Logic is the wrong tool for ethics. In formal logic, you can only assign values like true or false to something called “descriptive statements”. These are statements of fact, that can be observed.

Morality deals with “prescriptive” statements. Unobservable and unstable statements about how the world ought to be.

Logic breaks down because it’s impossible to argue for something that should be using only facts about how thing are.

The prescriptive statement “it’s wrong to harm” relies on the prescriptive statement “harm is bad”. Their is no bottom to it.

Everything good about reddit is a fruit of unpaid people doing labor to help, inform, or entertain what they feel is a community. Trying to crack down on their volunteer workforce is threatening to kill the goose who lays golden eggs.

The reflexive hate for M$ is not irrational fan-boys bashing a rival, but bitterness over prolonged and profound annoyance, suffering, and downright abuse experienced through using the products produced by that dogshit company.

I switched because I wanted software that didn’t hate me and my values.

What’s irrational is the Stockholm-syndrome Windows user who thinks it’s normal and right to run software that spies, advertises, and generally treats users like a resource to be exploited.

Because of SCOTUS and their dumbass rulings, impeachment is the only remedy.

Have a cousin with a Budweiser logo on her lower back ala “tramp stamp”.

Honestly, I think it’s cringe to have any logo or IP on your body.

It is not “natural” to prefer one ethnicity over another. That’s because ethnicity isn’t a material condition that evolution could adapt to in any meaningful way.

Not to say that ethnicity isn’t meaningful as such. Boarders, sovereignty, and money are also abstract constructs that effect great influence over our lives.

It’s ironic that the design of blockchain is to be impossible to edit as security against fraud. Because crypto is famous for all the fraud, And the block-chain’s nature makes the fraud permanent and fixed.

At least one of the currencies had to fork because fraudulent transactions couldn’t be undone.

I’ve never owned a Mac, but that Mac mini puts all mid-range desktops to shame. Even a home-build on the same budget can’t compete.

Even before inflation, jerky was stupid expensive. Slim-Jims were, per-pound, more expensive than prime beef.

I called a cop “Napoleon” once. He assumed I referred to the 18^th century emperor. Not big readers, cops.

Also, history ended in 1986.

Imagine thinking neoliberal Western Democracy was the final and ultimate expression of ideology.

All you need to know about Adams is that he tried to book a flight to Rapa Nui through Turkish airlines.

That was because Turkish nationals had been buttering his toast with cheap flights all over the world.

I think it might be more about temperature differences than pressure differences. That is to say hot exhaust cools rapidly and any water vapor condenses. Some aircraft leave no contrails, depending on atmospheric conditions.

Here is a chart to predict contrails on a high-bypass jet engine

And here are aircraft leaving contrails without any jet engines

And some more leaving no contrails at all

In the early days of the regime, the federal government fired thousands of ATCs. I’m talking of course about Regan.

MAGA did not fall out of a coconut tree.

It is wise to welcome death. It is likewise foolish to wish for it.

Those blinds are super easy to replace and much cheaper than any deposit. The Landloard (or the toady and furtive maintenance man) have likely sourced those from the closest (or the second or third closest if it’s cheaper) hardware store.

If you study the mounting of the existing blinds. It’s probably pretty easy to buy a similar replacement so you won’t even have to install the mounting hardware. Your cat didn’t damage that.

the big box store can often cut blinds to fit your windows if they’re not standard size.

After the advent of DNA testing, many anthropologists and archeologists were embarrassed because skeletal remains were missexed.

Even my A&P textbook had this garbage in it. It claimed racial difference in the skull and sex difference in the Hip bones. But it’s bullshit. The most reliable way to sex a skeleton is with DNA.

‘The Mismeasure of Man’ by Gould is a fascinating history of bio-determinism and psudoscientific attempt to measure it.

Dihydrogen monoxide has a higher PH than Hydrochloric acid.

I once set the hook to “Freddie the freeloader” as the ringtone on my flip-phone. Big mistake; for years I associate that amazing song with the annoyance of answering the phone.

BASTARDS ⊃ ALL COPS