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Presented: an essay wherein I realize I was reinventing colonial New England Puritanism
francis
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francis
@pachabelcanon
voted "most likely to expire in an abandoned shopping mall"
- It's so funny that when the Arabs first arrived in Egypt they found the pyramids but couldn't find anyone who could tell them who built them and for what reason
- Replying to @pachabelcanonIt's literally the "we can't, we don't know how to do it anymore" thing
- Replying to @pachabelcanonthey ended up identifying Surid Ibn Salhouk as the king who built the Great Pyramid of Giza, 300 years before the Flood, same person as Enoch and Hermes
- my fear sometimes is that the period of mass literacy just might end. it feels like maybe there's an apocalypse coming and what comes out of the other end is basically digital spam
- they do when you take into account air resistance. that's why galileo had to come up with the leap of the notion of frictionless free fall. Carlo Rovelli discusses this, he has a paper showing how Aristotelian physics is mathematically a good approximation to Newton
- I'm a centrist because I think that Elon Musk is dumber than what his fans say he is but genuinely smarter than what his detractors think
- the USSR was the first science fiction state
- type of left wing guy who decides to pass as right wing to date left wing women
- economics is astrology for men; i have a monetary supply shock rising and a keynesian underconsumption moon
- I think that the main reason that science fiction doesn't feel like it has really caught up to the present is that there's a huge disconnection between the avant-garde literary and the scientific/technical sides
- "psychoanalysis" is insane because it appears to be one of the most dangerous drugs with the potential to gigafry your brain but is exclusively taken by literal turbonormies who unironically want to like "understand the logic of the dream" and basically get oneshotted by it
