Category: two cents
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Infinity to Eternity
When you first learned about infinity you probably started with the idea that natural numbers are infinite and that given an eternity one could count forever. But that opens a whole bucket of philosophical slop. Most people I know believe that the universe had a beginning and that absolutely nothing existed in the eternal past.…
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They Watch Everyone
I’ve been thinking about the intersection between the US surveillance state and local surveillance. It is easy to ask questions about how much someone local is able get away with on probation. It’s harder and much more deeply personal to ask how much surveillance we will permit. When a person skirts the law and we…
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Work is Good
Work is good. Getting paid to work is even better. Being able to pay other people to work is even better than that. It’s not much of a philosophy, but Fuck Off, I do what I want. Stay Awesome, Stay Weird, or Stay Away!
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Wrong 2
I got accused of black and white thinking today for saying some things are objectively wrong. Rape is wrong no matter how many people are doing it and how a society justifies it. Slavery is objectively wrong. While 99.99% of human history is full of slaves and it has been justified by most until very…
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Hypothetical Evil
I don’t like fictional stories where evil wins. I don’t like “what ifs?” about a choice between two evil options. The real world has plenty of actual evil and bad choices. The real world has enough unsolved murder, rape, theft, and lying without making hypothetical evil. Stories that normalize people getting away with crime just…
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Botox
Stephanie got another Botox shot today. For a frame of reference this is what Wikipedia has to say about it. “Botulinum toxin, botulinum neurotoxin, or botox is a neurotoxic protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum and related species, and it is considered the deadliest known natural substance ever recorded in the chemical literature.” I…
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TV looks fake!
I’ve been watching shows from the 80s for which I have grown nostalgic. Old grainy film. Real costumes. Stephanie is watching new TV shows. And they just look fake to me. For all the miracles of modern technology I don’t think CGI is among them. It just lacks the charm of stop motion and claymation.…
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Theopneustia
Some say the Book of Mormon was plagiarized. The Church insists that it was translated. Both those explanations fail to compel me. I do not know another book in the world like the Book of Mormon except maybe the Quran. I will get to that in a second. I have an intimate knowledge of what…
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You Have 30 Seconds
I have a love hate relationship with advertisements. I grew up in the 80s. I usually got about 10 minutes of show time for a minute and a half of ads. I know what I can do for a minute and a half while I’m ignoring ads playing. Today’s ads are very often voluntary in…
Latter Day Sinner 