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I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection

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some call me Kevin
some call me Kevin@second_teatime·
You just won a 2-week, all-expenses-paid vacation. But there’s a catch: you have to stay within one region the whole time. What region are you picking?
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Ante D. Luvian
Ante D. Luvian@uncle_deluge·
Common misconception. (M)Oneday Twosday When's (the third) day (of the week?) Thoursday (th-fronting, Foursday) Fri(ve)day 'S 'at ur day? ("Is that your day?" Used to find Sabbath observing Jews during the Inquisition) Sonday (for Jesus)
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@77_steeze Remembering that time long ago when they called Tea Party ppl 'teabaggers' and, huh, was that a larval stage of whatever this is (parallel being that earnest teabagging was presumably fine if not praiseworthy to the speaker ofc)
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I'd object to casual accusations of "treason" but back when they defined it in the US constitution they still clung to antiquated ideas like "declaring war" so it's just vibes now I guess
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@77_steeze This was more or less me with Thomas Sowell's A Conflict of Visions like yes it's nice to have some concrete examples, but, fundamentally differing views on the perfectibility of man, covered that pretty thoroughly in one chapter, done
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Silenced on Site
Silenced on Site@77_steeze·
I would never read Gad Saad’s book. Not because I think “suicidal empathy” isn’t a real thing, but more because it being called “Suicidal Empathy” just kinda covers it. I’m like “OK yup…I get the jist man! I see this all the time….next book please”
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respectfully, I don't think the "Freedom 250" logo is capturing the spirit of the current age the way the bicentennial logo nailed the mid-70s Look at that subtle figure-ground reversal. The tasteful radiused stripes. Oh my God, it even has standard weight Helvetica...
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some call me Kevin@second_teatime·
Anyway this came to mind while reading some Current Politics accts talking about the presidential bmi coming out to 29.7 lmao *I don't actually care at the object level, I mean come on we had Taft at one point, retvrn
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some call me Kevin@second_teatime·
that subsequent measurements were biased near Thompson's, and took a while to eventually converge on the correct value. Presumably it's a kind of goal-seeking bias where you know the distinguished professor's correct result but you're a mere mortal attempting to replicate it >>>
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There was a Feynman essay where he talked about (among other things) the J. J. Thomson measurement (in 1897) of the charge/mass ratio of the electron. Thompson was off by a little—cut him some slack we were new at this—but the interesting bit in Feynman's anecdote was >>>
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@goblinodds "Let's explore this. What makes you feel you're not acting in accordance with your interests?"
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2HP goblin advisor
2HP goblin advisor@goblinodds·
amused to report that telling my claude therapist to be ayn rand has made it a MUCH better therapist
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Went to a different Target today, everything was the same but also not quite the same this must be what those guys in SLIDERS felt when they showed up in one of the alt-history universes
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If I have in the past said anything positive or perhaps even neutral about the For You algo, I take it all back. Burn it down
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Learning more than I'd otherwise want to about various commodities' supply, reserves, pricing/markets etc because the government is doing dumb things re oil it's like they say, every foreseeable crisis is an opportunity for needless education
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