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But at least jungle had the decency to retire once it was perfected within about 2 years of existing, whereas other stuff like 'painting', 'films' still stick around like an animatronic corpse.

I knew the States was a banana republic but good old Blighty?! https://x.com/AMustafa82234/status/1790291425155768593

It's looking like Letby's innocent, though

What would help the current generation feel better about themselves is if they created some new modes of expression, whether artistic or sporting, and then watch as people actually break new ground and new legends are created. For instance, they might be interested in the sport of Big Tennis...

Speak for yourself Mr Tea, Chai Lord of suburban Exeter. Watch out or you'll get bagged!

The most violent boroughs in London are the most anonymous and transiently peopled: City of London and Westminster.

I love Gazelle Twin

My cultural thesis was not one of decline so much as of an overbearing weight of historical achievement that no single generation can hope to live up to, even a single generation from the past.

There's a lot of evidence for anonymity leading to poor behaviour...it must be one of the reasons why we have fixed names that are close to unique identifiers; in the olden days apparently this wasn't necessarily the case.

Problem is we're comparing today's produce with the best of centuries so it's not going to be able to compete. Most art forms have reached the theoretical peak and can't get any better and the best one can do make stuff is inevitably a pastiche of previous hits.

Scott Alexander issues an extended rebuttal: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/is-there-an-illusion-of-moral-decline The paper mixes societal intra-societal with things like war - they should be treated as distinct, with the morality in question being more about the former. I've a simple...

This is what cognitive dissonance looks like.

Occam's razor dictates that all these corporeal dysphoria conditions are of the same kind, so you're current stance would then imply that there's a host of other trans identities that are being unfairly maligned.

Where did I say that one exception is the 'correct answer'? I think you've inadvertently revealed that you believe there to be only one unprincipled exception, only that you can't explain it (when you are asked to explain how one can end up in the wrong body you said nothing).

Trump is TOAST. He did not see THAT coming. Biden, the SILVER-TONGUED SORCERER. The wizard of WORDS is going to FRED ASTAIRE onto the debating stage and wipe the FLOOR with him, with his BONS MOTS and his RAPID-FIRE wit and a never-ending ARSENAL of FACTS coming at him POW POW POW!!!

Go on then, which is it?

The only thing stopping some of the riff-raff from here from doing the same is that their organisational skills fall somewhat short of their ideological fervour.

In fact two stalls down, with a crumpled Blink182 ticket still in his jeans pocket, a young @dilbert1 was listening to the 10th minute of Albert Ayler's Spiritual Unity as a fat salt tear rolled gently down his cheek. He had realised he would never be able to dig this and that admittance to the...

If someone says they have the wrong ethnicity they're told they have a brain problem. ...wrong age > brain problem ...wrong body shape > brain problem ...wrong face > brain problem but wrong sex is considered a body problem Is there one unprincipled exception or are there many?