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(DIR) Post #AixoVI18WBGc1JS2sq by ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social
2024-06-15T21:09:04Z
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How do we know the arc of history isn't going in an ellipse, orbiting justice, getting closer then farther, never quite impacting?
(DIR) Post #Aixoqb8acn8zOy69Oy by SkipHuffman@astrodon.social
2024-06-15T21:12:54Z
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@ZachWeinersmith because whenever it gets closer to justice, the anti justice crowd hits the thrusters
(DIR) Post #Aixoyw9AOdnWsTLPZw by nonnihil@hachyderm.io
2024-06-15T21:14:24Z
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@ZachWeinersmith "The arc of history is Lyapunov-stable about Justice" doesn't have so great a ring to it.
(DIR) Post #AixpN0Yxd4x1WWt4vQ by SnoopJ@hachyderm.io
2024-06-15T21:18:44Z
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@ZachWeinersmith there's a joke in here about progressivism actually being precessionism
(DIR) Post #AixpZqbdxY4APMGScS by _thegeoff@mastodon.social
2024-06-15T21:21:05Z
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@ZachWeinersmith That's how orbits work, you never feel the pull."History's coming to get us, the future is coming as well. Apparently so is the present, but then again how could you tell?"(Bill Bailey, I think?)
(DIR) Post #AixqARLSqGKAmF94uu by mighty_orbot@retro.pizza
2024-06-15T21:27:41Z
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@ZachWeinersmith I imagine it’s more of a chaotic strange attractor, myself.
(DIR) Post #Aixt1qh3Wo0ceKq87E by technohippie@mastodon.social
2024-06-15T21:59:44Z
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@ZachWeinersmith someone needs to tune the PID of history.
(DIR) Post #Aixtpx5a1X9mxqCZYu by mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca
2024-06-15T22:08:48Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Technology and science progress. Human society moves in cycles; history has no direction.
(DIR) Post #AixuK2tN0q8PeKqAb2 by quantensalat@astrodon.social
2024-06-15T22:14:15Z
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@ZachWeinersmith The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards an asymptote running to infinity
(DIR) Post #AixvcmA5XWOJDY9h1U by kentwillard@zirk.us
2024-06-15T22:28:50Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Please re-frame your analogy in a narrative where Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck are on an asteroid with a nuclear warhead and Liv Tyler is doing something.
(DIR) Post #Aixwasp1uD43FVy08W by stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
2024-06-15T22:39:35Z
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@ZachWeinersmith I haven't seen a good candidate for Philosoraptor in a while, but that's definitely one!
(DIR) Post #Aixwcvk815bYt5eNd2 by jonhendry@iosdev.space
2024-06-15T22:40:04Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Zach out here saying the quiet part loud.
(DIR) Post #Aixx5PwxIlBwgHEYnw by bici@mastodon.social
2024-06-15T22:45:12Z
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@ZachWeinersmith The universe is full of entropy Clausius summarized the concept of entropy in simple terms: “The energy of the universe is constant. The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.” The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.
(DIR) Post #Aiy0luChVYyYXLYA52 by Minski@kinkyelephant.com
2024-06-15T23:26:30Z
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@ZachWeinersmith I chose to believe we're getting closer to the real thing with ever new approach, meaning we'll eventually reach it. I was naive enough when I was young to think we're in the final lap and I might actually get to see it. With the current backlash, that seems unlikely. But I still believe It's going to happen. Assuming we don't blow ourselves to bits in the intermission time.
(DIR) Post #Aiy18JejYfidqWLf7I by kfury@mstdn.social
2024-06-15T23:30:33Z
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@ZachWeinersmith It’s a process.
(DIR) Post #Aiy1IVRoZWuNJTAGiu by glenatron@dice.camp
2024-06-15T23:32:24Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Perhaps we have already permeated the membrane of justice, so we're now injustice.
(DIR) Post #Aiy1P09JKyYwGmbgKe by patcanfield@mastodon.social
2024-06-15T23:33:34Z
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@ZachWeinersmith at the moment I'm more concerned of the Arc of Justice HERE, in this country.
(DIR) Post #Aiy6bwhzwL1z8Op69I by Orb2069@mastodon.online
2024-06-16T00:31:56Z
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@ZachWeinersmith "We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice." -MLK... It doesn't say anything about slamming into justice. I feel like he would have mentioned that if it was the plan.
(DIR) Post #AiyIlzZzJuFYNrdKpU by carpetbomberz@mastodon.online
2024-06-16T02:48:13Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Ellipse or more a lazy spiral, with an event horizon. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Why some of my best friends are singularities.
(DIR) Post #AiyJkAEMqcqmnFDFce by GodsoeWilliam@ecoevo.social
2024-06-16T02:59:05Z
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@ZachWeinersmith "We must go forward, not backward, UPWARD, not forward and allways twirling twirling twirling towards freedom!"
(DIR) Post #AiyLJAwGJ7NL4w0Dzc by 2easteroid@mas.to
2024-06-16T03:16:38Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Better an ellipse than a hyperbola
(DIR) Post #AiybVGtxYtlsJViQQS by carlwolter@muenchen.social
2024-06-16T06:18:03Z
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@ZachWeinersmith so Perijustice is the best we can hope for? Apojustice the worst?
(DIR) Post #AiyfIqnFCp1rgKuImO by iinavpov@mastodon.online
2024-06-16T07:00:38Z
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@ZachWeinersmithThe serious answer is that larger amounts of humans need more and more and more and more complex arrangements of humans doing things.Of course, you can coerce them, but it's easier if everyone pulls together. And so larger societies are less stable if less fair.