Pearls_Before_Quine

@Huxx777 @whstancil Quite a few countries ban convict labor actually, even more ban unpaid convict labor.

@whstancil I guess if you think incarceration for criminal convictions is slavery, then slavery is legal everywhere on the planet, right?

slavery is not “constitutionally legal” in the US you brain-damaged twit

The best thing the U.S. does, which specifically benefits you and the rest of the world on a daily basis, is have a huge navy that protects shipping lanes so that cargo can travel safely

While it doesn't cover that specific piece, the paper "Teotihuacan in Mexico-Tenochtitlan Recent Discoveries, New Insight" talks about multiple cases of both the Aztec reusing and modifying art or art motifs from earlier Mesoamerican civilizations, and then Europeans in turn taking or modifying some of those pieces and bringing them back to Europe. One particular example is a Teotihuacano mask (~200-500AD) which the Aztec retrieved and modified (~1300-1519 AD) with new eye inlays, which then was brought to Europe and fell into the hands of the Medicis (of which a few pieces like this did, the first image here is another) who further modified it. Also, of course, Feather Mosaic "paintings" produced by Aztec, Purepecha, etc artists using techniques used for prehispanic warsuits, shields, garments, ornaments, and textiles that then were commissioned by the Spanish with Catholic themes are always a treat, see pics 3-4 See "ALT" labels for info about each image, credits, etc.

scandinavian societies: these foreigners don't understand our culture! scandinavian culture:

@limonpoker @whstancil Not interested in debating whether or not they *should* count, but this tweet was 100% made with Chapo Trap House in mind.

This will get ratioed into oblivion like everything else on the topic, but progressive liberals REALLY need to confront the fact that the crank podcast left, spun into conspiratorial lunacy by social media dynamics and misinformation, is a real and growing problem

@LesserMidas @dangainor @JerusalemDemsas @glukianoff If you Google something like "divorce rate over time USA" you'll find it's a consistent result from a wide variety of sources, which is probably more reliable than any one thing I throw out there.

@BeforeQuine @dangainor @JerusalemDemsas @glukianoff Can you send stats, last I heard was in 2020ish that it was rising

This is... a wild stat. 37 percent of all US children are subjects of CPS reports (28% of white children and 53% of Black children experience CPS involvement before their 18th birthday).

@LesserMidas @dangainor @JerusalemDemsas @glukianoff The divorce rate is falling.

@dangainor @JerusalemDemsas @glukianoff That’s what I was thinking, divorce rate is 40% and rising.

@HowlandR33d @vanillaopinions youtube.com/shorts/REFsYsM… She's still right but man I had forgotten just how annoying this video is

yep, they're right trump is a fascist. sorry if that's cringe or whatever 👍

@Nullbias @Hellb4ch @zeeby_x @Hamalisk @abcampbell @br4s1d4s You can short circuit this conversation by going to Wikipedia and looking up what a "solved game" is

@Hellb4ch @zeeby_x @Hamalisk @abcampbell @br4s1d4s Compared to other games, it's solved.

Ah, so he sucks at Chess.

The third incompleteness theorem states that no machine capable of effective computation can also install CUDA on the first try

@Rho_die @d08890 That's not true, even if it sure seems like it would be to you. You can read many of the accounts online. Here's Cortes: historians.org/teaching-and-l…

@d08890 In quantity, not quality

@Sydonahi @jayvains @nypost FWIW I'm significantly less qualified re: this stuff than you here, super 100% open to being wrong here.

@Sydonahi @jayvains @nypost -lanation (I'm skeptical), but there's no claim of the community as a whole being unwilling to admit it or suppressing him or anything, the interview ends with him saying "yeah, if we get better data and it looks like I'm right I think people will come around."

A Harvard professor says an alien visited in 2017 — and more are coming trib.al/woENLKU

@jayvains @Sydonahi @nypost I'm not seeing-- based on this interview alone-- how he's being particularly irresponsible, he seems pretty candid about thinking it's the *better* explanation but that reasonable people mostly disagree but could change their mind if better evidence is found one way or the other.

@jayvains @Sydonahi @nypost It's not the consensus hypothesis and it's certainly an *exciting* one, but it doesn't seem to be completely ridiculous besides (reasonable) priors pointing away from it. You can find plenty of other reasonable, legitimate people in the field discussing the same thing,

@jayvains @Sydonahi @nypost He's been publishing peer-reviewed work on this though.

@Sydonahi @nypost Sad to see a harvard professor bypassing peer review by selling a book about whatever they thought up... Reminds me of the new type of science bull that wolfram is selling

@SellarsRespectr Worth it

@SellarsRespectr He gave a talk at my alma mater's (tiny) philosophy department once that I drove two hours down to be able to attend. He went on a substantial digression about the emotional state of cats. "A lot of people think cat's can't feel shame, that's not true, I've seen cats feel shame"

During my defense, Bill Lycan said that my main idea is empirically testable. I thought about it and admitted he was right. Pretty scary stuff.