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Mark Grant

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Thou shalt not think solely in terms of tortured historical and literary analogies


English needs some sort of conditional mood for things that are possible but highly uncertain. "If X were true, then Y would occur" makes it sound like X there is purely counterfactual.


Isolationists are sometimes the most confused people in existence. Either underscore the humanity of the victims of a foreign war you oppose, or wash your hands of the whole affair and let the sides massacre each other even harder, but you shouldn't get to be able to do both.


The essential character of real-life moral decision-making is probabilistic, and traditional deontology doesn't give us any framework by which to incorporate probabilities. That's why this research into generalizing the categorical imperative is so critical.

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Guy who gets mad at economic models/explanations with more than one variable


List of too complicated heraldric shields

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Isaac Newton was likely neuroatypical and lived in an oppressive society. The way he identified is none of anyone's business.

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Need to complete the roster and appoint Eric Dubay to NASA administrator


We shouldn't abolish the Department of Education, we should put doctrinaire Parfitians in charge so they can teach all schoolchildren that the non-identity problem renders all historical grievances meaningless.


Decolonial theorists are finally noticing the Finnish Yoke

All the rocks being piled up on like, poland and finland and none on spain or portugal is so funny to me



God, grant me schizophrenic enemies


Broke: Conspiracy theories Woke: Conspiracy theorems

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Business idea: barbershop for mathematicians called Dedekind Cuts


Video games which have wraparound/toroidal maps like Pac-Man or Asteroids are Flat Earth propaganda because they encourage children to believe that the world has zero Gaussian curvature.


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What happens when Kamala picks Beshear

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Still trying to decide which historical figure was the true Messiah. I've so far narrowed it down to either Sabbatai Zevi or Hong Xiuquan.


Thou shalt not give deontological arguments for economic systems


G.A. Cohen's tombstone should've read, "G.A. Cohen: At Least He Tried To Make This Make Sense"


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