@postoctobrist Can never stop thinking about the J6ers standing in the lobby of the house of Congress not knowing what to do like a broken Bethesda quest.
To quite the most important philosopher of our time: "like a dog chasing cars"
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Ciaran 🍉
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Ciaran 🍉
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Astronomer. Poundland Brian Cox. (He/him)
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like there’s really nothing *to* fascism besides sadism and for a lot of fascists the sadism they actually like best is triggering and infuriating libs and when they actually end up doing the death camps they bitch and moan endlessly about how hard it is for them
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@milenkadraws Hey, for what it's worth: this is something almost everyone goes through specifically in uni.
You have to push through it because it's the hardest part -- being put into a room of equally talented people and not going insane.
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@oncloud_e Highly recommend some variant of amaretti. They feel incredibly fancy and go great with hot drinks
kitchensanctuary.com/chewy-amaretti…
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my neighbor and i have been gifting each other increasingly elaborate baked goods and for christmas she gave me homemade peppermint marshmallows, how do i destroy her for new years
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@garouxdeslarmes @arcofajourney Yes and yes. This, high violet and boxer are bangers
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@arcofajourney Is this album good? I’ve never listened to anything by the National; would this be a good one to start with?
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hate thirst traps. post a hot ass picture of myself, a stunning woman shows up like hiiii, and im immediately fucked, stuck thinking crap what do i say now?
contrast with posting a Rutherford Hayes fact, wherein if she replies hiii, i just hit her with another Awesome Hayes Fact
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@mccahell @mcmansionhell Oh my God what is wrong with you? What are you hoping to achieve from this?
You're being a massive asshole
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It is actually insane how well this combo works
David Lingenfelter, PhD@dlingenfelter
Guanfacine and NAC target Long COVID brain fog by restoring prefrontal cortex function and reducing neuroinflammation. This dual protocol improves focus and memory by reconnecting neural circuits and unclogging NMDA receptors. drive.google.com/file/d/1TZzbou…
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@ArtemisConsort These guys absolutely have existed for ages, anyone on a university staff page will attest to that.
Now they have a computer encouraging them. Any small amount of psychosis can be escalated.
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I don’t think LLM psychosis has much to do with LLMs. I knew a guy in high school who loved TV shows about black holes. He would fill pages and pages with mathematical notation that meant absolutely nothing, then eagerly present it to me for review. This is just a type of guy.
Rota 🚪🧎♂️@pli_cachete
Two people with LLM psychosis having a Dragon Ball Z laser fight over whose proof of the Hodge Conjecture is right
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@shankysanghi @giulio_mattioli While the top one would be fine in the UK, the bottom one is definitely more polite. In fact I'd say this type of thing would be a flag of fluency in British English
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@giulio_mattioli From the post.
I find this dynamic strange in Germany.
I lived in UK and Ireland. And I go out a lot.
Around these countries. You just hv to request the waiting staff. Not apologise.
like:
"Can I get a sugar for my coffee please?"
not
"I am sorry. Can I get Sugar for coffee?
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This tweet is fascinating because a common argument in Germany is "We don't do useless niceties and apologies here, we're brutally honest & functional"
But apparently from an Indian perspective German culture is full of useless niceties that slow things down
Mayukh@mayukh_panja
There is a huge cultural difference between India and the West and it is entirely possible for an Indian traveling in Europe to come across as extremely rude while being completely unaware. Let me explain. India is a fast moving country; everything is optimized for speed. Let’s say you are at a train station ticket counter. There could be close to a hundred people waiting in line. The polite thing to do would be to be quick, get your ticket, and get the hell out, so that you don’t keep people waiting. In Germany, this interaction works very differently. You walk up to the counter and wait. Wait till you are given a cue to speak and this cue is typically a “Good morning” or a “hello” or a polite nod. It is extremely common to first exchange niceties before doing anything: buying a ticket, ordering at a restaurant, asking for directions. Once the interaction is over, you wish the other person a good day and only then do you leave. There is an expectation that you acknowledge the person in front of you and show that this is more than just a quick transaction. It may feel like a charade, but these small rituals add a bit of charm to otherwise mundane interactions. If you are asking for a favor, say an extra empty plate with your meal, it helps to be apologetic. Because you are making the other person do extra work. Service culture as it exists in India doesn’t really translate to Europe. In fact, in most situations be apologetic, polite and yet firm. Apologetic doesn’t imply servile. You can be apologetic and charming at the same time. A polite smile paired with a “sorry” goes a long way. And you will find that people are actually extremely willing to help. Now this is almost impossible to internalize on a short trip to Europe. And replicating this culture does not make sense in India because you are interacting with an insane number of people. You can’t simply afford to be charming in every single interaction. This is a clash of two wildly different cultures shaped by different forces. Also in a country where people are struggling to survive unnecessary niceties can be seen as an indulgence. It is important to bear in mind that almost everyone is well meaning and the parameters of polite are just different.
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@slutttysloth Therapy and time was my experience tbh. It's like unlearning a habit, just gotta recognise what's happening, tell yourself it'll improve and trust that it will
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i’m angry that he convinced me i was always overreacting/that “all men think the same as him but he’s the only one saying it”. i don’t think thats true. i know he is uniquely rotten. but now sometimes it feels like everyone is thinking the things he said and just not telling me
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genuinely asking how do you get rid of anger for someone who doesn’t deserve any more of your emotions? i’ve mostly gotten over the anger from his actions but lately i am so angry about all of the unkind things he said
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@SusanFairweathe @maxshanly @isaac_kh You understand that practically there is no difference between these two photos right?
They are both photos of a dead conference
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@maxshanly @isaac_kh And yet the photo you posted shows about 20 people.
If you want to be taken seriously, don’t use words inaccurately.
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This is really bad. The conference hall is as dead as a dodo.
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@_lizharvey I think it's often not so much paying as little as possible but wanting there to be an agreed upon price that they know going in. I know a lot of UK people really struggle with the concept of haggling for that reason, even if they could get a better deal.
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Just wonder if people with this mindset also travel to other countries where haggling is expected and are like “well i want to pay for the service” or infact if it is about paying as little money as possible
luce 🍒@melanizzzle
All the Americans in the comments saying you shouldn’t eat out if you can’t afford to tip 🤣🤣🤣🤣 yous have lost the plot. Eating out already pays for the service, tips are given to those who deserve it not because you’ve done your job 🥴 proper thick country
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@postoctobrist I think this is spot on. Manchester from about 2010 to now is an entirely different city. Started when they moved some of the BBC up there and its never quite got there in becoming london 2, just a pale imitation of the original.
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@DuxVult1 @bencsmoke Hey quick question guy with an ai picture and user name referencing the fucking crusades: why do you get to tell us they are decoupled? You can't stand us!
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@bencsmoke You are going to have to separate socialism from woke in your mind
These 2 are now decoupled
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@snowflake_blob @implausibleblog Those things dont follow from each other. Trans women are a sub catagory of women, like old, irish, or gay women. It has nothing to do with carrying a child -- plenty of cis women can't
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@implausibleblog Trevor made a good logical point. If there's zero difference then there's no need for the prefix. But there is. So it stands. The only way to carry a child is to have fully functioning female physiology.
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If I did a McMansion Hell livestream to raise money for my vision therapy would that be gauche
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@postoctobrist Fwiw, I've honestly found the bottleneck with TVs to be my eyes? I don't need an expensive 4k TV what I need is glasses
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I haven’t bought a TV in ten years and when I went from reviews to actual prices I almost fell out of my chair
Logan@LJayDeeJay
@postoctobrist People crow on about how TVs kept getting cheaper but like, that’s not really the case. The quality of even the cheaper TVs does rise over time but any actually good quality ones are still just as expensive as they were before.
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@WereInHellYT I think about Dan Olson's video about this a lot. It really captures the tail end of the trend and why and how the wheels started falling off.
youtube.com/watch?v=4EXVrz…
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@WereInHellYT I think at least anecdotally (35) the 2010s were just full of cooking content. I was consuming it and making stuff even as far back as my uni halls in ~2012. I think BA was the culmination of the trend both in how good the videos were, but also the evils of the YT food industry.
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@Keir_Starmer which railways are those then? your government has not proposed a single new railway
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New roads, railways, airports and reservoirs are coming to Britain, and they are coming soon.
That’s national renewal.
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@Wookie7777777 @belongingalways @plant_lady1955 @jackmjenkins In a "1 murderer & 1 victim" situation, successful self defense results in 1 death, while a successful death penalty results in 2.
Like you can be pro death penalty and argue that that's fine, but at least have your logic straight
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@_CiaranF @belongingalways @plant_lady1955 @jackmjenkins Who says it is revenge and not justice that serves the community?
The only difference is time. If you allege revenge, then self-defense in the moment is also revenge. Through that lens, you are taking revenge for an evil that would have been done.
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This is simultaneously not an especially radical theological belief and, politically speaking (especially in the U.S. context), quite a thing for Pope Leo to say.
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