LC Thread 2020: What the PUNK? ROCK.

You are clearly not a logical positivist. Logical positivism - Wikipedia

re your edit — I was already reading that. Seems like it’s mostly about how so much of Philosophy was fuzzy and I’m with them on that. Everything is ultimately somewhat fuzzy though imo.

eta: I’m really down with “Logical positivists especially opposed Martin Heidegger’s obscure metaphysics, the epitome of what logical positivism rejected.” Hate Heidegger and he’s probably the philosopher I’ve heard the most about because a couple of my close friends in college were endlessly reading and talking about him - on the surface with some irony, but getting way too into it.

Heidegger is generally (though not universally) regarded as bullshit among philosopers. Since the 60s I’d say there’s much more of a turn toward “pragmatism”, where truth is associated more with usefulness or at least agreement among rational agents.

Logical positivism is useful and instructive and still influential, but its a bit like Ayn Rand vs Heidegger’s Marx, ie an overly conservative reaction to a flawed theory. (Note: This gives Rand way too much credit. Marx was a genius, if wrong. Rand was a fraud.)

https://twitter.com/CanPanicNow/status/1312111746497216512

Salmon-shorts Chad up to his old antics. That guy man.

What happened? Did no-one make a new Trump thread?

https://unstuckpolitics.com/t/the-presidency-of-donald-j-trump-typhoid-donny-and-the-democratic-hoax/

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I have way too many students who are down with a/cism

It’s really an ideology that draws in privileged people who have yet to experience the real world. I expect them to grow out of it just as I did.

https://twitter.com/jdcmedlock/status/1312806953647665152?s=19

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https://twitter.com/redditships/status/1312815025292271624

I feel bad for the daughter.

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Yeah. Also lol @ Mary thinking that she’s so special that they’d name her “beloved one”. She thought she was some white savior when she was really a joke.

Well-played Ethipoia.

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I couldn’t imagine telling someone I’d never met before that they named their daughter “imbecile.” I’m not sure if telling them is the right or wrong thing to do but it’s definitely something I would never do.

At the absolute most, I’d take Alice aside and tell her about the situation.

Onion

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Yep, barring some special circumstance telling her is obviously being a yemayimechi.

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Yeah I couldn’t either. I mean unless Alice and her daughter spend a lot of time chilling with Ethiopians, almost nobody’s going to know something that obscure.

Better for her to not know. Not like Alice is gonna change her daughter’s name. It’ll also give her daughter a complex about it if she finds out.

I don’t feel bad for anybody in that story because it’s fiction.

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Yeah. I guess it does sound like something r/AmITheAsshole

Also noise pollution:

Janis Joplin died on this date 50 years ago:

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She’s lucky she didn’t have to live through this shit.

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My favorite Janis Joplin story is the one where she knocks out an over-amorous Jim Morrison with a bottle of SoCo.

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