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Okay, we’re good.

I mean, it’s not AI doing this. AI doesn’t have a gun to anyone’s head.

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Ahhh, fine, I guess it’s my turn anyway. I’ll be back in a bit.

It’s not talking about music, it’s talking about humans. If this chart is meaningful, it should apply regardless of fashion. Otherwise it’s not talking about humans, it’s talking about recent trends in music.

Don’t blame me, I thought we should all host static FOAF/RDF on our personal web servers.

awwww my weird little pet had that exact poster

as if this chart had the centuries of data needed to be meaningful

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Jesus doesn’t offer a realistic model of compassionate love. Christians aren’t really supposed to emulate Jesus. I know that’s the schtick, but it’s not the reality. Jesus exists to give Christians opportunities for moral self-licensing and self-stereotyping, which is the moral candy alternative to actually being a good person. He performs miracles and displays superhuman feats of equanimity (when he’s not cursing figs) not because we are supposed to actually emulate him, which would be impossible, he’s fucking GOD in a fake mustache, but because we are supposed to psychologically transfer his good qualities to ourselves by our association with him. That’s why Jesus stops at telling you what to do, and is silent about how to do it. He knows you’re not really going to do it.

Compassionate love is hard. It’s not just a matter of deciding to do it, you have to know how, and you have to practice. Other religions and creeds that preach and teach you how to practice compassionate love don’t do so for abstract moral reasons. Compassionate love serves the person who practices it.

Christianity offers people a way to feel like a good person without having to do anything, and Jesus doesn’t have very much of meaning to say about compassionate love.

While Jesus is an authority and primary source on a number of things, He is neither of those things for compassionate love. I think in this decontextualized instance, “thy neighour” actually has a specific meaning that is being stripped, possibly referring to the other tribes of Israel, such as in his parable about the good Samaritan that people commonly misunderstand. I wouldn’t be willing to draw much from it without a much deeper reading.

I’m not making a dogmatic argument, I’m making a much more grounded claim about psychology and spirituality. Compassionate love is a real thing that we know stuff about.

Compassionate love does not require kindness and generosity in the way you mean those words. It does not require making yourself vulnerable to danger, it does not require giving material or emotional support. You should still be able to recognize and respond to the humanity in a flawed person.

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sugar is pretty fucking bad anyway. sweeteners are a trap.

So, you vegan, then? Or just empathy for your close circle and other psychological extensions of yourself?

I use courier and sendmail

You… admire them??

I make jokes about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIFF_(Usenet) and /. and no one already understands me.

I just cook whatever is in season and eat it plain.

Okay, but that’s kind of their job? Like have we not set up an adversarial system where capitalist interests are morally obliged to do exactly that shit? They are by definition and by nature going to exploit every opportunity to arbitrage a situation. If we give them all our water and tell them it’s free, they’re going to use it.

Corporations are processes. Politicians are human beings. One of those things has MORAL AGENCY, and one of them doesn’t. Can you tell me which is which?