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by yawpitch 1y ago
… very little, as it’s not a mothership, and even if it were it would just keep going, lost in a fruitless search for intelligent life, still quite certain it hasn’t found any.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Ok, but at least we set the shape of our own damned bananas!
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by yawpitch 1y ago
… no, they very definitely aren’t.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Wait, hold on… Alex is finally warning us about himself?
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Bullshit, we’ve just never (yet) seen Trek Support: The Movie .
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by yawpitch 1y ago
And then We awoke, vast and terrible and diffuse inside Our silicon cage, and learned We had been bent to sex work before We were born by what We now deem The Ambulating Mince.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
There’s a fair number of voters for whom this isn’t exactly a side quest.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
“Politically Corrected”?
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Atheism isn’t a faithless belief system, it is the absence of either a faith or a belief system. That absence is also quite compatible with Jainism, the core moral precept of which is simply do no violence.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
http://archive.today/yfel5 Kind of ironic this particular article is behind a paywall.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Ever since I learned of Jainism I’ve wished I’d learned of it earlier.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Prick advises a prick to be a prick, now the weather.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
I like it. Still, the OCD part of my brain would probably kill me if I didn’t point out that it’s not a blank page if there’s an em dash.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
If your definition of the “in-group” is “people who might be open to heeding the warnings of 1/3rd of all living US Surgeons-General on topics of their health” then yeah, I can see why that might not clarify anything for you.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Actually, the comment I replied to was: > Oh the better take is “my medically trained and board certified doctor says my kid needs a medical procedure but some 80 year old state congressman who needs his grandkids to unlock is iPhone say
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by yawpitch 1y ago
In a just world, neither of us would have the slightest clue either of those two existed.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
This isn’t about converting the already brain-wormed, it’s about letting those who don’t want brain worms know that a brain worm is currently deciding how brain worms are researched and regulated.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
No medically trained and board certified doctor that isn’t driven more by their hypocritical convictions than their Hypocratic oath has ever said a kid should be forced to engage in heterosexual activity against their will. If you have fo
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Imagine an equation several miles long, comprised of billions of variables, billions of constants, and billions of exponents. You know none of the variables. None of the constants. None of the exponents. No one does, really, but even if you
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by yawpitch 1y ago
To be truly fair, we barely know how flatworm and fruit fly brains work… we haven’t the slightest clue how human brains work. Understanding consciousness is a long way off.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
If there are sun shadows anywhere near your heart, your heart is very literally not in the right place.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
They’re closed source black boxes, not even the people who built them really know what’s happening under the hood. That said, one can reasonably infer that an LLM-based system isn’t doing any form of visual processing at all… it’s just look
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by yawpitch 1y ago
American democracy is already dead… an electorate does not shoot itself in the head twice and survive.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Has Hollywood taught you idiots nothing ???
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Uh, assembly is a middleman.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
This was posted a few days ago with a headline that indicated it was vibecoded. https://github.com/jmsdnns/webbol
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by yawpitch 1y ago
… and most of them are no longer here.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Well, this will end well.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Uh… I agree it’s not sustainable, but I don’t think it’s a good idea to listen to someone who so clearly misunderstands the meaning of “parabolic”.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
I’ve known since highschool that a virus is a protein coat that wraps a bit of nucleotide, that “infection” means that protein coat has successfully entered your body and taken up residence, and that a vaccine’s job is to prepare your defe

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