"10 years ago no one I knew had two jobs" in a vibecession thread 10 years ago I remember people saying that 10 years ago no one they knew had two jobs we've been in a rhetorical recession since the Great Recession. everyone is just saying the exact same things

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Like it's clear to me that science really is discovering the one way things actually are. But, so to speak, art is just arrangements selected from the vast space of possibilities.

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Why do we think of mathematics as discovered and art as created? Both are, so to speak, finding interesting entries in the near-infinite library of possibilities.

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a decent proportion of the anti-disability stuff on both sides of the Atlantic comes from "well I don't see why *her* kid got extra time on the exam"

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I try not to engage with this sort of analysis, but she is very clearly unhealthily and parasocially obsessed with Hasan Piker. In a way that is concerning. Obviously, the whole "Canadian socialist not understanding U.S. politics" thing is the catnip, but this is genuinely a very sad story.

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