EtherealProbabilist

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EtherealProbabilist

EtherealProbabilist

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Taylor Rivers
Taylor Rivers@taylorivers·
thinking about amanda bynes' iconic lie from 2013
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EtherealProbabilist@MeasureOne1·
@moodyaquarius @taylorivers But even if it wasn't, it seems like a much more objectionable sentiment to say that being bald makes you feel like cancer than like a cancer patient.
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A man was born into the permanent underclass. He worked two jobs, paid his rent late, owned nothing, and prayed every night: "Lord, deliver me from this. I have faith." One day his cousin called. "Brother. Ground floor. New coin. SafeMoonRocketDoge. You put in five thousand, you walk away with fifty by Friday when we rug it." The man said, "I do not need a scam. The Lord will deliver me," and hung up. Months later, a coworker comes up to him during lunch. "I'm going all in on NFTs. Pixelated raccoons. We mint, we pump, we rug, we vanish. Six figures, clean exit, you'll be in Lisbon by spring. Want in?" The man said, "I do not need fraud. The Lord will deliver me," and went back to mopping. A year later, an accountant from his second job pulled him aside. "The PPP window is still cracked open if you know where to push. I file the paperwork. You 'own' a landscaping LLC with eleven employees. We split the forgiven loan. The feds don't care. You'll own a boat in Florida in no time." The man said, "I will not steal. The Lord will deliver me," and went back to work. The man worked until, one day, his back gave out. He died in the hallway of a hospital that was, even then, billing him for the hallway. At the gates, he fell to his knees. "Lord, I had faith. I worked every day of my life. I prayed. Why did You not let me escape the permanent underclass?" And the Lord, with great tenderness, said: "My son. I sent you SafeMoonRocketDoge. I sent you pixelated raccoon NFTs. I sent you a landscaping company with eleven imaginary employees and a forgivable federal loan. What more, exactly, were you waiting on?"
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EtherealProbabilist
EtherealProbabilist@MeasureOne1·
@AndyMasley One should always be wary of "if I'm pissing off X I'm doing something right" but in this case I think it applies. Not that you were implying that.
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Andy Masley
Andy Masley@AndyMasley·
It appears Alex Hanna, Timnit Gebru, and Remmelt Ellen have all denounced me for denying infrasound harms. I will do some soul searching
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Dave Deek
Dave Deek@DaveDeek·
@ZbynekDrab @captgouda24 Neat bro, People aren’t just going to lay down and accept the end just because you want them
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Kelsey Piper
Kelsey Piper@KelseyTuoc·
Suboptimal policy and business decisions have costs measured in human lives. But if you use the standard 'you could easily have done something different to save a life, and you didn't', 'being a person in the US with $10k and not donating it to GiveWell' is social murder.
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Andy Masley
Andy Masley@AndyMasley·
The idea here seems to be that if you eliminate taxes and rent, you can just pass those savings onto labor. Which is technically true, but taxes are meant to redistribute those savings onto all labor and people who aren't capable of work, not the specific people who happen to work at the store. This seems strictly worse.
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Andy Masley
Andy Masley@AndyMasley·
Okay I looked into Mamdani's plan for how to make public grocery stores cheaper and it looks like it's entirely "They don't need to pay rent or property taxes."
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EtherealProbabilist
EtherealProbabilist@MeasureOne1·
@KelseyTuoc @AlexNowrasteh It does sound like it should be illegal but it should not be considered insider trading. Getting the right verdict with the wrong reasoning seems bad for precedent (though I know nothing about law).
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Kelsey Piper
Kelsey Piper@KelseyTuoc·
@AlexNowrasteh this leaks classified information about our military operations! I admit it's silly to think about the issue as 'insider trading', but it could easily have gotten people killed
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EtherealProbabilist
EtherealProbabilist@MeasureOne1·
@sugarbets_ @TheKnight9910 @deepestbrew My experience in the world depends on me staying alive. So there's no reason for me risking death by pressing the blue button. It is the same reason I don't play Russian roulette. Pure risk no reward.
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Candyman
Candyman@sugarbets_·
The question is “what do you live for?” Red pushers are saying they only live for themselves. Not for their experience in the world. IMO, it completely misses what makes the world worth living in. Like, it sounds like you’d want to be kept alive in ICU instead of the plug pulled. If pure survival is your main concern
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Deepest Brew
Deepest Brew@deepestbrew·
If you assume a nonzero number of blue voters, then picking blue is a natural Schelling point. More to the point: there are many reasons someone might pick blue, and we should not be sentencing them to death for their “mistake.”
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?

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The Bush Archive
The Bush Archive@TheBushArchive·
“So much so he thinks he invented the Internet… But if the man (Al Gore) was so smart how come every internet address begins with W!” - George W. Bush during the 2000 Election
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EtherealProbabilist@MeasureOne1·
@skooookum We should tax Citi Bikes more to account for the externalities they impose on everyone else trying to get around in the city.
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Slick
Slick@NickStillHere·
People arent defending the company more so calling out people drinking 5-7 energy drinks stupid.
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EtherealProbabilist@MeasureOne1·
@katie_honan I'm mostly interested in how a geologist makes $200k/yr. This is the stuff they don't tell you when you're picking a major!
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EtherealProbabilist
EtherealProbabilist@MeasureOne1·
@kane Maybe they just mean that nobody is comfortable saying why in polite society?
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Kane 謝凱堯
Kane 謝凱堯@kane·
“The Supreme Court banned race discrimination in college admissions and Asian acceptance rates increased. I have no idea how these two might be related. I am a reporter.”
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Alec MacGillis@AlecMacGillis

Not long ago, Johns Hopkins boasted high Black and Hispanic numbers. Then came SCOTUS ruling and a huge reversal: Today, 45% of freshmen are Asian-American, up from 26% just 2 yrs ago. And that doesn't include int'l students, mostly from Asia. @elliew0lfe: thebanner.com/education/high…

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EtherealProbabilist
EtherealProbabilist@MeasureOne1·
@alisha_hg Everything else aside, my guess is the people who don't satisfy *any* of these conditions are a relatively small minority of Americans. Which makes me suspicious that only they know what's going on.
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Alis
Alis@alisha_hg·
This is satirical right? In what world are people who wake up and make good, societally ordering decisions day after day “part of the problem” lol
Trev🙃r is hiring DM me!@whatdotcd

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