Has anyone considered just not sharing their cam? I feel like if you’re able to take the call in your tub, they don’t actually need to see you.
Michaelson was probably an asshole and that’s why he screwed Morley out of the Nobel maybe.
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All my life I imagined Newton was this totally normal dude and right now I can’t piece together why I thought that.
Not to say being voluntarily or involuntarily celibate is some thoroughly abnormal thing, but it made me google him:
That was my exact first thought, like, I’m soaking in the tub you assholes are only getting audio.
I came across it earlier today and I’ve always thought wittgenstein was an asshole, though I’m sympathetic with his later philosophy. I read Monk’s “sympathetic” biography and confirmed my sense that Russell was too kind to him. Kind of guy who could be 100% in favor of one view and then 100% in favor of the opposite, all the while claiming anyone who disagrees is an idiot. Seemed appropriate as it was a famous physicist who wittgenstein has apparently dissed, like basically everyone else he came into contact with, including the logician/economist Frank Ramsey, a genius who died at like 26. Also, I had forgotten the extent of wittgenstein’s misogyny.
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Tesla was obviously gay but was also dashing so had to beat off ladies with a stick; that conundrum would make me afraid too.
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Newton was one of history’s most epic assholes, you should read about his rivalry with Liebinz. Also he stuck needles into his eyes and wrote about alchemy because he was a freak and a weird dude.
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The Prestige ruined Tesla. I can only imagine him as David Bowie now.
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Brings to mind the opening part of idiocracy, where the smart couple can’t ever decide the time is right to have a kid. Kant is another member of the virgin club.
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holy shit
it’s not even some pro-Newton propaganda I was subjected to or something, I just, for some reason I don’t know, thought he was very much not a freak and very weird dude
Based on what I’m learning about Newton, I dunno. Probably applies to Kant types though.
Was he gay? He was in love with a pigeon. The spectrum of human behavior is wide and maybe I’m being prudish but that’s pretty far out there.
Also, isn’t the “died a virgin” stuff based on anybody who lived before 1972 not marrying?
I was just about to ask you if you knew the pigeon story. He wasn’t in love with the pigeon in that way though, it was more a platonic camaraderie, but deeply felt.
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See the above post though, Tesla being homosexual is far from certain. It’s all based on “well he didn’t marry, so he must be celibate, also gay, also has a harem of concubine pigeons, and other weirdness that possesses the non-married” and what not.
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Newton didn’t just do alchemy and related nonsense as a casual hobby either. He allegedly considered that to be his most important life work. All the math and astronomy and stuff took a back seat to hanging out with Rosicrucians and turning lead into gold.
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Writing about alchemy probably wasn’t actually considered super weird in Newton’s day tbqh.
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Newton was more into The Bible Code anyway.
holy shit Newton, you think you know somebody
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Oddly, Leibniz was a international diplomat and lawyer and a first class philosopher. May have evan been a good dancer. More than one type of person can invent calculus.
But, alas the calculus claims another vigin:
The other blind spot concerned women. Leibniz never married and there seems to have been only one opportunity when he was around fifty for a practical arrangement of sorts. Leibniz showed only luke-warm interest. He did, however, entertain platonic friendships with women, preferably princesses or queens.
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