tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org

I hate it when I stumble upon yet another seemingly reasonable and well-argued article downplaying #covid (I think it's a dangerous epidemic), sceptical of covid #vaccines (I got my two shots), or debunking #bitcoin (I am long on #crypto).

This epistemic uncertainty is killing me.

@trinsec

Definitely hot in summer. And all the asphalt doesn't help.

Then, I guess what you're comparing it to, of course. Having lived in London and Tokyo, and visited places like NYC, #Madrid does not strike me as particularly high-rise. And although it has its fair share of ugly buildings, it's not brutalist nor particularly degraded or anything like that.

As in most other European cities, there are beautiful picturesque old neighbourhoods suffused in History and art.

Perhaps you spent too much time in the outskirts or in commuter towns? I also find that the weather has a huge impact in how I perceive the places I visit.

I like Madrid. I have seen cities that seem much more liveable to me (the no. 1 in that ranking is very odd) — but Madrid has a farily balanced combination of financial/job opportunities, culture, services, atmosphere, and tolerance, IMHO.

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Drop a DM before visiting next time, and perhaps I can show you around :) (/cc @lucifargundam).

@trinsec Just curious: what don't you like?

@jsmanrique Hombre, comparas peras con manzanas. Exterminar animales solo porque han invadido un área que no le es propia puede ser un argumento dudoso, o insuficiente; pero no sería nunca un argumento (ni siquiera dudoso o insuficiente) para matar a seres humanos. Simplemente la consideración moral es muy distinta.

#Madrid (🇪🇸 #Spain) is the most liveable #city in the world, and the 9th best city in the world overall, according to the Mori Memorial Foundation's “Global Power City Index” 2021.

https://mori-m-foundation.or.jp/english/ius2/gpci2/index.shtml

#cities

Having #children is the easiest thing. _Raising_ them is the most difficult thing.

Or:

Being a #parent is the most selfish of acts. Being a _good_ parent is the most selfless act.

#parenting

@gasull

I agree: he talks in circles. And he's ambiguous on purpose.

I don't have the time (nor the patience) to dive deeper into his ideas, but your approximate quote reinforces my impression that he's sugar-coating very dangerous ideas: kings through History have not been champions of individual freedom nor _laissez faire_ advocates; quite the opposite.

_Some_ king _might_ be tolerant of, or indifferent towards, soft drugs, “decadent” art, “deviant” sexual habits, state religion, or whatever — sure. But it's obvious that if investing one person the power to rule others at their whim is a recipe for capricious repression and misery.

One can (should) criticise the shortcomings of our current systems without resorting to whitewashing forms of government that are demonstrably even worse.

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Sorry for rambling. I think we both agree about these points. I'm thinking out loud — again :)

https://boghossian.substack.com/p/woke-religion-a-taxonomy

#woke #wokeism #religion #MichaelShellenberger #PeterBoghossian #politics

Or even: use a cute portrait of one of them as my status/avatar on IM apps. Never, ever going to do that. So cheesy! I have some pics where they're adorable, though. Very cute! But I'm not doing that. Privacy and stuff. And it's so cheesy, ffs! Really, really cute.

I'm so tempted to do what I swore I'd never do: use nice photos of my #kids as desktop wallpaper. I'm not going to do it. No. The thing is: it would be kind of justified, because they're objectively the cutest babies, ever. Like, seriously. More adorable than other people's kids. So I could do it. But no, I'm not going to do it. Nope.

> _“There are ‘meetings of minds’ one waits for. When #SamHarris chatted to #DavidDeutsch. When #DouglasMurray speaks to #JordanPeterson. It's where people align seemingly very closely and then we find those small places where they disagree.”_

— [Brett Hall](https://www.bretthall.org/blog/daniel-yaron-and-eamonn)

❤️

@freemo @trinsec Cheers! (Can we call you “whiz kid”? :)

@freemo Oh, I was just going to browse it real quick (I think)… but thanks. (Perhaps better to try to put it under archive.is or archive.org — for the benefits of others, too.)

@freemo FYI (in Spain, no VPN)

https://bibliogram.pussthecat.org/p/CVLuetODyqv

@stephen

Good point.

Well, I have listed immutable traits (_white_) as well as hobbies (_biker_) and transient or contingent statuses (_vegetarian_).

I am a _contrarian_ much in the same vein that I'm _white_, an _introvert_, or a _Japanophile_: it's not something I strive for, or even do consciously; and I may well cease to be a contrarian like I may no longer be a Japanophile in the future. It's just the way I think I am — today.

But I get your point about [keeping our identities small](http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html) 👍

@koalie xD 🤪