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Should I unfollow every account that posts about current political events?
I feel very tempted to, I hate the culture war

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"hahahahahahahaha?" actually, the singular is: hahahahahahahahum

Hot take: the aztecs were as bad (or worse than) the Nazis, they just had less power

I did not expect to be convinced of "food waste is good, actually", but here we are 🤷

"wanting to become a computer" is an insufficient summary of transhumanism, but "wanting to become a better computer" is nearly sufficient

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A. ________ (noun)
B. ________ (noun)
C. Phenomenology / Ontology / Framework
D. ________ (gerund)

"Queering the [A]-[B] distinction: toward a [C] of [D]"

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Can you be main character on fedi as well?

I'm uncool enough to care about things

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Women will talk about being feminists and then turn assembling furniture into the most gendered act in all of human history (including holding the plan upside down, and then being corrected (!))

I might'nt be legible, but I'm queryable as fuck

I also hide behind "I used to be Marxist", which is kind of true (I knew more about it than >90% of self-described Marxists, but I also want to have high standards with this, and 90th percentile isn't that great), but there's some residual epistemic material that I haven't processed properly and I only have kind of placative answers.

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I have an emotional problem with a lot of far-left thinking:

I think it contains a lot of very bad and untrue memes, but those are not clearly formulated. I can't be bothered to spell them out to people that implicitly hold them bc I'm lazy, but they also annoy me a lot, so I parrot anti-leftwing talking points that are pretty unskillfull. I could either try to reason out my problems with individuals, which takes a lot of time and often leads nowhere, or try to ignore it.

A group of 6*10²³ people who are romantically involved with each other is called a molecule

Petition to add ships to the kinds of things autists find great

"If you look closely, you can pinpoint the exact moment at which mathematics breaks: *click* *click* *click* [right here](en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rieman)"

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