Thou shalt be known as SuperZutsuki the Callipygian.

Zero essential workers

Janssen Pharmaceutica, a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Beerse, Belgium, and wholly-owned by Johnson & Johnson.

LebensBraun!

Everyone knows that Eva Braun died in Hitler's bunker. What this book presupposes is . . . maybe she didn't?

Audrey Rouget : What Jane Austen novels have you read?

Tom Townsend : None. I don't read novels. I prefer good literary criticism. That way you get both the novelists' ideas as well as the critics' thinking. With fiction I can never forget that none of it really happened, that it's all just made up by the author.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BATPzXjmV_s)

I wouldn't say it approaches the mystical, but I think you might enjoy James Bridle's New Dark Age. Here's a series of his essays where he attempted to photograph every surveillance camera in London.

Maybe you'll find some interesting (and some too-far-gone) stuff at /r/sorceryofthespectacle?

I had so many arguments with people in 2021/2 after we started socializing again where they'd do the classic "The kind of thing that's probably happening in China" and I'd say "You mean the kind of thing that's definitely happening in America", and they'd say, "Damn, that sounds like something that would happen in China."

Happy for Al Horford and @HarryLime@hexbear.net

That's how mine went in December. Paxlovid helped, albeit not with the nausea.

Decades of migraine experience has led me to learn that there's a 20-minute window after you vomit where you'll get the good endorphins and have a good chance of putting your affairs in order - i.e., have a few sips of water, get a fresh ice pack, find the most comfortable position, focus on your breathing. If you can pass out then you have a good chance of being significantly less nauseated when next you awaken and you can Saltine yourself back to life.

Sure thing

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Last night of the season! (Probably.)

Londoners solemnly intoning "1"

Jón showed little interest in politics prior to his bout with syphilis.

Many such cases.

“I mean, being kind of a young guy in Washington, where the average age is probably 60 or 70 – you know, I look at all these people, a lot of them that I’ve looked up to through my life – I’ve always paid attention to politics.

“Then all of the sudden you get invited to, ‘Well, hey, we’re going to have kind of a sexual get together at one of our homes, you should come.’

“I’m like, ‘What did you just ask me to come to?’ And then you realise they are asking you to come to an orgy.”

The Republican also claimed: “You know, some of the people that are leading on the movement to try and remove addiction in our country and then you watch them do, you know, a key bump of cocaine right in front of you and it’s like, ‘Wow, this is wild.’”

Oh we sing this song to

A great tomorrow

Oh we sing this song to

Abolish sorrow

I thought this was going to be for SF's MUNI transit but I went to muni.org and it's Anchorage, Alaska's website, where the first link is to "Report a Homeless Camp."

Yes, even if you know for a fact that you'll reject both of them. They're too important for everything else that happens in continental philosophy. Almost everyone else is responding to them or interpreting them in different ways.

For Heidegger: you can get away with only reading the first division of Being and Time but I'd also prioritize "The Origin of the Work of Art" and "The Question Concerning Technology," among other pieces included in Heidegger's Basic Writings. Even if your main question as a reader is "What's fashy about this ostensibly non-political text?" it's important. I'm not going to claim it's necessary for everyone to read him, but since you're interested in philosophy, you're already researching existentialism, and you presumably have mountains of leftist books on your reading list that have been influenced, implicitly or explicitly, by Heidegger's thought - yes, you should read him.

Re: Husserl: I know a few people who've read him and I don't know if any of them recommend the experience. The folk I know who are into phenomenology are much more fond of Merleau-Ponty.

For Nietzsche: Genealogy of Morals is his most straightforward and necessary text. The Birth of Tragedy is great; The Gay Science and Beyond Good and Evil are at least fun to flip through; Twilight of the Idols is an underrated starting point. There are good reasons to loathe Nietzsche and his influence but he's an absolute all-timer as a writer and aphorist, and if he says something deeply horrible he probably has something that says the exact opposite elsewhere in his corpus. There are lots of ways to read him. For example, he's obviously a misogynist but there are books out there that offer feminist interpretations of him. Is this ridiculous? Maybe. But there's a reason he inspires such contortionist versatility in his readers. He contains multitudes.

For Cioran: my favorite is a A Short History of Decay. His first book, written in Romanian, On the Heights of Despair, is frequently excellent. If you've read even a bit of Nietzsche you'll see where Cioran gets it from. I don't know where else to go for nihilist thinkers, but Eugene Thacker, who does some Cioran introductions, has a book on pessimism (Infinite Resignation) that might direct you to others.

He mentions Europe "plunged into chaos by migration" and may have a few other chuddy asides, but everything he actually focuses on is good and important.

Our legitimate questions were answered with excuses, claiming that no one was planning to attack Russia and that NATO expansion was not directed against Russia. Promises made to the Soviet Union and then to Russia in the late '80s and early '90s about not including new members into the bloc were conveniently forgotten. If remembered at all, it was mockingly said that these assurances were verbal and thus non-binding.

We have consistently, in the 90s and later, pointed out the errors of the course chosen by Western elites, not just criticized and warned but proposed alternatives, constructive solutions, emphasized the importance of developing a mechanism for European and global security that would satisfy everyone – I want to emphasize, everyone.

. . .

Sometimes it seems that ruling European politicians and eurobureaucrats are more afraid of falling out of favor with Washington than losing the trust of their own people, their own citizens. Recent elections to the European Parliament also show this. European politicians swallow humiliation, rudeness, and scandals involving surveillance of European leaders, while the US simply uses them for its own interests . . .