Pittsburghers watching New Yorkers going to vote for Zohran

Look, it's the White House.

What voting feels like in America

To people who want a Trump-like bully just on the blue team instead of the red team: be more punk rock.

Not gonna lie, this is still a huge L for Hasan and Mamdani. Not because of this weird, “You shouldn’t buy water” framing, but just because Liquid Death sucks and we should be doing all we can to stop its hostile takeover of the sparkling water section of store shelves.

“In fact one is tempted to ask whether there is a single man left ready, for once, to commit an outrageous folly.”
-Søren Kierkegaard, The Present Age

@fetterman.senate.gov What is the important job that ICE does? Name it.

What do we think? Do I make a break for it and try to swim north to Canada, Land of Freedom?

Me telling myself that I’m really going to focus on reading Hegel this year and then getting distracted by other philosophers:

Current reading material.

Who has any good takes/thoughts/analysis/criticisms on Hegel?

#Hegeluary

Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?

The callback in Talos Principle II to the "frogs are people too" option from the first game is hilarious, but I do kind of want to have that discussion. I remember being told growing up that animals aren't people, but it also seems weird how weird people find the concept of animal personhood.

I had two objectives going in.
1: Just finish.
2: I knew I wasn’t going to be anywhere near the top, but it would be kind of nice to not be dead last.
So I consider this an absolute victory.
fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR?px=8...

I don’t want to turn my social media profile into one of those “broicism” accounts. But before I move on from the stoics, there is a section from Epictetus’s Discourses that I like which I think may be relevant right now.

Book 1, Chapter 18: That We Ought Not to Be Angry with the Errors of Others