What are your numbers supposed to mean? From your article:

Prior to the debate, a New York Times/Siena College poll released Sept. 28 found Midwestern voters prefer Walz to Vance: Walz was viewed favorably by 44% of voters and unfavorably by 41%, while Vance was viewed favorably by 42% of voters and unfavorably by 48%.

So 44% like Walz, 42% like Vance. 41% dislike Walz, 48% dislike Vance. Comparing 42 and 41 is comparing two different things

Walmart+ ?? Is that a joke?

Agreed. Someone also made this little graphic to demonstrate how nit-picky it is. The discussion in this thread is also about how we should be critiquing his claims about why egg prices are the way they are.

https://lemm.ee/comment/15021404

Punctuation still leaves a lot to be desired though

I said that??

Yes and no. As with most things, it’s more complicated than that. While it’s true that not many philosophers would claim to be “pure” nihilists, instead opting to qualify their position, there are nihilists who do have a very doomer outlook so to speak.

This is why in the article you linked, nihilism is qualified as “optimistic”. This kind of nihilism is often associated with Nietzsche and later as your article mentioned, Sartre. Though I’m not sure Sartre would say he was a nihilist; Sartre was a huge figure for the existentialists. However, the two movements have a lot in common and one could argue that optimistic nihilism and existentialism are close enough to be considered the same thing. I am aware of some scholars who consider, for example, Nietzsche to be an early existentialist. It must be noted, however, that the optimistic qualification is of utmost importance. Nihilism says flatly that there is no meaning, existentialism says that we are able to decide what is meaningful.

Anyway, this is all to say that Nihilism (with a capital N) is a pretty pessimistic and “doomer” idea to have. Nietzsche himself argued that the solution to nihilism was to destroy all interpretations of the world so that we can start from zero and hopefully realize some actual meaning. Perhaps my understanding of doomer is wrong, but from where I’m standing, nihilism and doomerism are pretty much the same thing. Different flavours of nihilism will produce different conclusions about this connection.

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”

-Nietzsche

I think everyone should probably read The Second Amendment: A Biography by Michael Waldman

A cropped version of this photo is in the article

Call it a draw since the cancer dies with you.

Yeah I wish the dev accepted donations. Ublock makes my life so much better and I have a hard time being online without it. That’s something I’d gladly donate to. You can donate to the maintainers of the block-lists though

I don’t smoke anymore either, but when I did I bought pure cotton filters that were biodegradable in case they left the bin somehow.

This might work for me. I’ll take a look at everything you’ve laid out when I have some down time. Thank you.

I’ll have to take a look at these packages and see if I can make it work for me. How do you handle exporting to PDF or other workable formats (e.g. Word) for use by other faculty or students? Further, how does your formatting within emacs hold up for publishers? Thanks for the response here, it is the most helpful.

Probably fucked it up trying to use all the keyboard combinations.

Joking! I like emacs better than vim for coding, but does anyone have any good text editors for essay writing? I work in academia and need something like a word processor, not a text editor (I work in philosophy and latex isn’t great for this. Maybe in a maths setting, but not for philosophy and not for me). So far onlyoffice is the best I’ve found, but I’d like something that fits in with my hyprland setup nicely, and only office doesn’t.

Believe it or not, kids these days are using Instagram dms over Whatsapp

I’d say mostly practical reasons. It’s hard to get everyone in your contacts list to switch to Signal or other options. WhatsApp is so widely used that it’s hard to eliminate it completely without losing touch with friends or family. We’re trying, and hopefully with time enough people will switch that WhatsApp can fall to the wayside

Recognizes error, clarifies nothing

And this is what Americans hide in their galette des rois lmao

It’s not rude. I say youse.