crunchy

sort of, yes, but to really connect the claims you'd have to make the inference from social meanings several millennia ago, to contemporary social meanings, and that's too big a gap

plus that doesn't even even touch on the "objectivity" part of things

A current pet hypothesis of mine is that this sort of claim was never a defensible inference from available data— but such claims proliferated anyways because across the board lefties generally saw the stakes as pretty low

they will as soon as they let me animate Redman as a follow up to the Gridman anime

jc denton: tell me more about these "lifehacks".

deus ex npc: you can use a hairclip around long wires, like on headphones, to keep them from getting tangled.

jc: human ingenuity is powerful.

deus ex npc: use a pringles can to hold your pasta.

jc: powerful - and dangerous.

I don't think he's credited if so

I like how the background jokes imply Columbo happens to exist in the Daitarn universe

This is an excellent article about an infuriating practice, but I want to especially commend the author for this genius paragraph.

Charles Fourier - Wikipedia

i can't see marx and fourier in the same sentence without thinking of this weirdo:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...

i'm actually dying laughing at "baruck obama"

Horrible idea. The entire appeal of Ikea is that it's like buying furniture from the Navidson house

Listen, I had to.

A Tektronix 1230 logic analyzer from 1989 with one probe connected via ribbon cable

A four-slot INMOS B017 transputer board

Probes and leads dangling precariously on a PS/2 9595

Probing the transputer’s links and control signals

I had panic meltdown today so i simply fixed this Tektronix logic analyzer and then used it to diagnose and repair my MCA transputer card instead of doing actual work

I've become pretty internet jaded i'm not gonna lie. this place ain't as fun as it used to be

A screenshot from Dirty Pair, with the subtitle "Nowadays, one in ten people have gotten their sex changed."

A better world is possible

i think the challenge for left politics is basically "how do you engage in class formation, especially for low-info voters"

this used to be the jobs of unions and other institutions

I genuinely hate that being online taught so many people that this was an okay way to treat a stranger

if I'm in my car driving alone odds are I'm putting this song on and singing along

There's a picture opposite me Of my primitive ancestry Which stood on rocky shores And kept the beaches shipwreck-free Though I respect that a lot I'd be fired if that were my job After killing Jason off And countless screaming Argonauts

Sometimes I remember that TMBG put some of the sickest lyrics of all time in a song about a night light

If you are a fan artist and you put the name of the character you drew in the alt text please know that I love you

You do not understand how many times I've thought "COOL CHARACTER WHO IS IT" and then found out there's no alt text to tell me, every time it's supreme disappointment

mother 3 fascinating for indicting its predecessor, atoning for providing kids an untroubled fantasy of shopping and cars in a pristine postindustrial world. actually, it says, this is the sickness and madness we will struggle against for the rest of our days, and we've doomed the children to worse.

jc denton: i hear the government is even working on a penis explosion chamber.

paul: JC, i'm trying to tell you about ACTUAL conspiracies.

ELSEWHERE

bob page: how goes development of the penis explosion chamber.

illuminati scientist: we thought that was a joke.

bob page: why would it be a joke.

earlier tonight, I was walking past one of the few remaining neighborhood dive bars and Carol the bartender comes outside and says hey karen did you hear about what went on in here last night?

I said No what happened tell me

she said, Just before last call, A SEAGULL WALKED INTO THE BAR

thread.

I feel like seeing all of his old UC stuff is level 1 Tomino Sicko and then once you start going into his non-Gundam shows you are Leveling Up

I usually get hit with either "I don't watch mecha" or "I don't watch old anime" but I swear to god I will never stop recommending it I don't care who you are. if you only watched the movies watch the show. if you already watched it watch it again

Cookless cookbooks applies to a lot of different areas. Fashion models wearing generated clothes that have never been made. Mushroom field guides where no one involved ever ate a mushroom.

If the purpose of your thing is to demonstrate something about reality, an imitation is useless.

My number one criteria for a cookbook is that someone has to have actually made the food. Nothing else matters if that criteria hasn't been met.

There's two cardinal sins of talking about or working with AI that I think deserve instant excommunication:
- Cookbooks
- Necromancy

Before causal inference, there's casual inference: staring at a scatterplot, going, "yeah, looks like there might be something there."

aging out of the online trans community (being out for 5+ years)