Cercopithy
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I don’t buy this “trump voters don’t know what they voted for and will be upset when they find out” stuff. They know. They like it. And when it makes their life worse they’ll blame another scapegoat
I do understand the need to pretend that such a large number of one’s compatriots aren’t evil
I do understand the need to pretend that such a large number of one’s compatriots aren’t evil
December 19, 2024 at 4:55 PM
I don’t buy this “trump voters don’t know what they voted for and will be upset when they find out” stuff. They know. They like it. And when it makes their life worse they’ll blame another scapegoat
I do understand the need to pretend that such a large number of one’s compatriots aren’t evil
I do understand the need to pretend that such a large number of one’s compatriots aren’t evil
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Cook 3 shallots and 2 serranos until soft then put in curry paste ginger and lemongrass and let that sweat a few minutes before dumping in stock and fish sauce and letting that simmer for an hour before adding lime juice, coconut milk mushrooms and a protein of your choice and call me in the morning
December 17, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Cook 3 shallots and 2 serranos until soft then put in curry paste ginger and lemongrass and let that sweat a few minutes before dumping in stock and fish sauce and letting that simmer for an hour before adding lime juice, coconut milk mushrooms and a protein of your choice and call me in the morning
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I think if you’re a young person (or an older person frankly) considering some kind of creative project, the state of the world is more or less “fuck it we ball” like, you might as well
December 17, 2024 at 6:20 PM
I think if you’re a young person (or an older person frankly) considering some kind of creative project, the state of the world is more or less “fuck it we ball” like, you might as well
I like dogs better than people, so I’m biased, but people who hurt dogs should have their eyes gouged out of their skull. I’ll forgive MV the instant that happens
Another data point for why it’s good that I’m not in charge
Another data point for why it’s good that I’m not in charge
December 17, 2024 at 1:10 AM
I like dogs better than people, so I’m biased, but people who hurt dogs should have their eyes gouged out of their skull. I’ll forgive MV the instant that happens
Another data point for why it’s good that I’m not in charge
Another data point for why it’s good that I’m not in charge
Lfg!
Ignoring population structure in hominin evolutionary models can lead to the inference of spurious admixture events
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ignoring population structure in hominin evolutionary models can lead to the inference of spurious admixture events - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Simulating a metapopulation of human evolution without Neanderthal introgression into Homo sapiens still identifies Neanderthal fragments in simulated genomes, and an admixture event that never took p...
www.nature.com
December 16, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Lfg!
Hideki Ishima has a life-changing guitar solo halfway through Flower Travellin’ Band’s Look at my Windows
December 14, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Hideki Ishima has a life-changing guitar solo halfway through Flower Travellin’ Band’s Look at my Windows
You know, something that might’ve paved the way for glorified predictive text to be called ‘artificial intelligence’ was so many insecure scholars calling their linear regressions ‘machine learning’
December 11, 2024 at 7:42 PM
You know, something that might’ve paved the way for glorified predictive text to be called ‘artificial intelligence’ was so many insecure scholars calling their linear regressions ‘machine learning’
America is a cruel place that produces a lot of cruel people and it’s hard not to be pessimistic about it
December 10, 2024 at 8:49 PM
America is a cruel place that produces a lot of cruel people and it’s hard not to be pessimistic about it
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Americans keep being surprised by this but it is a pretty standard combination of beliefs among European radical right politicians, there's even a whole literature on "welfare chauvinism", a term coined to explain the appeal of the radical right in Nordic countries
After years of talking to Trump supporters my view of them has become very simple: They want socialist, even sometimes progressive reforms but they want them from someone who makes those reforms feel powerful and masculine and they want to make sure the people they don't like don't benefit from them
we're cooked
December 10, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Americans keep being surprised by this but it is a pretty standard combination of beliefs among European radical right politicians, there's even a whole literature on "welfare chauvinism", a term coined to explain the appeal of the radical right in Nordic countries
Alright, the scolds were right. Now I care that the CEO of the suffering factory was killed
December 9, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Alright, the scolds were right. Now I care that the CEO of the suffering factory was killed
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Nobody - not one person - is offering a vision of the world where vigilantes are free to kill people they believe are doing harm. On the other hand, the reality of our world is that people like Brian Thompson are free to kill innocent people for the crime of being poor.
I don't think it is possible to construct a limiting principle around "people who do great harm should be assassinated" and it's definitely impossible to build a consensus around one -- opens the door to killing politicians, journalists, doctors providing abortions or trans health care, etc.
December 9, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Nobody - not one person - is offering a vision of the world where vigilantes are free to kill people they believe are doing harm. On the other hand, the reality of our world is that people like Brian Thompson are free to kill innocent people for the crime of being poor.
tl;dr
Interstellar is about spaceflight. Gravity is about biology.
(Not biology so much in the field of study sense, but more as an exploration of what it means to be a being that knows about both ontogeny and phylogeny)
Interstellar is about spaceflight. Gravity is about biology.
(Not biology so much in the field of study sense, but more as an exploration of what it means to be a being that knows about both ontogeny and phylogeny)
December 8, 2024 at 7:36 PM
tl;dr
Interstellar is about spaceflight. Gravity is about biology.
(Not biology so much in the field of study sense, but more as an exploration of what it means to be a being that knows about both ontogeny and phylogeny)
Interstellar is about spaceflight. Gravity is about biology.
(Not biology so much in the field of study sense, but more as an exploration of what it means to be a being that knows about both ontogeny and phylogeny)
I think a big part of the reason no one understood Gravity is because it unfortunately came out around the same time as Interstellar, and so people incorrectly thought it was about space.
The other reason is that people are, to a large extent, philistines.
The other reason is that people are, to a large extent, philistines.
December 8, 2024 at 7:15 PM
I think a big part of the reason no one understood Gravity is because it unfortunately came out around the same time as Interstellar, and so people incorrectly thought it was about space.
The other reason is that people are, to a large extent, philistines.
The other reason is that people are, to a large extent, philistines.
OK. That’s it. This is a Gravity vs Interstellar account now.
December 8, 2024 at 7:11 PM
OK. That’s it. This is a Gravity vs Interstellar account now.
There’s a crowdsourcing aspect to bluesky. Everyone blocking the bots and trolls on sight, they might just give up eventually?
December 6, 2024 at 3:58 PM
There’s a crowdsourcing aspect to bluesky. Everyone blocking the bots and trolls on sight, they might just give up eventually?
The Last Temptation of
December 6, 2024 at 6:35 AM
The Last Temptation of
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glad this didn't happen a few years ago or these would all be fucking sea shanties
December 6, 2024 at 2:19 AM
glad this didn't happen a few years ago or these would all be fucking sea shanties
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The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore
![Engels on 'Social Murder'
When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another, such injury that death results, we call that deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call this deed murder.
But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or the bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live - forces them ... to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence - knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual ...
Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845 [1967]), p. 126 (Panther Press)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jfcht3gt62twn3r32e7bziq4/bafkreifeiogd6watrjgxqrzfsfrujyv4765jeh4why7my2rl76nbnqr5xu@jpeg)
December 5, 2024 at 4:42 AM
The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore
Still can’t believe the incels voted for the guys promising to ban porn
December 5, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Still can’t believe the incels voted for the guys promising to ban porn
“Why don’t you look at your music streaming wrap up?”
a man with a mustache is sitting at a table with a woman in a restaurant .
ALT: a man with a mustache is sitting at a table with a woman in a restaurant .
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2024 at 4:18 PM
“Why don’t you look at your music streaming wrap up?”
Nobody give this guy the keys to the baby hitler killing time machine
December 5, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Nobody give this guy the keys to the baby hitler killing time machine
Starting to think that scolds are scolding because they lack a moral center and are trying to create one. That is, they are Reactionaries
December 5, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Starting to think that scolds are scolding because they lack a moral center and are trying to create one. That is, they are Reactionaries
All time top 5 no hesitation
December 1, 2024 at 12:47 AM
All time top 5 no hesitation
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i keep seeing people saying “no way to know why dems lost” and it makes me want to lose my mind
they lost bc disengaged voters bought gop bullshit and its pretty obvious this was the payoff of a generational effort on the right to work the refs in media…
they lost bc disengaged voters bought gop bullshit and its pretty obvious this was the payoff of a generational effort on the right to work the refs in media…
November 30, 2024 at 2:02 PM
i keep seeing people saying “no way to know why dems lost” and it makes me want to lose my mind
they lost bc disengaged voters bought gop bullshit and its pretty obvious this was the payoff of a generational effort on the right to work the refs in media…
they lost bc disengaged voters bought gop bullshit and its pretty obvious this was the payoff of a generational effort on the right to work the refs in media…