Haven't seen it yet, so not sure where Dune 1 cuts off... but boy are we going to be conflicted when the scrappy Paul Atreides unleashes Muad'Dib... FREEDOM!
That was genius... the joke emerges like a sunrise, but not the less for seeing it coming... in fact it makes the enjoyment of it better for seeing it.
Yeah, that's what makes it unsatisfying; he isn't really fighting the politburo as making an appeal to just get along so we can all get back to fighting white people. The deflection was declined and the submission incomplete. I mean, they even rejected his offer to kick the imperialist Jews. These are not reasonable people you can negotiate with.
Preoccupied. He was attempting to do a comedy special while preoccupied with something else.
I guffawed a few times (the J&J joke got me as well as a handful of others)... his delivery is still first rate. But mostly its a long slow capitulation to the thing he says he's not capitulating to. That it is unsatisfactory to the folks he's not capitulating to, doesn't surprise me. It reminded me of the Aziz Ansari attempt at not capitulating on stage. Unfunny and mostly unsuccessful. But I'd give it two thumbs up.
Our property shares a long border with the Norfolk Southern... I think the house is far enough away from the tracks that we're safe (more or less) from the kinetic energy of a catastrophic derailment... but yeah, toxic chemical release and we're gonners. Fortunately it seems that 90% of the freight is intermodal containers and dry goods; but if you don't hear from me after an incident at the Virginia Inland Port ... remember me fondly.
Regarding Joan of Arc, I get the rhetorical use... but kinda feel like she gets side-swiped in the Anarcho-Communist-Enviro usage... not simply because of the politics, but because she was fundamentally aligned with the apparatus of the state against another state. Now, Ashli Babbitt? Closer. If Babbitt had survived, I'm confident she would have been abandoned at some point by Trump to her fate... so sure, maybe a little tenuous, but I could see that one working. Commentary brought to you by the Catholic Rhetorical Devices Society.
We planted a small apple orchard about a decade ago... a mix of three types that ripen early, middle, late season. Unfortunately the orchard has not thrived and without significant spraying against various fungi and pests it's not going to. However, we do get a whopping number of small, misshapen, pocked but tasty apples each year.
And since we're the type of foodies who don't mind weird less than perfect fruits nor grinding up a few bugs for a greater cause, we got an apple crusher and press and made hard cider.
It is not very good (wrong types of apples, and, well, maybe the bugs), but it's dry, drinkable and doggonnit it's ours.
Lady Marchmaine and I are going to see the other movie this weekend... Bond and his adventures in HR Workplace approved romance (from what I hear). Will see Dune in a couple/few weeks when the crowds die down. I'm glad it's going to be more than a single movie - it has to be - but I still maintain that the Plot of Dune isn't as important as the inner monologue of Dune... so, I'm expecting a plot movie with just enough exposition to make sense, but not enough to make it thought provoking.
Yes, it was interesting to me to see that there are ongoing debates and books from the aughts and even the teens hammering out the formal logic. But for me, formal logic is the area of the map specifying there be dragons.
Since you bring up James (man, those Gifford Lectures have really turned-out interesting works) ... his section on Mysticism (p.369++) is worth reading... it covers Christian and non-Christian mysticism and it's initial tone is somewhat different than the first 400 pages of what we might call 'supernatural' experiences... things that happen TO people vs. things that are DONE by people and are repeatable. Not easy and not by many, but not unstudied.
In fact, even popularizer Michael Pollan is jumping in the game with his psychedellics and pondering the connection between altered conscious states and mysticism - which is not to say that I think Mystics are using psychedellics, but that they are able to alter conscious consciously.
Now... in all Religious settings I'm passing familiar with, Mysticism and its practices are recognized as potentially dangerous and 'regulated' with important guidance and instruction. I believe this is wisdom that is real and learned through very hard experience. It's not woo woo to be undertaken lightly.
That said, I anticipate further 'Scientific study of Mysticism' if that makes sense, and while I don't expect it to prove anything, I expect it to sort of, well, mystify.
I think a strong case could be made for locking those sorts of people up... I'm not saying (exactly) that the arguments are circular, but that some Axioms Are-that-they-Are. And when logicians/mathematicians go after them, they founder on this nexus. Such that Plantinga (with whom I overlapped at ND, and had the pleasure of knowing casually and understanding not at all) takes a somewhat nuanced position that the rationality of the logic is the proof itself... not the proof.
And I'm sure I'm butchering that for professionals, but good enough for a combox.
Counter-intuitively, perhaps, I've always felt the ontological arguments will always be recursive (maybe not the right mathematical description given their use of formal logic, but let's say recursive in that ontology presupposes ontology); the existential contemplation of Nothingness common across several different Religious Philosophies is an interesting area of conflict and mystery.
"First Cause likely stems from Physics and ergo is not sentient, benevolent, nor interested in me any more than the other laws of Physics."
This itself is an unscientific statement.
In the event that this is, in fact, a simulation, then Physics itself is derived from sentience; whether it is also benevolent or interested in you beyond a statistical interest is speculation.
Now, whence the simulators and why the simulators, we have no idea; but worse, how are we to assume the the physics we apprehend apply to them? Or put another way, what if our physics is the tiniest derivative that they could think to program as a representative of their horribly incomplete understanding of PHYSICS?
Part of which is to say, you are epistemologically wrong in that we can even apprehend how much we *can't* understand about PHYSICS with our derivative Physics. The tools to go beyond Physics to PHYSICS aren't even in the program/simulation.
This isn't "God of the Gaps" this is Philosophy of Science. Or, your notion of Physics is filling in Gaps you can't measure, nor ever will. Which in the end is a sort of infinite regression argument for Physics that the simulation will be updated by the simulators who have their simulation updated by the ultimate knowers of PHYSICS.
And, if the simulation theory is simply silly; then we really have no idea what we're even on about.
He'll only have Frack you money... gave up the full F*ck you money.
When we're talking about spending at those levels, we're not really talking operational costs but investments that might indeed have to be unwound. Obviously he's heading for fewer $$ than if he didn't leave, but I expect he negotiated the right amount to manage the unwinding process.
"but it wouldn’t have been strong enough to fell an actual tree of any substantial size"
This is rather my point, no? That plus having to work in the woods for hours at a time. I get it, I have simple electric tools for 'little' jobs. Not all jobs are little and my experience with electric tools suggests that they don't scale. I mean, the torque required for the common electric power drill is manageable and that seems to be the sweet-spot.
That's why I simply assume that we're not hearing about all the exemptions... because if they aren't there now, they will be.
On “Dune: What I’d Wanted For Almost 35 Years, Finally Here”
That's what I'll be looking for when I see it... how does it handle Paul, Maud'Dib, and the Preacher. And, well... you know.
I don't really think Herbert handles that very well, tbh, the enormity of it all sort of made it impossible... too big to process.
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Haven't seen it yet, so not sure where Dune 1 cuts off... but boy are we going to be conflicted when the scrappy Paul Atreides unleashes Muad'Dib... FREEDOM!
Erm.
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Amongst our weaponry...
I sometimes wonder if Herbert missed on his futurology thinking it would be based on religion, prophesy, messiahs and sex/eugenics.
Turns out, maybe the future he wanted to study was captured in the Butlerian Jihad.
On “We Need To Talk About The Dave Chappelle Netflix Thing, Like We Did The Last Dave Chappelle Thing”
That was genius... the joke emerges like a sunrise, but not the less for seeing it coming... in fact it makes the enjoyment of it better for seeing it.
"
Yeah, that's what makes it unsatisfying; he isn't really fighting the politburo as making an appeal to just get along so we can all get back to fighting white people. The deflection was declined and the submission incomplete. I mean, they even rejected his offer to kick the imperialist Jews. These are not reasonable people you can negotiate with.
On “Derailed: Performative Nihilism and Critical Infrastructure Attacks On The Railroads”
But they are *our* tyrants... we prefer them to your tyrants.
On “We Need To Talk About The Dave Chappelle Netflix Thing, Like We Did The Last Dave Chappelle Thing”
Preoccupied. He was attempting to do a comedy special while preoccupied with something else.
I guffawed a few times (the J&J joke got me as well as a handful of others)... his delivery is still first rate. But mostly its a long slow capitulation to the thing he says he's not capitulating to. That it is unsatisfactory to the folks he's not capitulating to, doesn't surprise me. It reminded me of the Aziz Ansari attempt at not capitulating on stage. Unfunny and mostly unsuccessful. But I'd give it two thumbs up.
On “Weekend Plans Post: The Smearing of Autumn”
I think we've all learned that the first trilogy is just the set-up for the fan-fic prequels anyway.
On “Albums That Changed Everything versus Albums That You Can Still Listen To”
Isn't that Nirvana just a Foo Fighters origin story?
Sorry, I skipped the 90s... in fact, as you note above, it reminded me too much of the 70s, but *not* in the good way.
On “Derailed: Performative Nihilism and Critical Infrastructure Attacks On The Railroads”
Our property shares a long border with the Norfolk Southern... I think the house is far enough away from the tracks that we're safe (more or less) from the kinetic energy of a catastrophic derailment... but yeah, toxic chemical release and we're gonners. Fortunately it seems that 90% of the freight is intermodal containers and dry goods; but if you don't hear from me after an incident at the Virginia Inland Port ... remember me fondly.
Regarding Joan of Arc, I get the rhetorical use... but kinda feel like she gets side-swiped in the Anarcho-Communist-Enviro usage... not simply because of the politics, but because she was fundamentally aligned with the apparatus of the state against another state. Now, Ashli Babbitt? Closer. If Babbitt had survived, I'm confident she would have been abandoned at some point by Trump to her fate... so sure, maybe a little tenuous, but I could see that one working. Commentary brought to you by the Catholic Rhetorical Devices Society.
On “Weekend Plans Post: The Smearing of Autumn”
We planted a small apple orchard about a decade ago... a mix of three types that ripen early, middle, late season. Unfortunately the orchard has not thrived and without significant spraying against various fungi and pests it's not going to. However, we do get a whopping number of small, misshapen, pocked but tasty apples each year.
And since we're the type of foodies who don't mind weird less than perfect fruits nor grinding up a few bugs for a greater cause, we got an apple crusher and press and made hard cider.
It is not very good (wrong types of apples, and, well, maybe the bugs), but it's dry, drinkable and doggonnit it's ours.
Lady Marchmaine and I are going to see the other movie this weekend... Bond and his adventures in HR Workplace approved romance (from what I hear). Will see Dune in a couple/few weeks when the crowds die down. I'm glad it's going to be more than a single movie - it has to be - but I still maintain that the Plot of Dune isn't as important as the inner monologue of Dune... so, I'm expecting a plot movie with just enough exposition to make sense, but not enough to make it thought provoking.
On “Obsolete Philosophy: The Role of Revelation in Religious Epistemology”
Yes, it was interesting to me to see that there are ongoing debates and books from the aughts and even the teens hammering out the formal logic. But for me, formal logic is the area of the map specifying there be dragons.
"
Since you bring up James (man, those Gifford Lectures have really turned-out interesting works) ... his section on Mysticism (p.369++) is worth reading... it covers Christian and non-Christian mysticism and it's initial tone is somewhat different than the first 400 pages of what we might call 'supernatural' experiences... things that happen TO people vs. things that are DONE by people and are repeatable. Not easy and not by many, but not unstudied.
In fact, even popularizer Michael Pollan is jumping in the game with his psychedellics and pondering the connection between altered conscious states and mysticism - which is not to say that I think Mystics are using psychedellics, but that they are able to alter conscious consciously.
Now... in all Religious settings I'm passing familiar with, Mysticism and its practices are recognized as potentially dangerous and 'regulated' with important guidance and instruction. I believe this is wisdom that is real and learned through very hard experience. It's not woo woo to be undertaken lightly.
That said, I anticipate further 'Scientific study of Mysticism' if that makes sense, and while I don't expect it to prove anything, I expect it to sort of, well, mystify.
"
I think I touch on it above... It's well before we get to God and Other Minds (so to speak).
"
I think a strong case could be made for locking those sorts of people up... I'm not saying (exactly) that the arguments are circular, but that some Axioms Are-that-they-Are. And when logicians/mathematicians go after them, they founder on this nexus. Such that Plantinga (with whom I overlapped at ND, and had the pleasure of knowing casually and understanding not at all) takes a somewhat nuanced position that the rationality of the logic is the proof itself... not the proof.
And I'm sure I'm butchering that for professionals, but good enough for a combox.
"
The point isn't that "God" or "Odin" did it, it's that you (we) are unreliable narrators in a book we don't know we're in.
"
Heh, sometimes you just have to say no.
"
Sure, That Which there is No Greater Than is the obverse of Infinite Regression.
It's the point at which they meet in the middle that is the Mystery of Nothingness.
Not 'something out of nothing' but existential negation: "Nontology"
"
Counter-intuitively, perhaps, I've always felt the ontological arguments will always be recursive (maybe not the right mathematical description given their use of formal logic, but let's say recursive in that ontology presupposes ontology); the existential contemplation of Nothingness common across several different Religious Philosophies is an interesting area of conflict and mystery.
"
"First Cause likely stems from Physics and ergo is not sentient, benevolent, nor interested in me any more than the other laws of Physics."
This itself is an unscientific statement.
In the event that this is, in fact, a simulation, then Physics itself is derived from sentience; whether it is also benevolent or interested in you beyond a statistical interest is speculation.
Now, whence the simulators and why the simulators, we have no idea; but worse, how are we to assume the the physics we apprehend apply to them? Or put another way, what if our physics is the tiniest derivative that they could think to program as a representative of their horribly incomplete understanding of PHYSICS?
Part of which is to say, you are epistemologically wrong in that we can even apprehend how much we *can't* understand about PHYSICS with our derivative Physics. The tools to go beyond Physics to PHYSICS aren't even in the program/simulation.
This isn't "God of the Gaps" this is Philosophy of Science. Or, your notion of Physics is filling in Gaps you can't measure, nor ever will. Which in the end is a sort of infinite regression argument for Physics that the simulation will be updated by the simulators who have their simulation updated by the ultimate knowers of PHYSICS.
And, if the simulation theory is simply silly; then we really have no idea what we're even on about.
On “Wednesday Writs: Mowing Through Laws That Blow Edition”
Now we're talkin'
Doesn't look like it's made it to chainsaws though.
But good news... leaf blowers are a go.
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Interesting... heavier, less power and lower reliability.
I'd wait until Stihl makes one before switching.
On “Fall Of The House of Gruden”
He'll only have Frack you money... gave up the full F*ck you money.
When we're talking about spending at those levels, we're not really talking operational costs but investments that might indeed have to be unwound. Obviously he's heading for fewer $$ than if he didn't leave, but I expect he negotiated the right amount to manage the unwinding process.
On “Wednesday Writs: Mowing Through Laws That Blow Edition”
Makes sense... likely it's the nexus of needing to be human carried vs. machine mounted.
So all the ire against leaf blowers in suburbia vs. not caring about chainsaws in the country.
Fine by me, my leaf blower is battery electric any way (still noisey as heck) :-)
A noise ordinance dressed as Green action. Baptised NIMBYism.
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"but it wouldn’t have been strong enough to fell an actual tree of any substantial size"
This is rather my point, no? That plus having to work in the woods for hours at a time. I get it, I have simple electric tools for 'little' jobs. Not all jobs are little and my experience with electric tools suggests that they don't scale. I mean, the torque required for the common electric power drill is manageable and that seems to be the sweet-spot.
That's why I simply assume that we're not hearing about all the exemptions... because if they aren't there now, they will be.