Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ @cosmiccitizen@schelling.pt

Regular reminder that thesis-antithesis-synthesis isn't an idea we receive from Hegel but Fichte, with a basis in Kant's table.

Democracies need tigers. I have always believed this.

This causes minor discomfort for the parts of my identity that are organized around tolerance, forgiveness, and healing, but so what. That's a "me" problem.

There's probably something maladroit in the way that I described guys "getting" ladies, so sue me I guess.

Hotness is situational creativity. But when people are seeking for a stable self-concept, they'll hypostatisize a concept of hotness from a handful of encounters and play those as a finite game.

It's important to observe the infinite game of hotness.

I honestly think that one of the most instructive things that anyone can do is to hang out in a public space and see what kinds of guys get what kinds of ladies.

Observing this stuff first-hand is too painful to be constructive. People can't handle the egoic pain most of the time.

People understand themselves symbolically. A big part of that symbolic self-concept is informed by the way that society responds to Eros. But society's response to Eros is updated over time.

They got caught in a hail storm while loading the trailer. These lovers are simply not star-crossed.

FWIW, the shooter "only" killed a six-year-old in the neighborhood next to campus, so we're sweeping this one under the rug with regard to campus safety.

Neighbor lady divorced her husband. A new guy has been hanging around. Today his truck is here and he's moving her out (it's the husband's place). They're already fighting.

Pull down the blinds, get back to work. This is America.

Probably doxing myself here, but it's only been seven years since a guy attempted to kill a bunch of people on a college campus with a truck attack. Now at a different campus there's a guy who just killed someone and he's walking around with a long gun. This is America.

Friston's aesthetic (and the Schmidhuberian thesis that seems to have captured his imagination) incompletely Schillerian. For Friston, action reconciles world and inner representation, just as play-drive reconciles sense-drive and form-drive. But the problem is that Friston doesn't give sufficient weight to the subjective moral freedom that Kant introduced to the tradition of moral philosophy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCl7_tXs80Y

It always makes me laugh when people act like rural New Hampshire is isolated and low population. NH would be the hyperdense metropole if it were transplanted into my area (intermountain west).

There's huge business potential in whoever can create an AI assistant interface that "translates" between live calls and a chat-like message format.

A lot of normie businesses are irrationally wed to the phone, and a lot of modern clients only want to operate through chat.

There's some bad vibes out there.

He gave my partner some of the flowers that he trimmed from the bushes. He really isn't bad deep down.

Going back for another hour.

It's an absolute travesty that anyone takes Aristotle seriously. It's a complete joke. He's a filthy foreigner (born in Stagira!) who can't even vote in the Assembly.

Basically the takeaway I got is that I (given my genetics) probably have good non-shivering thermogenesis, and I've run with this knowledge since then. I have worn a coat maybe a handful of times in the past five years. I wear a windbreaker to keep the windchill off my skin, but that's about it. I go curling in shorts and a tee-shirt.

The only thing that stops me from being one of those sadist ice-swimmers is that I have shit-ass swimming skills.

When I took physical anthropology in college, the college had basically condemned the anthropology department's building. It was demolished the next term. But while we were there, in winter, there was no heat in the building. We all wore our coats indoors and could see each other's breath. The instructor (a hardass old archaeologist) realized the upside for him, as this meant he was free to smoke indoors.

Anyway the bottom line is that I listened very closely to the part about thermoregulation