frezik

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frezik,

Don’t necessarily need to have a Ph.D. A professor of history once published a paper saying “No Irish Need Apply” signs were a myth. A 14 year old found counterexamples, and did a good enough job to get the takedown published.

independent.co.uk/…/rebecca-fried-the-14yearold-s…

frezik, (edited )

I demand the Magna Carta and the Code of Hammurabi be posted, using the same argument.

frezik,

Grading on a curve, here.

frezik,

Notice that other than Baldur’s Gate and Elden Ring, those are pretty old titles at this point. The AAA studios are doing everything they can to make sure those nightmares never happen again.

frezik,

This is why Dooku made a shitty Sith. His underlying reasons were just, but didn’t stop to think about who he was hooking up with. He’s ultimately a tragic figure of someone who meant well and fucked it up.

Sith ethos doesn’t work like that. It’s a self-centered philosophy; you gain power for the sake of doing what you please. Palatine was never going to have Dooku as an apprentice long term.

Anakin’s reasons were selfish. His relationship with Padme was always toxic, immature, and selfish. Him wanting to save her was fundamentally selfish. It wasn’t for her sake as a person apart from Anakin. That’s exactly the kind of behavior the Sith philosophy encourages.

frezik,

Which party voted for all the state level legalization efforts?

frezik,

Turns out, it’s easier to break stuff than to create actual policy.

frezik,

That’s about right.

Federal prosecution is rare. If they charge you with marijuana possession at the federal level, then there’s probably a list of a dozen other charges on top of it, and at least one of them is the serious thing they’re actually after you for. Feds don’t waste their time with this shit unless there’s a bigger reason.

So what Biden did has very little practical effect. A bunch of people got one charge among many taken off their record. That’s what he’s able to do with just a stroke of a pen. The rest is dependent on states, federal congress, or the vast federal bureaucracy.

frezik,

Your lips do important work in making a trumpet play. Dolphins don’t have the fine control over their lips that would be necessary. Maybe the blowhole does?

frezik,

Like “pull yourself up by your bootstraps”, its full meaning has been cut off in order to support the opposite point.

frezik,

Clearly, the solution is to write another layer of abstraction to unite them all.

frezik,

There’s also a point where you don’t have to care. It’s a good story and you can enjoy it on that basis.

frezik,

There’s a Netflix documentary called “Mitt” that follows him and his family throughout his 2012 run. I took two things away:

  • It helped humanize Mitt a lot, such as loving a beat up, old pair of winter gloves
  • I’m glad he was never President, and should never be President
frezik,

You’re right that consciousness and intelligence are not the same. Our language tends to conflate the two.

However, evolution created consciousness over billions of years by emergent factors and no source of specific direction besides being more successful at reproduction. We can likely get there orders of magnitude faster than evolution could. The big problem would be recognizing it for what it is when it’s here.

frezik,

We go orders of magnitude faster than evolution on tons of things. It’s not that big of a claim.

frezik,

Let’s fix climate change except for the part where Florida sinks into the ocean.

frezik,

“You don’t actually read the bible, you just cherry picked some bits out of the atheist meme book” - actual response I’ve gotten when I’ve brought this up.

frezik,

It’s not just nudes, though. This could happen for any deleted picture. I’m not really expecting them to zero out the file system block or anything, but this implies they’re not even doing file system level deletion.

frezik,

Where’s the group for being against Catholics and watermelons?

frezik,

Convergent evolution. Their cries naturally mimic the frequencies of human babies. It’s not deliberate, but rather there happened to be a creature that lived around humans that worked this way, and now it’s a survival trait.

frezik,

How did New York come out sounding like the wholesome part of this story?

frezik,

She does a handful of shoots as a performer still. Porn isn’t the only thing she produces, either. She also does ghost hunting/paranormal investigations.

frezik,

The Steam Deck also isn’t made by a shitty company with a shitty warranty. Which puts the Ally on the blacklist.

There’s a lot of options in this space, and more coming out. I wouldn’t even glance in the Ally’s direction right now.

frezik,

Adjusted for inflation, they’re even cheaper than the Geo Metro was. 1998 Metro is around $19k in 2024 dollars, while some of these Chinese cars are clocking under $14k.

However, you should also expect it to function like a car cheaper than a Geo Metro.

frezik,

Does exist.

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