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Also every maintenance person and mechanic has kitty litter in a closet somewhere because it’s great for cleaning up oil spills

The question is stated underneath the title in the image. But yeah I think depending on how you explain the policy the answers would be more polarized

Damn I’m gonna steal this

I like the way you describe it.

Better than the thesis/antithesis/synthesis model, which I think was a major roadblock in my attempts to actually understand hegel/marx.

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Really sorry to hear that. Linktr.ee/buymasks has some resources that may be useful to you (mostly at the bottom after all the mask links). Looks like Walgreens might still offer free tests, if you have one nearby.

Fine line between adopting a new combination without sounding like a redditor

Badposting is that way —>

When I heard about gmg years ago I blew it off as probably just a boring gimmick, but after 84 posts you’ve finally changed my mind.

So many of them go from milquetoast drivel to legitimately funny simply by removing one of the most boring main characters ever designed.

The bleed a stone method is more successful as a primary strategy in my experience. guess I’ll die is a great backup strategy though, right behind the adventure time gambit.

Based

Jesus Christ just gonna stop eating I guess

undermined their imperative power.

Maybe this is me being a vulgar materialist but on a larger scale I think ethical considerations are mostly normative and derived from power relations, and superstructural. There’s a strong tension to define right and wrong around whatever material/class interests are at play.

It’s good that there’s people thinking about ethics and trying to hash out detailed and coherent models and whatnot, but I think for most if not all people ethics is gonna be very vibey and dynamic, maybe instinctive or intuitive.

Which meshes, I think, with your final statement. Actually-existing ethics isn’t particularly scientific nor mathematical. Imo it’s constantly being produced between people at every level of relationship, and philosophical models are tools that help us communicate and hone in on ethical concepts, perhaps identify contradictions and power dynamics.

I don’t think any theoretical model is gonna be able to perfectly describe the complexities of human ethics, let alone prescribe “good” actions in broad strokes. But any of them might be useful lenses to judge a situation by.

Utilitarianism is useful (ha) in situations like the prisoner’s dilemma, where a selfish action results in less overall benefit than a non-selfish action, despite potentially resulting in more personal benefit. Most of us won’t face the exact prisoner’s dilemma, but there’s frequently decisions to be made with a similar structure:

Some task has to be done, neither I nor my roommate want to do it. But I know it’s harder for my roommate to do (for whatever reason) so the utilitarian action would be to do it myself because that results in less misery than if my roommate did it.

I have a pizza. Theoretically I could eat the whole pizza, but the second and third slices aren’t nearly as enjoyable as the first. So sharing the pizza with other people maximizes overall utility at the cost of marginal personal utility.

I gain omnipotence and decide to construct a universe where one person is tortured for all eternity to avoid a billion trillion gazillion people from ever getting an eyelash stuck in their eyes. This maximizes utility because a billion trillion gazillion times negative 0.01 utils outweighs 1 times negative 1000 utils.

I completely agree wrt +100, unfortunately I doubt there’s funding for a sort of “dropping you in the middle/aftermath of the story” concept movie.

But in another world that’d probably be the best and only way to truly adapt anything in the Crossed universe. Zombie apocalypse is already well-understood by everyone in the audience, so a 5-10 minute montage showing the event and explaining the rules, then fast forward to the good shit.

Sucker for anything zombie related unfortunately.

iirc any violence served an actual narrative purpose rather than being there merely for juvenile shock value. So probably toned down a bit, but not in a way that felt out of place by diminishing the grotesque brutality of the Crossed universe.

Having read all of them, I think the only good one is the one by Alan Moore.

Overdetermination is such a useful concept, should probably be taught earlier in Marxist education.

Lmao @ the smug person on their way to get crucified

One of the funniest kellies in a while

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