my entire adult life