pretty much. on the bright side it may be easier to compete in the job market if i have unique and special skills like literacy

*an education

it seems at best neutral, and at worst actively cruel not to speak up. and at the cost of what? upsetting a couple of cis guys

this is because it takes 15 hours, not because its a bad game, it's a fantastic game.

I was gesturing at the idea that the two aren't linked but it took me a while to work out why compatibilism was still feeling unsatisfying.

when i was a first year and learned what compatibilism was I was sympathetic to it because it correctly pointed out that the truth of determinism has no effect on the truth of free will. More recently I realised that this is because my intuition is incompatibilist.

if space is stuff and space is expanding, where is the new stuff coming from?

space is a relational property of stuff

well, that certainly is convicing

you're an aToothFairyist? Well then, explain who puts the money under my pillow when I lose a tooth

If you want something more general, I like Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy. Each chapter is on a given person and if I remember correctly you can pick and choose who you'd like to read about, the chapters only lightly build on one another.

for stoicism and absurdism specifically, I'd say go straight to the source and read Aurelius' Meditations, and Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus. You won't get everything on the first pass but they're both fairly readable.

well, you are now retroactively correct, so well done I suppose.

forcing my partner to learn the violin so i can do this

have you considered a non binary gender identity