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lisatomic

@lisatomic5

4 years

unpinning this tweet bc it worked

lisatomic

@lisatomic5

4 years

New plan: Find a Husband. Then together: Start a vegetable garden. Cook good foods. Smoke meats. Build a chicken coop. Plant fruit trees. Make jam. Bake sourdough. Brew kombucha. Play music. Woodshop in the garage. Go camping. Paint the walls. Read books. Take a nap. Make love.

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@lisatomic5

4 years

men will literally learn everything about ancient Rome instead of going to therapy

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@lisatomic5

10 months

kids play *with* technology in a funny way like mine just made a discord server for their made up onion-worshipping religion and put a bot in there as pastor, they're currently pretending to be little onion cult evangelists and inviting family to the server

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@lisatomic5

1 year

idk guys seem to imagine "confidence" like some kinda unwavering/stoic dominant vibe but if you can make a baby laugh like this in front of a woman you've basically hit peak male attractiveness

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@lisatomic5

6 months

there's kind of an assumption that the guy on the left is held back by self consciousness, and if not for that repressive force would *of course* just dance 'freely' like the guy at right but idk why to believe this is true

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@lisatomic5

2 years

@dirtyjim1969 oh cool what's his @

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@lisatomic5

5 months

do you ever get the sense that someone is performing thinking moreso than genuinely thinking and then trust them much less because of it

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@tsarnick

5 months

Sam Altman says we have stumbled on a new fact of nature: that intelligence is an emergent property of matter

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@lisatomic5

6 months

idk why believe in the 'everyone has an inner dancer waiting to be freed' model like does everyone have an 'inner artist' or an 'inner chef' or an 'inner CEO' or like how many modes of performance are in there captive for example

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@lisatomic5

10 months

I think ppl see kids on screens and assume it's unimaginative, rather than kids co-opting literally anything into imaginative play

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@lisatomic5

4 years

Doing a prisoner’s dilemma game with my 9yo and 7yo, but with mini marshmallows Both cooperate, +3 each. If one defects, +5 for the defector, +0 for the other. If they both defect, +1 each. Their reasoning is hilarious

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@lisatomic5

7 months

it's always kind of bothered me that the most "empathetic" people often don't empathize with emotional reactions they don't understand, and especially not with muted or delayed emotions so ppl like this guy won't get any help in the way they need, when they do eventually need it

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@leamaric

7 months

I—

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@lisatomic5

9 months

tolkien be like "oooh I do so love coming up with new words and languages" then name his big tusked animals with trunks "oliphants"

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@lisatomic5

6 months

idc I still think it's based that they actually went and tried it

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@historyinmemes

6 months

This clip of a flat earther accidentally proving the Earth is round never gets old

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@lisatomic5

2 years

so who are some alternatives to andrew tate-- like men with compelling levels of confidence and ambition but where you'd be totally happy to find that your son looked up to them pls send some YT video/account links of physically strong, smart/interesting, wholesome dudes

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@lisatomic5

10 months

lol

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@lisatomic5

2 years

whomst among us has a paracosm poll below

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@lisatomic5

6 months

<watching movie> Is that the same guy from before?

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@lisatomic5

6 months

ok but like to step back from the discourse context for a minute it literally sucks on a societal level if the bar for meaningful participation in the economy gets too high like sure we can laugh at a humanities degree choice ig, but "stem degree or gtfo" is not a good thing

Kudzai Kutukwa

@kudzaikutukwa

6 months

One of the greatest lies of my generation was that merely having any degree guaranteed you a job and financial success. As with all things fiat, the value of degrees was printed to oblivion & zoomers are going to be major casualties of this.

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@lisatomic5

3 months

lol imagine watching this and thinking yes, it is the babies who are being liars here

MR-MBULAZI.

@MrMbulazi_SA

3 months

Bunch of little liars 😂🥰

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@lisatomic5

8 months

every guy says he wants autist gf, not every guy willing to leave notes like

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@lisatomic5

5 months

@prerationalist he shall be known to us as ModDB

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@lisatomic5

10 months

huh this bot is actually kind of funny

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@lisatomic5

1 year

Poll question from my 12yo: Everyone responding to this poll chooses between a blue pill or red pill. - if > 50% of ppl choose blue pill, everyone lives - if not, red pills live and blue pills die Which do you choose?

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@lisatomic5

4 years

Me to son: “We own the house now!” Him: “Can I draw on the walls?” Me: “No.” Him: “Then nothing about this situation has changed.”

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@lisatomic5

5 months

new bathroom symbol just dropped. ig it is for "ppl with low gender ability"

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@lisatomic5

6 months

I just looked at my daughter's camera roll and she just has tons of photos of license plates lol

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@lisatomic5

1 year

low self esteem can make you ~meaner than you intend to be, bc you undervalue how much other people would care about how you perceive them like it's easy to miss that ppl would want e.g. signs from you that you like them

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@lisatomic5

6 months

I am entirely confused by what I hear abt fentanyl it's routinely prescribed and used recreationally, but also like trace accidental amounts will kill you? certainly ppl would pay for amounts of opiates that would kill them... so are ppl making drugs just that sloppy or what

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@lisatomic5

8 months

wait if the problem w declining social infrastructure is that most ppl have no "third space"... doesn't WFH now mean most ppl don't even have a second space...

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@lisatomic5

10 months

tbf this really ups my estimate of my 12yo's cult leading abilities

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@lisatomic5

10 months

ok the plot thickens lol

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@lisatomic5

10 months

omg the "bot" pastor Carl was the 12yo all along the 10yo was not in on it 😆

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@lisatomic5

1 year

if you can do this, it matters what you look like about as much as it matters to the baby

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@lisatomic5

10 months

when I was a kid and learned that Einstein had worked in a "patent office" for some reason I pictured it like a post office. I imagined him in a little booth with a stamp and envelopes and everything

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@lisatomic5

2 years

@__justplaying john cena + micheal cera?

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@lisatomic5

10 months

I'm going insane here, I think this principal is like gaslighting me she says things like "<kid> was making jokes at the teacher's expense" and then when I say that doesn't sound like him, wdym actually happened it's "he made a random joke, which cost the teacher class time"

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@lisatomic5

9 months

lord help me I am considering getting a dog. a cute little girl puppy son wants to name it "Lockheed YF-12" daughter wants to name it "Gordon Ramsey"

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@lisatomic5

4 months

if I see a homeless person shouting and agitatedly talking to themselves I kind of associate "ah, they must be schizophrenic" but like... how accurate is that? what else could it be, are there other "talks to themselves" disorders that are not schizophrenia?

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@lisatomic5

8 months

worst indicator of all time is it charging, or telling you to plug in the cable 😤

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@lisatomic5

3 years

I don't understand why everyone hates suburbs so much. You cook food, start a garden, raise kids, they play baseball and ride their bikes around or w/e, you read books, start hobbies How is this "literal soul death" what are you all even doing in cities that your soul depends on

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@lisatomic5

2 years

maybe one of the worst effects of school is teaching ppl that anything they write will be judged, but not otherwise interpreted or responded to

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@lisatomic5

8 months

last night my daughter got really into some math topic from a book unrelated to school, decided math was cool actually but that school isn't teaching cool math, and decided she just wants to learn math outside of school. thank the lord

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@lisatomic5

10 months

and then "he said he on purpose hurt her feelings because he enjoys it" and it's "he said he on purpose enjoys making his friends laugh" and, becuase of an apparent neurosis, this joke "hurt the teacher's feelings" I'm legit infuriated rn

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@lisatomic5

6 months

there could have been a whole bit about this...

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@lisatomic5

1 year

one of the things I like about "disagreeable" people is they feel very trustworthy to me if you say something they don't believe, do something they don't like, they will simply tell you you don't have to worry about them, it's not your job to watch out for their boundaries etc

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@lisatomic5

1 year

unfortunately "trust the doctors" remains good advice for the majority of people by numbers, but if you have an internet connection and IQ over 115 you should absolutely figure out your health issues yourself

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@lisatomic5

3 years

I really hate that my 10yo was told he can't use Wikipedia bc "it is an unreliable source" he is learning the absolute basics about some extremely general topic Wikipedia is actually an excellent resource for this, these teachers are mostly just pretending at "academic rigor"

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@lisatomic5

3 months

I refuse to believe this gimmick is worth the added complexity to basic glassware. now you have to wash some little magnetic valve? a little o-ring to degrade and dribble all over you?? no thank you I will take my pint glass normal

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@historyinmemes

3 months

This technology for serving beer at Tottenham's stadium is incredible.

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@lisatomic5

3 years

My 10yo son tells me, of his time in the classroom: "I can look at *any* two things and make them fight in my mind"

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@lisatomic5

2 years

I'd like to hear thoughts on this quote

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@lisatomic5

10 months

so he was literally suspended over this today btw which I believe is illegal lol. I'm writing a very lovely email rn

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@lisatomic5

2 years

I have a suspicion that a lot of men who are "worried about hurting women" (somehow, e.g. through sexual advances or w/e) are actually more worried about being seen as "the sort of guy who hurts women"

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@lisatomic5

4 years

Haha my daughter scammed him anyway Now he’s at +2, she’s at +7, but she also has to eat a tomato I wonder if John Nash ever considered the effect of butt promises

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@lisatomic5

4 months

I kind of like the rare times when someone gives me direct negative feedback, it makes the world feel a little more real and certain, like you can relax instead of wonder idk

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@lisatomic5

2 years

"project manager is a fake job," say 5 coders in unison "I know *exactly* what to prioritize," these very different people each think

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@lisatomic5

6 months

how did the fremen get off the worms tho

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@lisatomic5

10 months

my dad tried to join a guitar group on facebook and would upload videos of himself strumming guitar they'd get banned instantly. as a boomer he was flummoxed it ended up being that he was in a dark-ish room alone moving his hand rhythmically into the camera view

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@lisatomic5

8 months

oh you're "high agency"? that's cool, what can other people rely on you for?

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@lisatomic5

4 months

probably "three people in a stable relationship for the last 15 years" and "basically everyone in the group home is sleeping with each other" shouldn't be called the same thing

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@lisatomic5

10 months

hmm 12yo told an adult woman that he makes friends with people depending on whether they're interesting to him, and she told him that she "doesn't think of people as objects" and I kinda want to rage but am instead just gonna tweet 😇

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@lisatomic5

4 years

I lost my insider status! They came up with a plan in secret to “make it so we have an even amount of marshmallows” “But it’s a 2-round plan” He did thumbs down and she did up, then they both did up. This seems like a good point to end the game, tied at 11 each.

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@lisatomic5

10 months

I've gone to a bunch of academic conferences in multiple fields over the last like 15 years today attended a panel of autistic people involved in a research project this was probably the most substantial discussion of the *issues* with a project that I've ever heard

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@lisatomic5

9 months

next day I got new emails from two of the teachers! - one who RE-graded an assignment from NOVEMBER to a 0%, now accusing him of having plagiarized it! - another saying he "didn't take any notes" in class! both straightforwardly disconfirmed by looking at Google doc history!

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@lisatomic5

9 months

had yesterday THE most invigorating and effective expression of calm, righteous anger that I've ever directed at another person anyway I was correct, the suspension was stupid, principal was not actually aware of CA suspension laws, it will be reverted and wiped from his record

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@lisatomic5

1 year

people underestimate how capable you can appear just by avoiding situations that might reveal your limitations

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@lisatomic5

7 months

10yo's teacher won't let her choose kanye for her black history month inspirational figures project lol

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@lisatomic5

4 years

New plan: Find a Husband. Then together: Start a vegetable garden. Cook good foods. Smoke meats. Build a chicken coop. Plant fruit trees. Make jam. Bake sourdough. Brew kombucha. Play music. Woodshop in the garage. Go camping. Paint the walls. Read books. Take a nap. Make love.

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@lisatomic5

1 year

I wish during all the years of high school english classes that we'd had even just ONE meta conversation about like what it meant to interpret or analyze literature at all. what are symbols. does the author have to intend or even be aware of them. why do this exercise at all. etc

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@lisatomic5

9 months

had yesterday THE most invigorating and effective expression of calm, righteous anger that I've ever directed at another person anyway I was correct, the suspension was stupid, principal was not actually aware of CA suspension laws, it will be reverted and wiped from his record

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@lisatomic5

10 months

so he was literally suspended over this today btw which I believe is illegal lol. I'm writing a very lovely email rn

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3 years

one of the strangest IRL story arcs I know was a pregnant homeless woman that stayed with my ex and I for a few months until she had the baby. After she left (baby adopted) she killed a guy, went to prison, got out, learned to code, and is now a successful software engineer

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@lisatomic5

6 months

so I've read this is common for smart autistic kids but did anyone else have trouble with "basic" mental math but then were good at higher/abstract math? my son finally was like "wait this algebra stuff is cool and easy" after feeling "bad at math" for years thoughts/advice?

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@lisatomic5

9 months

this is WHY they prohibited suspensions for "disruption" btw-- because teachers are very often neurotic, insecure midwits who would happily remove kids from the school to punish them for literally anything that "disrupts" their fragile sense of calm or authority

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@lisatomic5

3 years

fueling my ever-growing nostalgia for a world of high-quality, well-designed, single-function objects

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@Rainmaker1973

3 years

Vintage blade sharpeners are sometimes surprising little mechanical jewels. This video by Igor Dolinar shows 5 minutes of sharpeners working, including this 1920s Kriss Kross specimen [video: ] [Kriss Kross: ]

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@lisatomic5

10 months

the belief that we might some day "upload" our consciousness to a computer feels similar to that folk superstition that a photograph would capture your soul

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@lisatomic5

10 months

ok empaths, time to shine! please magically connect to and co-experience this young woman's emotions and then explain them to me or otherwise I won't believe you actually have such abilities and/or extend them to your outgroup

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@ElijahSchaffer

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Materialism is a trap

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@lisatomic5

7 months

ok but all riddles are famous specifically because people *don't* tend to get them right like the one "your mom has seven kids: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. What's the name of her seventh kid?" what is that 'mental move' needed to get it?

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@ChrisAlvino

7 months

I think this is one of the best examples illustrating how LLM Al is a purely statistical model and is not doing any kind of actual "thinking" or "logic" and cannot be trusted for tasks that require even a modicum of reasoning, a short 🧵:

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@lisatomic5

10 months

someone needs to explicitly tell the young autist girls that "don't judge!" doesn't mean to make friends or enter relationships indiscriminately or else you're a bad person

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@lisatomic5

9 months

the tiny kids in my family go up to my dad and say "...climby babies?" and then when their request is accepted climb all over him and he goes "oh no, climby babiesss!", they love it

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@lisatomic5

2 years

the inconsistency in how we talk about young women is crazy to me. they're alternately like independent empowered girlboss future-leader startup founders, or so vulnerable and incapable of informed decisions they should basically be wards of the state

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@lisatomic5

3 months

if people think there is such easy money to be had in making overpriced art why don't they all just do it too? sounds like an amazing opportunity

non aesthetic things

@PicturesFoIder

3 months

He’s selling this art piece for $37,363…

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@lisatomic5

10 months

there's something kind of strange about looking back at some painful or difficult part of your life and realizing that it was like *uncommonly* painful or difficult

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@lisatomic5

4 years

They both defected one more round after: 9yo: “Now I know she’s always just going to choose down. Of course I choose down.” 7yo: “He thinks I’ll choose down! So now I have to choose down.” We have reached an equilibrium!

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@lisatomic5

2 years

so I’ve been rewatching Twilight Zone, starting from first episodes aired in 1959, and it’s striking how emotionally expressive all the men are particularly in contrast to how we commonly describe men in the 1950s as kinda “stoic” or repressed

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@lisatomic5

4 years

They both defected, lolz. They hugged each other giggling after the first round. 9yo: “I love you but I hate you.”

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@lisatomic5

7 months

I like it when I go to my son's room to talk to him or give him smth and the kids on the discord call shout out like "Hi, <son>'s mom!" like I hadn't thought about it explicitly that much before, but it's actually really nice to be "<son>'s mom" to random other kids

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@lisatomic5

5 months

this is all the rationalist-y style of speaking, pausing, gazing, pace etc for doing "off the cuff" thinking, but like not at all actually off the cuff

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@lisatomic5

3 months

"can you think of any laws that give the government power to make decisions about the male body?" um, the draft? are you stupid?

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2 years

“How dare they!” – Vice President Harris delivered a fiery speech in support of Roe v. Wade tonight at an @emilyslist event.

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@lisatomic5

10 months

12yo's response to me asking him too many questions, I love this kid so much

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@lisatomic5

1 year

a lot of social media posts make more sense when you realize people will often post things they're feeling uncertain about to get external social feedback

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@BornAKang

1 year

Nah they for sure doing more than that

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@lisatomic5

6 months

@kenthecowboy_ nah just autist

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@lisatomic5

4 months

there's the poly argument where you have different parts of yourself that need expression and to be seen or w/e, but that seems unrelated to sex like your wife doesn't share your love of poetry...? ok so talk to someone about poetry?? y does this mean you need to bang them too?

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@lisatomic5

4 years

When hearing the game setup, they both wanted to: - make sure the other knew the same rules - know how many rounds we would play

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@lisatomic5

3 years

the older I get, the less and less compelled I am by the argument that I "shouldn't care what people do with their lives so long as they aren't hurting someone else"

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@lisatomic5

11 months

"why doesn't the child simply calm himself down, and devise a more prosocial strategy to get what he wants?" wonder the parents whose top strategies for dealing with their frustration with their kid are "hit him" and "take his things away"

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@lisatomic5

4 years

Explaining the game to 7yo, Me: Ok, if you both do thumbs up, you each get 3 marshmallows. Her: I love this game! Me: But if you go up and he goes down, he gets 5 and you get zero. Her: I hate this game

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@lisatomic5

7 months

my daughter is currently obsessed with richard feynman, but the way this is manifesting rn is her using procreate to put freckles on him

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@lisatomic5

1 year

LOL I just remembered that when I was in high school I was in the newspaper class, and went once to this nearby private school to sit in on their classes for a day and then wrote an article about how it was indeed significantly better than our school

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@lisatomic5

1 year

today 12yo told me in great detail over about 2hrs straight an extremely cool magic system and lore from the story world he makes up, which mixes various anime, MtG and Greek mythology he diagrammed the magic system on a whiteboard for me being a parent is fascinating sometimes

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@lisatomic5

1 year

maybe I'm delusional but I really want to work on an interesting project with a very small team of very smart and multi-talented generalists with a flat hierarchy and basically no roles and in my fantasy world people all simply know what needs to be done at all times and do it

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@lisatomic5

2 years

Was talking to 11yo last night at bedtime and it ended up somehow becoming about "personhood"-- he has a wild theory of "what it means to be a person" that I really enjoyed and found compelling gonna try to represent his ideas here, in the language I would a grownup's:

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@lisatomic5

9 months

what's a show or movie that portrays smart people realistically? in dialogue, say

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@lisatomic5

1 year

kinda funny when people do exactly the set of things that are most predictable given their social class and standing but take them as evidence of high agency

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