One of my favourite parts of Lucretius's "On The Nature of the Universe" critiques the nature of divine justice with reason, while also affirming the naturalistic origin of lightning.

Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?

*Every time I'm at the bookstore and see the philosophy section* Stoicism is not the only philosophy, people.

Guys, I think we're going to need taxes for Woke 2.0

Next up in taxation/finance policy: We mint one trillion dollar coin for each adult. Children get a half trillion dollar coin.

So I have a student researching earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in Iceland for a major paper and that seems apropos for our current *gestures at everything*

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented. They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed. That energy is all around us. It does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz or any other geopolitical chokepoint.

In an era of LLMs, professors who mark also become cops. THIS IS ... MARKING COPS.

Canada just loves building dams, but please dear god slap down some wind and solar

This is an officially recognized Type Of Paper, btw kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

Alternative question: Why do the Tories hate otters?

Made a joke about this being everyone's optimal tax policy, but some really dumb comments lately that suggest this might actually be the case.

Doing it again* *Going through saved posts about books to order said books

Republicans, when talking about war and absolutely nothing else.

Question for religious/religious studies/theologian followers: Is Thomas Merton worth reading, and if so, which of his works would you recommend to someone who doesn't do much reading or work in those areas of study?

Remember when people used to be all “hard times creates great art” because no actually it’s just this.

Great Caesar’s ghost

This reminds me of this old favourite from Walking Eagle News: walkingeaglenews.com/2017/12/19/l...

The beans in the garden this year will be sunset runner beans. I planted scarlet runner beans last year and loved them. Purchased from West Coast seeds. I both order direct online, and often find their seeds at my local garden centre.

strongly on this team

I think I may have cracked it

vaxxed?

Know AI detectors are garbage, but it's astonishing how often I can infer LLM use with timestamps on the college's course management page. No, I don't believe you completed a 1000 word assignment in 30 minutes.

Question for religious/religious studies/theologian followers: Is Thomas Merton worth reading, and if so, which of his works would you recommend to someone who doesn't do much reading or work in those areas of study?

Proposal: Every time a driver complains about this, we lower the limit another 5km/hr. If it goes to zero, it goes to zero.

Touch on this in on my own sociology of sport classes when I cover sex testing. Hope this message gets more widely shared (but sadly, I'm not optimistic).

It would be nice if people remembered this piece of wisdom from the greatest economics tweet in history (and the one I am most insanely jealous of not having written, especially because it was a reply to me).

This is incredible. Looking good in a tight shirt is better than being smart when it comes to war. This has big "Dad why did you bring me to a gay steel mill" energy

Can't fix world crises, can't fix my life, but I can make a potato kugel for dinner.

Most people rejected his message. They hated Freud because he told them the truth.

this should not be permitted, and when the EPA is run by sane law-followers again, we'll shut it down

I asked myself too. Think I failed?

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

I find something so moving about Lucretius describing atoms, the plurality of things in the world, and words in this way. Perhaps it's the context of the larger mission of the poem, which translator Ronald Melville summarizes as to rescue all "from the fear of gods and the fear of death."

Not worried about being replaced by an LLM (in the short term, anyway), but it's absolutely poisoned everything about my work. Marking takes so much longer because I get vapid, idealess Linked-in speak of ChatGPT output.

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

Feel like I need to do a wellness check on everyone I follow on here.

Gas shortages but with human rights violations. Get in gang, we’re doing a Waluigi Carter admin.

Think the only real job for a sociologist in an incredibly severe economic collapse would be cult leader. Luckily for everyone I'm extremely uncharismatic.

Flair in the derrière.

hanging with some friends at a picnic and we accidentally stumbled on the concept of Clavuncular, a chopped uncle version of Clavicular

Nostalgia is a weapon. You don’t miss the early 2000s, you miss being a stupid child. You want to be stupid again. You want your parents to take care of you. You are 12.

*Running over a cyclist* Later, as the trial concludes... "Not guilty by reason of insanity due to gas prices."

In fairness, neither can the people who make Final Fantasy.

Don't often see "Bean New Deal" type posts in the wild. Love this.

oh my god

vibe check: CNN now has a gas tracker on their front page

"I miss being a kid" and having every whim catered to, but while also wanting to be a narcissistic adult who ignores that other people exist.