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by yawpitch 1y ago
And, amazingly, when you reach, say, 96, and you do die, there’s a reasonable chance that you’ll die of complications of infection from a descendent of SARS-CoV-2. Also, re: the definition changing, pre-2015 the only vaccines we had for vir
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Technically, yes. I mean it took a lot more than just TBL’s contribution to build up to what we have today — for good or ill — but the fundamental idea that is the WWW was his.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Or you are choosing to ignore something that is very much and always has been there. Make the edit requested and nothing of semantic value to the message changes. In fact the actual message gets clearer, while also not servicing as propag
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by yawpitch 1y ago
> Why do Americans fear prison so much? Because of how it is represented in popular media, true or not. Yes, it’s an ouroboros of confirmation bias: the popular media ad nauseum repeats the trope that what they need to fear in prison is
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by yawpitch 1y ago
> And if your're someone sliding into nasty leadership / government situation you have to realize there will be a consequence to that and that the perception of the ruling party can never be separated from the perception of the
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Your reply to that comment is understandable as an American… in that you got your understanding of your own prison system from your own popular media. Also in the assumption that a foreigner would or could get an Office Space reference, unl
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by yawpitch 1y ago
This is kind of beautiful.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
And “envelop”, though in this case they meant “envelope”.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Didn’t say it wouldn’t be successful , just that it wouldn’t be wise (or, in the context of such religions, morally or logically coherent, never mind internally consistent).
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by yawpitch 1y ago
… I’m not sure it’s entirely wise to leverage a victim of political violence as a recruiting tool for a profession of political violence. Also not sure any of these folk have fully thought through the idea of funneling more people towards
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by yawpitch 1y ago
I think that might be a form of frequency illusion… these people have been saying exactly the same shit exactly as loudly and exactly as often since (at least) the Satanic Panic.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
With the rather important caveat that the data came exclusively from people actively receiving scans due to presenting with already ongoing health concerns and also that the subjects were already primarily elderly. This seems like a case st
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Considering Trump’s “on the left” includes Mussolini, Franco, Pinochet, and Röhm, I’d just assume you’re under investigation until proven otherwise.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Cherry-picked school and cherry-picked researcher with zero expertise in any of viruses, vaccine, or autism — he studies fecal bacteria — being given a blank check by RFK to confirm his confirmation bias. There is not now, and never has bee
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by yawpitch 1y ago
The Universe, modestly redacting its genitals from view since 0 + 1 Planck times.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
> When will Discord be held accountable? Says someone posting on another site connected to the same...
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Mass murder is, and always has been, performance art. The mistake of this article is assuming they’re performing for each other, instead of for everyone else.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
I like “e nihilo, unum”… from zero, one. That said, I think it’d be “Tuere utentis, datum, et verum”… “data”, IIRC, would imply plurality.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Thiel is neither interesting, intelligent, or charismatic enough to be the Antichrist. Now, that said, anyone with that kind of wealth is, per definition, an anti-Christ.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Raised a 667 Hallucination Recursion Limit Exceeded Error.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Actual article: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-...
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by yawpitch 1y ago
It didn’t learn to be evil, it just learned to faithfully reproduce the average level of human good as it’s found in what we admit publicly .
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Well, there’s a first time for everything.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
That’s the beauty of Pratchett’s conception of Death… when all else fails, you’ll be met with a smile.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
> In 2035, that graduating college student, if they still go to college at all, could very well be leaving on a mission to explore the solar system on a spaceship in some completely new, exciting, super well-paid, super interesting job M
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by yawpitch 1y ago
“[Thousands of c]ompany directors leave UK after Labour’s tax changes” Actual title has substantially different import.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Mist is kind of the exact opposite of what their bodies turned into. Compression does really, really interesting things to meat and bone sacks with lots and lots of tiny airspaces. They wouldn’t have been conscious of anything, but they wou
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Ahh, well that explains a lot about America.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
And I improved all my health markers and my weight by simply starving myself of any food at all. Sure, eliminating calories leads to weight loss, but the point of “a calorie is not a calorie” is that I could have done exactly the same thi
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Always remember that I’ve lost more than 30lbs in a month, more than 150lbs in a year, and well over 1000lbs in a lifetime, never used an app or a service of any sort and without resort to Twinkies. I’m probably in better shape than you, ta

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