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Baker of bread, maker of wine, lover of philosophy
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I'd heard that Dangerous Animals made a splash at Cannes so I thought it was worth going to a late showing. I like that most of the shark facts and safety tips are accurate and that they emphasize that sharks aren't just mindless killing machines trying to eat any human who goes in the ocean.

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I got stopped on the street by some folks hanging out on their porch. They asked me what I was listening to on my headphones. I'm trying to decide how embarrassing it is that I replied "Swann's Way by Marcel Proust. It's a French book." One of the guys said he would check it out...

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I think there is a misunderstanding of voting power here. Leaving candidates off your ranking shows that you simply don't want any of them to have the position. Depriving a candidate of votes is just as much an expression of voting power as voting for them directly.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

I've seen the paper this graph is from shared around, talking about how there is more diversity of opinion on the right than on the left. The issue is that the study only covers eight highly polarized political issues. It says nothing about diversity of opinion on less polarized issues.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

A new dish came to me in a dream, crab apple and caviar salsa. Here's my tentative recipe. Granny smith apple (because crab apples are hard to source), shallots, chives, parsley, mint (maybe), caviar (a cheaper fish egg than sturgeon), lemon juice (maybe zest too), olive oil, and jalapeno (maybe)

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

The funny thing about those Blue Sky/Universities need more intellectual diversity articles is that there is arguably more intellectual diversity within the left than within the right. Being right wing requires commitments to a fairly small number of positions, the left encompasses everything else

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Perhaps unsurprisingly Mondocane 2021 is a much better film than Mondo Cane 1962. Did I watch the first film accidentally because I was looking for the second? Yes, but I'm glad I made that mistake.

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Just heard the phrase "I'd only call it art as a matter of category rather than quality", and I really like it. It gets at the heart of most disagreements about what qualifies as art.

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It's crazy to me that Proust claims to have never read Freud. They are covering so much of the same ground I find it incredible that they might be doing it independently.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I think an oil company suing Greenpeace for 666 million dollars is a bit on the nose. They gotta pretend not to be blatantly evil right?

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Roller derby is a great spectator sport! Get out there and support your local lesbians

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I think this is essentially right, but which values people consider important for dating has changed. For instance dating across religious lines has become more common at the same time dating across party lines has become less frequent.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

I love texting my philosophy friends

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I made focaccia with sun dried tomatoes and cheese

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

A conservative told me that he believed we should have televised pay per view executions. He suggested that so many people would watch it that we could pay off the national debt with the revenue. It's fascinating to identify monstrous cruelty in humanity and just roll with it as a policy decision.

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At one point I suggest that my next project should be producing a post-structuralist systems theory. I'm not sure that's possible

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