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The year is 2024. If you want to learn how to do something, there are literal centuries of video you can find on YouTube and watch to pick up the basics and get started.

You decide to learn about investing and the stock market. You are a reasonably smart individual. You know that there are millions of hours of videos on YouTube you can watch to learn about investments. You also know that 99% of them are bullshit. Your main source of easily finding tutorials is filled with scam artists finance conspiracies and con men on this specific topic, and you are basically fucked

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yea

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shapeshifting attempts

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this girl shows up when there is an error on my mixer and I just want to let her to know that I'm not mad at her

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ELECTRODE FROM POKÉMON STADIUM

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i guess the thing for me is that like. if you want to put an end to domestic abuse you have to be open to rethinking prisons, wage labour and the family unit. like if you're gonna drill down and really get to grips with what abuse and compulsion actually mean and prevent them wherever they arise, then that puts a lot of how our society is organised under scrutiny.

i'll exemplify. we have a society where it is acceptable to have an employment relationship that makes people think "well i don't want to be here, but because of economic forces i am forced to be comply". as long as we have that sort of society, we will also have romantic and sexual relationships where people think "well i don't want to be here, but because of economic forces i am forced to comply".

it's the same thing! we consider it acceptable for the market to force people to do things they don't want to do. that's the basis of our present society. and as long as that is the basis of our society, we will have situations where the market forces women to stay with their shitty boyfriends.

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This is, like, a very entry-level point, probably, but one thing that I've been wondering is how much consequentialism actually is its own thing vs. an extrapolation of principle

Because, like, the reason why you have an outcome in mind is because you consider it desirable, and why do you consider it desirable? Is picking a hypothetical consequence even possible without a framework of reference that eventually boils down to "this is irreducibly more worthwhile than that"? Is the difference essentially how much you're willing to be flexible and extrapolative about a principle?

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Look at this nascent researcher! They look so earnest!

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emptying the vault before i start twilight

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Saturn Devouring His Son if it were a Draw The Squad meme from 2014

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not “oh my god it’s just a tv show” as in you are not allowed to find genuine joy and form a true connection to fiction, but “oh my god it’s just a tv show” as in, if it legitimately stresses you out and impacts your mood when things don’t happen exactly the way you want them to, and it causes you to lash out at other - real - people, maybe you need to take a massive step back.

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I've been thinking again and again about the weird nature of the self, like. How much can you change about yourself and how how much of that has kind of already been predetermined by how much you want to change and in what direction in the first place. I dunno. Been a weird week in the ol' noggin

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watched nausicaa recently. love these guys

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please do not engage i am better as a concept

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Phantom of the Paradise Out of Touch THURSDAY

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Protip: you can think whatever you want about something, often largely inconsequential, and take a sort of bizarre, perverse quasi-satisfaction in outwardly accepting all sorts of very reasonable arguments in favor of a different opinion while withholding a different one that nobody will ever judge or critique because they simply do not know it exists coiled inside your mind

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Letely I feel like I'm beachcombing my own brain with a little metal detector. It's weird and hard to explain