Where did you get the idea that chewing gum is made out of rubber and plastic? 🤔

Edit: Thanks all, I had no idea!

Haha, thanks amigo 👍

That’s one hell of a quote. Thanks for the reminder of what a great thinker Clemens was.

[Half-drunk ramblings with a dozen edits, feel free to ignore]

I don’t know. I think logic and reason (L&R) were intended to make up for our shortcomings. Our minds don’t write down facts, they remember in hazy patterns. L&R were first codified by Descartes (to my knowledge) but used in practice back to the ancient Sumerian engineers if not further. I think the fact that they have been wildly successful despite not being universally adopted just indicates how fundamentally different they are than the naturally workings of the wet brain hardware we evolved across aeons for survival and basic propagation. And while it’s certainly no end unto itself, of course it’s not hard to imagine the additional progress that would come from broader acceptance and application of L&R and the scientific process.

So yeah I wouldn’t call it a hacky patch; there’s genuine value in concrete and self-consistent philosophy. But we have to wrestle against our nature to embrace it.

Sadly people only seem to react to the visceral violence of the wolf attacking the pig, not the more subtle systematic violence of the bourgeois pig leaving the others destitute and starving.

I can’t eat jalapeños (intolerance or something) so here are some other good pineapple combos worth trying.

• Regular sauce, pineapple, feta, optional artichoke
• Sweeter sauce, pineapple, pepperoni, banana peppers
• BBQ sauce, pineapple, roasted chicken (or meatballs!), red onion
• Pesto sauce, pineapple, sausage, and roasted red peppers (my favorite!)

I’m annoyed that I know exactly what you’re talking about and now it irritates me all over again lol