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physicist, ecomodernist

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@robkhenderson It doesn‘t work like that.
1. You will only remember the good things and e.g. not how tired you were.
2. You will not remember any particular catch session of you had many.
3. It gets more complicated if it‘s spending time with friends vs. spending time with your kids.

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@phl43 Smartphones accelerate the internet, which accelerates the World Monoculture, part of which is being childless by default.

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@pegobry_en Classic survivorship bias. This is what got him successful.

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@Hitchslap1 Good explanation:
https://t.co/tXcPaYRy6v

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@mmjukic Aliens make us realize that we have more in common with each other. You suddenly feel part of humanity as a group rather than your nation, race or whatever.

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@LocasaleLab If you actually read the article he shared, it just amounts to „ultra-processed food is junk because it contains junk, not because it‘s called ultra-processed“.

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@MichaelAArouet Latin American families, easy to integrate, with actual children

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@pegobry_en It‘s because coding and math are verifiable problems (you can check exactly whether it works), while good prose and art are subjective.

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@OdedRechavi They’re also unaware of the discussions at the conference dinners and poster sessions, only seeing the polished paper results.

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@lymanstoneky Challenge accepted:
Geschlechtsverkehrverherrlichungsmedien

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@Aelthemplaer It’s far?

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@TheAhmadOsman How much battery does this consume?

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@benlandautaylor Read "Mate" by Tucker & Miller

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@fchollet Haha, yes, but only if you already have tenure. Before that the most important skill is gaming the system to get tenure.

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@MoreBirths During the time of socialism, which they hate so much and regard as an occupation by Russia, their population increased from 24M to 38M, by more than 50%.

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@mmjukic The globally declining birthrates are also a symptom of this global monoculture. The world has become less resilient without cultural competition.

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@G_S_Bhogal I recommend Geoerge Lakoff's "Metaphors We Live By" if you like long form and metaphors.

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@MoreBirths Faramir is talking about Númenoreans there, not Elves. The sentence left out reads:

"Death was ever present, because the Númenoreans still, as they had in their old kingdom, and so
lost it, hungered after endless life unchanging."

They wanted immortality over children.

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@benlandautaylor Are you familiar with selectorate theory (from "The Dictator's Handbook") and what do you think about it? Seems like a competing theory to Samo's Great Founder Theory.

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@star_stufff This once again shows the exorbitant arrogance of high-energy physicists, who think that their branch of physics is the only physics there is.