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10,000% percent this

Yeah I'm mostly working off how they're perceived in the public conscious. Slaanesh is definitely still very interesting.

He's by far the most generic of the four chaos gods, but that's good because he and Slaanesh act as release valves for everyone's more boring creative impulses for hell and let us have fun with the other two.

Honestly, I think that one issue pro life voters are what they are because the issue is a bit of a philosophical gridlock, which lets them launder in a hundred other far less defensible opinions into their political behavior. I know a girl who claims to be a pro life voter, but then also happens to be a right-leaning on virtually every other issue, by complete chance. It's just easier to be that than to be an open republican in certain circles.

This is all to say that you aren't going to defeat the pro-life faction through philosophy, you destroy them by destroying the right wing as a whole.

I don't believe that talent is a myth, but a lot of the variation in ability for beginners, particularly in school performance, comes from previous experiences that helped you without you knowing it. Playing a bunch of video games with realistic movement will give you a good sense of newtonian physics. Reading virtually anything gives people better reading comprehension and analysis. When you reach the upper levels of any kind of field, such as graduate level or even undergraduate studies, you'll likely see a flattening out of ability. Nothing really prepares you for k-space, Fourier transforms, or Hegelian dialectics. There will still be a fair amount of variability, but the primary driver of performance will likely be effort, at that point. You always hear about exceptions, but I think it's just people blustering most of the time.

Really, just don't hyperfixate on your performance for things, except for when it materially matters. For school, jobs, etc., we have no choice, but for everything else go easy on yourself. They certainly won't.

Is this E1 too? I like this one even more lol.

He reviews the whole fucking trilogy lol

I've fallen deep into the Zizek hole this year, a good follow up book to Sublime Object is the Parallax View. He tries to lay out his basic philosophy and apply it to different subjects in it. After that idk, Zizek is kinda repetitive, I have to imagine you get diminishing returns in terms of new ideas after more than one or two of his books. Probably just reread those until you fully understand his worldview. Maybe after that you work backwards and start reading Lacan and Hegel to get a sense of where he's coming from.

I know Zizek is kinda a meme but he has a genuinely interesting philosophy. He talks a lot about the nature of consciousness, neuroscience and its relation to psychology and philosophy, theology, and a bunch of other topics that aren't as prominent in the internet conception of him but are very relevant to today. Plus once every hundred pages or so he'll give a review of the Star Wars prequels or something as a treat.

Any close analysis of the Godzilla vs. Kong trailer would reveal that Kong is shown deflecting atomic breath with the weapon.

The writers of Godzilla vs. Kong have displayed great intelligence by giving Kong a weapon, evening an otherwise one-sided fight. I continue to monitor the situation with interest.

Where's the original picture?

Possibly as something more purpose oriented, rather than a strict quantity to be parceled out. I don't think anyone actually thinks we should abolish time. It's just that exacting usage of clocks was used to more precisely extract labor out of people, and took the freedom to manage their own day from them.

I transferred from a top 100 to a top 10 US university two years back, and I can say this with authority: there is hardly a meaningful difference in the effectiveness of the two schools in terms of education. The teachers at the top 10 are maybe 'smarter', in the sense that they are generally more involved in the research of their field, but they are also way busier and have little interest in helping students. The students are way more careerist and grade-grubby, which creates a somewhat hostile dynamic between faculty and undergrads. You have access to more potential research work, but it is also bottlenecked by the fact that there are so many more students chomping at the bit to do their own research. In terms of prestige and career opportunities, there is a pretty big difference, but that's not exactly what you're signing up for.

Nothing more to add really. It's difficult to imagine what a truly radical movie would look like, at least any kind that would end up with a wide release. Doing something revolutionary-shaped can just as easily serve as a release valve for social energy as can incite it. Winning the culture war would probably hurt the actual war, because it would produce the illusion that we've already won.

It seems like the violence of these organizations has slowed down in the past decade or two. A high level guy like Francesco Cali hadn't been killed in decades. It wouldn't surprise me if killing a mob boss had become such a faux pas that even having bodyguards to protect against killings was seen as inappropriate.

Paradise.

How do people not feel iffy writing 'blacks'? Always telling when a high-minded centrist talks like a racist and doesn't realize it.

Is it any good? I'm already hearing bad things.

I've always thought that was at least part of cyberpunk. Neuromancer is about an AI attaining true consciousness, after all. I guess one thing that cyberpunk is good is that it can consume any scientific concept without fully exploring the consequences of the idea because society is so decayed there isn't really a way a technology can change the course of the world anymore.