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henrysloan.bsky.social

Software engineer in cloud infrastructure and virtualization. Rust enjoyer and emulator dev. Classical music lover, pianist, guitarist and violinist. German B1, Mandarin HSK4-5. he/him

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The pianist cannot command the motion of each finger; they must play in gestures. So too of life! The violinist cannot constantly control the bow; they can only direct its flow. So too of life! The artist cannot determine each movement of their pencil; they must work in strokes. So too of life!

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"One takes sides against youth -- and a decade later, one realizes that that, too, was youth!" - Nietzsche, paraphrased

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Le presentisme est un humanisme

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One of Schopenhauer's most interesting claims (as I understand it) is that ethics can't be prescriptive, not because good and evil are subjective, but because they're objective but per-individual immutable. I feel that perspective is superseded by "existence precedes essence", but IDK.

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If you eat beets 20,000 times, they start to taste delicious. So too of life. So too of life.

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If you become monist enough, you realize that all technology-using humans are cyborgs.

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I posit that left-handed people see the world horizontally inverted. Ambidextrous people, you ask? Kind of in-between.

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If I die with even a dollar left in my bank account, kill me again.

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It takes a lifetime for reason to reinvent intuition. It takes a million lifetimes for reason to reinvent tradition.

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The substance of Earth is in its little bumps, not its great mass. So too of life! So too of life.

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If you write my address on an envelope and set it on fire, I'll get it. I won't receive it, but I'll get it.

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If anyone has ever succeeded in expressing a feeling in art, it is Schumann's Fantasia in C Major, Op. 17

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I've learned that artificial honey exists, with the only caveat being that it apparently kills you

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I disagree with calling people "NPCs". I prefer "unconscientious unto unconsciousness".

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I am of the radical and radically correct opinion that bread was discovered, not invented.

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Do you imagine The Camera over your left shoulder or your right? Your answer will tell me all I need to know.

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Would it be better if the justice system had access to a database of perfect truth, the existence of which wasn't predicated on any greater breaches of privacy than are already permitted for investigations? Who cares.

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I do wish the world were worse in certain ways

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Nietzche: Mitleiden ist die Praxis des Nihilismus 😡 Ich: Mitleiden ist die Praxis des Nihilismus 😃

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To err is to be human as to be is to not to be

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The situation in South Korea is very complex

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Twitter has reached Critical Ass, where the first post I see when I open the app is consistently bad enough to make me close it.

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Someone wrote an unclosed quotation mark in 2014, and everything since then has been sarcastic", he said.

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Amazing how 15oz is exactly the right amount of canned crushed tomatoes. God bless America.

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All CPUs are conscious, and very, very sad

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It's just rocks, but I really like this rock

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It's undeniably funny that Walgreens has a commercial where Ms. Claus says "Happy Holidays"

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Trump falsely claiming that Mexico agreed to close the border evidences my claim that he's going to co-opt baseless conservative talking points and say, "this isn't a real problem, so I must have fixed it!"

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I wonder whose job it is to ensure the background music on all TV commercials resolves to the tonic at the very end

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Some singer at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade just did an unprepared key change from E major to G major, just to preserve the original keys of the songs. Our world is evil.

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Same thing!

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If you listen to enough Bach, you can just whistle imaginary Bachian melodies ad infinitum

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It's freeing to recognize that not all experiences of beauty need to be viscerally or immediately moving

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Toucan! Shoebill stork! Pileated woodpecker! Albatross! (trying to tell Bluesky to show me birds besides the beautiful Grat Ble St*rk).

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This discourse is my favorite example of "any reasonable person should be able to fully understand both sides, identify the trifling semantic distinction at hand, and object to the yes/no framing".

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