Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 6hSpotify decided to serve me an anti-suicide ad 🧐 when listening to Jef Neve & Teus Nobel - Esho Funi tidal.com/album/416812...tidal.comJef Neve & Teus Nobel - esho funi (Live at Piano's Maene)Listen to esho funi (Live at Piano's Maene) on TIDAL 000
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 05/10/2026Soon they can start protesting against the burnt institutions (by burning more institutions). 010
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 02/10/2026Eerst gaat men in Amerikaanse aandelen beleggen omdat er met iets meer te verdienen valt en dan kan men ineens niets meer doen tegen de macht van de miljarden. 000
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 02/10/2026Lever die krijgsgevangenen dan maar terug uit naar Oekraïne en hou jullie laffe mond dicht, net zoals jullie het met noord Korea doen. 000
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 02/10/2026Op een ICE kinderopvang was dit zeker geen probleem geweest? 000
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 02/10/2026Then SK should just extradite those pows back to Ukraine and shut their coward mouths. 011
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 01/10/2026Well, on a side note, he volunteered partly because he was accidentally stuck in Austria and couldn’t return to the UK; part of his wealth was spent buying friends and the primary teaching didn’t end up well.. But overall indeed a fascinating character. 100
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 28/09/2026I wonder if someone in the machine is the exact opposite of a philosophical zombie: they do have all the inner conscious experience but they are in no way present in the world, not experienced by others as/when having their machined experiences. 110
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 23/09/2026What would you expect from an app developed by an fsb graduate, who lies about his visits to russia, and which traffic is routed by russian fsb-aligned servers? 011
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 23/09/2026Their hair seems to reflect their beliefs on the character of people in the state of nature 🙂 011
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 22/09/2026I wonder how it can ever be a pleasure to meet undemocratic rulers who possess no genuine democratic legitimacy (and hence need those highness titles). 000
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 21/09/2026If anyone can play the violin like a virtuoso, the virtuoso is not virtuoso anymore. 120
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 21/09/2026Virtue ethics says: look at how a virtuous person acts and do the same. A virtuous person is someone who is exceptionally good at something, eg. a virtuoso violinist. But! The whole point of exceptionality is that not everyone can act like that. Eg, I can never play the violin like a virtuoso. 220
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 20/09/2026It is not a “war between”. There was a clear agressor waging an unjust and illegal attack. 011
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026Well said. Habermas had some work on digital spaces late in his career (before, but maybe after he lost his mind by justifying russian aggression). I wonder if you used some of those ideas here. My own proposal is that judgment is a fundamental (epistemic) human right. It is remedied by W policies 110
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 18/09/2026Imagine Australia. It's all upside down and kangaroos everywhere. People are walking on their heads, kangaroos are jumping. Also on their heads. Now how can their young not fall out of their pockets? They must have safety belts in there. And those are enforced by the kids', literally, parents. 000
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 18/09/2026I think I know why state parentalism is typically illustrated in political #philosophy by the enforcement of seatbelt use. 100
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 16/09/2026… and posts it on a ruzzian messenger app 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️ 000
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 16/09/2026A fun illustration of research in #philosophy. You try to find things by using words. And what you find is: youtu.be/CvqpG2JCMw0youtu.beBleep bleep bleep - SluipschuttersYouTube video by Sluipschutters 022
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 16/09/2026Modern self-help cult seems to offer a Hegelian synthesis of the two: once someone adjusts their "circle of concern" to match their Stoic "circle of control", the latter is promised to grow, fulfilling the Cartesian goal. 110
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 16/09/2026If you reject Cartesian dualism, and you say that possession of something you are part of is impossible, then you cannot say that you possess your body 🤷🏼♂️ since you, i.e. your mind is part of your body. 110
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 11/09/2026If the Demon can predict something as simple as the trajectory of three bodies in space, could he please share that knowledge with us? 🙂 110
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 10/09/2026I understand that. But I am not sure whether being tracked for ai advancement is worse than eventually being deprived of freedom by a totalitarian regime and contributing to that deprivation of other people now. 110
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 10/09/2026A con is that Fairphones are made in china. So essentially, by buying it you sponsor authoritarianism. 110
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 10/09/2026I wonder if that list item comes with an explanation of what it is to think that somebody should do x 🧐 000
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 10/09/2026I wonder what it is for life to be worth living; and whether a life should necessarily be worth living. 110
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026I wish I could.. that would probably increase my food expenses twice, and not even everything would be available.. Also, the transportation of that much more glass would itself cause more environmental damage.. 100
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026The only clean packaging seems to be glass bottles. Larger PET bottles, or the misleadingly called "carton" litre packs aka tetrapack have all plastic walls that shed microplastics. 000
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026That would definitely be better. I was wondering about yoghurt that is sold in plastic cups (eg. PET 400ml). To move it into a steel cup you'd already need to do some scratching.. 200
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026Whatever you do, you will eat microplastics. Most of it is already in there before the cup scratching. A steel spoon is slightly better, and you'd better not scratch the cup. A silicon spoon (do they exist?..) is the only better option. 100
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026Without any inborn moral norms it would be quite hard to explain the universality of judgment of infants in this experiment: www.psych.uni-goettingen.de/de/developme...psych.uni-goettingen.de 000
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026There are plausible arguments that a "self as a basic identity" is also socially constructed. Any self-conceptualisation is first mediated by other people. That is, if a human were to be left totally alone from birth and they would miraculously survive, they would have no sense of self whatsoever. 110
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026Then, in times of slavery, you would say that no one should struggle for freeing up the slaves because that would get them into trouble. Doesn't sound very moral to me, though. 010
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026I don't think that follows. I know some people who are undoubtedly much better morally equipped than some others. 100
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026Things I ask LLMs: in terms of microplastics intake, is there evidence-based advice on whether is to use a metal or a plastic spoon for eating yoghurt from its plastic cups, given that some scratching of cup walls is inevitable? You probably won't like the answer. 130
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026Well, I think hypocrisy is not in the air, it is in us. In that case we might add that to be human is to be hypocrite. An unflattering conclusion.. 100
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026Quite poignant for someone being involved in slave trade. Also quite similar to Aristotle’s views, including the hypocrisy. 100
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 06/09/2026Me hearing a nice track that's pre-2022: ah nice! Let's add it to favourites. Me hearing a nice track that's post-2022: oh, that's probably ai-shit. Skip to the next one. 010
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 06/09/2026Agreed: bankruptcy is emotionally strong and derogative, at least in the sense that no one should interact with the bankrupt person. So, we need a better moral term with equal force. 010
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 06/09/2026Bankruptcy stems from the financial world that quantifies everything (with notable successes in 2008). Morality governs things that are not quantifiable in principle. Hence, bankruptcy is not applicable to morality. One does not have "moral currency" that they can "spend" and eventually run out of. 110
Richard Bell @rchd.wsocial.eu · 06/09/2026Bankruptcy stems from the financial world that quantifies everything (with notable successes in 2008). Morality governs things that are not quantifiable in principle. Hence, bankruptcy is not applicable to morality. One does not have "moral currency" that they can "spend" and eventually run out of. 000
