@IrelandTorin

That's the mistake in your argumentation, though - you keep using the word "rationally" as if there's such a thing as mental processing removed from the material condition of the mind, when we know full well that thinking is always informed by emotion.

I say this as a strongly empirical humanist, and one who routinely touts the importance of holding ideas in tension: one is at greatest risk of "irrational" thinking when they act like there's a binary between reason and emotion.

@IrelandTorin

Yep, that's the gist of it.

Except that I disagree that you're as "objective" as you think you are.

Your notions of civilization-scale outcomes are still informed by your subject-position and its exposure sets.

It's very common for people to think that they're accessing a higher-level "objectivity" by talking in abstract or at scale, though.

(Amusingly, it's especially common within a certain thread of so-called "rationalist" discourse very much tethered to our culture too.)

@NiveusLepus

Portland will be lucky to have yoooou! 🤗

@preclude

That amazing breakthrough couldn't have happened without all the hard work you put in before it. Well done. What a tremendous feat.

There might still be a long way to go yet, but you've shown yourself such kindness and courage in pursuing recovery at all - and then again when initial treatments didn't yield the results you needed.

I hope you are deeply proud of yourself for that body of hard work. Thank you so much for sharing that hard-won victory, and journey.

This piece is Part 1 of 2. Later today, for Thorough Thursday, we'll dive deeper into a question raised in the backdrop of a philosophy essay from 1972, Peter Singer's "Famine, Affluence, and Morality".

It's not that the paper's core argument isn't compelling; it's that Singer's challenge to individual morality raises a bigger question about the very nature of morality - and our world's ability to achieve it.

#Philosophy #Humanism #GlobalHumanism
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/is-it-possible-to-be-good-in-our

Brain isn't braining.

Going to take this busted ol' model out to the nearest Tree Doc and see if my local "branch" can knock some sense back in, so I can finish this submission in time.

#Dendrotherapy
#Ornitherapy
#Entomotherapy

@AskNick @cassandra17lina

😬 NEVER skip tail day!

@LiseL @gemswinc @jenebene @Novels56

We should never have given up using flagon. :)

@cassandra17lina

💛 If you have a body, you have a beach body.

And just look at all the amazing things your body can DO! That's freaking fantastic. You've EARNED that pride.

I have to rebuild musculature, and I know it's a frustratingly long journey for those of us who don't have as much testosterone naturally (i.e., those of us who have to keep at it all the time).

I look at your #SwoleWins and I'm swooning. 💪

Well freaking done, beautiful, phenomenal YOU. 🎉

@gemswinc @LiseL @jenebene @Novels56

😉 Well all right then!

#BonusRound, SCOTUS edition!
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Slowly the Justice
pours from an ewer. Rapping
their pens, lawyers wait.

@Susandoyle

I just realized Oma_Trisha is gone. I hope she's okay. I know she was struggling with comorbidities and isolation in the wake of relaxed COVID-19 protections, along with tight financial living in a really tough part of the US.

Big ol' hugs to you, for posting this. Thanks for sharing, and for taking care of yourself.

*me, muttering to myself as I close a long line of tabs filled with terrible news and awful visuals so I can focus on my next writing task*

Haunted.
Haunted.
Haunted.
Oh THAT one's cursed.
And that one, too.
And... back to the seventh circle of hell with YOU!
And you!
And you!
...Okay, no, this one can haunt me a little longer.
But that lil' fudger has to go.
Haunted.
Haunted.
Haunted.

Modern exorcisms, mi gente! 🙃 The power of the X button compels you!

@LiseL @jenebene @gemswinc @Novels56

Connections
Puzzle #500
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨

Adorable 500th puzzle.

Keyword | 10 guesses | 0:24
1️⃣3️⃣1️⃣1️⃣3️⃣1️⃣

Nnnnope. 🙃

🚨 Agreed, Lise! Usually I'd go for as few words as possible, but not now!
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Black swans taking flight--
A super price ejects doubts
of market rebounds

(If economists wrote poetry, I suppose!)

@CanisPundit @GaryPoole

There's the good dog! More "pun"-dit than "pundit", but we could use more pun-ditry than punditry these days anyway. :)

@GaryPoole

Some of my favourite people on CoSo are a snow hare, the Devil, a Belter, a dog-pundit, and a tech-priest from the year 41k, so that definitely tracks!

Today's friendly reminder that personal growth doesn't always look pretty--but don't let that stop you! #Nature

Morning CoSo!

US friends! Here's a friendly routine reminder that legacy media is not on your side.

Legacy media is going to do its darnedest in the next two weeks to make your election feel like a tighter race, if not stump entirely for a man whose funders aren't so ideologically removed from the people who own these news outlets, too.

Stay sharp. Stay sane(ish). Watch your media intake from now through election day! #MediaLiteracy #Democracy