Dr. Disrespect, there was a couple year period where the insane, over-the-top masculinity shtick was entertaining to me. Eventually I drifted away from the games that brought me to him in the first place.

Very recently, news broke that he had sexually explicit conversations with a minor on twitch.

Sorry what?

The branching stems at every node make me think it isn’t Goldenrod, but who knows

I just question the aster ID because it doesn’t seem to have the clasping leaves that asters do

I think I got it as a little sprout from a native plant rescue staffed by volunteers, so IDing it was probably questionable

East Tennessee

And the front yard:

Probably being held at gunpoint by a guard at a Jordanian airbase that I was inside of, doing a timed ruck march, as a US soldier.

I didn’t speak his dialect, so I couldn’t pick up much, but my gut said he was pissed he was on guard overnight and decided to ruin my night, too.

Only like the initial 15-30 seconds were really stressful, it was largely just annoying, since I couldn’t communicate with anyone, standing there with my ruck on the ground and my hands up.

I’m with you, that except is just word salad, definitely could use some simplifying

I see your point about the intro, the bait-and-switch was intentional, but I can see how it isn’t the best choice.

Calling out my use of the law of diminishing returns was certainly warranted. I knew that was weak, I just didn’t have the time to rework that point as much as would be needed.

As for the evolutionary disposition points, yeah those absolutely need more evidence before being used as strongly as I did, but my word limit for this was 1000-1250 and it’s sitting at like 1800 as is lol

I do have a question, though. The problem I originally had writing this, was that it felt like a mixed-bag of poorly explained ideas from actual philosophers, with nothing original or convincing to say. I still feel like that’s largely the case, what do you think?

I’m here for the firefly references

FWIW I just downloaded it for free