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fighting the culture war on the side of culture
berkeley
Joined May 2009
im on the other (🔵) app too. making a commitment to be active there for at least a bit. my handle there is
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man reports his dad missing. police suspect he killed him based on vibes. after he doesnt confess after 16 hours of interrogation, they tell him theyre gonna euthanize his dog, and bring in the dog "to say goodbye." he confesses. the dad's alive the whole time
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after confessing, the guy tries to kill himself, and they put him in a psych ward. the cops find out his dad's alive shortly after, but they let the guy go on believing his dads dead, his dogs dead, and hes going to prison, for his 72 hours of confinement.
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this kind of story highlights the very worst of police conduct, and im usually wary of that kind of reporting. it distorts our picture of the world; most cops wouldnt do this. but some people who read my posts would do well to change their concept of cops to be much more wary.
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if i could have spent ten years in undergrad, i would have, no question. undergrad is straight up addictive to a certain kind of person.
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too many police read autistic behavior as suspicious. idk if this guy was autistic, but police suspected him bc his 911 call sounded "distracted" and "unconcerned". dont turn to police for help unless you have no other option, and get a lawyer first if you can.
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that's one more potential hard-step in our past dismissed — and one more piece of evidence that a great filter looms ahead
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a healthy relationship is one of the things that *can* fix you. being loved by someone makes it easier to love yourself. loving someone gives you purpose. this isnt controversial. if youre tempted to believe otherwise: what are you afraid of?.
dating a hot interesting girl won't fix u either. other people don't fix u, that's not how it works, sorry.
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@sodiumPen @cheer_wine air fryers have different performance characteristics than toaster ovens. they're only the same kind of thing in the way a rolls royce and f1 car are the same kind of thing.
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always a bit taken aback when my friends tell me they have ~no autobiographical memory before their mid-teens. ive been thinking about my life as a product of my past since i was seven and have decent memory going back a few years earlier. alien to imagine not having that.
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@HarryModN there's a link to a news article in the second post. twitter's algorithm doesnt like posts with links in them, so if you want people to see something, you keep the link in a reply.
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the day i lost my innocence was when i learned that "64 bit" computers are really 48 bit.
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@cheascake theyre smaller so less preheating, and good ones are designed so that the shape of the oven and the blower work together to get really good airflow, which can get better results than your typical full-size convection oven for things where you want some browning/crispiness.
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@liz_love_lace all cops are bastards not bc only a bastard would be a cop, but bc the realities of being a cop make you a bastard. even in the best, most ethically self-aware possibility, being a cop means selling your soul for the greater good. and>really ~all cops adopt evil and call it good.
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PulseAudio (an audio management system for Linux) recognizes the haptic vibration motor on the PS5 controller as a speaker, set it as the default output, and started playing the Hades menu music by vibrating the controller.
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@realtimeai the police department did later put out a statement where they downplay their wrongdoing and emphasize that no court found they committed a crime (which i infer is because they settled with their victim so he wouldnt pursue it in the courts).
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word of warning: if youre 20ish and going down this path, it's imperative that you either stop immediately or seek professional help (get a philosophy degree). too many promising minds have been lost this way. a good professor can take survival from 5% to 40%
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think of all the degrees i could have added to my collection. id definitely grab a history b.a. probably linguistics and biology. or maybe a different natural science. stretches the definition of "undergrad" but a masters in public policy would be sweet.
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i genuinely feel unsafe with the status quo practices in software development. npm/poetry/cargo/whatever install 600 packages by a bunch of randos, and then load that code in a process that can read all my session cookies and signal messages and keypresses. it's BAD.
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the fact that love is cringe is a real condemnation of the concept of cringe.
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since too many of my friends apparently need to hear this: getting invested in your iq is extremely 115-coded. 🧵.
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@MasterTimBlais professional ethics discourages frivolously sharing knowledge of the real juicy ones.
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@LinkofSunshine idk creating ambiguity here seems like a convoluted way of enacting the Agenda.
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fun fact: this is likely a crime if you do it with the intention of injuring a potential vandal. normally that would be hard to prove beyond reasonable doubt — unless you post the intent online, that is.
Anti redneck asshole kids mailbox. You have to live on a country road to understand.
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I spent ages 8–18 constantly staying prepared for the chance that I’d be caught doing something other than what I was supposed to be doing, and subjected to some punishment or other as a result. The resultant psychological patterns have not proven to be good for me.
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do people not understand that like a quarter of people die from painful illnesses that they knew would kill them months or years ahead of time?.
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locksmiths are criminally incompetent. 99% of household locks can be decoded, and a new key fashioned, in under 15 minutes using less than $1000 of equipment. if you don't need a new key, they can be opened in seconds with $10 of equipment. your locksmith will drill it.
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@nominalthoughts @s_daniszewski @growing_daniel @AlexGodofsky @sgodofsk The going rate for even entry level software jobs at large companies in northern Virginia is about 100k, so he definitely is.
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(this isnt quite true, bc weve still only observed a single instance of a prokaryote subsuming another prokaryote. in both this instance and w chloroplasts, the host cell already had mitochondria, and presumably a lot of the adaptations for that could be repurposed).
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@YitziKornbluth oh i see what you mean. i think there are some public details related to the settlement bc it was paid using public monies. one source i saw said there were four officers and one is now retired (not bc of this). i think youd need a law database or to call the courts clerk.
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why order doordash every day when you could eat a diet of. - fresh bread.- fine cheese+charcuterie.- irish butter.- fresh fruit.- table wine. and still never have to cook.
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@norvid_studies this is just the first time researchers have noticed. the fact that we observe it in the process of happening is profoundly strong evidence against the hypothesis that it's a once-in-a-billion-years event.
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I don't fit in anywhere, and I've made it my vibe. I'm too normie for the autists and too autistic for the normies. I'm too fem for the mascs and too masc for the fems. I'm too edgy for the wokes and too woke for the edgelords. I'm better than all of them.
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When I was 9 and got diagnosed with ADHD and started taking Adderall. After a couple week my parents asked me if I liked it and what I liked. In retrospect pretty fucked up that my answer was "I like that it helps me get in trouble less.".
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@justalexoki thats bc they let kids who dont know what theyre doing dink around in the web Inspector but we get upset if they try fiddling with someones pancreas.
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my most reactionary take is that our institutions are coasting off momentum from the cultural norms of the old aristocracy — and yes: religious faith. they creak under the weight of their age, yes. but if we burned it all down what eventually rose from the ashes would be worse.
everything is like this, it's bad, it could be way worse, and we dont know how to do better at scale.
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it's weird how much complexity programmers accept for the sake of memory management, when almost all code could just not worry about freeing memory until a job is done, and all its memory gets freed at once
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@lillybilly299 when youre a kid you can be blind to how much there is you dont know, and not be bothered by it too much. kids are just *used* to only sorta knowing whats going on. thats just how everything is when youre a kid.
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@RiverTamYDN the way this should work is the insurer remains liable for the bill but refuses to pay, and defends a lawsuit if necessary. not that the patient ends up liable whenever a provider serves an outrageous bill.
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what happens in peoples minds when they first start thinking of other people as vermin. thats barrier i think youd notice crossing. our culture floods us with warnings of what happens when you do.
"Homeless" isn't a state of affairs; It's practically a separate breed of person and you have no chance of "becoming homeless" any more than you would become an NBA player.
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i dont want to shame anyone here, but guys: peak woke was late 2017 / early 2018, with a last gasp in mid 2020 just because of covid. what happened in the time since is that the anti-woke coalition grew increasingly more organized as it got absorbed into the right.
i feel like i got friendly with the anti-woke coalition over the past few years, but now it feels like they're walking off a plank into extremism and i feel frustrated about it. Being anti a bad thing doesn't make you right by default; righteous revenge is not compassion.
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@NLRG_it GPS would last a long time, probably for a lone survivor's entire lifetime, excepting a geostationary kessler syndrome, which i dont think is very likely. the electrical grid would become unstable within a day or so, or at most a week, bringing everything else down too.
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@headfallsoff while i was going to schools that started at 7:25, across multiple states, there were at least two times that some folks organized an effort to change that. and both time it failed due to being supposedly unpopular with students and parents.
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reply to get my review of your profile picture and an overall rating. cyberphysiognomy is crucial to optimizing your memetic impact
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@killerstorm "we are early" is just another way of saying "by chance, the hard steps happened much faster than expected in our history".
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Kinda annoying that the technology that underpins our entire modern economy can only be manufactured on an island that is at the center of a dispute between the world's two biggest economic and military powers.
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so uhhhh.if i do well on this test.would they let me go to law school *for free*.ive got no interest in any normal career in law but free law school could be fun.better things i could be doing instead but i find myself not doing them. .
I’m studying for the LSATs. Yes, I’m 40 years old and trying to start a new career. I’ve learned that my Chemistry brain needs to make a major transition to reading comprehension. Is this question easy or difficult to you?
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@thechosenberg it's what the classical world believed and tbh i take all my sexual mores from ancient mediterranean cultures.
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@witchof0x20 that means theyre only interested in partners with "dont refer to me" in their bio.
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@cervixpiercer historically linen was what most/all undergarments were made of, anywhere that flax grew at least. theres gotta be some victorian lingerie people.
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@thechosenberg this sounds to me like a guy who does actually care about her, but believes he doesnt as a way of coping with the terror of knowing hes going to lose her.
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oh wait i forgot that doesnt normally come bundled with a math degree. if you wanna properly interrogate parsimony, or causation, you need to be comfortable with math. just philosophy is fine for induction though. the trick is to learn to be comfortable with intellectual despair.
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I'm actually pretty confused by how people think of teenagers as stupid and incompetent and in need of authority lest they make horrible decisions that an adult would never make. What were you all like as teenagers to make you think that?.
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@eigenrobot The book won't pose a danger to a mere initiate, because their mind doesn't yet have the structures to host the demon. A sage, too, is safe, for their mind can notice the demon and trap it. It is the adept who must not read the book.
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ignore the data here: is it just me or does the language of "liberal vs conservative" feel extremely dated like it has nothing to do with anything going on in my life or the world?.
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(having a nucleus to consolidate and isolate the host cells genetic material is an obvious way mitochondrial host adaptations would be useful here — the fact we observe this in a cell that has both mitochondria AND chloroplasts suggests theres subtler ones too).
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@robertskmiles contracts that require a party to commit a crime are not legal and not binding. if the government compels you to testify as a witness against someone other than yourself (or your spouse, usually), it's a crime to refuse, so an NDA does not bind you.
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you dont have a "fast metabolism" unless youre running a fever. maybe youre fidgety, but thatll only burn a couple hundred extra calories before it would look super weird. if you can eat whatever you want without exercising and never gain weight, it means you're not that hungry.
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@Aella_Girl i dont think the claim is meant to be that it's about *acquiring* power. it's that it's about asserting power.
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i am begging — pleading — you people: when assessing someones character, dont restrict yourself to rigorous logical analysis of their words. consider what they said and what states of mind would mostly likely lead someone to say that
@adrusi There are people who are like that, and the OP may have been like that on other occasions, but I feel like if this specific take sees homeless people as subhuman, then it must see NBA players as superhuman, which is unlikely.
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i was SO ready to be radicalized by the right when i was 18–20. i was *yearning* for some right wing intellectuals to come and groom me. they failed utterly. i found some center-right thinkers that i still respect, but they were islands of sanity in a sea of morons.
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sorry babe can't come over rn watching the 1995 biden speech on the bosnian genocide again.
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occasionally ill be in an uber with some autistic 18–21 year olds and theyll start talking about how much they prefer taking waymos and i sink into my seat hoping itll swallow me and the driver forgets i exist.
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@Aella_Girl people who find their way to your surveys as teenagers are probably sampled from a different population than people who find their way to your surveys as adults.
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wondering if "think before you speak" is really bad advice to give autistic kids. im not convinced normal people think before they speak, and to an autistic kid it just means "mask better".
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this is kinda my Area; i guess i should comment. 1. if you define sex by reproductive criteria, a human has no defined sex at conception.2. this doesnt matter for the law because lawyers will just infer gamete type teleologically.3. biological science does not admit of teleology.
Under Trump's executive order, every single person in America is now legally classified as female. All embryos begin by developing female sex organs, with male sex organs only replacing them at around 6 weeks of gestation.
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people dont appreciate traditional etiquette for what it is. yeah, people who talk about it come across as classist, and if you adopted formal etiquette wholesale. well itd be a statement. but it's a set of answers to "how to be less awkward" and you autists are sleeping on it.
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ukraine occupied russian territory.first reaction: hell yeah.second reaction: was. that really wise?.
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"half of americans are below sixth grade reading level" ok but sixth grade reading level is like:. - Harry Potter books.- The Hobbit.- Starship Troopers.- The Old Man and the Sea.- His Dark Materials series. why do we need more than half the population above this level?.
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a common rat/ssc/tpot mistake is reading charitably by mere habit, not as a thoughtful decision. if youre trying to have a useful conversation w someone, be charitable with their words. if youre trying to understand what they actually think, charity isnt appropriate.
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@alicemazzy @Strife212 i mean if we supposed civilization just sucked for the first 10000–12000 years (plausible) then the limiting factor would be the coincidence of necessity and feasibility, not intelligence or cunning.
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this is not a new take for me, but everything ive learned since has only reinforced this belief:. relationships where you might describe someone as your "dom" or "sub," rather than your "partner," with whom you might sometimes indulge a bdsm dynamic, are almost always ill-advised.
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wtf is going on here how are people supposed to know their sexual orientation before puberty unless "know" means "assumed I was straight and didn't roll a crit fail".
(a) I’ve known my sexual orientation for as long as I can remember. (b) I discovered my sexual orientation during puberty.
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cn: suicide. not a big fan of weed. ive had it five times this year, zero last year. but i worry about the new hate for it. when i was 18–19 i smoked a tenth of a gram every evening. it was over that time that i started to care about my education, and it might have saved my life.
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@bengrossbg when youre working in the naturals you usually wanna say 0^0=1 but when youre working in the reals you usually wanna listen to the limits of whatever process is getting you to 0^0, which sometimes means it's undefined.
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