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@reemvil
I think if you took a worldwide survey in the food service industry, this response would be the norm. America lives in a bubble where asking for extra this or that, on the side or wherever, is even a thing.
@jamandabop
For the historically impaired: The Senate was created as a counterweight to the proportional representation in the House of “Representatives” for the very purpose of preserving state rights, without which they would not have joined the “United States”. Also, Texas is a really
@AgnesCallard
Why can't I just be a tenured professor in the now, having all these indentured hopefuls working for me for nothing - and call them interns, teaching or research assistants, etc. instead of slaves?
I do not agree with Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
on a number of topics, and he does not get everything right. But I think one has to applaud him for the courage of calling out intimidated, paid-off, or malicious propagandists and liars comprising most of the main stream media.
I do not agree with Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
on a number of topics, and he does not get everything right. But I think one has to applaud him for the courage of calling out intimidated, paid-off, or malicious propagandists and liars comprising most of the main stream media.
Ludwig Wittgenstein died 72 years ago. His cryptic, often self-evident or seemingly logical but mystical, claims still provide endless philosophical occupation leading nowhere and resolving nothing.
The injustices, abuses, and genocides of original Americans are staggering. Are they forgivable? Certainly not until this country comes clear about what it did as much as it likes to lecture other countries.
Did you know that the 13,000 Native Americans that fought in World War I were not even U.S. citizens? Natives were not granted citizenship (of our own country) — until June 2, 1924.
You would’ve known this. Had they taught it to you in school.
@MarcusRediker
@GolderBen
This is how philosophers, including claimed leaders of thought, should conduct themselves. The elitist reality is disgustingly disappointing:
Interim report on my PhilTwitter study: It could be utilized more constructively. Example:
Colleagues who think so highly of themselves they won't bother responding even to serious inquiries or comments except maybe to other arrogants. They use Twitter one-way like a bot. 1/3
Hey Apple, for $3500, it's a starting price of $14,000 for a family of 4 to continue having movie night with ski goggles on. Not counting the price of prescription lenses. And what do they do with all the movies lasting longer than the 2 hours of projected battery charge? Have
@jk_rowling
This is great. I am still stunned it takes a hero nowadays to stand up and state what 20 years ago was unquestioned as the very basis of a free society.
@peligrietzer
@turingcop
Like all good analytic philosophy, it gives the atavistic pretense of comprehension by obsessing about naming and representation.
Fox drops all pretenses to commit to
#CancelCulture
. The essence of freedom is public debate that includes disagreeing, critical voices like
@TuckerCarlson
. One more step by
#MSM
to educate viewers they must find independent sources to get to the truth. Fair and balanced my foot.
@reemvil
In other parts of the world, the designation "Chef" means something. The food is prepared by an expert, at times even an artist, who deserves to have it eaten as intended. This Karen thing of not accepting that is rude and, contrary to the displayed attitude, unsophisticated.
@timgill924
I guess I have to repeat myself because it does not seem to sink in: Your branch of Sociology is a pretentious child of journalism. Claiming to be part of Academia is part of its pretense. Yet, Philosophy is about both, objectively ascertaining facts and envisioning their future.
@oroborous
@mk_arnold
Also, Americans ask for lots of ice in their drinks when they get thirsty from walking. I have never seen any of them just order some ice on the side to get their drink's money's worth. This threatens drink integrity for Europeans.
When you order a drink in the US, they tend to fill the glass up with ice before they pour it. So people pay for watered-down drinks and don't even complain! This would cause riots in Europe.
#drinks
#mixology
@BryanVanNorden
@YouTube
Bryan, with a film of 1934, the copyright may have expired under US law. . If you could show this, Google might reconsider. Did you keep your uploads?
I do not agree with Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
on a number of topics, and he does not get everything right. But I think one has to applaud him for the courage of calling out intimidated, paid-off, or malicious propagandists and liars comprising most of the main stream media.
Check out my new article "Philosophy of Happiness: A Critical Introduction" summarizing what assistance we can draw from philosophy, empiric science, religion, and self-help sources, and why taking an independent approach is both necessary and feasible.
@windchimes199
My sincere condolences. Losing a parent is a terrible experience on several levels. But if we had loving, caring parents, we owe it to them and us to continue that love and care toward us, and to pass it on to others. In this, we keep their purpose alive and thriving.
Interim report on my PhilTwitter study: It could be utilized more constructively. Example:
Colleagues who think so highly of themselves they won't bother responding even to serious inquiries or comments except maybe to other arrogants. They use Twitter one-way like a bot. 1/3
@Helenreflects
I respect that. Anybody who understands the bizarre results of quantum events must be deeply disturbed by them. Beginning to understand that we CANNOT understand the dynamics of this deeper reality should make us all humble.
As a lawyer with erstwhile focus on international law, I understand the importance of this UN proceeding. Its failure may well herald the dissolution of the UN to be replaced with a new international order that bypasses an ethically and legally corrupted West. A watershed moment.
REMINDER: the public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case
#SouthAfrica
v.
#Israel
will open tomorrow, Thursday 11 January 2024, at 10 a.m. (The Hague). Watch it live on
@UNWebTV
at
Fox drops all pretenses to commit to
#CancelCulture
. The essence of freedom is public debate that includes disagreeing, critical voices like
@TuckerCarlson
. One more step by
#MSM
to educate viewers they must find independent sources to get to the truth. Fair and balanced my foot.
"A lot of what comes out of philosophy actually isn't particularly useuful". Sabine Hossenfelder
@skdh
on why there's room for philosophy to play a much bigger role in the foundations of physics.
@olivertraldi
I don’t know the circumstances, Oliver. But I would really think about whether you would want to negatively affect the spread of your work, even with this obstacle.
@ReisJim
@TuckerCarlson
Absolutely. That's what the leftie indoctrinates cannot understand because they are ideologically arrested in a broken record effect.
Hey Apple, for $3500, it's a starting price of $14,000 for a family of 4 to continue having movie night with ski goggles on. Not counting the price of prescription lenses. And what do they do with all the movies lasting longer than the 2 hours of projected battery charge? Have
@nyzaf
@FaxReturn
Fair enough. Can you imagine the scene when people watching a movie are thethered to an outlet and forget about that when getting up for drinks, snacks, or the bathroom?
@SarahWieten
Any of the Greeks whose philosophy is written about in many boxes of secondary literature even though we just have a few fragments or hearsay of it.
@ehud
Legitimacy is fading for 2 reasons:
1. Not adjusting constitutional intent to reality.
2. Self-declared originalists flaunt original constitutional intent. For instance, abortion was legal when the Constitution was established. And guns were frontloading 1-shot flint muskets.
Strangely some of them command huge followerships who apparently do not mind being ignored. Suffice it to say: Philosophy would not exist if its founders had such non-communicative elitist conceit. And arguably such conceit greatly and possibly lethally harms Philosophy. 3/3
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has been ratified by ALL 196 countries of the world EXCEPT the US. What do you make of that?
#humanrights
#childprotection
@bioethicsbarbie
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has been ratified by ALL 196 countries of the world EXCEPT the US. What do you make of that?
I am making the entirety of my
#philosophy
work accessible free of charge, including my main work, Philosophy of Happiness. Please help me publicize this news by RTing this message. Thank you! And visit the Philosophy of Happiness website referenced in my profile.
As I watched "What Is A Woman?"by Matt Walsh,
@MattWalshBlog
, the contortions and prevarications to not answer the question reminded me of "The Emperor's New Clothes" by Hans Christian Andersen. Why are all these people hedging?
#WhatIsAWoman
@Apple
Why would you sell us another M2 computer, if the thing has to be plugged in anyway to not run out of power after a few hours? And why not have an airplay connection to a capable computer instead?
@Apple
Ok, Apple, exlain this to me: You today introduce software in some of your devices warning if people are too close to the screen. But then you put a double screen right in front of their eyes. Is that not a contradiction?
#WWDC23
does jesus want our cheer for christmas
does he just want our hearts be light
divert ourselves and forget hell's vistas
in the land of his birth where he painfully died
or would he command we stand up with him
shine his light everywhere it grows dim
Merry Christmas
#GazaMassacre
Not knowing at first who these big-headed people are makes PhilTwitter an at times frustrating waste of time. Ironically, it is often the most attention-seeking persons tweeting all kinds of matter who are most unwilling to give it. Psychology has categories for this problem. 2/3
does jesus want our cheer for christmas
does he just want our hearts be light
divert ourselves and forget hell's vistas
in the land of his birth where he painfully died
or would he command we stand up with him
shine his light everywhere it grows dim
Merry Christmas
#GazaMassacre
When you order a drink in the US, they tend to fill the glass up with ice before they pour it. So people pay for watered-down drinks and don't even complain! This would cause riots in Europe.
#drinks
#mixology
We may resent that our
#Christmas
, where we want to celebrate our savior's birth, love, family, and peace be disturbed by the genocide in Palestine. But Jesus was Palestinian. And if we have a shred of belief in us - or just of the humanity he inspired - we cannot remain silent.
@s99_ron
@mtsand3
@TuckerCarlson
And now he who probably knows better than anybody how MSM work distances himself from and tells about them. He grew in insight and ethical fortitude and often talks about that. It's sad but extremely telling personal growth seems unthinkable to so many criticizing
@tuckercarlson
.
BREAKING: Brandon Fraser just signed on for "The Mummy IV: The Tomb of Knowledge."
This time he is fighting a network of embalmed undead infesting the halls of well-known Philosophy Departments all over the world.
#Oscars2023
#Philosophy
@tesla4k
I just really tried to lease an Audi A4, A3, or VW Arteon or Golf. Their leases are close to DOUBLE that of a
#Tesla
Model 3, even though their purchase prices are close. And they are scarce and not readily available in all color and other options. Legacy auto is clearly dying.
@JoshuaLWatson
I am wondering why colleagues in the US are obsessed with ranking everything and everybody. In philosophy, it is like asking whether Picasso was a better painter than Rubens.
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has been ratified by ALL 196 countries of the world EXCEPT the US. What do you make of that?
#humanrights
#childprotection
@Sharon_Kuruvila
@OlufemiOTaiwo
I once had tea with the would-be Emperor in Vienna on business. He was most gracious & insisted I drop the "von" prefix whose use Austria prohibits by law. But all Austrians I talk to wish the monarchy had continued.
Advisory to US colleagues: Australia is a different country!
Fox drops all pretenses to commit to
#CancelCulture
. The essence of freedom is public debate that includes disagreeing, critical voices like
@TuckerCarlson
. One more step by
#MSM
to educate viewers they must find independent sources to get to the truth. Fair and balanced my foot.
@InezFeltscher
@CHSommers
Humor has always been a refuge for those suffering tyranny without adequate recourse. Its suppression proves the existence of tyranny.
Trying to make others comply with one's or someone's
#philosophy
of
#happiness
is arrogant and ignorant of their right, ability, and necessity to determine their own ideas and paths.
We may legitimately only enable their independent determinations.
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