YouTube video by Isaac Arthur The Fermi Paradox - Did a Natural Nuclear Reactor Spark All Life?

Only looking more important with time

youtu.be/e8Bei1l8vuU?...

I’m convinced Powells is the model for the house in Piranesi

it feels like the government is turning into one huge hatch act violation

lord, the humor is bitter these days

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Prisoner’s dilemma but you know in advance you’re in the bottom row. It’s no fun but at least it’s simple

I know you have to put in the paywall at some point, but this bit was unintentionally hilarious:

There's always some dissent on specifics, and the pope almost never actually speaks ex cathedra. OTOH it's not a democracy, he is the pope and he's basically running variations on "Whatsoever you do to the least of these..." so I think your point still holds

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Maybe I'm stupid, but if Nobel was Swedish and they pick up the prize in Stockholm why is the committee Norwegian?

...looked it up, apparently it's just a mystery 🤷‍♂️

Is this what he was doing when he should have been learning what habeas corpus is?

I kind of assumed that when I saw that she was associated with a website (?) called Heaven Is Fun dot com.

Cool. The different parts of my brain disagree on whether this is cooler than aliens (ofc it "has the added advantage of being true")

Mt Tamalpais and Tiburon. The suprising trick is to *totally ignore* the fact that they're obviously Spanish in origin.

Let's talk to the Swedes, throw in a couple of Nobel prizes while we're at it

He knows why he has the job he has. Stonewall and lie for the dictator, cover for the other apparatchiks.

Trumpism delenda est

So it is sentient….

"Also, you know I am from Finland, a totally different Scandinavian country?"

is he...dressed as a priest?

"Reality based community". Doubly dangerous because it does work to some extent *on voters' perceptions* but not at all on *actual problems faced by the nation*

right, so a state level court found that a person was ineligible for an office within their jurisdiction and that becomes case law.

but there was no such case law with a court with jurisdiction to say who could be president, right? (though I agree that there are compelling grounds here)

who removed him?

I think a lot of people on some level treat “Supreme Court legitimacy“ the same way that Michael Scott treats “bankruptcy“

if i corrected William Gibson on his own book series I would frame the admission and put it on the wall

“Why does it matter who I’m with? Will your answer change?”

Is he just taking requests now?

Somebody needs to make a mashup of the old "1984" apple ad and ICE footage

We're gonna need an "everyone is 12" primer

Step up from bacteria colony?

Hard to say

Fascism is a counterrevolution against a revolution that never happened