I’m a big proponent of uplifting animals, preferable individuals and not just species, on grounds of both compassion and curiosity. That is, I want to…
Warning: telescopic futurology, worthy of a Hamish, follows. Over ten thousand people commit suicide every year now. Even after involuntary death is largely obsoleted, will…
What’s left of marriage when you strip away the religion and monogamous ideals? A commitment to live life with another; to share property, finances, taxes,…
Rule 34: “If it exists, there is porn of it – no exceptions”. Of course, as xkcd points out, Rule 34 is a creative, or…
What does self-change say about suicide? That is, what does the fact that you are not, now, the same person that you are 20 years…
Okay, my minimalistic experiment with studying languages consistently but in bite-sized chunks of time continues. Currently, I’ve worked through ChineseSkill, up to Intermediate on ChinesePod,…
So, it’s been a while since I posted on here. Is that a sign that I haven’t been thinking? That I haven’t thought anything ‘worthy’…
There is a glaring flaw in popular conceptions of definitions. One word. How much information can be contained in one word? “Red” tells you the…
Since 2011 a significant portion of my personal philosophies have been grounded in values, which, wondrously and frustratingly, do not seem readily reducible. However, values can…
I usually try to actually fulfill my NYRs. I’ve managed to for the past few years, even with vague things like “get a gf” or…