I swear the UGLIEST sat next to me today. I was sitting on a bench reading Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction, Simon Critchley, Oxford University Press (I thought it would be more of a chronological summary of various philosophers and schools of thought with something tying them together, basically the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy with a throughline, but the first few chapters spend too much time navel gazing on the origins and allegedly subjective meanings of analytic/continential philosophy when I think it would better to assume every reader more or less understands what these terms mean and spend less time on introspection. Later the author starts saying that the analytic/continential split goes back to Bentham and Coleridge, which I think widens both definitions to the point of uselessness, and makes the title of the book pretty misleading given the author's using a totally atypical definition. I overestimated the average quality of Oxford's A Very Short Introduction series, since even just reading the Wikipedia page of the author he doesn't seem like someone whose opinions I'd ordinarily pay attention to) (I'm the type of guy who reads books on philosophy in my spare time because I'm an intelligient, conscientious, neurotic, gay, adult middle class male who lives in an urban area) on my Amazon® Kindle® Paperwhite™ when this ugly fricking r-slur hobbled over next to me. I already happened to be sitting on the far end of the bench and they kind of paced around a bit before sitting down, then sat there for half a minute before pacing around a bit more and walking off. They were pale and had bad skin and were 5'8 and were wearing cheap, bright, childish closing and smelled bad and were probably around 20 and I had been awake for 24+ hours at this point but they seemed so much viscerally exhausted than me and I think they were genuinely mentally disabled. Probably that rare mid level neurodivergent where the best accidental shitposters reside. But this person is pretty much identical to me and you because if we lost the genetic/environmental lottery like this person did we'd all be the exact same as them so you're not allowed to make fun of or commit hate crimes against them

british table just stiffed on a $250 check. close the borders.

— brecht apologist (@madisontayt_) April 23, 2024

https://twitter.com/madisontayt_/status/1782686622959489105

https://twitter.com/keymaraes/status/1782744437472346153

https://twitter.com/JackDunc1/status/1782828861312385507

https://twitter.com/ParagonDeku/status/1783046694894014563

For Further Reading

https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/jones-act-burden-america-can-no-longer-bear

!nooticers

To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.

!bookworms

I ordered Yukio Mishima's “the sailor who fell from grace with the sea”, it arrived today

Video of incendiary comments by one of the leaders of the student protest encampment at Columbia University surfaced online Thursday evening, forcing the school to again confront an issue at the core of the conflict rippling across campuses nationwide: the tension between pro-Palestinian activism and antisemitism.

The student, Khymani James, said in the January video that “Zionists don't deserve to live” and “Be grateful that I'm not just going out and murdering Zionists.”

Mr. James made the comments during and after a disciplinary hearing with Columbia administrators that he recorded and then posted on Instagram.

The hearing, conducted by an associate director of the university's Center for Student Success and Intervention, was focused on an earlier comment he shared on social media, in which he discussed fighting a Zionist. “I don't fight to injure or for there to be a winner or a loser, I fight to kill,” he wrote.

A Columbia administrator asked, “Do you see why that is problematic in any way?”

Mr. James replied, “No.”

Holy heck! He might be a security guard not sure but this filled me with so much joy that I can be running on this joy for a year.

The people laughing in the background

!chuds !anticommunists

Jewish UCLA student maintains his composure in confrontation with hysterical professor.

West coast Jews are just so much cooler than the ones we’ve been seeing in New York. The Mediterranean climate appears to be good for them. Just like in Israel. pic.twitter.com/eHGfQNKEjR

— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) April 26, 2024

Look at how much she seethes and screams at site of the Israeli flag

The uploader of this video shot himself in the head

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/21/europe/ukraine-tough-choices-mobilization-intl-cmd/index.html

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1296573/russia-ukraine-military-comparison/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ukraine-faces-dire-shortage-of-munitions-and-manpower-as-russia-ramps-up-offensive

With these numbers it is quite clear that Ukraine is the losing side if they rely only on their current male population.

How likely do you think it is that they will begin drafting the women and sending them to the frontlines if things get desperate enough?

After all, anyone can shoot a gun.

@Sasanka_of_Gauda exiled me for this picture

What a baby little piss sipper.

I recently rode a train I had wanted to for a long time, the Kalka-Shimla narrow gauge line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalka%E2%80%93Shimla_Railway

The railway was built under the direction of Herbert Septimus Harington between 1898 and 1903 to connect Shimla, the summer capital of India during the British Raj, with the rest of the Indian rail system.

Shimla (then spelt Simla), which was settled by the British shortly after the first Anglo-Gurkha war, is located at 7,116 feet (2,169 m) in the foothills of the Himalayas. The idea of connecting Shimla by rail was first raised by a correspondent to the Delhi gazette in November 1847.[2][3]

Shimla became the summer capital of British India in 1864, and was the headquarters of the Indian army. This meant that twice a year it was necessary to transfer the entire government between Calcutta and Shimla by horse and ox drawn carts.

In 1905 the company took delivery of a 10-ton Cowans Sheldon travelling crane to assist with lifting rolling stock back onto the tracks after accidents and for general track maintenance.

Due to the high capital and maintenance costs and difficult working conditions, the railway was allowed to charge higher fares than on other lines. Nevertheless, the company had spent 16,525,000 rupees by 1904 with no sign of the line becoming profitable, which lead to it being purchased by the government on 1 January 1906 for 17,107,748 rupees

During the 2023 North India floods, several sections of the line were washed out by landslides.

I was there during this Took a bus back from Shimla then.

The track has 20 picturesque stations, 103 tunnels (102 currently active), 912 curves, 969 bridges and 3% slope (1:33 gradient). The 1,143.61 m tunnel at Barog immediately before the Barog station is longest, a 60 ft (18.29 m) bridge is the longest and the sharpest curve has a 123 ft (38 m) radius of curvature. The railway line originally used 42 lb/yd (20.8 kg/m) rail, which was later replaced with 60 lb/yd (29.8 kg/m) rail.[4] The train has an average speed of 25–30 km/h but the railcar is almost 50–60 km/h. Both the train and railcar are equipped with vistadomes.

The route winds from a height of 656 metres (2,152 ft) at Kalka in the Himalayan Shivalik Hills foothills, past Dharampur, Solan, Kandaghat, Taradevi, Barog, Salogra, Totu (Jutogh) and Summerhill, to Shimla at an altitude of 2,075 metres (6,808 ft).[8] The difference in height between the two ends of line is 1,419 metres (4,656 ft).

They still have these manual inspection carts They also use legacy signalling, a chain of connected metallic rods used to shift a board with both red and green glass over a yellow light and those physical token hand overs.

Maintenance area, looks kind of like a sundial

Some visitors while our train was stopped for a while to let a train coming from the opposite end pass. Their panic after the train suddenly started moving was cute but I didn't have camera aimed at that point

Potato quality but its only one I managed to click of the engine on a curved bridge, didn't have camera ready on any other

The bridges look so Steel ones are so ugly Can't even take a good pic through them.

Also first diesel loco I've been on in a long time. The smoke was kind of ugly to look at tbh.

!historychads es ist vorbei

Der krieg ist aus

Können sie diesen post pinnen bitte? Herr @Aevann

i broke up with my beautiful gf over a year ago and gave up all sex and dating to focus on maoism. i 100% genuinely do not regret it

why? i have more time for maoism https://t.co/YjpUZ84Nhs

— kotian ☭📕 🇵🇸 (@roykotian) April 22, 2024

Tom is the clear villain here. He’s a cat 4 who expects a cat 10 because he bought the world’s tiniest ring and a busted car. Why do you all feel entitled to the most beautiful women when you have nothing to offer in return and why are you crying over a cartoon? https://t.co/mYhMnY4kLe

— RFH🦎👁‍🗨🪐🌘 ⬛️ (Doctor) (@hollowearthterf) April 28, 2024

Any woman who doesn't reciprocate the protag's feelings is ontologically evil

In an ideal world she'd be pregnant with her fourth and too busy cooking to be on twatter by now

We must RETVRN !bharatiya

I wouldn't tbh Know your capacity roastie. Don't get uppity.

!chuds

sorry !male feminists, she didn't say no