Mayor Deacon

problem set? i'm sorry but we do 21st century mathematics in this classroom. here's your problem category

when i save "hannah montana implies the existence of 49 other hannahs" as a draft, what good does that do except delay your eventual suffering?

'stop comparing everything this dumbfuck government of petty tyrants does to the three kingdoms'

I will when Dong Zhuo stops defiling the mandate of heaven every other day!!!!!

Fucked up philosophy of language views:

- names are like nouns but they don't take articles, so they're mass nouns.

'John' refers to Johnny stuff

the race and iq stuff is basically a "neutral" way to justify wealth inequality and criticize democracy to be fair. epstein can very easily believe himself superior stock for the simple reason that he has a lot of money

Honestly, it has to be a weird time to be a figure in pop culture due the president being Literally The Worst. Like, Elmo can say sharing is good and somebody in his X mentions will say “Elmo, you rotten son of a bitch. This goes against everything President Trump stands for.” And that’s not wrong.

A former Nazi asks his American interviewer if any protested the Japanese internment, and if the reaction would have been different if they were extermination camps. The former Nazi contends the reaction in America would have been the same.

milton mayer's "they thought they were free" has a great passage comparing the japanese internment camps to the nazi concentration camps:

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

The reasoning here is interesting (and I think correct) that the distinction between this and financial derivatives are that there's no real products no risk management involved. Whilst you /can/ gamble with, say, wheat futures, that contract both involves actual wheat (if not ever delivered) and

like, all possible ideas of you coexist with you. ppl grappling at different ones from time to time doesn’t really effect that. you can just sorta do whatever outside the minds of others, including your own. idk, caring about the thoughts of other is good i suppose. if we were zombies we still here.

idk, maybe. i believe in the abstract world of thought. i don’t think of myself as a source of thoughts so much as a channel from which possible thoughts may come through. so ideas coexist with the world but do not give rise to it; which i guess is physicalist coded. sorry, what’re talking about?

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Washington Post reporter laid off while freezing in a war zone by one of the world’s richest people.

as we all know, the importance of these talks is to become friends with everyone in the audience. the fact you never got an island invite screams louder than words alone.

all that said, man i really think it depends. judging how everyone interacts in epstein-file dump by a universal standard seems more liable to be upsetting* than illuminating.

*- upsetting as in a skill issue, righteous anger is always acceptable obv.

idk if i have ever searched someone in academia and paid any attention to results that are not cited work. i imagine mid-2010s linkedin-pilled brainrot posting, as was the norm, also acted as a filter

i dont think googling someone instead of getting to know them through interaction is normal behavior.

Bayesians are like listen up FUCKERS, we SOLVED epistemology. And it turns out you can believe WHATEVER YOU WANT provided it’s not LITERALLY INCONSISTENT and you CHOSE THE RIGHT OPINIONS before LOOKING AT THE EVIDENCE AT ALL

woah this is just like WALL-E

Some of our faves are NOT implicated, thank God

i don’t think good character requires your plotting to be consistent but i do think it requires convergence. for hypocrites and narcissists it’s forever mutable.

wait, we can also add the “lose” to “win” dim. and “unnecessary” to “necessary” (in effecting outcomes) dim. to achieve the pure 4d experience cuboid.

hmmm. i get that (i hope). I didn’t mean to imply any universals, people can fail&lose&feel bad (learned from personal experience). i think this can all be expressed on the “got my ass kicked” to “kicked ass” versus “felt bad” to “felt good” experience compass.

counterpoint: having aspirations is different from having banter. or perhaps you consider transient ideologies to be distinct from possessing an ideology? idk, i think there can peace in change that is ungratifying, i have seen trees both grow and rot.

I wish someone would take up maintaining the package as officially distributed. It somehow sneaked into being a standard package that gets placed into the cursed “please use this file dump.”

algorithm2e was designed for typesetting pseudocode in “Introduction to Algorithms” by Cormen et al. It was never officially released so there is no onus on maintaining it, but because professors/students wanted to be able to write up in the same style.

Hasn’t this always been the case? Exclusive social clubs for the purpose of networking/affirming status where they occasionally vent grievances that other members can act upon may blossom into impromptu conspiracies. Being able to immediately text commands probably makes the scheming look different.

From what I understand, everything Musk touched is losing money so this makes various interests groups grumble less.

SpaceX is the only Musk business to conceivably get a government bailout due to its market capture of rocket launching for NASA and the DoD.

It's a shame everyone is talking about stochastic terrorism now. I used to love the book fairs they did at our school.