I punched a rat when I was three years old.
It was on a park bench. I didn't think there should be a rat in a playground.
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SBF was behind the lab leak article.
The FTX-fueled spending included millions of dollars on virus research and lobbying — but also $150,000 to help Operation Warp Speed’s science adviser write his memoir, and $5M to ProPublica that funded its recent story with Vanity Fair on covid origins.
washingtonpost.com/health/20…
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no, he’s just kinda dumb and assumed any brand name he knows has had controversy around it must be countercultural rather than preppy.
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There was a moral panic that returning GIs wouldn’t want American women anymore, because they couldn’t relate to them the way they could relate to French women.
I recall an article about this but can’t immediately find it.
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"93% of the population in Gaza is facing crisis levels of hunger"
who.int/news/item/21-12-2023…
"average consumption of water... has fallen to between two and three liters a day per person"
reliefweb.int/report/occupie…
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Yeah she’s hot but she’s Austrian, from Willendorf.
Hot Mesopotamian women in your area look like this. (From Tell Halaf).
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It is incredibly easy to say “the IDF is committing atrocities and should stop” without saying “killing Israeli civilians is okay” or “attacking random ships is okay” and I cannot fathom why I keep seeing people defending the latter
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It's a reference to a Reagan line about a "strapping young buck" buying "T-bone steaks" with food stamps, as an argument for cutting welfare.
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burning men alive in a wicker man may increase crop yields, but it takes like 12 million calories to raise someone to age 18, and if you pull up the USDA Soil Data Explorer you’ll find that 1/30
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This ad is funded by the private prison industry. They’re running this campaign because banks recently agreed to stop giving private prisons loans. This is one of the few good things big banks have ever done. forbes.com/sites/morgansimon…
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Yes!
Was there ever an answer on *why* they didn’t use the winner? I remember speculation about it overfitting or being wildly expensive to run.
I think there was also a “pandemic caused prices to go far away from the distribution it was trained on” subplot.
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A guy on the train is on his laptop, flipping between RStudio and a PDF textbook, and occasionally clutching his head. Solidarity.
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This is false. This doesn’t even make sense. You can’t “culture” a PCR test, that’s like expecting paper to grow back into a tree.
PCR tests make copies of RNA or DNA that matches a template. A positive test is when it can make many copies. A negative test is when it can’t.
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This $100m offer is a gamble to stop Seattle from raising taxes to end homelessness, which Bezos fears will cost him more than $100m.
He's just making a larger gamble after his $1m gamble failed. reuters.com/article/us-usa-e…
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“I don’t save for retirement because of the Singularity/ ecological collapse/ impending revolution” reminds me of this survivalist who reverse-mortgaged his house to buy more guns.
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We are enemies.
Letting criminals go free after Nixon, Iran-Contra, the S&L crisis, the Iraq war, the 2007 collapse is what got us here.
They were trying to kill people in blue states by stealing PPE and ventilators less than a year ago.
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Sure, it is true that Ben-Gvir was *at* the wedding at which people stabbed a photo of a baby to celebrate that baby's death by burning, but was not *himself* caught on film stabbing the photo of the baby.
timesofisrael.com/participan…
haaretz.com/israel-news/2015…
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What part of Judge Collings’s statement about your case do you dispute?
casetext.com/case/us-v-sulli…
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"70% of the AI demands were about castrating or blinding someone when I loaded late-game byzantine saves."
forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum…
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P. auritus has ears sensitive enough to hear a moth in flight. It doesn’t even need to echolocate to hear them. link.springer.com/article/10…
That’s why it’s important to say “long-eared brown bats are cute” as often as possible. Ideally at a pitch from 7–20 kHz. #BatWC2020
**ROUND 1, GROUP 1**
The Bat World Cup begins!!
We start with two crowd-pleasers, the reigning UK champion: the Brown long-eared bat!
And that sugar-dusted, North American, baked-good of a bat: the Hoary bat!
Remember: YOU choose who moves on to the next round! #BatWC2020
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Nah, the dev is right. It is weird and bad to frame your realism complaint as about “politics”, “a narrative against natural fish keepers”, “FORCED to”.
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Cass Sunstein, a scholar known for being all about
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_…
There is a new paper arguing that nudges do not work at all.
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.22…
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The character writing suffered for a related reason.
The writers saw what moments people loved in S1, and wrote the characters to echo those moments over and over.
But people loved S1 moments like Clem beating up a guard or Dolores being ruthless *because they were surprising.*
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Jump scares are good.
Interesting jump scares are as admirable as good creature design, clever tension-building, highly original threats, etc.
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There was a distinct period where "X is an abuser" was equally likely to mean "X committed the following extremely serious crimes" and "X said they didn't like my writing."
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This is flatly wrong. Many valid theories contradict each other, because they include simplifying assumptions and our knowledge is incomplete.
Rate coding vs temporal coding in neurology; maximum parsimony vs maximum likelihood in phylogenetics; relativity vs quantum mechanics
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Mike Pence turned an HIV outbreak into an epidemic. If anyone else had been in charge, it would have ended at 42 cases. Because of Mike Pence's incompetence, it ended at 215. thelancet.com/action/showPdf…
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Monks should obsess over things monks obsessed over. Brewing beer, breeding peas, trivial theology like whether gnolls have lawful-nature.
and get so worked up about how best to do these things that breweries, greenhouses, and libraries get damaged in kung fu brawls
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“I have NOT resented Harvard for years, I have ‘had a serious issue with’ Harvard since 2017.”
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I get “trying to stop weapons from reaching Gaza is good”, I do not get “attacking random other ships is also good” or “these ballistic missiles aren’t intended to kill anyone”
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RE: Bull of Heaven
as per my previous email,
give me the Bull of Heaven,
so he can kill Gilgamesh in his dwelling
If you do not give me the Bull of Heaven
by EOD
I will open the gates
the dead will go up to devour the living
and the dead will outnumber the living, as discussed
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I don't care that you need to rile your readers up about "critical theory" to make a living. I do care that you're making your readers less informed.
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The thing that turned me off Scott was how he gets viscerally upset at the idea of bullying, but not at the idea of genocide.
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I love the flabby throat pouches on Vhagar and that other really big one. Bits that sag and wobble make them seem much more biological.
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It does indeed have a shitload of problems. And all those problems are from only 3,878 of them that were shipped before the recall.
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I am of the same demographic, I know Brearley, and there cannot be a hundred people who care about this letter.
A parent writes a dumb letter like this every few years. In my time it was about a Dalton-Trinity basketball game. It does not matter.
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Bigger Indonesia, aka Sundaland, probably had a lot of people living there. There are a bunch of proposals for archaeology there.
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I've tried to convince people Iran-Contra happened a bunch of times. It is not possible without Internet access.
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He banned the account that posted the location of his private jet, and is trying to develop a policy that post-emptively justifies it.
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Many human cultures vilify hyenas and praise wolves (who are no threat to horses).
Cultures that arose after horse domestication particularly romanticize the wolf and demonize the innocent hyena. Ice Age art has less antihyena bias.
Why? The sinister hoof on our shoulder.
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Game dev slept with one guy who never actually reviewed her game. YouTuber misread ex-boyfriend complaining about her, claimed she had, sparked harassment. Large number of post facto rationalizations for harassing her and other people ensued.
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There’s this public face/ private face thing where authors talk up inclusion and wonder and optimism, while believing everything is zero-sum and they must drive their potential competitors out of writing.
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“Our recommendation intervention didn’t get enough adherence to make a difference” is useful information. They’re explicit that this is a test of the recommendation, not a test of masks. It’s not bulletproof against the bad-faith readings they knew were coming, but not negligent.
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planets around red dwarf stars will vastly outlive ours. but tidal locking seriously limits the surface area suitable for outdoor basketball.
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She sued someone for tweets. At trial, it came out that she considers herself a Nazi, and also believes in fairies.
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This was the third mass shooting arranged on 8chan in the last few months. Are you going to do anything about it? Or are you going to wait until the next one?
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Warship’s hull dissolves in water.
(The designer put two metals in contact that shouldnt be in contact, massively speeding up corrosion). wired.com/2011/06/shipbuilde…
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An Iranian special forces guy gives a Mexican drug cartel a ballistic missile he stole from America.
The heroes arrest him, but are forced to let him go free, because Liberals Are Soft On Crime.
The Iranian then launches the missile from a Crime-Ridden Neighborhood in Chicago.
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they were part of the same movement
dukeupress.edu/this-nonviole…
there is a common argument that the peaceful side got concessions *because* the violent side was highly visible and less appealing, much like a good-cop bad-cop routine
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credit/ blame @jdcmedlock
We will have to find a way to wrap socdem/"socialist" policies in normie aesthetics. Patriotism, fair market, level playing field, grills, muscle cars, whatever. Like Andrew Yang calling his UBI the "Freedom Dividend" because that's the name people liked the most in focus groups
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Seeing a “Remember 9/11: It Could Happen Here” billboard in suburban Michigan in 2011 was very confusing, as a New Yorker.
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being more cautious than is really necessary seems fair when it comes to family pets getting the 100% fatal disease that also makes them try to kill people
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.@pikaole’s art always makes me smile.
Patreon physical rewards tier has been reopened. Design polls for next quarter's stickers and postcards is currently in progress. Check it out if you're interested!
ALT The otter, gecko, and slug are looking at each other in tension. Their votes differ by only one vote.
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This belief is literally the reason Hitler took power.
If the KPD had worked with the SPD, Germany would have gone socialist, and tens of millions of lives would have been saved.
Popular fronts are good.
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Hyenas used to live throughout Eurasia.
Hyenas are particularly good at hunting horses.
Over the last few thousand years, wolves and humans replaced hyenas in most of their old range.
Even as horses, hyenas’ ideal prey, started to spread far beyond their ancient limits.
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I have some acquaintances in SF publishing. I think it was even meaner and more crab-bucket than this when it was all on blogs.
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Half of all fertilized eggs die before implantation. I’ve never seen a conservative show interest in the prospect of saving some of those millions of “human lives.”
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SVD/ PCA = data science
logreg = machine learning
linreg = 5+ years experience in advanced machine learning
pivot table = senior advanced artificial brain engineer IV
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The SAS trained the Khmer Rouge. nytimes.com/1990/10/11/world…
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From the news story, a fishermen pulled it up; it sounds like this fish just got lucky and survived.
One of their sister institutions aquarium has pulled up deep sea fish in a pressure tank and gradually acclimated them to lower pressure.
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Alt-med people have elaborate ideas about how they threaten the establishment, when the reaction would just be "FDA says move it to the real medicine box."
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There was a LessWrong guy who
a) believes video game NPCs have moral worth
b) kills every insect he sees because he believes insects suffer too much for their lives to be worth living
I hated him so much.
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The GOP lost the majority of votes, and will lose it again next time. The American people want the GOP to lose at every level.
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"J'en ai marre!" ("I've had enough of this!") is my favorite bit because it indicates the cat has done this before.
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Upper left side has adherents, it’s one of Matt Bruenig’s hobbyhorses. peoplespolicyproject.org/201…
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If you expect people to take dramatic action based on wispy, subtle implications of your writing, you are bad at doing your job in 2019.
As people criticize Mueller's performance, it's hard for me to avoid thinking we let him down, not the other way around. He gave us a report establishing that the President committed high crimes & misdemeanors. He expected we'd understand what he was saying & move forward.
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