Miller Hall

@arlindohall

Software Developer. North Carolina. Weird Music. Weirder SciFi Books. ↙️↙️↙️ 🐸 🗽

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Miller Hall@arlindohall· 2d

Detail of a Renaissance fresco showing two robed philosophers walking side by side through a grand classical hall.

The older man on the left, with white hair and beard, wears orange, white, and green robes and points upward with one hand while holding a book labeled “TIMEO” (The Timaeus).

The younger man on the right, with a shorter beard and brown hair, wears blue and brown robes and gestures forward with his palm down, holding a book labeled “ETICA” (Nicomachean Ethics) at his side.

Other classically dressed figures and stone architecture surround them.

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Jun 15

screenshot of an instagram post:

btsarmy222777
SORRY I HAVEN'T BEEN POSTING ON HERE A LOT GUYS I STARTED TAKING A MOOD STABILIZER AND NOW I'M NOT OBSESSED WITH BTS ANYMORE
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btsarmy 222777 Still love them though

Miller Hall@arlindohall· May 19

epic handshake meme where one arm is labeled “seizing the means of production,” the other is “destroying the power base of the epstein-trump class,” and the hands clasped in the middle are labeled “taxing billionaires”

Miller Hall@arlindohall· May 18

Neal Stephenson with a speech bubble pointed at the quoted post

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Mar 25

Fair that one’s on me I literally pulled the first number I saw on Wikipedia. So it’s not his life expectancy and I was being dramatic. But I don’t see any reason to play chicken with the specific number.

Screenshot: Wikipedia page on US life expectancy. This image contains the row labeled NC from the first table on the page.

From the page:

The life expectancy at birth in each U.S. state and the District of Columbia from 2019 to 2021, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.

33 North Carolina
Overall: 77.6
Male: 75
Female: 80.1

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Mar 16

i’m sorry

an accountant can never be managed
therefore an accountant must never make a computer decision

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Mar 15

meme of the guy pointing at himself in a mirror that i think originally came from wikihow:

guy in the mirror has a text box that says

“Me after using claude for too long and saying ‘that's a great point’ twice in a row”

guy pointing at his reflection has a text box that says

“Me after spending thirty years deciding what to say next based on what I think a hypothetical polite person would say”

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Feb 18

using a publix cookie like a health potion so i don’t die of psychic damage after reading this

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Jan 21

oh hell yeah.

meme, a screenshot of some televangelist preacher, captioned:

JESUS, I SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, AND I WANT THAT FOR ME.

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Jan 21

in the US, originalists claim to interpret laws via the “original meaning” of the text, but usually they invent a meaning that fits the desired conservative/reactionary outcome. so when used as a pejorative, it sort of implies the opposite

a screenshot of wikipedia, saying:

by Justice Antonin Scalia, whose opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) became a defining—and divisive-statement of originalist reasoning. Critics, including many professional historians, have argued that Heller relied on selective or flawed historical analysis. Despite such criticism, originalism has grown in prominence since Scalia's tenure, especially with the appointments of Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett during the Trump administration. The philosophy played a central role in major rulings such as Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022), which overturned Roe v.
Wade. In response, some scholars and jurists, including Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, have advanced ideas of "progressive originalism." Meanwhile, critics contend that the Court's reliance on history has become inconsistent and politically driven, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor remarking that "history matters to this Court only when it is convenient."

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Jan 16

a log standing on end in the grass. there is a blue iron wedge sticking into a split in the log, and an old sledge hammer held by a person standing just out of frame is just about to hit the wedge, splitting the log and driving the two halves apart

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Jan 13

Bart’s class saying, “Say the line!” meme where Bart sadly says the line, and then the whole class erupts in cheers.

Text in the meme:
Say the line!
Welcome to the resistance, Joe Rogan

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Jan 9

check out the 40th anniversary re-recording of Baby Beluga, Raffi has been trying to tell us and it’s time we listen 😤💪🙌

Well you know, that song was written 40 years ago
And by now there are beluga grads everywhere
Millions of beluga grads who grew up singing baby beluga
So for you a new verse

Now you've grown and you're on your way
Making waves in the boundless bay
With your shining light and your dreams alive

For the ones you've brought this way

Grown up beluga, grown beluga

Sing a song of peace
Sing a song of diversity
Child honouring, social justice, climate action

We need, we need to hear you
You beluga grads and me on the go

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Jan 7

The meme where a woman reads from her phone about COVID policies and a man turns a calendar from “December 2020” to “January 1984”

But instead of COVID, the woman reads that “They’re banning Plato at the university”. And the man turns the calendar from “Texas 2026” to “Baghdad 1095.”

This is a reference to Al-Ghazali’s “Incoherence of the Philosophers,” though it’s a bit of a stretch because Ghazali didn’t exactly ban Plato, just criticize certain interpretations of his ideas.

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Jan 2

a calm and curious hamster standing on his hind legs in an ambiguous setting, nothing else is really in frame except a brown floor and tan background

the hamster has a brown face and a white and brown body

to the side is the text “A bear was found inside it on Dec. 16”

a hamster in a dead panic, the camera is blurry. the background looks like maybe a gray couch but it’s hard to tell.

this picture is popular in memes where the poster wants to depict panic; the picture is the first to come up when you google search “scared hamster”

below the hamster is the text “but officials said it was the wrong bear.”

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Dec 11

Can’t forget 9th grade civics if you never learned 9th grade civics (Because they’re all blowhards who scorn knowledge)

Tapping forehead meme.

From Wikipedia: Roll Safe is an Internet meme in which British filmmaker and actor Kayode Ewumi, while portraying the character Reece Simpson (also known as Roll Safe) in his own web series Hood Documentary, is seen tapping his finger on his head. The images are used, often with joking caption, to mock poor decision-making and failures in critical thinking, a common format being "You can't X, if there is no Y".

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Dec 5

So the thing is… this guy is a fucking idiot. I’m genuinely unsure if he’s able to string together two thoughts into a third though without hurting himself by accident. From his blog…

Screenshot of a blog post by op

“3. Was it legal in practice?

Suppose that the killing did violate U.S. statutes prohibiting U.S. citizens from committing murder while abroad. Would this really violate "law"? …”

Additional text from op’s blog showing asinine thought processes that can hardly be called reasoning.

“1. Was it moral and good?

Yes, I would say. If it is a choice between killing a drug runner and letting him be picked up by his friends so he can return to his immoral business, he should be killed. Note that I can say this confidently even if I don't believe in the death penalty for drug running. If I do, as many would do, then the question is even simpler.

2. Was it legal in theory?
This is a hard and subtle question...”

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Dec 3

It seems they went to the 2011 (?) version of the Wikipedia page to get this?? en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

Screenshot of the 2011 version of the Wikipedia page on the Falkland Islands territory dispute.

The text begins…

International position
International position on the sovereignty of the Falklands

Then the map that is in the grandparent post. Then there is a legend…

Green: Falkland Islands
Bright blue: The United Kingdom
Muted blue: Countries which support the United Kingdom's claim
Green: Neutral countries which generally support the United Kingdom's claim
Bright red: Argentina
Red: Countries which support Argentina's claim
Muted red: Neutral countries which generally support Argentina's claim

Then there is some text describing the map…

The international position on the sovereignty of the islands is varied, with some countries supporting the British claim; with others supporting the Argentine claim. Some countries maintain a neutrality on the issue.

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Dec 1

Evergreen

A screenshot of the quoted tweet cropped and with text crossed through in white to change the text. It now reads:

“Unit tests feel like something that’s slowing you down until they wind up saving you suffering”

The screenshot also shows the user and metadata for the post, which at the time of the screenshot was 1 repost, 15 likes, and one save.

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Nov 29

A bust of Aristotle, the main image from the Wikipedia page for Aristotle. The image has been edited with a speech bubble to make it look like Aristotle is saying the words in the quote tweet.

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Nov 16

A graphic taken from an internet search for “regular polyhedra.” The shapes have 4, 6, 8, 12, and 20 sides (I think… it’s been a while since I had geometry)

The labels have been replaced with more familiar sounding names.

Pyramid
Cube
Brin
Haulm
Voughd

The shapes are blue with minimalist shading. Each was labeled with its proper name in black in the original. The labels of everything but the cube have been covered messily with gray rectangles with black text. The labels originally said:

Regular tetrahedron
Cube
Regular octahedron
Regular dodecagon
Regular icosahedron

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Nov 13

The electoral map if a dem ran on “I’m going to put everyone in the Epstein emails—every Republican and every Democrat—in jail”

An electoral map from the website 270 to Win. Every state is blue.

There is a legend for what colors mean and where there are split vote districts, but it doesn’t matter because every single state is solid dark blue.

Across the top is a progress bar marking 270 electoral votes in the middle, democrats on the left, and Republicans on the right. It’s meant to show how close to victory either party is. It doesn’t matter because every single state is blue.

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Nov 12

Those are Democrat votes. We count those.

Two captioned frames from a scene in 30 Rock where Kenneth says:

“I don’t vote Republican or Democrat. Choosing is a sin, so I always just write in the Lord’s name!”

And Jack responds:

“That’s Republican, we count those”

The first frame shows Kenneth smiling innocently in the 30 Rock executive office. The second shows a side angle of Kenneth with the same smile, but Jack is looking at him sidelong with a condescending expression.

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Nov 12

Not trying to be contrarian for its own sake, but a little context does make this make more sense, from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issey_M...

Text from a Wikipedia article reading:

From a young age, Miyake respected artist Isamu Noguchi, whose novelty and sense of fun in his designs inspired Miyake. He was also inspired by fashion designer Madeleine Vionnet's use of geometric calculations and "a single piece of beautiful cloth". In Paris, he visited several museums and he mentioned
that he was influenced by sculptors such as Constantin Brâncusi and Alberto Giacometti.

Miyake also developed a friendship with Apple's Steve Jobs, who came to him after seeing the uniforms Miyake designed for employees of Sony's factories. At Jobs's request, Miyake designed similar vests for Apple employees, but Jobs encountered strong opposition to the idea of a uniform.
Nonetheless, Miyake went on to produce the black turtlenecks which would become a part of Jobs' signature attire. Jobs said, "So I asked Issey to make me some of his black turtlenecks that I liked, and he made me like a hundred of them."

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Nov 2

I was raised in a deeply evangelical culture and still go to a Protestant church (Methodist so like, the Michelob Ultra of Anglicans), and yet… I want my money back for each of the 10 Protestant points I got. I need to go back and retake it and rig the liberal answers.

An online quiz from https://anglican-quiz.vercel.app specifically the results page.

I am classified on a triangle with points “Catholic,” “Protestant,” and “Liberal.” Mostly toward the liberal end and roughly on vector pointing from the center toward the liberal node so that the other two axes are evenly weighted.

The name of this area is “Biblically Literate Progressive”

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Oct 23

A screenshot of the Wikipedia entry page for Trump v. United States, saying:

Oral arguments were held on April 25, 2024.

Trump's attorney D. John Sauer argued that the President has absolute immunity from
prosecution for all official acts unless successfully impeached and convicted by Congress before prosecution. Michael Dreeben, representing the special counsel, argued that there are appropriate safeguards to assure that a president could not be prosecuted for most acts done while in their official capacity.

One notable controversy which occurred during oral arguments was a response Trump attorney John Sauer made to Sonia Sotomayor which argued Presidents can, among other things, kill political rivals with immunity.

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Sep 23

Of all the words to do this with. It’s dumb either way but… “submit”? “Submit” is the word he’s going with? “Submit” is the word he’s going to say has no Arabic translation? I keep getting angrier every time I think about it.

A screenshot of Wikipedia. The text says:

Etymology

See also: Muslims § Etymology

In Arabic, Islam (Arabic: lit. 'submission [to God]') is the verbal noun of Form IV originating from the verb salama, from the triliteral root (S-L-M), which forms a large class of words mostly relating to concepts of submission, safeness, and peace.

Miller Hall@arlindohall· Jan 23

The love for Nickel Creek in these comments makes me happy. Their latest, “Celebrants” was on repeat in my car for like a month, and I’m still on a Chris Thile kick because of it. Right now my favorite might be “Hell on Church Street”