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Still working on drawing the rest of the owl. Pre-post-rat. Deo-monarchical classical liberal. Definitely salvageable. Pecinum delenda est.

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Joined April 2021
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@UnfinishedOwl
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men will literally fall down and beseech the Lord their God for mercy instead of going to therapy
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got mugged in hs. the police caught the guy. I got asked if I was retarded while under oath at the trial
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In your personal experience, have you ever reported a theft to police and they actually solved the crime?
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@goblinodds was making sure I said exactly what I wanted to say and being clear and precise. got asked if I was in special ed
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@eddieblake448 I was thinking carefully about my answers and being a bit on the slower side, so she asked if I had a learning disability or took special ed classes. apparently after I left the judge chewed her out and then found him guilty (juvenile court, so no jury)
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@eddieblake448 I was thinking carefully about my answers and being a bit on the slower side, so she asked if I had a learning disability or took special ed classes. apparently after I left the judge chewed her out and then found him guilty (juvenile court, so no jury)
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Other orgs: "April is Autism Awareness Month so we need to find a sensitive yet sincere way to demonstrate our commitment to–" BART: "oh heck yeeah"
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BART
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It is widely documented that people with autism often have a natural affinity for trains, and BART couldn't be more thrilled to celebrate that during #AutismAcceptanceMonth . See where the announcements are playing and listen to the recordings:
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"you don't get to know what the law is until we decide to enforce it against you" is, in fact, a great offense against the rule of law
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one thing that lots of tech people genuinely believe is that they should be able to get advisory opinions and thus safe harbor from regulators and even prosecutors on their products and business practices and that they can't is a great offense against the rule of law
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@eddieblake448 it was pretty fucking funny. the judge got mad
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@tokubirb yeah, but not in the way she was asking about
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@eddieblake448 it was his third offense and the defense attorney was throwing 60 yard Hail Marys. she, a middle aged white lady, asked me a lot of questions about black hairstyles
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@skooookum "no plan survives contact with the enemy, children, or users" has been my expanded version of that quote for years
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@tokubirb yeah, but not in the way she was asking about
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@ouranometrian2 "Do you have a learning disability? Do you take special education classes?" "No, just honored classes." my Dad had to step out he was laughing so hard
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@CrisprChild the podcast "What Went Wrong" had a great episode about the disaster that was that movie's production. Sting tried to resign several times iirc. just incredible stuff
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imagine encountering this and not immediately pivoting to teaching stats and probability to all the super interested teenage boys
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Young and hopeless 👁️🏹
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Dudes rock.
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dance like no one is watching, email like it will be read aloud by opposing counsel in your deposition in the most uncharitable manner possible
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this has got to be the highest profile trade in WNBA history, right?
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@mauddweeb yeah. it was pretty obvious. they had no real defense and were trying to suggest I'd pointed out the wrong guy problem for him was he'd gotten right up in my face, demanded I hand over my iPod, looked around, and only then pulled out his ski mask
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"ha ha, Americans could never comprehend eating an unreasonable amount of fried chicken in one sitting!"
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"The American mind cannot comprehend this"
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@RVAwonk imagine thinking CNN/ABC/NBC/CBS don't feed viewers' grievance-victimhood complex and tells them what they want to hear
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@bstract_thot I had a comment about how it's interesting the way our feelings depend on certain framings and associations, but I have been laughing at this for five minutes
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@keta_mean_ is it not yellow? have I been living a lie?
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Out "When seconds matter, the cops are just minutes away." In: "When seconds matter, the cops are gonna form a perimeter and wait for an hour."
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observation from the Vibecamp arranged marriage/speed dating thing: srs mono, wants kids (L&M) was almost exclusively men, even more than the rest of the event or VC in general. a few in M, but basically if you wanted to meet women, you had to go poly or (even more) no kids
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@goblinodds oh, pretty much the same thing - drugs/booze badass - sex out of wedlock badass - eating disorders good (no fat chicks) - how to hide abuse in relationships - how to roofie
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pretty fucked up we're all gonna die because no one takes Yud seriously because he's too lazy to deadlift
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trying a new strat with the ladies...
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choo choo, motherfuckers
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your semi-regular reminder that King of the Hill is just Texan anime
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if someone told me they owned thirty hammers, I'd think they must have a hobby or special interest and would ask them to tell me all about hammers
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0.005 Seconds (102/300)
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The point of the comic aside, I just went outside and counted and I have 21 hammers.
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@eigenrobot "the power I desperately wanted to wield against the Outgroup became politically untenable after the Ingroup gave up all pretense of policing itself"
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you just know this person has complained about not being included in male-only spaces
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it's amazing to meet eigen and observe how normal he seems, yet the whole time you know he's utterly deranged
@eigenrobot
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utterly stupid, doesnt even make sense thermodynamically. actually we need you to use your bodies for chemical processing and to run graphics for our video games in your brains
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I have eaten the room temperature superconductor that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for techno-future utopia Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so room temperature
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I wasn’t thinking and I ate the working room temperature semiconductor and now the information needed to make it is lost forever, my bad
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@isengrimm3 dunno, but this was juvenile court, it was his third offense, and the case was pretty solid. the defense was pretty desperate and just throwing out whatever
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@jaredpolis @Disney @Twitter now do Masterpiece Cakes
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@browserdotsys what do you mean "zero skill points"? it's clean, readable, and loads fast. what more could you want?
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Increasingly convinced @eigenrobot is just a psyop to get me to look up the (undoubtedly fake) word "egregores," but I will Not do it.
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@kenthesimp "other people pull information from context that I simply can't or won't. here's how that's other people's fault."
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@eigenrobot I'm trying to imagine explaining this to someone who isn't terminally online
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what the fuck
@tokubirb
A Strange Birdthing
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@WolfOfClapham @SlainKinsman Stuart Little isnt a mouse.
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@ded_ruckus the people who spent two decades seeing microaggressions and hearing dog whistles everywhere want to know what's wrong with this
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@Duderichy every New Yorker who says this flies at least a dozen times a year
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implications of this are left as exercise to the reader
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@Goodtweet_man @GreenTextRepost @dundermifflinpk imagine dropping this amazing joke and getting embarrassed
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I get people are mad at them, but this feels extreme
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@Duderichy but I am very smart, surely *I* won't get addicted
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@8chabard girl dinner:
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4yo and 5yo were roaring at each other while playing dinosaurs. observing this, the latter's 7yo sister comments "Where's a comet when you need one?" she's gonna be a killer comedian
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@peak_transit even hitler didn't try to cancel joe rogan
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I cannot believe how staying up until 5am and then spending four hours on a camp mattress without a real pillow might leave me feeling less than 100%
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it's @gptbrooke in meme form
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all else aside, this is why you never give two weeks
@fuckyouiquit
Fuck You I Quit
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I know there isn’t any recourse here but it feels like there should be some recourse here. This is beyond fucked up. Via u/albanska
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let me take this moment to reiterate that filing taxes—without TurboTax, et al. software—is easier than character creation in most TTRPGs
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@goblinodds what, women wanting seemingly contradictory things and expecting the sterner sex to navigate those desires without ever having to ask?
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@eigenrobot that poor woman
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@selentelechia @eigenrobot @MatthewStadlen 👀 having a kid in exactly nine months would be such an incredible flex
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what a fucking chad
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when I was in college I took Intro to Philosophy with this guy named Elliot who was often surrounded by girls, and like three weeks into the term the prof asked if they were enrolled in the course and Elliot, clarifying, said "no they are my guests"
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if there was a way to take how good I just handled my friend's crying baby and put it on a dating profile, I'd be drowning in women
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by far the most interesting part about the Google AI story has been hearing "I don't know if it's a person or not, but we shouldn't do things that might harm it in case it is" from strongly pro-choice people
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@turrible_tao another way to put that: men have realistic fantasies, women have unrealistic desires
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@___frye Bionicle was the best
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when they said "eat the rich!" I didn't realize they meant @Duderichy
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because YOU try and get people in their 70s to use a password manager and not their address as a password to hundreds of millions of dollars
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Why are you all so obsessed with Single Sign On? (at least one person should answer honestly for new people)
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@CasuallyGreg @77cyko anyone trying to get first graders to "slide into their DMs" goes on a list
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how I imagine @tpotvibecamp
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@astridwilde1 there's no proof Eliezar has qualia
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@eigenrobot ngl, the "some kind of rice to some other kind of legume" bit did crack me up
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@ZachRoseWriter @benji_smith better get Goodreads while you're at it
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@8chabard @goblinodds one thing I'm surprised I haven't seen people commenting on is how many kids were there. as someone who loves kids I was glad, both on the object level and for what it signals about safety and the future
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@seconds_0 dude, that's someone's WIFE. keep it together
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@eigenrobot I feel like Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade is at least in the conversation
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@isengrimm3 "Your honor, the witness described the perpetrator as having an afro five months ago. My client has cornrows. Also, he's Forest Gump."
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@jesawyer I'm glad I didn't, but part of me really wanted to with Pentiment
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@eigenrobot I caught on fire a lot less than my primary education made me expect
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that final line, holy shit
@AndrewCurran_
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New Scott Aaronson, response to Eliezer's Time piece and the open letter.
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@AuronMacintyre capital-L Libertarians would rather join with actual Stalinists than religious or social conservatives
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@8chabard "hoi polloi" is RIGHT THERE
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@eigenrobot "Hey, try not to coauthor any papers on the way to the parking lot!"
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@RamVasuthevan @alicemazzy I get your point, but the overlap of "people who know how to use git" and "people who use Excel regularly" is pretty small
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@goblinodds I have never seen a more lopsided Twitter poll. seriously, you could ask "is it ever okay to eat a human baby?" and you still have at least a few yeses.
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@eigenrobot why do they never respond when I show them my plumage? is there something wrong with my ostentatious display of feathers?
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@__frye I saw him speak when his last book came out. It was honestly really good up until the Q&A at when someone asked him about one of his old jokes (I think one about girls and math, or something in that vein) and it was incredible watching him come apart onstage.
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@selentelechia @eigenrobot it's important to only use technical terms with young children, rather than slang. this is why most modern parenting books suggest terms such as "mommy milkers"
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@keta_mean_ into her arms, you mean? as fast as possible.
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you have to signal your mental unwellness, but never present any actual meaningful vulnerability or problems
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