#hume

☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2025-04-15

Day 17 cont 💰💰💰💰

“The shadow treasurer, #AngusTaylor, has been questioned on why the opposition leader #PeterDutton, indicated before the election there would be no #TaxCuts before announcing a one-off $1,200 refund for 10 million Australians in the #Coalition’s campaign launch on Sunday.”

A formal policy would have thought through these decisions making reversals less likely. The member for #Hume is the opposition Treasurer.

#AusPol / #LNP / #Liberal / #Finance <theguardian.com/australia-news>

2025-04-13

I wanted to draw something easy and fun, so I took my friend Xan’s mention of FFXI leeches in sweaters and ran with it. The leeches are, like, objectively adorable, right? … RIGHT?

#art #digitalart #fanart #ffxi #hume #elvaan #leech #chibi #MastoArt

A black and white illustration of two characters from FFXI and their leeches. Xanathema, a Hume Red Mage with short black hair dressed in artifact gear, leans back and looks down at the adorable leech in a sweater resting on her lap. Behind her, Cthonyxa, a black-haired Elvaan White Mage dressed in RSE gear and a Traveler’s Hat,  sits behind her, grinning at the camera while her leech--dressed in a sweater that says ““#1 Leech”, peeks out from behind her hat. Cthonyxa’s logo is on the left.
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
2025-04-09

Day eleven: ☢️💧

“About 90% of the #nuclear generation capacity the #Coalition proposes to build would not have access to enough water to run safely, according to a report commissioned by #LiberalsAgainstNuclear.

The report authored by Prof. #AndrewCampbell, a visiting fellow at the Australian National University (#ANU) , assessed nuclear energy’s #water needs and the available #supply across the seven sites where the Coalition has proposed new reactors.”

“Well done Angus”

If you remember the member for #Hume is insisting the Federal Government if the #LNP wins election will purchase, run and make a profit using nuclear power.

No mention of locations of power generation sites (I assume existing sites) nor is there any mention of #geological, #enviromental or #NuclearWaste disposal studies.

#Liberal / #NuclearPower / #ClimateEmergency / #gas / #coal <theguardian.com/environment/20>

2025-04-01
2025-03-31

This is my favourite essay by David Hume: "Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion", in Essays Moral, Political and Literary Part I (1741, 1777).
It's a sort of an Epicurean how-to live around culture and the arts.
davidhume.org/texts/empl1/dt
#books #Hume

2024-12-07

"But setting aside metaphysicians of this kind, I am willing to affirm of the rest of mankind that each of us is nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions that follow each other enormously quickly and are in a perpetual flux and movement."

— David #Hume, Treatise of Human Nature, book 1 (1739)

#philosophy

2024-12-02

I’ve just read about a set of David Hume’s letters being auctioned, and I have to say that were I ridiculously wealthy, I would absolutely spend all my money making sure things like this were safely archived in museums where people could see them, and where they would be protected from the elements and ravages of time.
He was such an extraordinary writer, his snide turns of phrase, his elegant dismissal of the external divine, his belief that humanity was humanity’s greatest hope and enemy. These were letters to a friend, and they stayed in that family from the 1700s until now. I hope the purchaser puts, at the very least, archival copies of the letters online, so we can read them.

#hume #philosophy #empiricism #skeptics #enlightenment

bonhams.com/auction/29882/lot/

A primer on Hume: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hu

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