Humans are the best mammals

guy who's against monasticism because it genetically selects against religiosity

Concept: go back to giving the chatbot assistants girl names as a AI risk mitigation strategy because people won't blindly trust their authority and anything they say without double checking it if they think of them as girls

'cargo cult' and 'fetish' are useful concepts that i really wish there were non racist words for

You only think "cellar door" is the most beautiful phrase in the English language because you're cucked by the romance world, latinish standards of beauty. If you really knew what makes English a beautiful language your favorite phrase would be "wastebasket taxon"

LitRPG in which true names have power (in the style of Le Guin) and the isekai'd person is a philosopher of language and an acolyte of Saul Kripke

it is--if not really surprising--so frustrating how extremely elementary, like literally "race in media 101" type criticisms of the racism in video games is received by white liberals with pronouns the exact same way that anita sarkeesian was received by neogaf chuds

Menial chores and drudgery get a bad rap, but really there's something to be said for work that merely demands the application of time and straightforward unglamorous effort and has simple unambiguous parameters for completion. If the only way to unlock the state of having achieved something worthwhile was by doing things that express your values, virtues and personality, well that would soon become a heavy burden I think.

Sometimes your bad coworker will be like "I can't do anything right & I ruin everything I touch :(" and you can't even comfort them because like damn. Yeah. You really can't do anything right and you do ruin everything you touch☝️

one nice thing is that you can basically use punctuation however you want: it doesnt matter at all and ppl will understand what you mean

one— nice thing! is that you? —can basically use punctuation. however, you want it. "doesn't matter at all" and "ppl will understand"—what you mean??

one nice thing is that you *can* basically use punctuation. however, you wan't. i.t. doesn't matter at all. and ppl will! understand? ... what? ... you mean—