Symora

wow ok the king's horses actually figured out how to put humpty dumpty together again an— oh come on, he's climbing right back up that wall. god damn it, what an asshole. you can tell the horses are furious with him

my niece just had me take a personality quiz for kids, and I'm pleased to report that I am a Panda, a rare personality type possessed by only 4% of children

beginning to despair for our collective sense-making, and it’s entirely because so many people on here enjoy recreational lying about people they don’t like.

As Kevin correctly notes, this is a template straight from the playbook of the Caesars. It's how the republic became the principate, and how the principate later became the dominate. A military dependent on no other institution except the patronage of the emperor.

Finally got around to watching this, and I am impressed how much Jenna's licking-based assessment of the Nintendo Museum was actually a useful lens for discussing the limits of corporate internal storytelling as a teaching tool

I've made this scale to help people out during this holiday season

from me: can't wait to see you on monday! been having an incredible trip, it's been great to get to be myself the last two weeks. going forward, id love if i could be your daughter instead of your son [heart reacted] Dad: We would love that because it is what makes you you! We love you so much Would love to hear more about it When you get home me: I love you too! We can talk about it when I get back

happy international may came out to her parents day for those who celebrate

not what im called meme but its calling a fourier transform a furry transfem

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A photo of a Macintosh PowerBook BLIT, with eight separate small and chaotically sized screens on its display where there would normally be one. Designed not to show all of an image at one time, it's showing some probably completely innocuous fractal-like design in part across the screens.

The Macintosh PowerBook BLIT was definitely safe for looking at all possible images.

For a little while, anyway.

I really like the joke people do where they pretend to have just learned about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars, and are like "oh my god". If you're ever wondering if you should make that joke, just keep in mind that it would probably get a smile out of me

When is addiction to outrage being added to the dsm

I like how Sun Tzu dedicated a whole chapter to "When trying to set the enemy on fire, make sure to not set yourself on fire too."

I don't think AI agents having moods or traits that resemble emotions constitutes proof of personhood, fwiw; I think that it is better to model them as *actors*, in the way that an actor playing the role of "person who is happy" will act in happy ways

Started saying mucho to my Spanish friends. It means a lot to them

(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture

there's something here

In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning

There's nothing wrong with Hooters per se, but only a deeply sexually repressed society would be capable of producing Hooters. It's wild that it existed alongside Applebee's and Chilli's. Yeah man let's go to the psychosexual chicken wing place. "I want to watch sports and eat chicken wings but I also want to constantly be aware that every waitress in this restaurant was hired for her fat tits. No I want them to be clothed the whole time. I just wanna know that like, in the background." Any upstanding pervert could come up with a strip club. That's good honest fun. But even a normal pervert couldn't come up Hooters. You gotta be a pervert who doesn't even know you're a pervert.

True epistemic humility has never been tried

⚠️ You have marked yourself as an untrusted node in the epistemic network

No, it’s not that. Again think back to George Floyd: within a week that video had produced the largest protests in history, literally worldwide, combined with things like 60% public approval for BLM and majority support for BURNING DOWN A POLICE STATION. The public can care about this stuff!

The show deals more with how the response to Chernobyl is handled by the USSR. How truth is covered up, and twisted, and regurgitated to avoid responsibility and scapegoat innocent people.

It contrasts the best and worst of humanity, in the first responders and apparatchiks respectively.

HBO’s Chernobyl feels like a very timely and urgent watch for Americans

catfishing

I encourage ppl to ignore such tawdry stories alleging unthinkable sexual immorality. Even if true, repentance and god's forgiveness can erase any sin, even that of a trans person who chooses to have sex with a Republican.

we are all sherman