It’s pretty easy to side-track discussions of morality and ethical systems into one of two swamps: epistemological challenges and nihilism. [Read more…]
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It’s pretty easy to side-track discussions of morality and ethical systems into one of two swamps: epistemological challenges and nihilism. [Read more…]
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doesn’t talk.
I’ve become fond of having an audiobook going while I work. It seems to help me focus, which doesn’t make a great deal of sense (I’d expect it to be distracting!) but it’s a great way to absorb new information. Perhaps it’s just a side-effect of how I work nowadays, but if I sit down and open a book, it usually turns into a nap pretty quickly.
This comes via Dan K., and Reddit.
Back in November 2018 I posted a link to a video of the deflection on a katana blade as it cuts through some rolled-up matting. [stderr]
Recently, the commentariat(tm) was joined by a christian believer, who managed to drag a fairly minor thread into a gigantic, sprawling debate by responding to philosophical enquiries with glibly well-intentioned bafflegab.
Mitchell and Webb are good at sly social commentary as well as silliness. If you haven’t seen their “are we the baddies?” sketch, go search it up on the internet; it’s great.
This one managed to shock me a little bit, because of what it says regarding authoritarians’ view of what constitutes an acceptable claim. It manages to be worse than some of the worst/flimsiest justifications for torture that I’ve seen.
The F-35 program has been a litany of glitches and problems, many as a result of the program’s pork distribution approach.
Over at Counterpunch Ramzy Baroud brings an account of Israeli settlers and military deliberately attempting to infect Palestinians with coronavirus. [stderr]