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man who invented wikipedia's neutral point of view now upset wikipedia's point of view too neutral

« In Changqing, there was a Buddhist monk who had followed the Way in admirable purity. Though more than seventy years old, he was still quite healthy. One day he fell down and couldn’t get back up. »

« His son blurted, “Huh! You going to climb a stairway to heaven?”

“I have certain skills,” he replied. »

« When he returned to his own neighbourhood it was as if he’d just awakened from a dream. In reality, he’d been dead for three days. »

« My enthusiasm quickly gets away from me and sometimes my comments are out of control—basically, I just can’t restrain these remarks; I always express my feelings, since I feel no need to hide them. Won’t I simply provoke outbursts of laughter from circumspect individuals? »

love it when i open the book to the first page and it is 27 lines of annotation for 4 lines of text

the former is a very usable gaming laptop (well, the keyboard is wearing out) but it is basically always hot and loud

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loud laptop is an original first-generation retina macbook pro running bootcamp and streaming laptop is an M1

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i'm currently streaming to my girlfriend using a convoluted setup involving two laptops and a capture card because the fans are too loud on my laptop running windows to actually be remotely feasible for streaming

dunno why i posted this to facebook five years ago but ok

not everything in life exists on a binary of rationality 🆚 absurdity

not everything true is serious or important and not everything false is innocuous or for pleasure

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americans really will be like “are they serious or is this a joke” as though those are the only two options

@aescling what i will point out in all of this is that sexuality is the root of sex (in driver's license terms in addition to sexual practice)

@aescling i will say that simply wanting to be a beautiful woman definitely CAN be sexual; trans girl diaries (albeit not mine) are replete with stories of putting on a dress and makeup and masturbating in front of the mirror

@aescling i feel like you might be conflating sexuality and sexual practice; to me the former is a much more nebulous term which does not necessarily have to manifest at all in a desire for the latter

it's hard for me to describe what i DO mean by it though. i've probably read too much freudian psychoanalysis…

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