I meet people on apps, at kink clubs, at furry meetups, in political action groups…

And honestly, people you like and are interested in become way more attractive as you get to know them. Only dating people who are hot enough that you want to boink them on first sight really limits your options and you’ll miss out on some great people.

This is like something out of Vienna in 1917.

Big tip if that was my driver.

As a literal blue haired trans lesbian, 🤜🏻🤛🏻

The dedication in the front of the book is “For all the monster girls out there, ND Stevenson”.

Do they contradict themself? Very well, they contradict themself.

Yes. The book is for monster girls.

The movie is about monster girls, and I hated the ending so much

Popper is considered an important historical contributor by the field, in the same way that Jacob Lister might be in surgery. Groundbreaking but their methods have been replaced.

Jeffrey Kaplan is the best current philosophy lecturer on YouTube imo. He focuses more on theories of consciousness but covers epistemology too. Bryan Magee did a fantastic interview series called The Great Philosophers that’s on YouTube.

I would actually start with sociology of science if you want the most interesting contemporary stuff. Harry Collins is fantastic, check out his recent book on LIGO. Steven Shapin’s book on the Scientific Revolution is good.

Bruno Latour is a love-him-or-hate-him figure in science studies (I love him). “Laboratory Life” and “Science in Action” are great reads imo.

I used my philosophy of science classwork all the time in my engineering career.

What constitutes proof? What kinds of questions can you answer with data? When do we consider a pattern of behavior to represent the existence of some entity?

Being able to think about these kinds of questions with clarity is really helpful in diagnosing problems in large systems.

I do not like that look at all. 😄 Listen to your wife.

And they keep telling me I need to vote for them so they can kill me a little slower.

Ooh then have someone describe OCD symptoms and it gets really fun

Also entirely possible.

He might have thought you were romantically interested in him, wasn’t interested, and didn’t know how to communicate that without being worried he might offend you.

There’s this concept of a relationship escalator and everybody rightly shits on how much it fucks things up on the back end of erotic relationships.

But in pretty much every kind of new relationship, whether it’s business, friendship, family, or romance, people expect to increase their commitments gradually, in coordination with the other person.

Yes, this means that most people looking to make new friends and lovers expect you to act a little less excited about getting to know them than you actually are. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Oh, many many of them.

Sometimes text-mode, sometimes fundamental-mode, sometimes picture-mode, tex-mode, ess-mode…

I still use emacs

🫂

Mama Bear hug.

I have a 6a, installed GrapheneOS though the web tool, very happy.

GrapheneOS puts Play Services in a sandbox so it’s no longer rooted. You can restrict what parts of your filesystem each app has access to very strictly.

For now people still send me emails on Gmail, so I still have Gmail installed, but very limited permissions.

It’s a huge improvement.

You can also start sessions that entirely shut down Play Services so you’re living entirely with FOSS products.

I’m not quite there yet because I still use maps and drive and photos. Gonna figure out replacements, unfortunately nobody else has the traffic and live rerouting that Google maps does, even if you are willing to pay.

If you’ve got a pixel, highly recommend. If you have a different relatively recent phone check out lineage or e/os.

Penises don’t have bones in them, overall body size is a poor indicator of penis size.

AI slop