Wat’s Carbon Water-N-Stuff Thread - Concepts In Iron And Wood!!!

Good morning!

Litster at work:


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Lit libturds are more like the type that would be stealing the copper water supply pipe from under your house and fall asleep before finishing, and you'd find the access door off and screw it shut and they'd starve and you'd only find the body when it started some serious stinking.
 
I always thought that Twiggy was really cute. Kinda like 'em willowy.


I knew that Trigger was stuffed. I didn't know he was 33. My horse Calypso was 32 (maybe, give or take a year or 2 either way) and he is buried in the middle of his pasture where he spent most of the last dozen years of his life. He was a better spirit than the bulk of so-called "humans" I run across routinely.


Pity more of those "humans" aren't run across in other ways.


Dirty Harry Callahan worked for the SFPD.
 
I logged in this morning and saw that the Political Board was a ghost town on Christmas day, as it usually is....

...with one exception.

Wat Tyler was on this board merrily shitposting his memes for almost the entirety of Christmas day, over 12 hours.

I guess he didn't want his shitpost number drop below 100 per day.

What a sad life he leads since his kids went "no contact" with him.

Happy Kwanzaa, Wat!
 
Am I right or what?

Metrosexuals are not required to answer. This question is for, you know, men. LOL

This would have been perfect for prairie dog hunting when I was back in high school.....

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Chloe “Chicongo” Tzang broke the first rule of “Fascist White Christian Nationalists Club”:

Chloe “Chicongo” Tzang mounted a machine gun on a TOYOTA…

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👉 Chloe “Chicongo” Tzang 🤣

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/...bcc5&esrc=MARTECH_ORDERFORM&mbid=CRMNYR012019


Does Morality Do Us Any Good?​

Our basic sense of right and wrong appears to be the product of blind evolution. The hard question is how unsettling that should be.
By Nikhil Krishnan
Nothing kills your appetite, they say, like discovering how the sausage is made. In the realm of superhero cinema, origin stories explain our protagonist’s driving motivations. But in the realm of faith and values? I stopped believing everything the tabloids said after I went on a school trip to the offices of my local paper. Others have grown disillusioned once they scrutinized the early history of their religion as historians, not as adherents. It’s harder to keep believing some things once you find out why you believe them.

Naturally, I hold slavery to be an abomination and liberal democracies to be better than totalitarian dictatorships. But why? I could draw on my years of education to tell you it has something to do with my belief in freedom, autonomy, the awfulness of treating a fellow human being as a mere instrument. But a skeptic can point out that I had these convictions before I was ever in a position to articulate a cogent argument for them. The arguments came afterward; they are rationalizations of things I already believed.

The unflattering truth, this skeptic might continue, is that my views on slavery simply reflect the moral common sense of the society I was born into. My affection for liberal democracy may come from the simple fact that I grew up in one, surrounded by its propaganda. Who knows what I’d think if I’d been raised as a member of a plantation-owning family in the antebellum South, where abolitionists were regarded as dangerous eccentrics? I used to fancy myself a rational creature who believed things for reasons; now, attuned to the question of origins, I see myself as no freer of the nexus of causes than my dog, my cactus, or my tennis ball.

And not only me. We can all be viewed as the culmination of history, physics, and biology. Yes, our beliefs about math and the natural sciences are products of a history, just as much as our moral beliefs are. But, happily, we have something with which to assess our scientific beliefs. There are lab tests to determine whether Newton’s first law holds. The trouble is that there’s nothing we can test our moral convictions against—except perhaps other moral convictions, our own and those of other people. Of course I think my moral convictions are the right ones; that’s why they’re my convictions. Maybe all I’m entitled to say, though, is that they happen to be mine—as my tastes happen to be mine. A different childhood, different genes, and you’d find a man with the views of John C. Calhoun instead.

When the German philosopher Hanno Sauer titled his ambitious new book “The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality” (Oxford), he made it clear that he sees morality as quite different from science. In his account, morality—that body of judgments about good and evil, the practices that reflect those judgments, and the blame, guilt, and punishment that sustain them—hasn’t always existed. That’s why it had to be invented, rather than discovered.


And so on. Perhaps Morality is more Nurture than Nature.
 
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