Other good points RHC made:
- Weaponized bullshit is an important propaganda tool because it spreads mistrust.
- Refuting bullshit is often more work than it is worth.
(and I'm quoting verbatim, and RHC attributes these points to Frankfurt and others.)
Another crossover person made the point, which I paraphrase: We need to have a distinction between regular bullshit and actual, propaganda, Trump-style boldfaced lies.
1 last: Why? How is president Trump bullshitting for his wall epistemically different from developer Trump bullshitting for his condos?
There's a greater risk of starting a nuclear war.
"epistemically "
I put that whole word in specifically to stop 3 from happening. You people have no respect.
From Latin epi "irrespective of" and stemically "risk of starting a nuclear war."
Got in bike accident around 5 pm. ER doc set my dislocated finger about an hour ago. Hurt like hell. Also fractured bone in elbow. While cleaning me up, they noticed that, hey, that g a s h by my eye looks pretty bad. They're planning surgery. No ETA. I'm tired.
Atossa is at a neighbor's house. We owe them big for this.
Good luck Cyrus. Will the eye scar be devilishly handsome, at least?
Holy shit, Cyrus. Hang in there. Bike accidents are terrifying.
I am consistently surprised by people who don't understand Frankfurt's point. Who think that "lying" is a form of "bullshitting". And yeah, arguing with a bullshitter is a waste of time. The only viable response is to turn to their audience and go up one meta-level, arguing that the speaker is a bullshitter, and cannot be trusted with a plug nickel.
Hard to do. Hard to succeed at. Cf. Hillary Clinton and "puppet".
(weeps)
8: Yikes. Hope everything turns out well.
Ouch Cyrus, best wishes for a speedy recovery.
He's injured and you're demanding he get back to fixing thing? Cruel.
thanks everyone.
Surgery turned out to be 3 stitches. I've had worse for cosmetic stuff, but by the time they got around to it I was so tired that I was difficult. Finally left ER after 1 am. Got 5 hours of sleep last night: Atossa woke up around the usual time, and I couldn't get back to sleep. Percocet might help but pharmacies open at 9.
the hand in the cast is my dominant one. Other that things are great.
Yow. Dominant hand in a cast is awful, as is no painkillers yet. Aren't they supposed to send you home with a couple of pills to bridge the gap until you can get your prescription filled?
AITHMHBALATOT, I played football in junior high. We were on defense and I was either a guard or a tackle. The guy next to me (who was whichever of those two things I was not), got just smashed by the running back. His arm was broken. Not only was it his dominant arm, but it was his only arm that ended in a hand.
they told me to take a double dose of ibuprofen when i got home, and i did. Don't want to take more when percocet is on the way though.
I wouldn't be surprised if they forgot to do something they should have. It seemed disorganized.
Has anybody seen my watch? I know I had it when the guy who was in the bike crash came in.
20: That isn't an opinion, it's a question.
I don't have to express on opinion in my every utterance in order to be "opinionated".
IANAD, so google to confirm, but 'cet' means it's mixed with Tylenol, not ibuprofen, right? So no worry about double-dosing. I would take all the ibuprofen you want (within reasonable dosing limits).
OT: Organic candy corn is strangely colored and tastes good, but not quite "right" for values of "right" that include what regular candy corn tastes like.
I think it's the rice syrup instead of good old HFCS.
So I'm at the Arrakis Cultural Village for a screening of Bicycle Thieves and they have this ginormous international falconry and hunting expo going on. There's got to be more than a thousand falcon here easily.
I thought the falcons had eaten it.
They had a bunch of poor houbara in glass tanks.
I bet they like to pull out their best for Rosh Hashanah's Boxing Day.
30 is much, much better not knowing at all what a houbara is or how happy it is to be in a glass tank.
Are you advising me then, not to google houbara?
I can only tell you how I achieve happiness for myself. If you find out, don't tell me.
Ok. Barry, what do you think?
A houbara is a falcon's favorite prey.
HOW ABOUT A TRIGGER WARNING YOU ASSHOLE
I joke, I'm all in favor of well-glutted falcons.
Honestly, having trapped birds for falcons to munch on doesn't seem any more cruel that cock fighting and nobody has a problem with that.
I'm thinking it would be more entertaining to release the houbara first so the falcons have to work harder. The effort would also make them leaner, fiercer embodiments of perfection.
The idea is to release them first. The falcon's did not appear to be in sight of the houbara but I can't imagine they weren't seriously stressed out.
Aside from the cars, the harems, and the falconry, being an Arabian prince sucks.
The patriarchy hurts men too. Just not very often.
On the plus side, it's down another order of magnitude again.
8.1 to 7.1 to 6.1. I guess this still counts as an aftershock.
Someday, there's going to be a last comment on the blog.
And then someone will comment that the last comment has been made.
You people have lots of offspring. It'll be fine.
Just yours and the Geeblets could keep it up on their own.
Podkayne Geebie's mother was a comment-farmer, just as her mother had been a comment-farmer, and her mother before her, all the way back to their legendary ancestress Heebie Geebie, who was Always Right. At least, that was what the Archives, patchily restored after the EMP Collapse of 2089, seemed to say. Poddy supposed she'd grow up to be a comment-farmer too - until, that is, the strange man turned up in an ekranoplan crewed by girl-ninjas and said "Get in. I need your help..."
If you want a picture of the Unfogged future, imagine a spam bot replying to a spam bot -- forever.
Thorn!!! Thanks for the shoutout on the Hemingway thread - I'd hoped to get back to it in time but got sucked into daily life stuff. I'll try and catch you at the Other Place some time this week.
Oh man, seeing Stalker on the big screen after all these years was such a spiritual experience.
Stalker: the Lavrentiy Beria Story.
Did more football players take the knee today? Any white players among them?
The I don't even own a TV, the newspaper says the Steelers stayed in the locker room until the forced patriotism was over.
8.1 to 7.1 to 6.1. I guess this still counts as an aftershock.
I'm secretly hoping Trump rails against everything that Racist-Americans (TM) say they love. Next up, I want Trump to call for boycotting Nascar, pickup trucks, Coors light, etc. I hope it doesn't end until Real Americans (TM) are stuck watching European Junior League handball, drinking Zima, and driving Vespas.
I hope it doesn't end until Real Americans (TM) are stuck...drinking Zima
Harsh, but fair.
Really on topic: It's about ethics in government email.
61: Other place works well! I'll be spending all my spare time at Children's hospital (planned, thus fine!) this week and messages help pass the time.