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@xwanyex I thought that too but it turns out the alternative was less fun, even when short-lived.

I don’t want to work at a job anymore

@eigenrobot @LauraFlowD @Duderichy there is ice and polar bears outside. gonna stick with my dryer

@LauraFlowD @Duderichy hang dry it outside in the sun i promise its better if you really enjoy the smell just burn a sheet of fabric softener

even if you don't "have" to, hang dry your clothes because they will last 10-20x longer. thank you for your attention to this matter!

@Liinad_De_Varge @Romy_Holland How is picking up a red gun not cooperating? The blues are being selfish by not joining the bloodless 100% red gun coalition and forcing us to shoot them.

No it's definitely not phrased that way it's phrased the opposite way. "Hey people let's cooperate so everyone can live, if you decide not to cooperate the half of the world could die, but you will be guaranteed your life." So of course I'm assuming that most of the people will do understand that our goal is to cooperate Here's an even harsher framing towards cooperation

it’s fun to imagine what would happen socially/politically if this situation actually happened. it would quickly be determined that even if official guidance dictated pressing the red button, some percentage of people would inevitably press blue. because of this, guidance would be to push blue so we could save the red button dummies. the whole thing would become intensely politicized and people would push the red button in protest. there’d be endless polling and then scrutiny of the polls. a lot of people would push red, but probably not half.

@Romy_Holland "save the red button dummies". Uh, I'm starting to understanding why the game theory optimal choice might be cruel. Although presumably people would really try to understand the choices if presented with the real scenario.

@phantom_opus I'm going to avoid the obvious 'triple cream' and instead declare that 60% fat: butt 80% fat: butter 100% fat: buttest

20% fat: single cream 40% fat: double cream 60% fat: ????? 80% fat: butter Who is working on this

@PalmyrPar Yeah and you could make all your free throws with a granny shot too, but is it worth it?

Can someone explain how this isn’t a superior sniper form? Seems like it gives all the more stability, especially on the move.

@echetus @cyan487583 Yeah you should never cum right as you're tweeting.

@cyan487583 Because I had a petit mal while typing this out

In Chinese literature there's a canonical Four Great Novels (Journey to the West, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Dream of the Red Chamber, Romance of the Three Kingdoms). It turns out they've also made up the idea of Four Great Western Novels, a concept none of us were aware of

@Liv_Boeree @unusual_whales Another way of looking at it is that everyone is banned banned from doing it in perpetuity, it's just that a few stragglers are being grandfathered in because they're a lost cause.

@unusual_whales I loathe vapes but the precedent this law sets is far more terrifying - it means that a few years from now, some adults will be prevented from doing a bodily autonomy that legally other adults are free to do. It makes no sense.

BREAKING: UK Parliament agrees to lifelong smoking ban for those born after 2008, per BBC

@pythagoreanmetr @micsolana Godzilla doesn't seem like a good fit. He breaks a lot of laws.

@micsolana I think people also attribute Ninjas, Swords, Bullet Trains, Robots, Godzilla etc. to Japanese Culture.

a lot of what people are calling "japanese culture" on the internet is just the absence of breaking the law, i've noticed ???

@paulg damn u got plugs all over

Japanese dealers publish timegrapher numbers in their listings. Northern European dealers will give you timegrapher numbers if you ask. Italian dealers act like they've never heard of timegraphers.

@avidseries Do you find any value in bluesky beyond what you get from twitter or do you just post there as a form of outreach?

You can follow me on Bluesky at avidseries.bsky.social.

Two more observations about the landmark Reich lab paper on recent evolution in West Eurasian populations that came out a few days ago. (1) David Reich is not just a great scientist, but also a skilled politician. He knew back in 2018 when he wrote his now-famous NYT op-ed that anger at his findings from his fellow liberals might impede or complicate his efforts to conduct research in the future, so he launched a nuanced (and frankly courageous) opening salvo in the pages of the Times, warning the left that they might not like where population genetics was heading, but they would only end up embarrassing themselves if they stood in its way. The op-ed was greeted with anger, and moves by ideologically motivated academics (especially anthropologists) to discredit and isolate him. Ultimately, those efforts failed, and Reich was then free to quietly continue in his work, which he did, slowly building toward the case he presented last week in Nature. So when the paper was published, you barely heard a peep from the usual suspects, who knew that they had already lost. Reich had built such a formidable body of research that he had become un-cancellable. (2) Which leads me to my second point. You've probably heard that Bluesky likes to think of itself as the place on the Internet where serious scientists go to discuss the latest research developments. So how much discussion did the Reich lab paper get on Bluesky? Well, I did a cursory search and came up with nothing. And if you believe the post below, I was the only account on the platform who posted about it.

@jonatanpallesen Reddit is ranked highly on google because if you search 'headphone recommendations' you'll find 10 000 amazon affiliate link-lists by content farms that apparently don't know what a headphone is and 1 subreddit full of headphone nerds.

If I google my name, the top hit is a Reddit post that cites some posts of mine showing that non-Western immigrants to Denmark commit more crime. The top comment on that post is this ridiculous comment, citing studies showing that immigrants do not commit more crime than native *in the U.S.* (?). It then proceeds to call me racist. So now, for the sin of visualizing official government statistics, the first comment on the first link says I publish bad science and am a racist. Why is Reddit so high in Google anyway? The post has 180 upvotes and 100 comments. There are countless posts here on X with far more than that. Why should this random Reddit post be the top search result? It's extreme pro-Reddit anti-X bias from Google.

@MaraAgainToo @charlesmurray Why do you say human origins in 1 sentence then origins of human civ in the next? Just trying to waste everyone's time by being self-refuting?

@charlesmurray There is no evidence of human origins in Africa. All archaeological evidence places the origin of human civilisation in the Mesopotamia Valley, and it spread from there.

Serious question: which of Wade’s major claims—evolution since dispersal from Africa has been extensive, has included cognitive traits, and has mostly been local—has been refuted?

@Steve_Sailer @SidKhurana3607 This guy seems like he knows racial stuff. I'm going with his answer.

@SidKhurana3607 Washington D.C.?

New challenge: guess the US city (min. 50k) by its racial demographics?

extraordinary

@NateSilver538 Can you stop quote tweeting without the context? It’s intellectually dishonest.

@Aella_Girl @emilykmay Enforcing a monogamy was a sexual wealth transfer from old and powerful men to young men.

@emilykmay monogamy historically has been like an anti battle thing right? like a truce like 'fine you get one lady i get one lady i will not try to get your lady'. like look at what happened with the extra men from the mormons. or the extra gorillas

when it comes to heterosexuals and non monogamy i bristle a bit when I hear straight men say things like "monogamy is a tool of the patriarchy to stifle growth" when in reality monogamy for straight men has historically been about them finally practicing restraint.

@Jabaluck @avidseries If a more convincing paper showed the opposite - that harms to white and asians exceeded the gains for URMs - would you take this as evidence that affirmative action was wrong and should be ended?

If you're confident in your beliefs because dumb people don't have answers, you are making an epistemic error. The best evidence suggests affirmative action probably increased wages on net; net benefits for URM applicants exceeded harms to white and asian applicants. @avidseries

@KirkegaardEmil Some genuine secular improvement as designers learn lessons from the past. But more recent games get a short term bump from hype. They creep down as their replayability goes down or their flaws become more apparent.

I feel like modern board games got better, but maybe it's rating inflation? Hard to tell.

a long time ago i had the experience of chatting irl with someone well known on twitter, well connected, well platformed, influential, etc. He was smart, seemed to have domain expertise in his technical field. But gradually over the course of the conversation I realized he didn't actually know what he was talking about. He used complicated words, but in subtly off ways, and would reply to questions with things that sounded like answers but actually weren't.He'd confidently reference concepts that I think he assumed I didn't know, but I did know, and I knew that the term he used didn't actually have anything to do with his claim, etc. But his confidence was intense and radiating, and the speed at which he talked and the complex vocabulary he used really disguised what I perceived to be both a lack of deep understanding of the material and also a lack of self-awareness that he didn't have deep understanding! I've def met people who disagree with me online who I think *do* engage deeply with the concepts, but this specific one didn't, and it was a little blackpilling for me to realize that he had such a following from a bunch of people who couldn't tell the difference.