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@tiffany Damnit, I shouldn't leave my arm visible in the frame! http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/826214
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@ceruleanspark I last crashed my car.
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Friday, 07-Aug-15 13:23:27 UTC from web
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I finally got my act together and bought a pair of Shadowrun rulebooks. Let's see where this trainwreck lands
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I'm on my mobile otherwise I'd delete the posts myself. I don't want my finger to slip on this UI and accidentally delete Metal or something
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[MetalTao is not available in your country]
Sunday, 26-Jul-15 08:31:33 UTC from web -
@vcgriffin At first I thought you said "workplace related accidents" at which point I began speculating that, at your job, you're some kind of serial maimer.
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a heartbreaking story i wrote http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/325465
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actually, it's about ethics in subreddit moderation
Friday, 03-Jul-15 19:20:28 UTC from web -
Some people call me pringles dick
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RDN IS NOW OFFICIALLY THE ANTHROPALS NETWORK
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http://pny.lv/ho8y THIS@! Is how I feel about the last donut in the box!
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If anyone here still watches My Little Pony after last week's travesty, please remember to tag your spoilers.
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@northernnarwhal As of yours, 3,941,223.
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I was always outside My Little Pony's demographic, but now I think I'm being edged out of My Little Pony's second demographic.
Saturday, 13-Jun-15 19:55:43 UTC from web -
@vcgriffin You're right, there's definitely a clear conflict of interests in terms of how we define the term, which is probably because even the term "brony" is already incredibly connotative. I don't align with the prospect of "brony culture" as an extension of the term "brony", which as I discussed in my previous post is really more of a contrived identity complex than an actual method of engagement with media. I certainly agree with your sandpit analogy too, e100 was very clearly submissive to that prospect of "brony culture", which has sort of become an entirely separate mentality of viewing the show. @thelastgherkin made a great post here http://rainbowdash.net/notice/3940825 about demographic that I think really rings true for this conversation.
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Here's where I get stuck: if we apply the dialectical method to capital, like Marx did, we learn that the price of something is determined by social relations and not their actual use-value. But how is this knowledge useful?
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@tiffany There's actually a guy in my class who's doing his final presentatiom worth ~15% of his mark on Atlas Shrugged.
Though I can see why the book is popular with teenagers. It promotes a reductive worldview they can understand, and the notion of the world being much simpler and self serving than it actually is empowers them. -
Furthermore what really bugs me about objectivism is yes, I get the whole personal responsibility bit. I abide by it. But to make it law makes it seem as though humanity is incapable of charity on its own accord, also stifling the idea. It's too narrow a point of view. Given who came up with it, it is not at all a surprise either.
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@rarity Essentially, yeah. Libertarianism prides itself on being a school of thought structured around this idea of "I do what I want and live life how I want! Yeah!" but when applied to a broader real world context it comes off as incredibly misguided, immature, and self-obsessed. It tries to ground itself with this notion of humans all being in this hypothetical race at the same starting point, with ostensibly the fastest being the most successful and the most "objectively" good person, ethically or otherwise. But this view of the world is awfully childish and reductive, because it COMPLETELY neglects the concepts of privilege, class, race, gender, cultural climate, and several other legitimately influential components of the likelihood for a person's supposed "success". It's because of caveats like those that the only people who can really abide by Libertarianism are people who have advantageous placements in many of those components and are too naive to see otherwise.
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I can appreciate Atlas Shrugged as a well constructed narrative, but I disagree with a lot of its philosophical framework. The system of Objectivism is incredibly reductive of the nature of art, promotes a presumptuous and obstinate engagement of epistemology grounded only on loose empiricism, and effectively romanticizes the prospect of being a totally selfish jerk to everyone around you.
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This is about ethics in horse journalism
Friday, 15-May-15 16:11:47 UTC from web -
BUCK 2016: 9/10 April, EventCity Manchester UK. http://buckcon.org
Wednesday, 13-May-15 13:31:27 UTC from web -
@nerthos If you were considering it, don't bother reading the King in Yellow. It's not a good book
