All Cats Are Bananas
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bananahandcuff retweeted
im a "legal realist" in terms of the taxonomy of views, i think that if you pick the right hermeneutic you can make a text say whatever you want it to say, so the only thing that matters is the power of the networks that put judges on the court who think in one way or another
bananahandcuff retweeted
so what? that's just politics. right now society is using coercion to make me share ends about all sorts of things. some of them i really dislike, like how much carbon people are allowed to dump into the atmosphere and all the military support the US provides to israel
bananahandcuff retweeted
"There is no better place for hiding a secret than an unfinished novel."
- Italo Calvino
bananahandcuff retweeted
the most fundamentally anti-intellectual attitude it is possible to have is the attitude of "reverence for great minds." if you're feeling reverent you aren't being intellectual. just a direct contradiction
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It’s my birthday today!
I’d be glad if you shared this post with my arts :))
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I love consequences in RPGs until all my companions confront me at the same time because I’ve been sleeping with all of them behind each other’s backs.
bananahandcuff retweeted
Hence cycling for me. You need >3000 Kcal for a good life, otherwise no wine no bottarga no organ food no fermented cheese no head cheese no pork ribs no kebbe no croissants w/extra Irish butter no manousheh no tripes no steak tartare no boeuf bourguignon no baba au rhum...
If you try to eat less than ~2,500 kcal/d, you're *supposed to be* hungry.
Man just wasn't built to live off <2,500 kcal/d.
From an evolutionary standpoint, here's how it's supposed to work...
Caloric intake falls, paleolithic man sitting around fire gets hungry.
This hunger motivates him to *move*...
Sometimes over very long distances in search of food.
Trying to ignore or suppress this signal (or the resultant outcome -> extended movement) is suppressing the natural biological balance of your body.
Hunger -> Move -> Find food.
This is the natural satiety cycle.
bananahandcuff retweeted
2/ Academics & intellectuals are courtiers at heart. They bow to patrons. This runs back 3000 years.
Even the lefties are conformists in a certain social structure.
I happened to be ferociously independent and have f***you money. This makes patrons uncomfortable. More stories.
bananahandcuff retweeted
Michael Tracey substack drafts: Have you ever considered that the congressional page boys and teenage wrestlers gave consent to the ephebophile Dennis Hastert?
bananahandcuff retweeted
worth considering what this says about the republican ideal of liberty, equality, and "fraternity"
Okay I had severely underestimated the extent to which fraternities—in all their scorched earth endlessly perpetuated toxic masculinity—run the United States. celestemdavis.substack.com/p…
bananahandcuff retweeted
Thats because it is a theological discipline not a scientific one
Economics is the *only* scientific field in which the concentration of institutional affiliations of award-winning researchers (i.e., more winners at top universities) has increased over time.nber.org/papers/w35875
bananahandcuff retweeted
"AI alignment" will never be fully solved because embedding norms into a system of natural language isn't an engineering problem. that's a problem of jurisprudence!
bananahandcuff retweeted
Most ppl in academia are rooting for u to fail. This is esp. true if you’re smart. Ppl assume everyone in academia is smart, but that is a misnomer. Being actually smart brings out the most diabolical aspects of colleagues. U know this bc they do insane things when u do not fail.
bananahandcuff retweeted
Wait to be clear tho I’m talking about boasting as recognized poetry not just being a poet and bragging about it. Like boasting as a historical form of poetry