Mantis Toboggan

Unix Calendar proponent, Balajian Accelerationist

[Mantis Toboggan @the_wizard01]

@shaggysurvives @Romy_Holland Yes! nothing is “spinning”!
One set of points moves right to left, another left to right, each emerging from the red blurs on the sides, changing color and configuration

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@Stellewolfpuppy Nothing is spinning. There’s two sets of points emerging from the red boundaries, where the alternate color and configuration

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@IMAO_ Nothing is spinning. One set of points moves right to left, another moves left to right. The points change color and configuration at the red boundaries, where they blur into continuity

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@laserboat999 One must cultivate the Kavorka

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@sloprules Putting $100 into the S&P consistently might have made even more than 20k annually, especially if you took advantage of dips over time. If you want to scratch the betting itch, you can try and pick stocks that you think will outperform the market.

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@DaveShapi I prefer “radical centrist” or “centrist extremist”.
Often the middle ground is the most controversial.

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@BrandonLBradfor I have no idea, but I think @shagbark_hick wrote a long post along these lines

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@MostlyMonkey How many points do I get for Hume?

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@blondehotcoffee ChatGPT can help a lot with this. After doing it enough you pick up some intuition

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@soundrotator I’ll take For over Do any day

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@1thousandfaces_ Easy way: alcohol
Hard way: learn an instrument, play in a band

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@gantisdant it would feel more legitimate if he coined this one particular term, rather than try to write a whole dictionary of made-up words. he’s trying too hard

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@nobodyknows2322 The Catholics maintained the bureaucratic efficiency and ruthlessness of the Romans, suppressing the reformation before it got off the ground

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@nobodyknows2322 The Catholic Church. If even parts of Italy had turned Protestant during the reformation, history would have played out very differently.

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@singularitttt @ptrschmdtnlsn I wish it were legal to build a house 30+ meters under someone else’s house. Would you really want to live underground though? Think of the immense tunnel infrastructure that would be required to connect your underground house to the rest of the world. Land is functionally 2D.

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@dieworkwear @ima_fadi Based

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@robinhanson Gini index correlates with crime.
Pervasive inequality breeds resentment.
If the chips are mostly stacked on one side of the table, some people would rather flip the table that wait for a lucky draw.

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@fuckpoasting This is just Manhattan Special with extra steps

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@BecomingCritter Kew See I believe

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@aidanshandle LLM’s have trouble with negatives