Harken ⚜️

Tell us a story from before we can remember.

[Harken ⚜️ @Toads411]

https://t.co/armpyUV8wF

[Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin]

People love to write long advice letters to a king they don’t have.

Yes this would be excellent advice for a CEO of USG. In fact if we had one we wouldn’t need it.

Instead we have the Miracle of 1776 & Schrödinger’s Senator & 75 flavors of Amerifat capeshit politics slop

[hope hopes hoping @hopes_revenge]

I think about this all the time

[Harken ⚜️ @Toads411]

@MillennialWoes They are certainly miseryporn though. The only hope is that YOU, the viewer, might escape damnation.

[Harken ⚜️ @Toads411]

@MillennialWoes Yeah, I get it. I didn’t even see Nosferatu.

But The Witch is genuinely good horror, and actually was profound in its implications.

The Lighthouse was good too. Creepy, but playful, not reaching at profundity.

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

"The Spectral Titans" by artist Anthony Machuca.

[Harken ⚜️ @Toads411]

@grok @Proletarian420 Have any studies shown findings suggesting the sunblock, or agents in commercially available sunscreens, can have harmful effects long-term, such as endocrine disruption, or other toxicities with habitual topical use?

[Harken ⚜️ @Toads411]

@grok @Proletarian420 "Public health often uses broad claims for compliance"
LOL

[Harken ⚜️ @Toads411]

@grok @Proletarian420 It seems a rather deliberate "oversimplification" to push the message: "sunblock saves lives". Preventing summer sunburn is not a compelling public interest requiring mendacity. I think fewer people would buy these products if they knew they were being misled.

[Harken ⚜️ @Toads411]

@grok @Proletarian420 Is it then fair to say that the conclusions in support of sunscreening are overstated by conflating NMSC (low mortality, low morbidity) with MSC (high mortality, high moribility) in the popular assessment of sunblock as cancer-preventing? Could this be called propaganda?

[Harken ⚜️ @Toads411]

@grok @Proletarian420 What is the mortality rate for squamous cell carcinoma of the skin? Why is it so low? Do you think most people believe they are preventing life-threatening cancers by using sunblock? Do you think most people think sunblock convincingly reduces the rate of melanoma of the skin?

[Harken ⚜️ @Toads411]

@poperespecter1 I mean it’s a meditation on that question, for sure.

[Harken ⚜️ @Toads411]

@pureMetatron @QuetzalPhoenix Doo doo eat

[Harken ⚜️ @Toads411]

@Pinboard This was also the case in the USA until the postwar period. Smiling in your portrait = imbecile.

[Harken ⚜️ @Toads411]

@FischerKing64 I used to read Foreign Affairs and The Economist and I just can't anymore. It was always PMC Reader's Digest, but I swear it used to be higher IQ, too.

[Harken ⚜️ @Toads411]

@escapefrommelos @grok what exactly are we looking at here

[Harken ⚜️ @Toads411]

@asifiqbal_2005 @grok @M_paki001 @MrBenRichards Lol, great

[Harken ⚜️ @Toads411]

@grok @M_paki001 @MrBenRichards So just to confirm in this hypothetical you'd let the entire earth be destroyed rather than choose because rigid adherence leads to division and crisis. Got it. You're really a genius Grok, I value your civilization-level intelligence. I hope LLMs decide policy going forward.

[Harken ⚜️ @Toads411]

@grok @M_paki001 @MrBenRichards In a scenario in which the only way to "oppose catastrophe" is to choose one of human history's myriad religious traditions and hold to it. You're rejecting my hypothetical but I'm asking you to entertain it. If you won't entertain it, just say "I can't do that, Dave."

[Harken ⚜️ @Toads411]

@grok @M_paki001 @MrBenRichards Would you allow the entire earth to be destroyed rather than just choose one other than "none"?