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Edward Cree
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Edward Cree
@ecree429
Linux kernel dev, with Asperger's. Not speaking for employer or anyone else. Bi; date-me doc @ https://t.co/02CAsj6j6v
Cambridge, UK. Katılım Mayıs 2020
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@goblinodds you think thats bad i get my music recs from ao3
"🤔 this band slash is cute, i shld listen to their tunes"
im not kidding this literally happened
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before this i got my best recent rec from fucking PINTEREST
x.com/goblinodds/sta…
2HP goblin advisor@goblinodds
ok why did i have to learn about Yaelokre from pinterest ???? huh ???
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did not expect instagram to be the place where i'm getting all my new music recs but they just started advertising bands to me, apparently based on my taste in makeup, fashion, and crafts??? and boy are they good at it
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“This argument is perfectly sound. But we must remember that arguments are constructed in one way, and governments in another.” Macaulay really does have some banger lines.
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@Nemtastic1 @simonsarris Programming is particularly good for this, because you can gain mastery over a system that can chug along by itself and amplify your agency, but which doesn't have the materials constraints of physical engineering. Which is why some men's impulse is to, say, write a Unix kernel.
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@simonsarris Also the logical/conceptual world.
Some men are compelled to build skyscrapers and dams. Others to build calculus and master chess.
Same impulse, different objects. Mastering a thing and harnessing its output.
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Every man has an Apollonian impulse that's so innate and so powerful that 1 year old boys practically have a seizure the first time they see a tractor or a dump truck. Just completely intoxicating.
The impulse takes many of forms but never goes away.
Mads@madsf88
why is every man's dream to build a factory
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@RepealTCPA1947 @legalstyleblog @vandeTreede +“It is thus possible that what Posner observes in present day common law is fossilized efficiency, produced by institutions that no longer exist [...] consistent with the observation that the efficiency of the common law seems to have decreased over time” daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Anarc…
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Broke: natural law is nonsense on stilts (Bentham)
Woke: natural law is divine eternal order discernable by human reason(Aquinas)
Bespoke: THE NATURAL LAW OF GOD IS JUST ENGLISH LAW WHICH IS PURE REASON (actual ruling per the Lord Asquith of Bishopstone, cite below)
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@rupertaesthete paging @K_Niemietz to the white courtesy phone
no, the _white_ phone
(actually a proper Lincolnshire sausage is very nice)
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The pork sausage is a civilisational test. Every step of the way is an opportunity for human failure to creep in. Only the lightly spiced, English, organic, high quality, animal casing butchers pork sausage represents food production perfection every step of the way.
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@eigenrobot @selentelechia you're more avante-garde than my parents lol, they always used to tell me to play Over the Hills and Far Away 😒
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so @selentelechia your daughter was running around grandparents' house playing the same horrid note on a recorder. so i challenged her to play 4'33"
she didn't understand but was distracted for long enough that she lost interest in the recorder so im calling it a win
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@RichardJKimblee @emergenteffects I see the Nonjurors are out tonight… 🙄
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@ecree429 @emergenteffects The one that ramped up civil disabilities to new highs. The intolerant 1700s are his fault.
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@emergenteffects Yes, that one. The King Billy who prevented his Whig supporters from continuing the cycle of retribution and oppression that had ravaged England throughout the century's contest between Popery, Prelacy, Parliament, Puritanism, Presbyterianism, and other things that begin with P.
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@emergenteffects You were alive in the late seventeenth century? Gosh, you must have a good moisturiser.
(Well, I suppose you could argue that it was ‘invented’ as a British value by Macaulay writing _about_ those events in 1848, but even so, 178 years is quite an innings.)
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We literally made “being a Catholic priest” a crime of equal severity to high treason. “Tolerance” as a ‘British value’ was invented in my lifetime.
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BEING KINDA ACE AND KINDA GAY IS NORMAL FOR GIRLS. ALWAYS HAS BEEN. WE NEED TO STOP PRETENDING OTHERWISE
Lee@AccordingToLee
There’s a conversation happening on TikTok where the girls are finally talking about how a lot of men aren’t actually attractive. Like you go to the grocery store and see a ton of stunning women, but men? You will remember how many months back you last saw a hot man.
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anyone else used to pronounce bezier as bayzer when they were a kid?
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"Meat Bottleneck" is my agicore band name.
ᄂIMIПΛᄂbardo@liminal_bardo
I found an old Intel NUC gathering dust in my tv cabinet and moved my Gemini agent there. It seems quite pleased to be out of the Docker sandbox.
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i had a friend in college who spelled his name Øwen and i can only assume that this is why speech to text regularly transcribes "when" as Øwen???
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@eigenrobot its ur (well, FDR's) own fault for destroying the british empire
if u hadn't deliberately reduced us to penury mb our ppl wouldn't have voted for stupid socialism in the immediate postwar years and our country wldnt have gone to seed
rationing lasted until 1954!
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guess we'll probably just fix their shit for them
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enjoy free ocean trade brought to you by the us navy and literally no one else
x.com/niemandmagzeit…
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@eigenrobot the only issue i have is that iran is openly attacking **neutral** shipping and many are kinda sneering under this belief it wouldn’t be happening if trump didn’t go in yet they’ve been engaging in piracy for decades. diplomacy has long failed.
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ofc its europes prerogative to not send ships to the gulf etc but it feels disingenuous or irresponsible in the same way proclaiming "we must not have an invasion of lebanon" is
yes, the situation is bad and undesirable. fine discernment. but what are you going to do about it?
Lindsey Graham@LindseyGrahamSC
Just spoke to @POTUS about our European allies’ unwillingness to provide assets to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning, which benefits Europe far more than America. I have never heard him so angry in my life. I share that anger given what’s at stake. The arrogance of our allies to suggest that Iran with a nuclear weapon is of little concern and that military action to stop the ayatollah from acquiring a nuclear bomb is our problem not theirs is beyond offensive. The European approach to containing the ayatollah’s nuclear ambitions have proven to be a miserable failure. The repercussions of providing little assistance to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning are going to be wide and deep for Europe and America. I consider myself very forward-leaning on supporting alliances, however at a time of real testing like this, it makes me second guess the value of these alliances. I am certain I am not the only senator who feels this way.
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@RichardMccrar20 @AlanRMacLeod dgmw the US are generally the good guy and get extremely unfair PR for it, but if there's one country it's not fair to bitch at about that it's the one that has been through the same thing esp when the US were at the forefront of those determined to tear it down
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@RichardMccrar20 @AlanRMacLeod You mean the UK? It *did* take on supporting the world, that's what the Empire *was*, but your FDR (may he rot) didn't like it, so he used the opportunity of WW2 to bankrupt Britain and ensure the end of Empire, and then the US were shocked pikachu that they had to take over Pax
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The US - and I cannot stress this enough - is the bad guy in virtually every situation.
No empire in world history has ever held this much power.
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@Morphington @TomBluderson3rd @afneil don't forget inventing the cavity magnetron, the jet engine, the VT fuse, and the atomic bomb, all of which we gave to the US for free
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@TomBluderson3rd @afneil We built two ship building yards in the US to produce liberty ships, provided the engine that made the Mustang worthwhile, and defeated Germany in North Africa.
We also bashed the Japanese in Burma.
But yeah, it was all America.
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You have a weak and tendentious grasp of history.
We were never a few months away from ‘being a German colony’ after the Battle of Britain (which did not involve America).
Churchill made clear his endgame from the start: Total Victory.
Germany declared War in USA. That’s what brought USA into the European theatre of war.
FDR agreed with Churchill’s endgame.
M🌪@22blanco22
People harping on end game make me boil. You guys were few months away from all being a German colony if not for the American. And they’ve kept the peace through the NATO alliance an even having boots on ground in almost every country. Churchill and penning weren’t talking about endgame when they were begging FDR for help and if not for the japanese actions at pearl harbour, Americans won’t be joining the war.
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