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“but Brutus says he was ambitious; and Brutus is a sensitive young man”
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Watercressed
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Watercressed
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Poet, what ails thee, then?
Katılım Eylül 2014
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@merripillar I already bought it, and now you want me to read it too?
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Read good books, too. Old especially, but also The Aesthete. Available now.
Auron MacIntyre@AuronMacintyre
Read old books
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@robertlasagna1 I heard they passed a new law banning crypto-backed AI-made sports & entertainment videos from online games
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@kitten_beloved "skill issue, I instinctively side with power"
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Just before quitting facebook I had this interaction with a former colleague and he dismissed it as some sort of irrelevant gotcha question
Greg Lukianoff@glukianoff
Hate speech laws sound obvious until you ask the only question that matters: Who decides what counts as “hate”? Everyone imagines their side holding the pen. History suggests you should imagine your worst enemy holding it instead.
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as a boy, i wanted to be an astronaut and to destroy evil by sword, but as i mature into a man, i understand that i really want to be henpecked by fucked up double sleeve tattoo single mothers with beautiful mullato babies. i want to give them all of my money. this is real btw
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@kitten_beloved silksong is easy compared to real difficult games like online blitz chess
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With the possible exception of gender roles or Israel, tweeting about video games attracts the worst possible commentariat
"silk song isn't a hard game" is a sentence only possible to type with the aid of a stylus, the hand having been deformed into a claw from overmasturbation
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@CovfefeAnon @cybelethebest @WildernessPaths @rwlesq Paul Graham has said this explicitly: "One advantage startups have over established companies is that there are no discrimination laws about starting businesses." paulgraham.com/start.html
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@cybelethebest @WildernessPaths @rwlesq >And the business you’re referring to as successes are doing so under our current legal framework
This is tiresome
No, they don't exist under the same legal framework *because employers with fewer than x employees aren't subject to the "must hire women" rules*
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Even after the death of its author, "Bullshit Jobs" remains a cancer on the discourse. It was perhaps the most incurious book I have ever read (strictly speaking, I only read the first third).
Companies are not "subsidizing" anyone. If they are hiring someone to do something, there is almost certainly a reason beyond "we wanted to give this random person money." If you can't figure out why, it is probably a problem with you.
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@Jack_Luminous "Umineko.. which I'm sure most Umineko fans have read"
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Higurashi... Which I'm sure most Umineko fans have read.
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@knrd_z does mr. hanson know the 'nuclear option' is just like, a name for a procedural trick and it doesn't kill 50 million people
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Someone, please teach all the world's comically largest noggins the difference between ex ante & ex post reasoning
Robin Hanson@robinhanson
Von Neuman recommended first strike of nukes on Soviet Union, because they'd do if if they could, and whatever they could for strategic advantage. Seems good that we didn't.
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@planefag maybe try caffeine + theanine? idk how it works for hand stability but it helps take the edge off caffeine generally
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First time running beads since last fall and I'm already falling into old Welder Habits; as I've got caffeine on board to keep me awake, but it's making my hand jittery so I'm contemplating a beer to calm things down. If I sip it just right maybe I can hit the balance point
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@turrible_tao for my friends, everything; for my enemies, messaging
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@turrible_tao "your tweets aren't ambitious or incredible sorry"
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by a certain point in your life you will have a history and so will everyone you might date
and that's fine. the world breaks everyone and after many are strong and so on
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oh I just noticed this bit. "wildlife costs", ie they're padding the bill by assigning an inherent dollar value to the deer itself
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1,400 accidents accounting for 'billions' (ie > 2b) implies that each accident costs at least 1.4 million dollars. But the linked article says collisions cost $19k - $110k, depending on the animal.
Jerome Foster II@JeromeFosterII
“Research has found that one wildlife crossing can prevent about 1,400 accidents over accidents over a 70-year lifespan, which translates into billions of dollars in savings” pewtrsts.org/4k2RTQO via @pewtrusts
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what dashboards & monitors would you like to see in The Situation Room?
my thoughts:
- weather (local/national/world
- local flight/rail traffic maps
- local traffic cams
- major news channels
- dashboard of planes/shipping traffic in region of concern
- if war, maps of strikes
Henry Shevlin@dioscuri
Idea: a bar called The Situation Room. Like a sports bar but for politics. Cable news and live feeds on the screens instead of football. Atlases and copies of Jane’s Defence Weekly on every table. Multiple sets of Risk and Diplomacy behind the bar.
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@turrible_tao eigen, well known for not antagonizing people over things he finds personally objectionable
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@pythagoras999 @mdrew4nh but federal law could not ordinairly compel the NH government to inspect vehicles under the anticommandeering doctrine
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@mdrew4nh It's a pretty normal Constitutional issue. The state passed a law that violates Federal law (the Clean Air Act, which would require the state to get a waiver first) so the judge barred the state law from taking effect under the Supremacy Clause.
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What's unique about this situation is that it is very rare for states to repeal a law. It's normal for judges to consider the constitutionality of new or existing laws and legality of actions under those laws.
*This* judge is attempting to unilaterally re-impose a law that NO LONGER EXISTS, at the behest of the corporation that benefitted from it. I'm not sure this has ever happened before, but the absurdity of it is so great that I think it would have been newsworthy if it happened previously.
WMUR TV@WMUR9
Federal judge again says New Hampshire must continue vehicle inspections | Click on the image to read the full story wmur.com/article/judge-…
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