Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ @cosmiccitizen@schelling.pt

It was 2-3 dozen lights, slightly unevenly spaced, moving in a straight line over the town. There was definitely one mildly lagging at the end like a boxcar. They were high enough to go behind a cloud at one point.

Just saw some of these: drones flying in formation at night in the western US.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/us/drones-FAA-colorado-nebraska.html

Literally all I want to do with my time is to drink pots of hot caffeine and read books.

I think my recurring nightmares about the car without brakes have something to do with the fear that someone believes my bullshitting. I feel like I need to start walking around with a sign that says "DO NOT GIVE HIM ATTENTION FOR HAVING READ THE FIRST 30 PAGES OF A BOOK."

>be me
>read the first 30 pages of a lot of different books
>"wow, I must have good generalizable intellectual skills because all of this stuff comes easy to me"
>never apply knowledge
>never submit myself to tests or competition
>why

Vinum professorem sanum facit.

Thank goodness for Postum! I'd be divorced without a good hot cup of roasted wheat bran.

CS Peirce is the greatest philosopher who has ever lived.

I want to read an alt-history from the Fermi-verse where the first bomb at the Trinity test was powerful enough to cause a cascading fusion reaction throughout the Earth's atmosphere, allowing only 1940s-era submariners, hard-rock miners, and sea life to repopulate the surface of the planet.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/bethe-teller-trinity-and-the-end-of-earth/

Sometimes it is very very good to leave a place of certainty to go attend to the thing that is bugging you.

The best thing about noise music is that you can listen to multiple pieces of noise music for a richer, noisier experience.

Reminder that you are helping to jailbreak LLMs whenever you use circumlocutions for "third rail" topics.

Every time you refer to the banned term by way of discussing Pokemon or whatever, you are trailblazing a new path through vector-space that will help future readers recover the reality of our current climate.

If I replace what you said with a crude mockery of what you said, it makes you look really crude. Don't you feel silly for saying what you said now?

Of course I'm not talking about your Big Ideology. Your Big Ideology is great and obviously true.

I'm talking about the evil outgroup Big Ideology.

One of the most scarcely appreciated virtues of Outgroup Demagogue is that he fucking rails on this shit. There's no Big Ideology excuses with Outgroup Demagogue. And it sounds so awesome to every person who's had to politely tolerate the miserable excuses and face-saving from high-fallutin' failures hiding inside Big Ideology. He just rips their asses.

He's a pathetic failure himself. But at least he doesn't act like a moralist about it -- he's just an obvious hypocrite. What a relief.

Again, when you KNOW that the dude hiding under Big Ideology is disappointed in himself and others, you can easily discern which parts of the rationalization are motivated by lower, unprincipled feelings.

After that, you can't look at Big Ideology the same way. It all feels thin and acrid.

There's no nice way to say this, but I've seen two of the worst premium-mediocre dudes scuttle under Big Ideology for cover after fucking up their lives in completely predictable ways.

We're supposed to act like Big Ideology must be engaged with on its own principles, but in the long run we're going to have to admit that its passion and fervor provide social camouflage for failed dudes with very normal, quotidian failures.