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scholar by circumstance, shitposter by destiny // conosco i segni de l'antica fiamma // way up in the beth numbers just for love of the game // free Palestine
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@UrfeNick
If you're trying to diagonalize me I have an ethical responsibility to hiss and raise the frill on my neck like a lizard to let you know you don't want to get into this ring
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one of you guys tweeted once that Bush's "won't get fooled again" malapropism was actually because he realized midsentence how catastrophic it would be for there to be a soundbyte of him saying "shame on me" and I think about that every day
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You KICK “You KICK Miette?” You kick “You kick her body like the football” like the football?
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⚠️ This person would have been in lynch mobs
i believe survivors have every right to do whatever the fuck we would like to our rapists and abusers. but i understand this radical stance offends the liberal sensibilities of many faux-radicals.
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For every like this gets, I’ll make a “political compass,” but in a weird topological space that is not R^2 or even R^n
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@christapeterso
Lmfao she’s romanticizing her own activities into frivolity as if she’s a character in a bad romance novel written by a man
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You're all guessing the Harris ticket is gonna have a pro-business white bread Midwesterner as VP pick. And you're right, but not in the way you think. Kamala's best move here is clearly for her to also tap JD Vance
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The essay mentioned here--"My Family's Slave"--met widespread condemnation in the US for precisely the reason OP suggests
I fear this response reflects the politically unhelpful and sadly false belief "*I'd* never own slaves, even if doing otherwise required pathbreaking effort"
everyone else remembers the time someone wrote a longread about how his family had kept a woman enslaved when he was child, and the measly reparations he’d attempted in adulthood, before dying two weeks later for unrelated reasons, right?
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It's wild how many physics questions are still unanswered. So much is still unknown. (I don't mean in general I mean for my problem set due tomorrow)
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OP be like “oh! oh! Jail for ‘Jail for mother! Jail for mother for One Thousand Years!’ Jail for ‘Jail for mother! Jail for mother for One Thousand Years!’ for One Thousand Years!”
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@lastpositivist
I'd assume the 2nd is bait--examples basically invert the moral landscape of the works--except the WH one is odd. You're not supposed to think Heathcliff and Catherine are siblings; that's a modern fringe view and the reference to it makes me think the OP only googled these books
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Retribution cannot ground a liberatory politic. I’m sorry that upsets you but it’s just the way it is.
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I don't think it's actually true, bc the "won't get fooled again" thing was from 2002. but still
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@RiverTamYDN
To him the counterfactual isn’t well defined because he is a race realist. He holds that Haitians are genetically subhuman, so he reacts to this the same way he’d react to “what if you were born as a squirrel.” Like ik I say this about everything but this is malice not stupidity
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the reason that the “I’d marry you but not be your fwb” Reddit post escaped containment is that it has the two things that make every person on this website prepare for battle: (1) 2016 4chan gender politics and (2) conditional hypotheticals
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this is such an uncanny valley of literary awareness. Enough common sense to recognize why the concept that Trojan refugees founded Rome would be plausible, but not enough to know the entire Western canon is based on the notion that they did
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@duetosymmetry
classic misunderstanding of Fisherian statistics. smh. one axis is about how much milk you put in before adding the coffee, other is about how much milk you put in after
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Like, I understand the DESIRE for revenge. But discipline is not a solution to misbehavior. In many cases, it is the direct cause. It’s weird to me that any Mad activist would think otherwise
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"This tweet made me laugh! It claims that in UK courts, remaining silent is considered evidence of guilt. That's very bad faith. If you actually do some research, you'll find that remaining silent is only considered *evidence* of guilt. Silly Americans 🤣"
Moving on from juries, some takes just made me laugh. This is an incredibly bad faith take of the CJPOA 1994 take.
I stress that you CAN NOT INFER GUILT FROM SILENCE ALONE.
a jury MAY use silence as part of a wider picture but this CAN NOT be enough on its own.
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@AndrewHilaryUS
"Is it racist for Elliot Page to affect a South African accent" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,
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throwback to Malcolm Gladwell's absolutely ridiculous claim that the reason the Beatles became superstars is that they had 10,000 hours to become AMAZING at their INSTRUMENTS
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Special relativity theorists be like “ I know a place” and it’s time
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ethicists be like "I know a place" and then take you to the train tracks 🤔
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Do you think slaveowners secretly accept that they're perpetrating great evil? Or do they buy into BS rationalizations & imagine themselves as average Joes doing their best in the imperfect world they were born into?
(It's not an open question; there are books on this! It's
#2
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@katiedimartin
damn this rules. Women showing up with unexplained cash after fighting people is my favorite genre
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came here for the ratio
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me: yeah so here are my symptoms
Deanna Troi ass clinician (writing "drug addict" in my chart): Thank you for allowing me to help you today, for radically opening yourself to my compassionate inquiry, but above all thank you for sharing your story
All of this! This is why patient’s are asked to repeat their history as well. Because we don’t just want the words. We need the tone, the micro expressions as you say them, the bits you falter over or repeat. It all matters. Someone else’s history isn’t the same.
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It’s not even controversial whether Letby is innocent, it’s just obvious. I hope she gets exonerated and wins 100 million from the government bc her life was ruined by ghouls who can’t do statistics
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@christapeterso
the only disagreement ive ever heard in which i really empathize with both sides and want everyone to get along
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@focusfronting
A lot of ppl dont know this but the 1st thing they teach you in medical school is that The human body is a mostly empty tube
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"You are forbidden from leaving" is such a central element of the experience of children, even ones whose lives are otherwise going well
same with patients, especially Mad ones
ppl seem to not remember this after they age out of it
like oh. yeah. you actually can’t do that to people who aren’t your children. forgot about that for a sec
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id like to ask something of those who priv QT'd:
you KICK "You KICK 'You KICK Miette?' You kick 'You kick her body like the football' like the football"? You kick "You KICK 'You KICK Miette?' You kick 'You kick her body like the football' like the football?" like the football?"
You KICK “You KICK Miette?” You kick “You kick her body like the football” like the football?
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Aaron Swartz, technically speaking, probably didn't commit any crime. JSTOR was too cowardly to admit that, and the cops didn't care. The fanaticism about proving him to be criminal *because he was an info anticapitalist* is very revealing about how this kinda stuff works
for the record the specific way jstor radically overescalated the situation was mostly by being dipshits without appropriate hostility to the cops, eager to call them
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Just accidentally signed off an email with "Regardless" instead of "Regards"
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obligatory "it doesn't exist at any number" but on Kareem's point
I distinctly recall reading Gladwell's claim that the IQ of noted racist Chris Langan is too high to be conventionally tested and needs special q's like this. that was the moment my IQ realism shelf broke, I think
PSA: The statistical assumptions underlying IQ break down at higher numbers. IQ doesn’t really exist at numbers like 180.
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I guarantee some central, habitual part of your life involves doing something you KNOW is deeply wrong, and that you make sense of this by rationalization--downplaying, saying it's an exception, offsetting it by some good act, claiming there's no ethical consumption etc.
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The thing is, the well-positioned are seldom willing to face the inconvenience of material deprivation to divest from, let alone fight, the evil institutions that serve them. We know that. Nobody says, "Hmm, what a weird coincidence that all the richest CEOs are so anti-union!"
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@madtranny
I mean, be as dishonest as you want about what I think. But yeah, I do not recognize a right to torture every single person who has ever hurt you, simply in order to enjoy their suffering. Cancel me if you must, right winger 🤷🏾♂️
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@madtranny
Wow. I'm totally gotten. You're so right. There's exactly 2 options: curb-stomp every alleged criminal or give Jerry Sandusky a pass
you know who the authoritative theorist on the "epistemological politics of psych dx" is, right? How did you end up a liberal? I'm so confused
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HOTTOGO (humanities, ornithology, topology, theoretical computer science, organic chemistry, gender theory, ODEs)
they added arts to STEM to make STEAM but why stop there. why not STEAL ME (science technology engineering arts linguistics math english)
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on this day five years ago, a guy broke up with me over the phone and then asked if I would continue doing his linear algebra problem sets
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@no_earthquake
Total rorschach test ig but am I right to infer that they're subconsciously perceiving a nonexistent parenthetical like "we'll get married *after* I hook up w 10000 people none of which is you, and then I'll NEVER touch you, gross!!"
Seems so bizarre but I have no other guesses
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The Fibonacci thing is very striking to me because of how blatantly it gives "I learned four tricks to do well on the USAMO qualifying test and now I'm throwing them at this inductive reasoning question written for 10yos"
Like on autopilot. no self-reflection abt plausibility
People answering E should know that means they think the test assumes anybody with a 130 IQ would independently discover the Fibonacci sequence if given ten minutes to contemplate this question. Guys, the test is specifically designed to measure intelligence, not knowledge.
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Every week there's a viral post proclaiming "you crips seem nice but personally, better dead than disabled imo"
like really? If the ER doc said "spinal cord injury" you'd stop begging and beatifically request the KCl? Have you seen another movie besides Million Dollar Baby?
rest in peace to him but i woulda told my folks to pull the plug before i even hit puberty
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@nrduford
I'm convinced this sudden TL flooding of twentysomethings with liberationist credentials spouting neoliberalism is astroturfed. It doesn't make any sense. It's just too coordinated and too weird and the things they're saying are strange
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it is interesting that when white nationalists say "we're genetically superior," moderates say "no, actually, you're genetically *inferior*"--accepting the premise that genetic superiority is a real and positive thing and the debate is just about whether white people have it
'The White Race Must Maintain Our Genetic Purity,' Says Inbred Man
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@breezepisser
It’s totally funny and I’m convinced we’re pretending it’s not because it’s extremely lib coded
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Like this tweet to instantly know Galois theory
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Him: "I need some time and space"
Me, a philosopher of physics: "Actually just one of those would be sufficient"
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Look, I mean, if you want some insight into how you'd actually act if extracarceral chattel slavery were considered normal in the US and you were positioned to benefit from it:
Every 5 minutes on here a leftist tweets "Fellow leftists, why aren't you vegan?" Go read the replies
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@focusfronting
I worked hard on this ok? I struggled to keep the referents straight. unlike you syntacticians I was born without the ability to use language and had to bootstrap it from PBS Kids and those “learning leapfrog” activities that pretend to be video games but i KNEW they were school
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I get the point but I do want to state unequivocally that staying up for days reading Heidegger without showering is bad. If you ask someone “What’ve you been up to these past 3 days?” and they reply, “Reading Heidegger nonstop without showering,” you need to get out of there
University of Chicago has suffered badly from this. It used to be it was a school for people who would do stuff like stay up for 3 days straight reading Heidegger without showering, & now it’s just another place for people with high grades and SAT scores who didn’t get into Yale
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If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a million times: Most professions of “Silly youths, don’t get on the bandwagon, you must research first” is reflexive, incurious distrust of strongly-held dissenting opinions. The faceless fury of enlightened centrism lies just underneath this
I'd advise anyone buying into Lucy Letby conspiracy theories and sensationalist journalism to really go over the evidence carefully. It is extensive and it is damning. There's a nasty element of 'but she's pretty and feminine!' to this outrage that concerns me.
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@KrangTNelson
Is this a real one or is this a satirical one someone made up in the style of the "I hate my spouse" comics??? cannot tell
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OK this settles it, we need to start asking programmers questions before they're allowed to cross the math bridge. We need to hire a sphinx who will check that, like, they understand basically what a decimal expansion is
intuitive explanation for why pi is irrational:
a circle has no corners, meaning the more you zoom in, the more detail the curve must reveal to avoid corners.
and since the curve has to get flatter while zooming (but never flat), the revealed details are always novel
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but at what cost
@Johndav51917338
Clone John von Neumann a million times, then in the time bought by the moratorium, they'd solve alignment.
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Nothing will ever be as funny to me as tweeting out that 2 isn't prime and getting corrected by 3-5 economics PhD students in the replies
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Ofc I'm not saying slavery and factory farming are analogous (beyond being horrible institutions that have captured the economy). And anyway if your reaction is "How dare you compare those two things!" then you're doing precisely the defensive motivated reasoning I'm on about
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I cannot emphasize enough how absolutely out of touch with conventional moral norms it is for a famous philosopher to write a blog "saga" about a grad student's twitter posts. Christa is excellent imo, but that's irrelevant! This would be totally unreasonable even if she were Bad
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@madtranny
I’m sorry, you think my obviously tongue in cheek comment “cancel me if you must” was an expression of actual fear of Cancel Culture?
You really need to pull yourself together
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many such cases
Economists see inspiring John Oliver segment on debt relief, conduct a randomized trial to forgive $169 million in medical debt, find this has no effect on quality of life or future financial distress at all.
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“We’d never falsely accuse anyone. We certainly wouldn’t raise calls of violence against other survivors. Trust me bro. By the way, people who disagree with me are rapists”
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fiance and i disagree about how the moon landing was staged, like how they got those guys up there. He thinks Buzz Aldrin is indigenous to the moon. i think the moon was launched into space in 1969 with him already on it. Can we get past this???
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@RiverTamYDN
Oh to be a wide-eyed youth saying "DAs can't just commit surreptitious Brady violations!"
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"Tankie" (the pejorative) means someone who works in a think tank
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Viewing children as vulnerable to abuse for biological rather than structural reasons is super wrong, not least bc it implies any sufficiently smart child is an exception. Idc how much of a whiz kid you are—if you can’t legally vote or, hell, exist unmonitored, you’re *powerless*
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If your problem with the sentence "The activist was shot at least 57 times by patrol officers while they sat cross-legged in the forest" is referent ambiguity, I have a bridge to sell you
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@saintlennybruce
lol you’re so right the anarchists calling me a pederast and saying I’m “politically white-passing” are so non-institutional and revolutionary wow
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Ig it was too soon. easily best tweet ever posted tho
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@no_earthquake
What I find rly remarkable is the reading in of these twin insinuations, both necessary to the nuclear response, neither remotely implicit to the OP quote
1) "I DO want casual sex with other guys"
2) "I DON'T want sex with you (even modulo assurance that we'll get married"
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People on here will say “People on here will say ‘You do A? That pales in comparison to the effectiveness of my strategy, B’ and then not do B” and then not do A
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I don't listen to Chapo Trap House--so why do people keep saying "the dirtbag left" right after I walk out of a room?
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@Nar_olepsy
Do they make him run back and forth between the podiums or do they clone him like in The Prestige
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I was hoping I wouldn't have to do this one, it really beats a dead horse
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And dw I'm not here to yell at non-vegans. My whole point is to not do that! I'M not vegan! Do I need eggs because of complicated health reasons? That's just too convenient, and I try to resist the urge to say it even to myself, bc it isn't true, or at least it isn't that simple
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It's because I benefit from the industry. Activism against unjust institutions is generally organized by those exploited by them. When the advantaged change their actions, it's usually bc those efforts have made the default behavior less (or some alternative more) convenient.
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@VioletMetalmark
"Politically white passing" is going on my all time list up there with when I got told that self-describing as addict was like calling a Black person the n-word
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@lastpositivist
the implication of the third panel is that the woman is the ex-girlfriend of Jared Leto's character from American Psycho lol
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