We have will, it just isn’t perfectly free. Our consciousness emerges out of a confluence of intersecting forces, and itself has the ability to influence the flows around it. But to pretend it’s removed from those flows and forces, or exists in some vacuum, is nonsensical, as is pretending that there isn’t some essence behind the signifier “self”.

perfection

Wait can you just leave the space between studs empty then?

Paywalled and not worth the 5 seconds it would take to bypass it, but did they at least mention the safe alternative: soaking?

I just don’t like them as signifiers in general, personally. They’re shorthand for something but what that something is isn’t clear to the listener nor even the speaker.

It’s not something I’d nitpick in general, and the examples you gave are harmless. But at best they’re not very imaginitive or interesting descriptors, and at worst they’re thought-limiting and tend to perpetuate dominant norms.

literally “if I can’t describe an ethical standard in one sentence or less then it must be a paradox”

https://policefundingdatabase.org/explore-the-database/settlements/

First they came for the White Nationalists

And I did not speak out

Because it was based

Then they came for the pro-Whites

And I did not speak out

Because it was based

Then they came for the pro-Western Culturists

And I did not speak out

Because it was based

Then they came for the anti-Marxists

And I did not speak out

Because it was based

Then they came for the Christians

And I did not speak out

Because it was based

Then they came for the Whites

And I did not speak out

Because it was based

Then I still did not speak out

Because there was no one left

to come after me

This is great! bookmarked, thanks!

I got a kettlebell but I’m never confident enough in my form doing kb swings.

Yeah this was very close to my worldview after a life of trauma, until I slowly shifted towards leftism then Marxism. A sort of reification of mental illness and despair into a quasi-ideology.

It takes more than a nudge for these feelings to develop into a belief system and produce results like this. The West expends so much energy eradicating leftist thought from the culture, giving unmaterialist and destructive ideologies like this an evolutionary advantage. Not to mention how many cases like this are likely enabled/influenced/caused by feds.

I’m mostly just sad.