dylandoherty.bsky.social
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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War sure is intense.
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Of course I don’t want phone calls from any so called “living documents”.
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In fairness I do wish my books would text me back.
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As someone brain-damaged from MS, I approve this message.
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A major award!
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What would you consider the last major technological innovation?
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Anyways, if your position is that somebody with a vagina and breasts and ovaries and a female birth certificate is ACTUALLY male because of non-standard hormone levels, that does not have the implications that you think it does!!
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You mean like the law of attraction?
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I appreciate any implication that consequentialism is villainy.
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Snap, crackle, ouch
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🌻👀
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Can't wait for NIMBYs to get up in arms about Trumpervilles.
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When we describe beliefs as "dumb" or "stupid", we are inadvertently pardoning epistemic wrong-doing. Thinking oneself more clever than experts is rank arrogance. We shouldn't let folks off the hook by describing their failures with non-normative language.
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No need to blame Mace's moral and epistemic failures on mental illness.
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hell yeah love me some plants
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"Don't have standing" like this is the Supreme Court of Trans Discourse
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The myopic framework behind this worldview sees people as bags of clearly-defined stats like RPG characters. Once this silly perspective is adopted, diversity initiatives only work if objectively and quantitatively worse candidates are preferred.
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I don’t get it I thought we all agreed to be cruel to pumpkins
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This reminds me of arguments in the opposite direction where factory farming is good because even if a cow's life sucks it's better than not existing!