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by yawpitch 2y ago
Ahh, never encountered Poe’s Law, thanks for that. I like it, however I’m not entirely sure that mock bewilderment at the implication that SS-Sturmbannführer Werner von Braun (PBUH) kicked puppies represents an extreme view.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Yeah, sorry, I know that particular fascist’s history, but apparently sarcasm doesn’t drip as heavily on the Internet as I thought.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Wait, Werner von Braun kicked puppies?
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by yawpitch 2y ago
The preferred term these days in non-tinfoil hat circles is UAP (Unidentified Anomolous Phenomenon) specifically to address the problem of these “things” being observed (and therefore possibly merely optical) phenomena that are not necess
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by yawpitch 2y ago
It took a literal felon, friend of pedophiles, and fan of fascists to dismantle them, so shouldn’t come as much of a surprise.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Given who and what is about to once more penetrate the oval orifice, Putin isn’t just going to come out unscathed, he’s going to come out with a significant part of Ukraine, ready and willing to take more, and entirely capable of streamroll
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> hoping that the other branches of government would be guard rails So you’re saying he got elected by short-sighted idiots with no clue what they were setting loose?
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Yeah, I know what it’s purported to be, I just don’t see multiple warheads detonating in an obviously intentional and targeted way that causes meaningful military objectives… instead I see a bunch of what looks like randomly arriving debris
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Uh… is it though? Cause it kind of looks like, well, the first ever recorded premature ejaculation of an ICBM in war.
550.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Very cool. Consider crediting your niece as an author in the metadata? Don’t see it, but may give her a kick.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Intellect is like a gas, it will expand to fill its container. The container, in humans, is epigenetic and social — genetics only determines how hot or cold your gas is, ie how fast and how fluidly it expands, but you’re taught your limit
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> a side effect of experiencing the world differently A side effect for which there is a substantial, lifelong, and most importantly wide cost, even if it occasionally confers usually small, usually fleeting, and most importantly narr
553.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Masculinity and colorblindness are, disturbingly, associated.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Now, if only we could stop associating men with the color blue. I’m a man, and when I’m not wearing black my colors are pink and mustard.
555.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Interesting, but can any boat at sea for any length of time at any distance from America actually avoid the worldwide tsunami of stupid coming for us all? I wonder if this is what the dinosaurs were thinking as they watched the bright ball
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> Are we the thread or the sword or the person sitting under it? […] This answer is clear. […W]e have survived, thrived, and progressed while hanging by a thread. So the laptop class are the sword, put there by Dionysius (the political c
557.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Trump made the post a partisan hot potato that was open to the highest bidder, it took the incoming administration a bit of deliberation to determine how to replace that shit show with someone both sides of a pretty evenly split Senate coul
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by yawpitch 2y ago
It certainly is interesting, and if — and, sadly, it’s a big if in these post-sense-and-sensibility days — we ever get serious about funding space science, I, for one, am all for deeply probing all around and on and indeed in Uranus to de
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by yawpitch 2y ago
… dear god[s] does that headline need a rethink.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Trump undermined the fundamental concept of NATO by making it an explicit pay-for-play, left Ukraine without a US Ambassador from May 2019 until after the invasion, tied frozen military aid (which remained frozen for the rest of his term) t
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Thinking America isn’t directly effected by expansionist aggression into Europe really seems to be one of those “doomed to repeat” lessons of history. Oddly enough the size of the “failed to study” crowd also seems to have a lot of over
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> use of weapons with wide-area effects in densely populated areas […] Israel has in the past said it […] takes steps to mitigate risk to civilians by using precise munitions. A JDAM guiding 2-5000 pounds of high explosives and used to l
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> The piece de resistance was when Europeans laughed when Trump asked them to spend more on defense only to be caught entirely off guard when Ukraine was invaded. So the piece de resistance was when Trump gave Putin carte blanche to inva
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by yawpitch 2y ago
… wow, interesting find, an entire, shockingly prolific, oeuvre seemingly in its entirety dedicated to and authored for weak, fearful men that really want to believe they were once strong.
565.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Neither of those two points is even narrowly proven… you might want to tap on your own tinfoil walls before speaking of others.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
I guess my thinking is if a parrot bites you, you have an opportunity to learn not to trust both the parrot and yourself… a good developer with a cognitive bias towards using a bad crutch is, eventually (I hope) a better developer with no
567.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Alternative framing: were we already worse programmers, and AI assistants spitting our own collective bugs back at us are helping us by revealing that?
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by yawpitch 2y ago
I hear you. I’m trying to do the same thing. Now just have to cold turkey HN.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> What we’re facing in the US today is not comparable to what Frankl faced during World War II. It might be comparable. For some, it might be worse, or at least quicker (given how much better we’d be today at automating the work of m
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by yawpitch 2y ago
… isn’t this equally an ethical argument against human reproduction?

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