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Likewise. I don’t get enough forthright criticism.

I haven’t yet published anything, but, you know, details.

A tweet saying "every single municipal budget looks like the dril candle budget tweet" with a graph showing Police taking like 90% of a city's budget. Baltimore specifically.

When people talk about how systemic and structural issues don't exist but the data all looks like this.

I guess the ideal policy might be like Canada’s carbon tax, which raised the price of gas (by $0.18 a litre) but returned most of the revenue to the population as a rebate.

It lessened the blow on lower-income people but still changed incentives around driving.

Too bad the policy is dead now.

I ran (on my own) a half marathon for the first time in months the day before yesterday and I forgot how much your body pays for that. I struggled to run five kilometres today and just had no speed. Don’t make this mistake, kids. After 30, take some time to rest!

i think the correct way to think about the lonely boy question is not "how do we reach out to incels?" but "how do we make sure that a teenage boy looking for romantic advice isn't flooded with right-wing propaganda?"

And in many cases, like bowling alleys, we just don’t go to them any more despite being able to afford them because we now hold a third place in our hand.

In lieu of today’s discourse, third place theory is not left wing! Stop saying that! It’s fundamentally predicated on the exploitative commercialisation of public spaces.

Also, third places have not disappeared. We’ve just been priced out of them.

He’s very good at marketing himself. Less good at, well, anything else.

My number one may just be either Steven Robinson, “Plato in the Crito,” or Emily Austin, “Socrates on Why We Should Not Practice Philosophy.” But there are a couple other essays that are close. And for books, I’d have to go Francisco Gonzalez, Dialectic and Dialogue.

The underlying problem with having a "nuanced opinion on trans athletes" is that the status quo was already the nuanced view (typically a certain period on hormones, usually years post transition, decided on a sport by sport basis BY their awarding bodies), critics don't actually want that.

I don’t have one, but good friend here bought it recently and loves it. Apparently a decent upgrade on the switch 1.

"if you don't vote Labour you're supporting Farage"

Labour must be totally destroyed for any hope of genuine change, it's a deeply evil organisation with no hope of redemption that any decent person should hold in great contempt.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Even my conservative, zionist roommate read this and said "my guys, that's not the defense you think it is." It's been truly amazing to see how Israel has been losing over the past two years even its most dedicated defenders.

And that affects how the sea salt dissolves in your saliva.

There are two things that affect the taste: trace minerals and crystal shape. Table salt is almost pure NaCl, whereas sea salt has enough iron and nickel and iodine and so on that you can taste it. Second, table salt has pretty uniform cubic crystals, but the trace minerals change sea salt shape.

The historical opinion that I have but absolutely cannot prove is that at some point, several first century Jews were criticising the Sanhedrin and Caiaphus for killing Jesus saying that to kill anyone is to kill God, and then some gentiles just misunderstood their complaint.

Write a blog post about converting. 🤡

You can pretend.

If we think of rhetoric as a knack, readers miss the reliance on trial and error, on learning by experience as such. And they miss what is really important about Socrates' account of expertise as compared to that of his contemporaries.

Translating "empeiria" as "a knack" is probably the leading cause of readers misunderstanding what's going on in the Gorgias.

The problem with rhetoric is that it operates primarily by trial and error and therefore relies essentially upon the appearance of good and bad rather than the real things.

The way that I was raised, being Jewish meant believing that every human life was sacred; to save a single human life meant saving all of humanity. That no law or ritual was more important than saving a single human life.

It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
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WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

They should just start aggressively marketing that angle.

I have used all three other than canvas. I mostly like Brightspace, which is what I use now. I only had one year with Blackboard at Dalhousie, but it was good. Moodle was clearly a discount service but it did the job. I think any of them are adequate alternatives.

I have never used canvas and have no idea what it is or does. Presumably that means that it has competitors.

Yeah, fair. Frankly, I think any talk of Plato’s metaphysics is itself verboten. He’s just not that concerned with a consistent and complete system in the way that Aristotle is. And for that matter, NeoPlatonism is a specifically Aristotelian project. It just takes Plato as inspiration.

Precisely. For Aristotle, the contemplative life is pure activity (being), which is a kind of circular motion with no beginning or end.

Incidentally, this is not Plato’s ideal, for he argues that the philosopher must in fact descend back into the cave. If anything, he is more into becoming.

My problems with Sachs lie mostly with his inconsistent translation philosophy. He only leaves technical terms transparent, but even those he seems to think that Greek prepositions work like English ones, and they don’t. The effect is to make the technical terms even more obscure than in the Greek.