#pragmatism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pragmatism, aggregated by home.social.
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Hungary Sticks with Russian Energy despite EU Reset
Ministerial hearings are already underway as Hungary’s new Ti…
#Hungary #HU #Europe #Europa #EU #anitaorban #decoupling #energypolicy #EUfunds #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #foreignpolicy #hír #hungary #Hungarynews #IstvanKapitany #Magyarország #NUCLEARENERGY #Paksexpansion #PeterMagyar #pragmatism #RePowerEU #RuleofLaw #russianenergy #Russiannuclearenergy #Russianoil #TiszaParty #vetopower #ViktorOrbán
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Hungary Sticks with Russian Energy despite EU Reset
Ministerial hearings are already underway as Hungary’s new Tisza government takes shape, offering the fir…
#Europe #EU #EuropeanCommission #AnitaOrbán #decoupling #energypolicy #EUFunds #EuropeanUnion #Foreignpolicy #Hungarynews #IstvánKapitány #nuclearenergy #Paksexpansion #PéterMagyar #pragmatism #REPowerEU #RuleofLaw #russianenergy #Russiannuclearenergy #Russianoil #TiszaParty #vetopower #ViktorOrbán
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https://www.europesays.com/people/67410/ Hungary Sticks with Russian Energy despite EU Reset #AnitaOrbán #decoupling #EnergyPolicy #EUFunds #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #ForeignPolicy #HungaryNews #IstvánKapitány #NuclearEnergy #PaksExpansion #PeterMagyar #pragmatism #RePowerEU #RuleOfLaw #RussianEnergy #RussianNuclearEnergy #RussianOil #TiszaParty #VetoPower #ViktorOrbán
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Carlson schools Trump on Middle East. Trump replies: ‘Yeah, I know’
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So if Trump knows, his apparent demotion of Israel is explained. If he knows, his end-run around Europe and Israel, makes sense. There many are other signs Trump knows the Middle East and Israel and more, and is reorganizing world geopolitics based on pragmatics and USA’s best interests. As a global top hegemon, Trump is doing what he has to do (by KOBK rules). I am speculating. I want the best for USA and the world, in that order. ABN
#abn #economics #gameTheory #geopolitics #information #KOBK #pragmatism #war -
@theguardian You're targeting #EmergingEconomies in #DevelopingCountries - especially if you have children, since the US is now past crucial root infrastructure #TippingPoints
Just the last presidential election alone, with obvious ignorance far outweighing #sustainable #pragmatism, proves the Rome-like fall the US is in the middle of. You don't need overwhelming enviro or conflict datasets to prove an essential regression-to-the-mean, is in order.
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@theguardian You're targeting #EmergingEconomies in #DevelopingCountries - especially if you have children, since the US is now past crucial root infrastructure #TippingPoints
Just the last presidential election alone, with obvious ignorance far outweighing #sustainable #pragmatism, proves the Rome-like fall the US is in the middle of. You don't need overwhelming enviro or conflict datasets to prove an essential regression-to-the-mean, is in order.
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@theguardian You're targeting #EmergingEconomies in #DevelopingCountries - especially if you have children, since the US is now past crucial root infrastructure #TippingPoints
Just the last presidential election alone, with obvious ignorance far outweighing #sustainable #pragmatism, proves the Rome-like fall the US is in the middle of. You don't need overwhelming enviro or conflict datasets to prove an essential regression-to-the-mean, is in order.
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@theguardian You're targeting #EmergingEconomies in #DevelopingCountries - especially if you have children, since the US is now past crucial root infrastructure #TippingPoints
Just the last presidential election alone, with obvious ignorance far outweighing #sustainable #pragmatism, proves the Rome-like fall the US is in the middle of. You don't need overwhelming enviro or conflict datasets to prove an essential regression-to-the-mean, is in order.
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@theguardian You're targeting #EmergingEconomies in #DevelopingCountries - especially if you have children, since the US is now past crucial root infrastructure #TippingPoints
Just the last presidential election alone, with obvious ignorance far outweighing #sustainable #pragmatism, proves the Rome-like fall the US is in the middle of. You don't need overwhelming enviro or conflict datasets to prove an essential regression-to-the-mean, is in order.
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Health Freedom Defense Fund: ‘Your voice matters more than you can imagine’
#BigGovt #BigPharma #freedom #health #law #medicalScience #pragmatismLeah Wilson just said the quiet part out loud:
“Health freedom is the largest, strongest single issue voting bloc in America today.”
“We are America’s new majority.”
“We are independent from any party.”
“And we are stronger than ever.”
She declared that Bayer-Monsanto’s push for a pesticide liability shield is “exactly what happened in 1986 when Congress gave a liability shield to vaccine makers.”
“It was a bad use of tort reform then, and it’s a bad use with pesticides today.”
“So let the record show, just like we did in 2024, we’re gonna show up and decide the elections in 2026.”
“Your voice matters more than you can imagine.”
“And it’s about to matter even more in the 2026 midterm elections.”
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Trump takes a shot at the UN as he sends blunt ‘America First’ message to the world marking a major shift in the global order… and US businesses are expected to reap the benefits
#conservatism #economics #geopolitics #pragmatism #strategyThe Trump administration is seeking to get other nations to cut back on global humanitarian aid and ‘promote America First values’ by investing in US companies, according to new reports.
The ‘trade over aid’ initiative will be an opportunity to use the United Nations system to ‘create business opportunities for US companies,’ per a cable sent to all US embassies and consulates.
In the cable reviewed by The Washington Post, Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered all US diplomats to issue a démarche – an official call to action – to all foreign nations by Monday that asks them to support the new initiative.
The US plans to introduce this idea at the UN at the end of April, according to the cable.
‘For decades, government aid has been flowing from developed to developing countries with only limited impact,’ according to one of the notes the outlet obtained.
‘It has not solved the world’s economic development challenges, and it has often created dependency, inefficiency, and corruption.’
‘Donors and developing countries are ready to try a new development aid model,’ the note continued.
Even before Trump returned to power in 2025, Western nations including Germany, Sweden, Canada and Norway have been reducing foreign aid since at least 2022.
And since Trump’s proposed reordering of the global aid system, France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom have largely followed suit.
Data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) found that aid from its members has dropped by about 23 percent from 2024 to 2025.
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A Pragmatic Perspective on the Iran Conflict
Many people have requested that I outline some context on the Iran conflict; so, here it is.
What follows is my own researched perspective on the challenge that President Trump is facing. I anticipate the non-interventionists will not be happy with it, and also the Israel First crowd will not like the brutal pragmatism of it. Alas, having spent a great deal of time watching things unfold, here’s my take.
Start with this question: Considering all the years the debate over Iran’s nuclear ambitions has persisted, why haven’t its strongest allies, China and Russia, ever provided Iran with a nuclear weapon?
Now, before anyone jumps into the nuclear non-proliferation perspective, let me remind you we are not going to pretend things here. You can pretend that Beijing didn’t give the DPRK nuclear weapons by pretending that North Korea isn’t a proxy province of China. Or you can stop pretending. The choice is yours!
So, what’s different? Well, in the DPRK example, Beijing holds the control mechanism. For Iran, giving religious fanatics a nuclear weapon would be tantamount to giving the Muslim Brotherhood the ability to start World War III.
As recently noted, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman urged President Trump not to back down from this moment of consequence and to eliminate the Iranian threat once and for all. MbS is about as close to a Middle East pragmatist as you can find. In response, a desperate British Prime Minister Keir Starmer rushed to Saudi Arabia hoping to change the position of MbS. Great Britain is almost out of fuel.
That’s a good place to start looking at the regional perspectives.
Islamic extremists, religious zealots, fanatics, cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons. Even those who are sympathetic to the Iranian regime, particularly Turkey and Qatar, are pragmatic about this issue.
Nuclear weapons must never fall into the hands of Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Qaeda, the Islamic State (ISIS), al-Nusra, and all of the extreme -perhaps most authentic- factions of Islam are included in that outlook.
While it is true that Israel has carried out a brutal, over-the-top, offensive against Hamas in Gaza, it is also true that Egypt – via President al-Sisi, spent two years destroying Hamas terror tunnels on the Egyptian-Gaza border and installed a five-layer security perimeter to keep the Islamist “Palestinians” out of the Sinai.
President Sisi (Egypt) and King Abdullah (Jordan) do not want to import Palestinian Hamas promoters, despite their very public opposition to the offensive methods of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
♦ The Muslim Brotherhood represents the political face of extremist (authentic) Islam. Turkish President Recep Erdogan is one of the zookeepers keeping the big cat cages under control, while simultaneously using the big cats to draw an audience.
Qatar is the banking side of The Muslim Brotherhood, feeding the big cats and providing them indulgences to keep them satiated. The intelligence services of Israel (Mossad) and the USA (CIA) are involved in this process.
When it comes to authentic Islam, you might say that essentially Mossad and the CIA are the physical cages, while Turkey (Recep Erdogan) and Qatar (Amir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani) are the zookeepers.
Turkey the gateway to Europe, is a NATO member not a NATO ally. Qatar has a foot in both the lawfully constrained western world and a foot in the religious fanaticism world. While the tightrope walking might seem difficult both Turkish President Recep Erdogan and Qatari Amir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani have navigated this dynamic as part of their own influence and affluence operation.
That said, none of the names involved thus far want the rabid faction of the big cats to get a nuclear weapon. President Donald Trump does not want the rabid cats to get a nuclear weapon. None of the voices in the Middle East, sans the fanatical Iranian religious faction, want Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
All of these various regional players have their own individual nuance to retain influence and power. However, on the issue of nuclear weapons they all agree – Iran must never have them, because Iran would represent the biggest threat in the entire world to using them. [Name a weapon that Iran has never used.]
None of Iran’s allies – not Pakistan, not Russia and not China – would ever fathom giving Iran a nuclear weapon, because the leadership of Iran is sketchy, unstable and, well, potentially batsh!t crazy enough to use it. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) are just as zero-sum minded as the Islamic clerics they protect.
This accurate and factual baseline of common interest is why you do not see any of the regional voices opposing President Trump’s effort to ensure that Iran NEVER HAS a nuclear weapon?
How strong is that sense of common interest?… Strong enough to accept Israel bombing Iran in support of that common interest. Turkey, aligned in sympathetic voice with the Muslim Brotherhood, hates Israel; but they hate Israel slightly less than they hate the thought of Iran having a nuclear weapon.
So, against the backdrop of Iran rejecting any deal that precludes them from having a nuclear weapon, where does that leave things?
It leaves the entire Middle East in a position to continue supporting President Trump’s effort to stop Iran from ever having a nuclear weapon. It really is that simple.
Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, The UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan and yes, even Qatar, are willing to endure a considerable amount of economic pain and internal friction in order to get to the place where Iran stops their nuclear objective.
It’s the Iranian nuclear threat that’s the problem. It’s the Iranian nuclear threat that has always been the problem.
This time, President Donald J Trump is trying to deal with that threat once and for all.
Europe is going bananas because they need oil/gas. The U.K is going bananas because they need oil/gas. Asia is really in a bad place because they too need oil/gas. The energy problem goes all the way to Australia because they too need oil/gas.
The more a nation chased the net-zero carbon, climate change, global warming nonsense, the more they are exposed to the dire Straits of Hormuz. Japan can hold out a little longer with reserves and China can ultimately make do with Russian provision.
Which brings us to the point where President Trump is saying the U.S. will end up having to control the Strait of Hormuz, and we should look for an extension to the Russian sanction relief as a direct consequence of Iran rejecting the terms of JD Vance and the USA delegation.
Now, there are some who claim that Iran doesn’t want a nuclear weapon, and/or Iran has a fatwa against nuclear weapons. These voices are ridiculous. Think about the irrational logic of the claim: Iran is refusing to stop pursuing something they do not want.
♦ It can be argued that Israel is being opportunistic and leveraging the regional support for Trump toward their own interests and objectives. It is a fair criticism to say the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu is too militaristic and aggressive. Israel’s continually aggressive posture makes it difficult to navigate the nuances of strong diplomacy.
In fact, both President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have stated the goals and objectives of the USA and Israel may not be aligned on all matters, and Turkish President Erdogan has been exceptionally critical of Israel’s continued military operation into Lebanon, presumably targeting Hezbollah.
However, there is no indication that Israel is directing President Trump on the issue of a denuclearized Iran.
On the issue of Iran never having nuclear weapons, it has been the stated policy of every U.S. administration for 40+ years, and on that issue the entire Middle East is in agreement.
This ‘pragmatic’ position seems to be refuted by Trump tearing up an existing agreement with Iran, which gave him everything he now purports to want; and twice attacking Iran in the midst of promising negotiations, acts which have needlessly damaged USA’s reputation with allies and enemies alike. I am posting this essay so readers can see all points of view. There may be other considerations besides what is publicly known for Trump’s aggressive and seemingly militarily foolish moves. I respect Sundance, the author of the above piece, but am also well aware that he has a blind spot when it comes to Israel and Jewish Supremacist infiltration of USA. I have reposted his entire essay with his permission. ABN
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
I think the gist of the matter is that a saint can live without politeness, and indeed that politeness is incompatible with a saintly character. But the man who is always to be sincere must be free from spite and envy and malice and pettiness. Most of us have a dose of these vices in our composition and therefore have to excerise tact to avoid giving offence. We cannot all be saints, and if saintliness is impossible, we may at least try not to be too disagreeable.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Essay (1933-02-01) “On Tact,” New York AmericanMore about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/601…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #compensation #diplomacy #disagreeability #friction #imperfection #offense #politeness #pragmatism #prudence #saint #sincerity #tact #virtue
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
To give the public what they do not want, and yet expect to be supported: we have there a strange pretension, and yet not uncommon, above all with painters. The first duty in this world is for a man to pay his way; when that is quite accomplished, he may plunge into what eccentricity he likes; but emphatically not till then.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman Who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #art #artistry #commercialism #creativity #earnings #income #makingaliving #makingmoney #practicality #pragmatism #publicopinion #responsibility #writing
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
To give the public what they do not want, and yet expect to be supported: we have there a strange pretension, and yet not uncommon, above all with painters. The first duty in this world is for a man to pay his way; when that is quite accomplished, he may plunge into what eccentricity he likes; but emphatically not till then.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman Who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #art #artistry #commercialism #creativity #earnings #income #makingaliving #makingmoney #practicality #pragmatism #publicopinion #responsibility #writing
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
To give the public what they do not want, and yet expect to be supported: we have there a strange pretension, and yet not uncommon, above all with painters. The first duty in this world is for a man to pay his way; when that is quite accomplished, he may plunge into what eccentricity he likes; but emphatically not till then.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman Who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #art #artistry #commercialism #creativity #earnings #income #makingaliving #makingmoney #practicality #pragmatism #publicopinion #responsibility #writing
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
To give the public what they do not want, and yet expect to be supported: we have there a strange pretension, and yet not uncommon, above all with painters. The first duty in this world is for a man to pay his way; when that is quite accomplished, he may plunge into what eccentricity he likes; but emphatically not till then.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman Who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #art #artistry #commercialism #creativity #earnings #income #makingaliving #makingmoney #practicality #pragmatism #publicopinion #responsibility #writing
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
To give the public what they do not want, and yet expect to be supported: we have there a strange pretension, and yet not uncommon, above all with painters. The first duty in this world is for a man to pay his way; when that is quite accomplished, he may plunge into what eccentricity he likes; but emphatically not till then.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman Who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #art #artistry #commercialism #creativity #earnings #income #makingaliving #makingmoney #practicality #pragmatism #publicopinion #responsibility #writing
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“Yet the life which men, women and children actually lead, the opportunities open to them, the values they are capable of enjoying, their education, their share in all the things of art and science, are mainly determined by economic conditions. Hence we can hardly expect a moral system which ignores economic conditions to be other than remote and empty.”
John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, p225
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men will know how things are.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, Preface (1820)More about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cccolton #books #humanism #humanities #idealism #ideals #pragmatism #realism #realworld #humannature #humancondition
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men will know how things are.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, Preface (1820)More about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cccolton #books #humanism #humanities #idealism #ideals #pragmatism #realism #realworld #humannature #humancondition
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men will know how things are.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, Preface (1820)More about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cccolton #books #humanism #humanities #idealism #ideals #pragmatism #realism #realworld #humannature #humancondition
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men will know how things are.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, Preface (1820)More about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cccolton #books #humanism #humanities #idealism #ideals #pragmatism #realism #realworld #humannature #humancondition
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men will know how things are.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, Preface (1820)More about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cccolton #books #humanism #humanities #idealism #ideals #pragmatism #realism #realworld #humannature #humancondition
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»Persons do not become a society by living in physical proximity, any more than a man ceases to be socially influenced by being so many feet or miles removed from others. A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than exists between dwellers under the same roof«
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
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To tell the truth, I just posted an essay on the truth. Many philosophers have written about Truth over the years, but truth is just a tool, a trivial bookkeeping device.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/29/truth-after-deflation-why-truth-refuses-to-behave/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #truth #essay #blog #podcast #analyticphilosophy #philosophyoflanguage #epistemology #metaphysics #tools #pragmatism #languageinsufficiency #disintegration #philosophics -
To tell the truth, I just posted an essay on the truth. Many philosophers have written about Truth over the years, but truth is just a tool, a trivial bookkeeping device.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/29/truth-after-deflation-why-truth-refuses-to-behave/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #truth #essay #blog #podcast #analyticphilosophy #philosophyoflanguage #epistemology #metaphysics #tools #pragmatism #languageinsufficiency #disintegration #philosophics -
To tell the truth, I just posted an essay on the truth. Many philosophers have written about Truth over the years, but truth is just a tool, a trivial bookkeeping device.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/29/truth-after-deflation-why-truth-refuses-to-behave/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #truth #essay #blog #podcast #analyticphilosophy #philosophyoflanguage #epistemology #metaphysics #tools #pragmatism #languageinsufficiency #disintegration #philosophics -
To tell the truth, I just posted an essay on the truth. Many philosophers have written about Truth over the years, but truth is just a tool, a trivial bookkeeping device.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/29/truth-after-deflation-why-truth-refuses-to-behave/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #truth #essay #blog #podcast #analyticphilosophy #philosophyoflanguage #epistemology #metaphysics #tools #pragmatism #languageinsufficiency #disintegration #philosophics -
To tell the truth, I just posted an essay on the truth. Many philosophers have written about Truth over the years, but truth is just a tool, a trivial bookkeeping device.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/29/truth-after-deflation-why-truth-refuses-to-behave/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #truth #essay #blog #podcast #analyticphilosophy #philosophyoflanguage #epistemology #metaphysics #tools #pragmatism #languageinsufficiency #disintegration #philosophics -
A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt
To accomplish almost anything worthwhile, it is necessary to compromise between the ideal and the practical.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Quoted in Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen, “How the President Works,” Harper’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 173 (1936-06)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #fdr #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #accomplish #compromise #ideal #idealism #practical #practicality #pragmatic #pragmatism #succeed #success
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A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt
To accomplish almost anything worthwhile, it is necessary to compromise between the ideal and the practical.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Quoted in Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen, “How the President Works,” Harper’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 173 (1936-06)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #fdr #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #accomplish #compromise #ideal #idealism #practical #practicality #pragmatic #pragmatism #succeed #success
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Today I learned that asking for help on #3dprinting will immediately result in an avalanche of suggestions to dry my filament. Even if it was just unpacked. From a vacuum sealed bag. That had silica gel in it.
One guy suggested I do a #temptower and looking into the print temperature. ONE GUY!
Turns out lowering the temperature from 250°C to 225°C fixed my problem. As opposed to ordering a €150 #filament #dryer. #Pragmatism for the win.
Here's a video about temp towers and why they're important: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR2tRwzFlq0
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"[I] am flustered by a noise heard. Empirically, that noise is fearsome; it really is, not merely phenomenally or subjectively so. That is what it is experienced as being. But, when I experience the noise as a known thing, I find it to be innocent of harm. It is the tapping of a shade against the window, owing to movements of the wind. The experience has changed; that is, the thing experienced has changed…"
The Postulate of Immediate Empiricism, John Dewey, 1905
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
Much has been said in this country about not wanting to participate in foreign wars and people who have said it, must now face the fact that foreign wars come very close to our own shores. We will always have not only the religious groups, but many groups who feel that war is wrong. I cannot imagine how anyone could feel otherwise with the picture before them today. But when force not only rules in certain countries, but is as menacing to all the world, as it is today, one cannot live in a Utopia which prays for different conditions and ignores those which exist.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1940-05-17), “My Day”More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/80…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #avertingwar #casusbelli #force #idealism #isolationism #justwar #pacifism #pragmatism #utopia #war #warishell #WorldWar2
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their head.
HOBBES: I wonder which you are.
CALVIN: I pragmatically turn my whims into principles!Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1995-08-11)More info about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/79405…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #BillWatterson #calvinandhobbes #caprice #chaos #choice #compromise #humannature #idealism #pragmatism #principles #whimsy #decisionmaking
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My new essay Objectivity Is Illusion: An Operating Model of Social and Moral Reasoning is now archived with a DOI.
I argue that what passes as “objectivity” is consensus disguised as granite. Truth is rhetorical, morality prescriptive, and our real obligation is care: tending the scaffolding we walk on.
Read the full essay (open access):
👉 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17195641#Philosophy #MetaEthics #SocialEpistemology #Pragmatism #PhilosophyOfScience #Truth #Morality #pschology #society #social
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My new essay Objectivity Is Illusion: An Operating Model of Social and Moral Reasoning is now archived with a DOI.
I argue that what passes as “objectivity” is consensus disguised as granite. Truth is rhetorical, morality prescriptive, and our real obligation is care: tending the scaffolding we walk on.
Read the full essay (open access):
👉 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17195641#Philosophy #MetaEthics #SocialEpistemology #Pragmatism #PhilosophyOfScience #Truth #Morality #pschology #society #social
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My new essay Objectivity Is Illusion: An Operating Model of Social and Moral Reasoning is now archived with a DOI.
I argue that what passes as “objectivity” is consensus disguised as granite. Truth is rhetorical, morality prescriptive, and our real obligation is care: tending the scaffolding we walk on.
Read the full essay (open access):
👉 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17195641#Philosophy #MetaEthics #SocialEpistemology #Pragmatism #PhilosophyOfScience #Truth #Morality #pschology #society #social
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https://theconversation.com/politicians-now-talk-of-climate-pragmatism-to-delay-action-new-study-264317; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-025-03987-4 (open access). For #climate #pragmatism, read climate #denialism, @GeraldKutney. #Badenoch & the #Tories are serving the interests of the #fossilfuel industry, not those of the #people or the #planet.
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Hope for the best.
Expect the worst.
The world’s a stage.
We’re unrehearsed.Mel Brooks (b. 1926) American comedic actor, writer, producer [b. Melvyn Kaminsky]
The Twelve Chairs, “Hope for the Best, Expect the Worst” (1970)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/brooks-mel/34550/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #melbrooks #hope #life #meaningoflife #meme #optimism #pessimism #pragmatism #preparation #rehearsal #stage #theater #uncertainty
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We don't need more. We need less.
Every week:
🧠 A new framework.
⚙️ A new "layer".
🤖 A new AI wrapper.
🔄 A new YAML format to abstract what used to be a shell script.And then we wonder:
"Why is our software hard to debug?"
"Why do our builds break randomly?"
"Why is onboarding a 6-month journey through tribal folklore?"I once said I write bug-free software that can be finished.
People laughed, especially product people.
Not because it's wrong.
But because they’ve forgotten it's possible.We build complexity on top of confusion:
A + B becomes C.
C + D becomes E.
Now, E is broken, and we would create a new layer, but nobody knows how A or B worked in the first place. For example HTML/JavaScript, we leave it there and just add layers around it.Take XML.
Everyone says it's ugly.
But you could validate it automatically, generate diagrams, enforce structure.
Now we're parsing YAML with 7 linters and still can't tell if a space is a bug.Take Gradle.
You can define catalogues, versioning, and settings, but can't update a dependency without reading 3 blogs and sacrificing a goat.
This is called "developer experience" now?Take Spring Boot.
I wouldn't trust a Spring Boot or any java Framework powered airplane.
Too many CVEs. Too much magic. Too little control.We don't need "smarter" tools.
We need dumber, boring, reliable defaults.Start boring.
Start small.
Then only change the 1% that needs to be fast, clever, or shiny.
You'll rarely even reach that point.
Like everyone says, "Y is more performant and faster than X", but no one reached the limit of X. Why should I care? Meanwhile, we use performant AI.Real engineering is not chasing hype.
It's understanding the system so deeply that you no longer need most of it.We've replaced curiosity with cargo cults.
We've replaced learning with LLM prompting.And somehow, we're surprised when AI loses to a 1980s Atari in a chess game.
At least the Atari understood its own memory.Simplicity = less maintenance = fewer bugs = happier teams.
We need less. Not more.
#devex #simplicity #softwareengineering #nocodependency#stopthehype #bugfree #springboot #gradle #xml #yamlhell #boringisgood #minimalism #AIhype #infrastructure #cleancode #pragmatism #java #NanoNative -
"Experiencing like breathing is a rhythm of intakings and outgivings. Their succession is punctuated and made a rhythm by the existence of intervals, periods in which one phase is ceasing and the other is inchoate and preparing."
#pragmatism #philosophy #dewey
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/an-experience.htm
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Pragmatism
Pragmatism is not so much realism as flexibility. There are a lot of ways to get from point A to point B. It doesn’t have to be a straight line. It’s just got to get you where you need to go. But so many of us spend so much time looking for the perfect solution that we pass up what’s right in front of us.
slip:4a1553.
#InspirationalQuotesBookSelected_ #Pragmatism #Quotes #RyanHoliday
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I know, you always come out on top, the great exception.
Well, someday your enemies will laugh and laugh. Consider:
life is full of changes, and who can stand them better? A man
who treats his body and proud mind to luxury, addicting them,
or someone used to little, and to thinking of the future,
a man wise in peacetime, preparing then the tools of war?
[Uni nimirum recte tibi semper erunt res,
o magnus posthac inimicis risus. Uterne
ad casus dubios fidet sibi certius? Hic qui
pluribus adsuerit mentem corpusque superbum,
an qui contentus parvo metuensque futuri
in pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello?]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 2, “Quae virtus et quanta,” l. 106ff (2.2.106-111) (30 BC) [tr. Fuchs (1977)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/76560/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #adaptability #badluck #contingency #defense #investment #misfortune #overoptimism #peace #planning #pragmatism #preparation #war
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
It is not possible to lay down an inflexible rule as to when compromise is right and when wrong; when it is a sign of the highest statesmanship to temporize, and when it is merely a proof of weakness. Now and then one can stand uncompromisingly for a naked principle and force people up to it. This is always the attractive course; but in certain great crises it may be a very wrong course. Compromise, in the proper sense, merely means agreement; in the proper sense opportunism should merely mean doing the best possible with actual conditions as they exist.
A compromise which results in a half-step toward evil is all wrong, just as the opportunist who saves himself for the moment by adopting a policy which is fraught with future disaster is all wrong; but no less wrong is the attitude of those who will not come to an agreement through which, or will not follow the course by which, it is alone possible to accomplish practical results for good.Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Essay (1900-06), “Latitude and Longitude Among Reformers,” The Century Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 2Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #accomplishment #possibility #brightline #compromise #goodandevil #longterm #mutualagreement #necessaryevil #opportunist #practicality #pragmatism #principle #shortterm #temporization
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
It is not possible to lay down an inflexible rule as to when compromise is right and when wrong; when it is a sign of the highest statesmanship to temporize, and when it is merely a proof of weakness. Now and then one can stand uncompromisingly for a naked principle and force people up to it. This is always the attractive course; but in certain great crises it may be a very wrong course. Compromise, in the proper sense, merely means agreement; in the proper sense opportunism should merely mean doing the best possible with actual conditions as they exist.
A compromise which results in a half-step toward evil is all wrong, just as the opportunist who saves himself for the moment by adopting a policy which is fraught with future disaster is all wrong; but no less wrong is the attitude of those who will not come to an agreement through which, or will not follow the course by which, it is alone possible to accomplish practical results for good.Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Essay (1900-06), “Latitude and Longitude Among Reformers,” The Century Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 2Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #accomplishment #possibility #brightline #compromise #goodandevil #longterm #mutualagreement #necessaryevil #opportunist #practicality #pragmatism #principle #shortterm #temporization
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
It is not possible to lay down an inflexible rule as to when compromise is right and when wrong; when it is a sign of the highest statesmanship to temporize, and when it is merely a proof of weakness. Now and then one can stand uncompromisingly for a naked principle and force people up to it. This is always the attractive course; but in certain great crises it may be a very wrong course. Compromise, in the proper sense, merely means agreement; in the proper sense opportunism should merely mean doing the best possible with actual conditions as they exist.
A compromise which results in a half-step toward evil is all wrong, just as the opportunist who saves himself for the moment by adopting a policy which is fraught with future disaster is all wrong; but no less wrong is the attitude of those who will not come to an agreement through which, or will not follow the course by which, it is alone possible to accomplish practical results for good.Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Essay (1900-06), “Latitude and Longitude Among Reformers,” The Century Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 2Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #accomplishment #possibility #brightline #compromise #goodandevil #longterm #mutualagreement #necessaryevil #opportunist #practicality #pragmatism #principle #shortterm #temporization