Corey Mullee

@sciencegirl Unsubscribing. Too much fake stuff

About waxed apples

@brunbitty You can smell the chatGPT on this post… anyone else know what I mean? It’s the cadence or something

Tonight it finally clicked for me. Neo asks her the classic question: “If you already know what I’m going to do… do I really have a choice?” And she hits him with the line: “You’ve already made the choice. You’re just here to understand why.” For years I thought this meant “there’s no free will.” But that’s not it. Here’s the real insight: Free will doesn’t exist in the moment. It exists in the identity that leads to the moment. The actions you take right now? They’re mostly automatic - shaped by your conditioning, experiences, fears, habits, and past. But the person you’re becoming? That’s where your freedom actually lives. You don’t choose the moment. You choose the man who will meet the moment. Or put in another way: Determinism writes the past. Identity writes the future. Because when your life isn’t where you want it to be, the answer isn’t “make better choices.” The answer is: become the version of yourself who makes better choices automatically. That’s the real red pill.

@Nico__Chuan What is BTU?

beech has an incredible BTU right up there with white oak, even edges out rock maple

update on the felled beech tree

@lokezombie @adamarm47013502 @demystifysci Great analogy. Our ancestors didn’t understand the chemistry behind fire, yet they were able to utilize it for all sorts of purposes.

@adamarm47013502 @demystifysci Reliably being able to predict that something will work is not understanding it. A fish brain is making many predictions about the physics of its environment every day that are just as reliable as our equations are. But does the fish have understanding?

Electricity seems like magic for a reason

@ArtemisConsort @JosiaAllensWife Why are leftists atheists then, and not the other way around?

@JosiaAllensWife Christianity seems leftist to me, but I know smart Christians who disagree and I enjoy discussing this with them.

The reason atheists could never cohere into a subculture is because atheism, taken seriously, is right-wing, but almost all the prominent atheists are left-wing. Thus, the movement is schizophrenic. If you don’t believe in supernatural creation, then you believe that evolution by mutation and selection is the *only process* known, or even imaginable, that can construct value from non-value. We are not exempt from this: memetic and cultural evolution drive progress far more than reason. Indeed, reason is just a particularly fit metameme that evolved because it granted power to its hosts. It is not categorically special, nor is it capable of producing progress on its own. Reason can criticize but it cannot create. Evolution, taken seriously, is colder and more brutal than the most vicious human tyrant. It is alien, hideous, captivating. Cleave the emptiness in two, smash the halves into each other, then cleave the winner in two, on and on forever. I must emphasize: this is not just the only process that *has* produced progress. It is the only process that *can* produce progress in the absence of the supernatural. It follows that every transfer from the fit to the unfit which hinders the power of the giver or artificially boosts that of the receiver undoes the work of creation. The egalitarian tribe of lions where every male gets to mate and food is redistributed will be pathetically weak in a few generations compared to the tribe where the strongest male kills his rivals and has a harem. To be right-wing is to accept this process as the only real engine of truth, beauty, and power. To be left-wing is to believe in miraculous exemptions to its iron logic. PS: yes there are forms of religion and mysticism that accept this one and only Law, including some rare clear-eyed Christians. I’m not talking about those.

@AntiRecords @THEBETHS Great song and visuals!

so stoked to announce @THEBETHS' upcoming album 'Straight Line Was A Lie' is out August 29! Pre-order the album on vinyl or CD, listen to the lead single "No Joy," and watch the music video directed by Frances Carter: thebeths.ffm.to/straightlinewa…

@ExquisiteWill Broc

Many fruits can be great names… but the real challenge is naming a child after a vegetable….

@Rainmaker1973 Is that video showing bacteria? Bacteria is supposed to be microscopic

Eating raw oysters? Think twice. [📹 everariamsd]

@wesyang @rfkenmore @grok @dieworkwear did a whole thread about how it’s weird to tuck your sweater into your pants (it is). Can’t be him.

@rfkenmore @grok is this real?

Found the menswear guys personal

@JEAN4MAGA @TheFlatEartherr Yeah seems far fetched. Everyone is in on it? The pope, every President, Elon Musk, every airplane pilot ect? I don’t get the point. Why lie about the earth’s shape, what’s the percentage in that?

@joewoomarin @ASavageNation His tweet is also completely anecdotal. My grandmother is 92 and eats ice cream every night. True story! Doesn’t prove anything

Epidemiological studies are supposedly the worst kind. They are simply make correlations where there are too many variables. Randomized controlled studies are the gold standard. Epidemiological (correlation) studies have too many variables and can be interpreted in any fasion. You are making an assumption that the cause is fat from the ice cream. Ignoring all the other variables like sugar, weight, metabolic syndrome and so many others. Its very easy to justify any assumption and correlation to prove your assertion. Its also hard to look in the mirror and admit you might be wrong. Especially the older one gets. I dont think your FAITH in “epidemiological studies” is on the right track. I hope your your vintage will not prevent you from ever considering you might be mistaken.

neighbor found dead of a heart attack in his store. Asked his relative "did he smoke?" "no, but he ate a lot of ice cream". No matter how I try to inform the public about the very clear, very well documented large epidemiological studies demonstrating the direct relationship between saturated fats and CHD I get the same ignorant replies. The literature is clear. The new age phonies peddling hi fat, hi meat "carnivore" diets are a threat to public health. Most of these peddlers do not know how to read epidemiological studies. There are "nutritional rogues" (The Skeptical Nutritionist, 1983, M. Weiner, Macmillan Books) but they are the EXCEPTION, not the rule. They can eat almost anything with impunity. To understand this subject you must study large populations over long periods of time.

@marleydraque @HedgeDirty @jlippincott_ ☝️ yes. All poetry was spoken before it was written. The first writings may have been ledgers, but poetry and song predate writing.

@HedgeDirty @jlippincott_ The iliad was an oral poem at first

This is unironically why the Iliad is so important. Were it not for the Greeks, "civilization" would simply be the Eternal Grain Ledger

@_djpn Cairo is awesome

I went to Cairo and got in a cab. Cabbie starts blowing through all the red lights and I freak out yelling, “Are you paying attention? Those are red lights, you’re gonna kill us!” Cabbie replies, “No no no no no no sir, I am professional. I get you there fast and safe.” Not a thing about this felt safe, but after a while I relax and figure this is how things are done. We come up to a green light and the cabbie stops. I start to lose my mind and yell at him again, “Do you not see the green light? Why aren’t we going through? I thought you were a pro—” when another cab flies in front of us through the intersection. Cabbie looks at me in his mirror with a smile and says, “See that? He is professional too.”

@DookistAgain @SVG__Collection Guess that’s bound to happen when you go crazy with the whammy bar 🤷‍♂️

@CoreyMullee @SVG__Collection Loved that….waaaay outta tune… haha!

Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child Take a break and enjoy this spectacular performance…

@Snow_Blacck PANGT

Can anybody SPELL the sound this makes?? 😭😭

@fatherjohnmisty @CHlBLOCKER You could still add one

@CHlBLOCKER but it’s got no bridge

hm how do I tell em my albums don’t chart

@AlecStapp Isn’t a big part of it the sanctions cutting North Korea off from global trade and finance?

Summarizing the economics Nobel prize in two words: Institutions matter.

@Johnny_suputama Why can’t you laugh during a daydream? Seems like a totally normal thing to do if you’re daydreaming about something funny

competitive daydreamers gathered in Tokyo today for the “2024 Space-out Competition” Heart rates were checked and anyone who laughs, talks or dozes off was eliminated during the 90 min competition.

@cedarshims This would get at 9.8 on Pitchfork if it had come out in 2008