#arbitrary

[philosophybits]

Philosophy is arbitrary, like all synthetic science such as mathematics. It is an ideal, self-invented method of observing and ordering etc. the inner world.

Novalis, Last Fragments

[thesubtlepenguin]

© richard b potter

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.......beneath the Chaos and the Rhythm

hidden deep...within the Void

....amoung the patterns

(If you Listen)

Silence hides Within the Noise............. .

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©VNV Nation... "Silence Speaks"

O2 Ritz Manchester 22/03/2025

.....Words by Ronan Harris..........

(making the best of a bad photo)

[jokingluna]

[unscramblerer]

Todays Word Of The Day is: Aleatory

Aleatory originates from the Latin aleatorius(dice player). English usage of the word began in the 17th century.

[zindagi-se-darte-ho]

i cannot wait for the leaves to finally fall, to engulf everything in their orange hue. i want to look out of my window, while drowning in melancholy and investing one last hope in living, and i want to simply bask myself in that weather. i want to hold my darkest, saddest book in my hand and sip beverages with a strong aroma of spices while enjoying mundane things about living.

[imkeepinit]

[semperardens-juli]

She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answers may be elusive, but they could be found. They were there, waiting, chalk scribbles away.

And The Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini (x)

leave a little kindness (x)

[elegantzombielite]

"In its original literal sense, 'moral relativism' is simply moral complexity. That is, anyone who agrees that stealing a loaf of bread to feed one's children is not the moral equivalent of, say, shoplifting a dress for the fun of it, is a relativist of sorts. But in recent years, conservatives bent on reinstating an essentially religious vocabulary of absolute good and evil as the only legitimate framework for discussing social values have redefined 'relative' as 'arbitrary'."

Ellen Jane Willis, writer (14 December 1941-2006)

[thesubtlepenguin]

© richard b potter 2025

(0802202511294.3)

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[eric-sadahire]

What’s your idea of a perfect date?

DD/MM/YYYY, I find other formats a bit confusing.

[agentfascinateur]

Freedom for Vladimir Kara-Murza

Russia can offer no lessons until it lets people speak.

[thedepressexpress]

i like tumblr for the opposite reason but same energy. i wanted to be on this site so bad when I was kid but there was an arbitrary unspoken rule that I couldnt be and I didn't realize it was arbitrary till I was 22? like I can do whatever I want?? this is my home now, don't you dare come here with ur grubby greedy algorithm loving hands, you can try to pry it from my cold dead hands but then I'll be here like a young ghost learning to haunt an old house that has a rave in basement and one gaggle of gay autism on the main floor

idk if it's just me but i'm glad that the majority of people outside of here believe tumblr is a dead site because like i've been here for 13 years and like this is my house??? i don't need thousands upon thousands of people flocking here it'd be like inviting chimps to a house party total fucking carnage

[fallingoutsidemoralconstraints]

If I live through this, I'm gonna find the GCU Arbitrary and kick its ass.

[funsimplethings]

[thoughtlessarse]

It’s late, and someone in your house has a headache, a stuffy nose, or — oh no, was that the sound of retching? You rifle through your home’s jumble of medications, quietly pumping your fist in the air when that bottle of Tylenol or Pepto-Bismol finds your hand. It’s only then that you notice the expiration date: It was last month, last year, last decade. You realize you don’t know what that actually means — whether the drug you’re holding is dangerous or merely ineffective, and whether you’d cause more harm by using it or withholding it. What now? For many, medicine expiration dates are a source of fear and doubt. Whether it’s an over-the-counter fever reducer or a critical prescription heart medication, knowing how to evaluate the risk of taking it — or not taking it — can save you a lot of worry. Here’s what you need to know about how medications age. Expiration dates are somewhat arbitrary The US Food and Drug Administration only began requiring drug manufacturers to put an expiration date on medications in 1979. However, they didn’t tell companies how to come up with those dates. Most companies didn’t opt to do the expensive work of methodically testing each drug during development to determine the exact age at which it began degrading. Instead, most simply chose dates a few years out, tested the drug’s potency at that time, and if it was still as good as new, called that the expiration date. That is to say, drug expiration dates aren’t “bad after” dates as much as they are “good before” dates. For most drugs, these dates are set to about three years after the day they’re produced, says Lee Cantrell, a pharmacist and toxicologist who also directs operations at the San Diego division of the California Poison Control System.

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