notaprodigy

I like cold spaghetti.

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@vividvoid @Grimezsz @cremieuxrecueil fair

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@Grimezsz @Kim_Sirius hrt is promoted like crazy in all the forums. in an inorganic, farmed way.
great if it works for some people, but...more data, more time, more constructive skepticism would be good.

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@valleyofthena @selentelechia moving air on my face helped me when i was a kid

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

I will never complain about woke holidays being added to the calendar because frankly, we’re short on holidays.

We need at least 10-12 more big holidays. The wokes can have a few, and so can the chuds. We need more days off, especially in the summer.

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@MsMelChen @eigenrobot @EmmaJoNYC oof. well done

[Rebecc@ ███████ @Rebecca21951651]

@LocasaleLab Why is trust in The Science in decline, @johnstravis ?

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@St_Rev roll it up, son

[critter @BecomingCritter]

the single strongest signal of a good friend is their ability to give the benefit of the doubt

this is very rare in people, and if you find them don't fuck it up. it's hard to find

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@BrianRoemmele i get what you're saying, but this is fundamentally at odds with the nature of predictive models. predictions are not truths. they are anticipatory and relational. seems like we should get people to understand this better vs rely on ai for truth.

[eigenrobot @eigenrobot]

my guess is that most scaled "fraud" claims are fake and nearly all are hysterical which makes me not trust those claims.

however, its a serious problem for state legitimacy in a democracy that lots of people think elections are fake and this to me is underweighted by people focused on object level claims of fraud being mostly fake.

electoral fraud is a common problem both historically and contemporarily. it's not facially unreasonable for people to be concerned when elections are held in times of great civic tension, where they have zero trust for many of the people running those elections. simply telling people they're retarded for being concerned is not going to allay those concerns. yes obviously people are retarded but retards have an equal stake in our nation.

if you are concerned about people saying elections are being stolen, an alternative to telling them to shut up is to structure elections to a wife of caesar standard. maximize transparency and to the extent feasible auditibility.

of course if you have the ability to do THAT and you choose not to, that too is a signal. maybe it's a signal that you're doing something shady! maybe it's just a signal that you hold the complaints of voters in contempt. irrespective of which it is, maintaining a system that people openly distrust in spite of their complaints will cause them to rationally distrust you further.

in a sense it doesn't matter because my belief is that we are in the middle of a low-grade civil war and both parties will to the extent they're able do their best to steal elections using whatever means are available to them and neither party is interested in the long term legitimacy of the state, and nothing is likely to improve. enjoy arbys

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@sonyasupposedly Kid World is so noble. ♥️

[wanye @xwanyex]

One of the things that seems so stupid and infantilizing about modern culture is that you can’t just talk to people like an adult now and reason through things and make the case for this or that and encounter people with agency to do anything about it. There’s nobody at the company to whom you can give a firm handshake and the sales pitch. In its place as a process. You follow the process. And then a decision is made in the background. Everything is like applying to college.

So for example I ordered a water heater and I guess I didn’t notice that there was a separate option to have the guys carry it in for you. I got one of these fancy new heat pump water heaters and it’s much heavier than a normal water heater, which is already pretty bulky and heavy, and I can’t get it downstairs by myself. So I called to see if we can’t get the guys back out here to get it down into the basement. But of course there’s no making that happen. There’s no amount of money I could offer, no sweet talking. You can’t get anybody on the phone who has any agency to make this happen. There’s a process. And what I want is not part of the process.

So instead what we have to do is I’m returning the original water heater and I ordered a new one and this time I checked the box to have the guys carry it into the basement.

So later today, some people will come in a truck to take the original, perfectly fine water heater away. And then later different people will deliver a different water heater and carry it into my basement, because this time I checked the box that says they’re allowed to do that.

This is all completely absurd. I am capable of understanding that everything is optimized for the more common case and that this is probably more efficient at scale. I can understand the benefits of that just fine.

It’s just that the society it creates when things go wrong is one that feels very stupid and unsatisfying to normal people. And that’s a downside that actually does need to be registered.

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@goblinodds This seems very beautiful to me, as if the false memories might be distilled ideas about the type of person he was.
(Unless of course he was nothing like that!)

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

Tyrone Hayes, a Berkeley biologist, found atrazine scrambled frog sexual development. Genetically male frogs were chemically castrated. Some were so feminized they mated with other males and laid viable eggs. Published in PNAS.

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@GarrettPetersen we need more five and under in product design

[Anna Khachiyan @annakhachiyan]

Basically the problem with our society isn’t even “women” or “phones,” it’s that the built-in short-term perks and amenities created by general affluence make it so that no one is willing or able to iterate past their immediate whims and imagine what their life will be in the future or acknowledge that they too are subject to aging or consider what this will look like at scale. Affordability is a huge factor, of course, but partly a self-reinforcing one.

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@jpodhoretz she's awful and i love her

[shako @shakoistsLog]

also, as is often the case, the well adjusted friends of mine who will suffer from this don't yell online. they just keep working hard and are dejected.

whole situation sucks. if you knew the people i know you'd want them to stay too. policies are too blunt.

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@Mankosmash @memeticsisyphus m'lady

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@goblinodds just salient passages and then talk about why the essay/author is compelling
**your red pill video was excellent -- showed it to my kids. we're centrist(ish) in extremely blue waters.