Brian Austin

@conorsen It’s always 1971

Would read something long about why the South pickup began in 1971 — I could think of multiple reasons.

I really like watching how the elevator numbers keep changing in the background as they did different takes and just kept the elevator running. Good ad!

@ZyMazza Economics

Besides computer science are there any other fields we describe as a “science” that exclusively study the capabilities and limitations of a manmade tool?

@bendreyfuss I understand this as a consequence of rapid population collapse. You don’t have enough food, so you don’t have enough time for people to do the necessary science experiments to make food more effectively.

The stupidest part of INTERSTELLAR is that the blight starts killing all the crops and after just a few decades they go “ah well, guess it won! Better leave earth. Hope we solve this magic gravity equation with the help of 5 dimensional beings and wormholes.”

@AlexGodofsky It’s weird to call an obvious bad-faith actor in the media “the libs” when the person being interviewed was a Biden official. The actual libs are the ones saying the “it’s fine” thing!

You just can't let libs do foreign policy ever because their brain seizes up and bluescreens when you say something like "the dead kids were the children of enemy soldiers who brought them onto the military base in the middle of a war so the strike was still fine".

@lennysan Claude code pairs really well with tmux — I can just start a new tmux session for every little project and have one tab of it that’s always Claude, but still be able to split my screen and run terminal commands or review files in vim.

Do you use Claude Code (or some other CLI) for a non-coding use case? I'd love to know how. Please share in the comments. If it's awesome, I'll feature you in the newsletter 👀

@gaulicsmith The European mind can’t even comprehend increases in labor productivity.

Some people suggest we use mass immigration to solve our shrinking old-age dependency ratios, but allow me to explain why this won’t work

@TheCinesthetic My take is that this would have been an amazing 6 hr limited series, and in summer 2020 it would have ruled the summer as a weekly release. The film would benefit from giving the audience time to breathe and digest.

Tenet (2020) might be Nolan’s most playful and inventive film. It’s big, bold, full of wild ideas, and honestly one of the most fun rides he’s ever made. The backlash it got feels completely undeserved.

@eigenrobot the 2025 is Good

minivan shopping gpt with no hints recommended roughly the same reverse auction method i considered below, and offered some very specific advice about how to structure IFBs to avoid dealer malarkey this seems reasonable

@dil_maz @LemieuxLGM Send in the fbi

Oh no a wheelie

@IterIntellectus The real answer is that it’s what the constitution says: the 14th amendment says to count the whole number of persons in each state except Indians

apologies for my very ignorant question, but does this mean that until now the census counted illegal immigrants?! why would anyone do that?

@SheaSerrano Not technically an alley-oop but I feel like it counts

is there a more famous or iconic alley-oop than kobe to shaq game 7 portland-lakers because i can’t immediately think of one

@wanyeburkett He doesn’t say that at all and it’s unclear how locking up random people is going to protect any culture that merits protecting

I don’t even know how you can have a real conversation with somebody who doesn’t think that his country has a culture that’s distinct and identifiable and worth protecting. Like, I don’t even know what that is. We’re just on completely different planets.

@TrueSlazac Just say Fahrenheit degrees as “percent hot outside”. At 30 degrees it’s much more cold than hot outside. At 80 degrees it’s much more hot than cold. At 50 it’s neither hot nor cold.

This argument makes zero sense to me because it implies 68°F and 32°F should be the same scale of temperature but the former is a normal sunny temperature while the latter is literally freezing cold

@Scientific_Bird I mean they thought surely no one good can come from Nazareth

It's funny when people try to insinuate that bigotry of various kinds (sexism, anti-semitism, etc) are recent phenomena. I was reading this account of a young Danish man who was captured into slavery by Algerian pirates in 1724.

@AydinPaladin The idea that anything that has the spark of life is valuable to me, even if it is not directly useful to me is called stewardship and it’s a value shared by basically all religions

If I were to offer some advice to these people regarding the Watyz et al study, as I have before, it is to only criticize it's methods. Once you accept the findings as valid, no amount of twisting them makes the left look good. The best-case and low-resolution reading for them is that they have an outgroup preference / suicidal empathy. Their outermost loci of care centres around animals/plants/fungus/bacteria/etc. They interpret this as meaning they care about everything, including the centre circles of family/friends/nation. The high resolution reading; however, is that they don't care about anything or anyone, because how much care can be allocated to each concentric circle is limited, just as real ability to care is limited by time/energy/capacity. By allocating their limited care to the outer limits of non-humans, that care is divided amongst all the items more central, diffusing said limited care amongst so many things as to not care for anything in particular, a fraction of a fraction of a care point for each approaching infinite thing. Except, perhaps, care for themselves, depending on speculation as to why respondents, as organized by political ideology, chose to do this. That's why I said, if they must talk about this study, they should posit that the respondents didn't understand the instructions, because either that "misunderstanding" revealed suicidal outgroup preference OR that they care about absolutely nothing. The latter, higher-res, conclusion is an even more damning one for them than the suicidal empathy one. But this is a study and they pathologically need to trust science as symbolic of their intelligence, so rather than take the best read for them - that subjects didn't understand/study is flawed beyond useful interpretation - they just shout that no one else does, continually reminding the lay public of the study, causing more to actually read it. When they read it they will low-res conclude these people don't care about their own families as much as fungus, or high-res conclude that they care about nothing. I know you're not supposed to interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake, but worry not, their obsession with being seen as scientifically correct will not allow them to drop the subject nor select the most favorable interpretation for their class - that the results are a methodological error and science is a liar sometimes. In any way validating this study also validates that the left-leaning people surveyed here either have suicidal outgroup preference or (more accurately) care about no one, except perhaps themselves, selecting what they believed was the most pro-social option - what's called social desirability bias in surveying - "look what I good person I am. I even care for asteroids." Every other possible interpretation, outside methodolical error, is devastating for their political class, and no amount of spin leads to the conclusion they want - that they love everyone/thing. No, they either prefer outgroups or they prefer nothing besides erroneously trying to make themselves look virtuous as a characteristic of their poitical class.

@keysmashbandit I did always know this, but now that you mention it, it’s not super intuitive that there would be a gauge in the nozzle that would stop the gas just where you need it to stop!

I dated a guy that taught me that you can fill your car up with gas all the way, you don't have to put in only 20-30 bucks worth every time

@ViktorBunin It’s just, no kidding, the meaning of life?

HAVE KIDS! It's not a psyop. It literally is just amazing. Your life will be better. You will be happier and more fulfilled. Your life will have new meaning and you will never regret it. I can't promise it'll be easier, but it's so worth it it's not even close.

@gaulicsmith Sounds like you might enjoy this book

Why can’t America build things anymore ? All major public projects like subways, ships, and other public works go vastly over budget and behind schedule, while all private industry is almost entirely offshored with very few exceptions (Tesla Gigafactory, data centers, etc)

@BarredinDC Philly special is great too

The Italian hoagie from Bub and Pop’s ($17) is, in my opinion, DC’s highest quality sandwich, and it remains that way at the interesting new digs in the former Eleanor (still signage)in NoMa by the NY/Florida intersection. Touch screen ordering for now. Booze coming any day