Don Piano

Usually more of a logarithmic relationship though

Either way, keeping at it is essential

Of course it would be D&D. Playing something more interesting would require commitment to a perspective.

Paranoia would be more thematically appropriate, of course.

Ah. It’s somewhat odd for me, as my love for and of nature, as well as (and in the same vein) my ideas about human potential and dignity come from a specifically un- if not anti-spiritual place.

Something like: The material world is not only beautiful (in a fundamental way, I don’t merely mean pretty like a forest on a hill, but also beautiful like all the interconnected systems that make it a forest), but also all there is, and that is part of the reason why caring about feeling beings is important.

But yeah, we always gotta make some judgement calls on who and what we exclude and include with the terms we use.

Note: I include a love of nature, humanism, etc. under the ‘spiritual’ label, as well as traditionally religiously spiritual.

Huh. Why?

Oh no, Macie’s wife

*make the distinction

Firings and jail time.

In lieu of that, high fines and firings.

It dominates everything else, few things are further away from water than (unfermented) cucumbers.

That’s when you should expect it more. Mistaking what is and isn’t a threat creates danger, also for the family, that needn’t be there.

Germany, France

Oh hey these three (Dawk, Coyne, Pinker) were disappointments/shitty back when the atheism movement of the Aughties split into those who combine it with social justice sentiments and those who just wanna be bigots without also going to church. That tracks.

1-based indexing vs. 2-based indexing