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Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Doctoral Candidate @ Wash U. Dissertation on the role of counterfactuals and narrative in historical explanation. I need MS like I need a hole in the head. oh wait.
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Time to hit the streets with my pro-Fed pamphlets and annoy passersby with the virtues of fiat currency.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

A strange presupposition of the Hunter pardon discourse is that the slow erosion of norms is how you get authoritarianism when that just isn’t the case. Weimar didn’t just slowly erode into the Third Reich. It took sudden and severe norm shifts to make that happen.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

(Biden after reading 'The Hundred Years' War on Palestine'): I have to pardon my son

submitted 86 days ago • 15 comments

Putting together a shop vac while watching a documentary about the Pacific theater of WWII. Full dad mode activated

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Beginners guide to what’s going on in Syria:

submitted 87 days ago • 25 comments

Pearl Harbor gave Americans a new found appreciation of canine intelligence.

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

*Shark in the water as swimmers run screaming towards the shore* Shark: Oh sure. Don’t engage with me then. Enjoy your echo chamber!

submitted 88 days ago • 6 comments

Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut. Nälyd, bookshelves that mock you based on how many books you haven’t read yet.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Op-Eds are weird. It's not like I can act on your neat ideas just email your representative.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

the pundit class has fried their brains from being too online. Their jobs are increasingly about just consuming and responding to Posts all day; Social media is an MMO they're addicted to, and they forget that all of this only matters within the context of real life

submitted 91 days ago • 5 comments

This guy was such a G for telling his evil wizard cyborg boss that his religion is bullshit during a work meeting.

submitted 235 days ago • 56 comments

Having attended a few philosophy conferences, anyone suggesting that "any fool idea passes muster" without criticism is expressing their ignorance and nothing else.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

The corporate commitment to DEI is about as serious as the corporate commitment to accepting bitcoins as payment.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Also, high paying jobs aren't automatically available just because a person has an education. I have a masters degree and spent a year as a mosquito exterminator because that was the only thing I could get. (Interesting job, tho, and certainly not for the lazy or a "cool" profession.)

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

They dropped the charges against Jefferson Davis so that's a pretty high bar to clear.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Weimar conservatives partnered with the Nazis because they feared a Bolshevik takeover. Todays conservatives partner with Trump because they fear pronouns in social media profiles.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Every day I get irrationally annoyed at WordleBot's judgment of my Wordle performance is another day I question the significance of passing the Turing test.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

The problem with using ableist language like "crazy" or "mentally ill" to describe abhorrent behavior is that the problem is normative, not descriptive. For example, Rep Mace's failures are moral and epistemic, not cognitive. It isn't a question of ability but culpability.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

"Cancel Culture" is like "The Perfect Crime": you know it doesn't exist because you keep hearing about it.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Terrible analogy; playing the guitar like a piano is rad as hell.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

“‘An organization can prioritize excellence or diversity, but not both simultaneously,’ he said” The only excellent organizations are homogenous organizations. I leave the kind of homogeneity as an exercise for the reader.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

You’re telling me my car has a mission? AND IT’S TRANS?!

submitted 534 days ago • 11 comments

What's so frustrating about this is that those with the most legitimate grievances against the medical industrial complex are those who don't have the ableist privilege of rejecting it.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all. Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

submitted 93 days ago • 426 comments

The lesson of Weimar should be that it’s probably good that thousands of communists and Nazis aren’t murdering each other in open street warfare and that the President can’t just dissolve Congress and call new elections.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

and this is why it is an analytical mistake to use “voter without a college degree” to mean “working class voter”

submitted 93 days ago • 38 comments

According to RFK Jr., the only safe and effective vaccine is the one that protects you from racism.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

I called to make a PT appointment and the receptionist said that it would be quite a while until I could be scheduled ... all the way to mid December. For the professionally unwell, that's light speed!

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

This is one of those videos that you could work on forever, but suddenly it felt very important to make it, so I finally did: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Pn...

submitted 95 days ago • 207 comments