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@taalumot @heiso as an arsenal fan this is the most moved i’ve ever been by anything pro-spurs. G-d bless ‘em

there’s a lot to be said for slow and mindful movement but some one the most embodying activities i do is lifting weights while listening to absolutely terrible/amazing drum and bass

trying my absolute best to not turn my website into a static blog before finals

i don't think doctors are responsible for the current system's brokenness, but i do think they are disempowered to do anything about it without some worker solidarity. not even necessarily marx-style, i'm talking guild-style pride

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this slow creep of professional-managerialism into the profession has basically eliminated indpendent practice, visiting doctors, compassionate end-of-life care. they still exist, most are just priced out of it. the true dignity of medicine, being a pillar of a community and having autonomy over care, has been supplanted with the hollow internal logic of capital

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oh is it a money thing? compare the median salary of a family physician to what a good contractor can earn. both are basically apprenticed vocations. classically the only difference between a plumber and a physician is that the latter is a “learned vocation”, entailing some degree of humanism and philosophy. given that the current crop of doctors is virtually illiterate, that playing field has also been levelled

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healthcare will be broken until doctors view themselves in solidarity with plumbers instead of in solidarity with lawyers

what if you’re just assuming that integrating lineage is a heart transplant? have you tried just dancing with the body as a whole?

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i mean you can *call* it yoga, and that does annoy me a little bit, but ultimately it is akin to excising a beating heart from a body and expecting that playing catch with it is going to clear your clogged arteries. all you’ve really done is made a mess

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when i ask you to acknowledge and integrate lineage, it’s for you, not for me. i have no issue with your cosplay but it’s not yoga if you’re yoked to nothing

@taalumot climbing the stairway to heaven one token at a time

@taalumot they tend to dislike hearing it, especially from a Satanic Oriental, so thank you for doing the good work

@flancian the scale of his influence is rather understated. his synthesis is really the basis of contemporary hinduism (putting aside recent theopolitical fanaticism)

though some may argue that this is exactly the teleology of christianity

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a phrase i find particularly grating is 'spiritual technology' and similar basically unserious engagement with spiritual/religious life from a pedestal of materialistic atheism. an especially egregious offender i've come across is 'chrAIst' -- a brand new, superior™️ psychotechnology to align AI!

@doubtshrine@stoat.zone this too shall be priced in 🙏🏽

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