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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 2h

I'm not a fan of Halloween decorations that are overly gruesome or scary. Halloween is about autumn beauty, harvest abundance, remembering those who are dead, and those who are undead

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 3h

wait what did you get banned for

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 3h

he talks a good game but I just don't really trust him to follow through on anything. Too much of a squishy opportunist, doesn't have much genuine vision

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 4h

I think you have to read all the ottoman stories as a for-the-censors code, they have little to do with anything in Turkey and are really talking about some ruler in the west

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 4h

If you need new analogies, the typical examples for "really bad guy" before Hitler were
-Pharaoh
-Nero
-Herod

And the ottoman sultan--any of them--was the go-to example of a tyrant among enlightenment writers

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 4h

Pritzker seems like the only choice for president right now tbh. Only one who seems to get how bad this all is, only one who is likely to prosecute these crimes instead of normalizing them

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 5h

JD Vance, call your (holy) father bsky.app/profile/poli...

Politico @politico.com · 5h

Pope Leo XIV says he will "stand with" Catholic leaders in protecting immigrants facing mass deportations in the U.S., according to advocates who recently met with the Pope.

Pope Leo will ‘stand with’ Catholic leaders in protecting immigrants’ rights, advocates say

The comments from the pope mark the most recent push from the Vatican against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

www.politico.com

hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 5h

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 7h

send me your copy of Crazy Christians: A Call To Jesus and I will rebind it in leather

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 7h

I might get myself a typewriter just so I can go clickity clack. If Peter Theil still wants my data for his palantir he'll have to come rummage through the garbage can for spent ink ribbon

hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 7h

The old economist way of teaching "don't do long-run inflation adjustments" as a lesson is hand students an appliance catalog from the 50s and ask them which things they would buy at 1950s prices. The answer is basically nothing

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 7h

It's different from Nixon in China, I think it's pretty clear Netanyahu is forced into this position by his own disastrous war. Zero percent chance he's considering this without the war being as unpopular as it is

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 7h

Yep. Basically all GDP critiques boil down to "imagine GDP was meant to do something other than it was meant to do, THEN it is a bad measure," which is needless to say not very persuasive.

That GDP is not a well-being measure does not mean there's anything wrong with GDP.

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 7h

Which brings me to my main point which is that there really aren't any modern sidings that actually look good. I consider this a major unsolved problem in modern architecture

hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 7h

they put new siding up on the house down the street and it looks awful, really cheapens the whole neighborhood. It's shocking because they took genuine hardwood siding off, and what's still underneath is a sub-siding made of solid cedar. Now covered up in grey horrid aluminum

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 8h

Trying to reverse engineer, $530.27 in at the exchange rate on Dec 17 2021 was something like £396. Using BoE inflation calculator that would be a bit more than £4 in 1843, when the story takes place. £4 is lot more than 15s, he's overstated Bob's income more than five-fold

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 8h

I'm totally unable to reproduce these, did he just totally make it up? There's a few ways to measure inflation, nothing give you anything close to this number. I wonder if he misunderstood how shillings worked before decimal but even that still gives you way smaller numbers bsky.app/profile/karl...

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 11h

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 9h

You're right that food would have been more of income, rent would have been less of income, etc. Another fallacy here though is almost nobody makes the federal minimum wage in the US, this is not a relevant comparison

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 9h

I don't know where he's getting this number from. 15s in is £0.75 in the modern decimal system which adjusts to £121.78 after inflation since 1843, for an annual salary of £6,332.56. That's $8,479.12 at current exchange rate

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 9h

Can someone explain "all night revival" to me, is this a euphemism for Kristallnacht

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 10h

actually I think he's doing something different here, attempting to hijack the conversation with this nonsense about nuance when the reality is that this hypothetical person who wants to allow their "cameos" in Sora does not exist, he made it up, he's lying bsky.app/profile/hype...

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 11h

This is a REALLY good video that gets into the *specifics* of how AI is degrading our information environment and putting truth further out of reach for the average person / the population as a whole

🎃 🧟 Prof. Dr Beth Singler 👻 🎃 @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 17h

I walked into the lounge last night to find my teenage son watching this. We have long admired @kurzgesagt.org and found their videos to be extremely illuminating. But this one in particular I think is so important right now!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN...

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

www.youtube.com

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 10h

I do not like this meme format. This is just listing three things that are different

hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 10h

Like, I've literally never heard of replacing a spark plug on a car newer than the 1980s

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 10h

EVs have air filters. I'd say cam belts, spark plugs, HT leads, exhaust pipes are not common maintenance issues in ICE cars unless you are talking really old cars, in which case I'm guessing really old EVs will have a similar range of failures

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