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The Idea of Progress is to use empirical reasoning to improve the human condition.
Nov 2, 2021 13 tweets 5 min read
My response thread to Kendi. There is a chance he will block me, so it may be my last, but it is worth the effort to try. 1/12 I suggest first, define terms. What do u mean by racism? When asked before, u gave a circular definition, & I would like to circle back & ask you to define racism without using the words racism or racist in the definition. It's central to these questions.
Sep 28, 2020 14 tweets 3 min read
"All the people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness, to run to the spot and drink the wine. The rough, irregular stones of the street, pointing every way, and designed, one might have thought, expressly to lame all living creatures that approached them... "...had dammed it into little pools; these were surrounded, each by its own jostling group or crowd, according to its size. Some men kneeled down, made scoops of their two hands joined, and sipped, or tried to help women, who bent over their shoulders, to sip, before the wine...
Sep 14, 2020 7 tweets 1 min read
First they came for the hipsters. But everyone else was a hipster but me, so I went after the hipsters too. Then they came for the fat people, but you can't see I'm overweight on my avi, so I'm #FatPeopleHate.
Aug 2, 2020 17 tweets 3 min read
I can't believe this app is free. This conversation is long overdue. Aside from this excellent thread, here are some of the larger forces present concerning herbal medicine. 1/ Plants have no locomotion, so they don't have the ability to run toward opportunities or away from danger. This is why eyes are useless to them, and therefore neural tissue, which is mostly an elaborate way to filter and interpret information from the electromagnetic spectrum. 2/