reading this in a german accent

i do!!! i spent a solid 5 min going back and forth on this before catching myself being way too pedantic

al-qashew nut allergy

do go if you get the chance!! it’s very touching

when i was there about a year ago they had another exposition of children’s drawings during covid, the way soldiers and the state were celebrated for helping their people is something completely foreign to the west

tiktok automatically watermarks it when u save a pic from a slideshow

the whole satanic panic about a bunch of tree-hugging vegans is also very funny to me, it’s gojira ffs

10,000 B.C: Understanding Earth’s Layers

Professor Challenger, who made the Earth scream with his pain machine in a story by Arthur Conan Doyle, gave a talk after mixing books on geology and biology. He said the Earth is like a body without organs. This means it has many different things moving around inside it.

But that was not the main point. He talked about something important that happens on Earth called stratification. This means there are layers, like belts, that form and organize things. These layers capture and hold things together, like black holes.

Professor Challenger read a sentence from a geology book. He said we need to remember it: "A surface of stratification is a plane of consistency lying between two layers." The layers are strata and they come in pairs. The surface between them is a special area that connects them.

God is like a lobster with two claws. Strata come in pairs, and each layer has two parts. This double articulation means layers have two steps: first, they pick units from moving particles, and second, they make stable structures from these units.

In geology, the first step is sedimentation, which makes layers of sediment. The second step is folding, which turns sediment into rock.

obviously a lot is lost, but it exceeded my expectations to be honest

there’s a relevant boy boy video where they talk with whistleblower david mcbride about ben and other aussie war crimes

is her first name virginia by any chance?

idk but i’m still hoping for someone to explain freud in terms of big dick energy

i just remember it’s french so if it looks too logical i’ll just add some vowels in between

it’s honestly stupid how well this matches up, the us should sue us for plagiarizing their clown show

i think by now we ought to call them pica pioneers

is “the people of gaza” worse than “gazans”? if it was “the people in gaza” i could see how that could enable israeli propaganda on indigeneity, but “of” does suggest some link to their land

this thinking never left honestly, but now its too little seratonin instead of too much black bile, people do be wanting external individual causes.

i might also be talking out of my ass since i haven't read less than nothing either, but that is one of his recurring themes (afaik for the ljubljana school of psychoanalysis in general). to oversimplify it, reality in psychoanalysis is the meaning we ascribe to the world, but this meaning is never complete, there is the real which resists signification. material reality is the failure to adhere to this notional determination. of course, psychoanalysis being psychoanalysis, sex is determined as this constitutive lack, something which definitely is, but as to what it is? (which is why sex requires fantasy)

yeah agree, he's also just plain bad with facts and will often just blurt some theory out at a strawman or something. i don't think it's just his old age, i remember a passage in soi where he dedicated quite a few pages to kgb activity in the 30s, which is quite impressive for an agency founded in the 50s. some of these mistakes are pretty benign, but they add up to him being seriously misinformed, especially when he rushes an op-ed out.

i have to disagree, i don’t think it’s fair to dismiss his work as idealistic woo. i haven’t read that much by him, mostly sublime object, but there’s a coherent materialist line of thinking throughout it (especially in relation to the real) for someone who spends most of his time discussing lacan and hegel, i’m surprised by how clear it still is. back then he also had his silly moments of course, i’m not denying he has always been a bit of a contrarian lib.

as for the vaguely science-coded language, are you referring to the mathemes? or did he do that thing philosophers sometimes do where they just take gödel and heisenberg to make vague claims about the incompleteness of reality?