Oceans Yet to Burn

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Anonymous asked:

why do you speak russian if you're "not a homophobe"?

sparklehime answered:

every day I get on this site and every day I think ‘maybe today will be the day that I don’t get a stupid ask’ but every day, every single day, people like you ruin that hope for me. you’ve disappointed me. you’ve disappointed your parents. you’ve disappointed your country. go away

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But what if someone is actually named Et Al?

Clearly, we must define an escape character for academic citations.

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Anonymous asked:

"God is omnipotent" clearly can't mean "God is unrestrained in His actions", I mean just look at Jesus. Why would God go through all that faff with immaculate conceptions and virgin births and whatnot if He didn't have to? Maybe God has to play by some ruleset unkown to us to keep the universe running. Thinking of it like an engine, you can't leave off, say, the intake valves to get better flow into the cylinder even if you're designing from the ground up. That's my theory, anyways.

“Our paper defines ‘omnipotent’ as ‘possessing the maximum possible administrative rights within the boundaries of the simulation-’”
- Anon-kun et al, Boundaries of the Infinite, Tumblr Journal of Experimental Philosophy Vol. VII, 2017

My steelman estimate is that, if we posit a capital-G God, even said God cannot skip steps in computation - that is, in order to find the end of existence, He must imagine it in sufficient detail such that he effectively creates it.

Of course, that still leaves a lot more room for patching and interventions, so my real estimate is that there is no God, or if there is a God, God does something like create every possible reality or some very large subset of possible realities.

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The year is 2077.

The new ultra-right-wing American Traditional Party clinches control of the government with only 35% of the vote in a divided electorate.

Their executive, President Ronald Jameson, issues an executive order reinterpreting the text of the Culturally Significant Properties Anti-Appropriation Act.

He reclassifies medieval and renaissance Europe, as well as Rome, and all derivative properties, as White European, a group which previously had no assigned cultural properties under the act.  

Chaos ensues.  Hundreds of thousands of cultural appropriation lawsuits are filed.  Challenges are made both to his interpretation, and to the unique ownership of these ideas and concepts.

But it is too late.  The Act was never designed with the proper restraints on power.  After all, the future only moves forwards, right?  And the metaphorical train of Separatism soon left the station.

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[fierceawakening]

http://sharkodactyl.tumblr.com/post/165166952339

totally, obnoxiously, horribly uncharitable:

can i want to fuck the monster girls tho

because i’m like them and they’re like me and we both need someone

[funereal-disease]

also like

“every kind of woman is sexualized”

no, they really aren’t. and the insistence that they are is very typical of a certain kind of abled feminism. the kind that insists that all women are drowning in catcalls when some women would give their left tit to be considered someone’s, anyone’s, lust object.

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@wirehead-wannabe Nah I’m pretty sure he’s serious.

Of course, I have still never seen a satisfying explanation WRT the Problem of Evil.  The whole “hey we’re going to design this system to do things we don’t want it to, and also to feel, and then exact literally infinite punishment for doing exactly what we knew it would during the design phase, even though we have literally infinite time and resources to pour into engineering” thing is likely never going to be properly answered.  “Free will,” is, as ever, a cop-out, as it has always been, especially when one controls the literal laws of the universe.

All this fussing about “God says do this” or “God says don’t do that”, combined with “God is Good”, when the option for a completely different system design from the very start was always on the table, is nonsensical.

Plus, once you’ve posited magic of that tier, nothing prevents the whole thing from being a ruse by another supernatural being instead, including any and all forms of divine revelation.

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[mitigatedchaos]

War between nation-states, or with factions willing and able to use explosions as weapons, may require explosions.

However, there is a duty to not be a complete fucking idiot about it and invade a country that had nothing to do with the explosions that happened to your country, killing thousands or more, destabilizing the region, and creating the environment suitable for the rise of a violent theocracy.

If one cannot pass this very simple hurdle, one has no business using explosions for any purpose.

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[theunnamedstranger]

Where did this rick and morty hatedom come from. It was the shit literally yesterday and now everyone hates it.

I guess the “let’s hate anything remotely popular while promoting our own edgy avant-garde bullshit fandom” crowd had to get on it someday. Because people can’t enjoy silly memey cartoons anymore.

I don’t even watch rick and morty and this pisses me off.

[mitigatedchaos]

Probably because anyone that thinks they’re a Rick is an asshole and the show is drenched in Nihilism. But that’s more about the fandom. The show’s alright.

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[argumate]

with “society hates a weak man” you could say “society hates an ugly woman”, and the discourse really is very similar.

an obvious objection would be that there are no ugly women, or that the real ugliness is moral/spiritual and not external, etc. but this is just carping: it’s easy to note that individuals and society have preferences as to appearance, and that these preferences can be exacting and weigh heavily on many women.

if someone claims that they would only date someone who meets a particular standard of appearance then they are both reflecting and contributing to an incentive gradient which is going to affect the behaviour of other people.

their preference may be attacked on various grounds: shallow, objectifying, unrealistic, or whatever, and can be defended on the grounds that attraction is not voluntary, or that “taking care of yourself” is a conscious choice.

the woman who prefers to date the man with the car and the man who prefers to date the woman with the looks are not on different sides, really.

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(Signs of disease are generally ugly, too much asymmetry, too. 

The social conditioning necessary to get around that would be pretty intense (and oppressive).)