KwisatzHaderack

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by KwisatzHaderack 2y ago
> can spritz some water in your face in toilets I personally prefer spritzing my face with a faucet instead of a toilet.
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by KwisatzHaderack 3y ago
I mean, does this _really_ count as being social? Even by nerd standards?
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by KwisatzHaderack 3y ago
So let me get this straight: Scientists would rather rename genes, than to simply use a tool other than MS Excel?
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by KwisatzHaderack 3y ago
The advice “don’t be too hard on yourself” only works on Imposter Syndrome. I don’t think this works on “Dunning-Kruger” though.
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by KwisatzHaderack 3y ago
Good for her.
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by KwisatzHaderack 3y ago
I suspect this has a lot to do with the uncompromisingly dangerous and tenuous subsistence that is living in the Arctic. The inability to manage anger would be selected out as it would be detrimental to the survival of the tribe.
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by KwisatzHaderack 3y ago
I don’t think a whopper is what people want when they have a hangover.
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by KwisatzHaderack 3y ago
> Another post claimed that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is “riddled with scandals.” Not quite the example I would use as Chinese agents spreading “misinformation”.
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by KwisatzHaderack 3y ago
Sending Woz good vibes.
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by KwisatzHaderack 3y ago
I hope Xi doesn’t get his car window smashed while visiting/s
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by KwisatzHaderack 3y ago
> The world was eagerly, and somewhat justifiably, pondering the end of San Francisco in April 1906 after the almighty 7.9 magnitude quake Not sure it’s a fair comparison between a massive earthquake and the anti-social problems in SF to
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by KwisatzHaderack 3y ago
They also like to throw out the phrase “root causes” as an excuse to not to do anything now.
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by KwisatzHaderack 3y ago
> sometimes used in West Taiwan LOL. I was confused and thought you meant the Western part of Taiwan, which made no sense. But I get your joke now: West Taiwan = mainland China.
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by KwisatzHaderack 3y ago
> the liberal/socialist government which was in power during it’s entire lifetime was so unstable and eventually collapsed because a significant proportion of the electorate continued voting for the bolsheviks Seems to still be the
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by KwisatzHaderack 3y ago
Burning Man remote site?
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by KwisatzHaderack 4y ago
> Its not white kids in the marina that need to walk past piles of shit and needles Cue Rob Henderson’s luxury beliefs theory: Many rich white liberals support policies that lead to crime/chaos because it signals their high status a
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by KwisatzHaderack 4y ago
David Letterman is a real jerk. Watch his interview with John Waters where he treats him with disdain or when he creeps out Jennifer Aniston by licking her.
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by KwisatzHaderack 4y ago
I feel like this assumes solipsism.
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by KwisatzHaderack 4y ago
Can you elaborate on what a mobile based solution looks like?
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by KwisatzHaderack 4y ago
I’m assuming you’re implying this has to do with immigration. Care to elaborate and/or back it up with citations?
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by KwisatzHaderack 4y ago
Reminds me of a Richard Pryor joke: “Who you gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes?” There’s been many times when news articles have been easily discredited by simply looking at the original source(video, image, research papers).
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by KwisatzHaderack 4y ago
Not even joking, we should have affirmative action for ugly people. Everything they have they had to work twice as hard as attractive people for.
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by KwisatzHaderack 4y ago
> If [Asian|Jewish] people (for example) are systemically [better at university] than white people as a group, it makes sense to [hold them to much higher standards than white people in university admissions]. Found the Harvard admissio
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by KwisatzHaderack 4y ago
> Asian people, if that is their only identifying class characteristic, are not discriminated against generally. Harvard would like a word with you. But in all seriousness, Asians face the discrimination of being perceived as foreign and
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by KwisatzHaderack 4y ago
> and second, it undermines the importance of critical thinking and analysis in engineering. I think this is the real harm being done here. Being trained to accept irrationality and poor judgment bleeds into engineering decisions.
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by KwisatzHaderack 4y ago
The freemasons are responsible for this
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by KwisatzHaderack 4y ago
Not everyone has the privilege of living in safe places like Mountain View. Please don’t diminish others concern for public safety as a “panic fetish tool”, especially for those of us who’ve been the victims of violent crimes. > Whittle
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by KwisatzHaderack 4y ago
> There is a dirty secret that basically everyone who spends time with meditation communities finds out. Which is this: people who let go of grasping as completely as you can—like, famous meditation teachers, or practitioners who have be
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by KwisatzHaderack 4y ago
> key insight that hit me was that that momentary break in my sense of security that morning, that's what the person who robbed me constantly lives in Maybe for some, but for many it’s a job or hobby. Some actually enjoy it. I gre
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by KwisatzHaderack 4y ago
Not a book but the Asianometry YouTube channel’s videos on Japan are excellent.

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