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841.
by yawpitch 2y ago
I for one would stop shooting at our digital overlords.
842.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Not a question you would ask if you’d ever met an octopus in its own environment.
843.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Title has literally nothing to do with the article.
844.
by yawpitch 2y ago
… so, the Internet? As read to us by a hallucinating magpie?
845.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Now if you’re anything like me, in 6 more years you’ll decide to try eMacs, and in 16 years you’ll still be putting off committing to it.
846.
by yawpitch 2y ago
A whole lot of us are against this sentiment… the world has plenty of humans. Especially nepo-baby humans.
847.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Poor deer. Poor fox. Poor dogs. Funny how that whole story was started by jackasses, though.
848.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Because changing the definition would require getting two diametrically opposed parties to cooperate, one of whom weaponizes the debt ceiling whenever it wants to do something inhumane, racist, or just plain stupid.
849.
by yawpitch 2y ago
… because people are assholes .
850.
by yawpitch 2y ago
If only merit were an objectively measurable thing, allowing a 3rd party to verify that any given hire was actually made on merit. In the case of some number of those quoted, any such test would likely (if not certainly) fail… is the body a
851.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Considering “recycling”, at least of plastics, in the UK has been an alternative bin that feeds an incinerator or a landfill for years since China and the Philippines stopped accepting trash colonialism, I very much doubt they could.
852.
by yawpitch 2y ago
If it is in fact just orange cornstarch then you’ve gone to plaid. If you were actually terrorized by a megalith being very briefly orange then you’ve also gone off the deep end.
853.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Not sure we should spend so more time and money on inconveniencing the suicidal than we do treating the reasons they’re suicidal, but sure, it’s a help.
854.
by yawpitch 2y ago
If you want to understand how well suicide prevention programs work, try being suicidal and calling the number plastered on bridges and railway level crossings and waiting and waiting for someone to answer, which they don’t because it’s a S
855.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Anyone that thinks that English is optimized for communication hasn’t tried to communicate optimally. But as a tool primarily for generating usually suboptimal cooperation, occasional but reliable levels of conflict, and not all that rarely
856.
by yawpitch 2y ago
> In the right environment, our burgers, like most other foods, could decompose. Uh, that first line really should read, “In most environments, our burgers, like most other foods, will decompose. The fact that it doesn’t, and that
857.
by yawpitch 2y ago
To be clear the training the paper is talking about is training for managers, rather than general employees. So not really the slaves, but the [still, in the 21st century, usually white and usually male] people with the whips.
858.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Ahh, the Ten Commandments… which appear twice in the Bible, both of which are different, and neither of which contains a list containing 10 commandments.
859.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Those most common counterproductive practices being performance evaluations, diversity and harassment training, and grievance procedures… all of which the paper makes clear is likely because they’re poorly implemented by management that is
860.
by yawpitch 2y ago
> We will ensure that the future of crypto […] will be made in America, otherwise other countries are going to have it. Multiply convicted felon and Epstein list entry doesn’t understand what “distributed ledger” means.
861.
by yawpitch 2y ago
> so I'm going to choose to take that personally and point out that using the word AI as some roundabout way to sell the labor of people that look like me to foreign governments is fucked up, you're an unethical monster, and th
862.
by yawpitch 2y ago
That guy could never walk again without two canes, so I’d call it more than a drawback… turns out once your muscles have actually torn the tendons clean off the joint there’s no repairing anything except in the crudest sense. The video ment
863.
by yawpitch 2y ago
… right up until you hear the sound a human being makes when their enhanced quads rip the connective tissue off their knees in the middle of a squat, and you see them collapse to the floor as fast as gravity could take them, only surviving
864.
by yawpitch 2y ago
DDG has been, for several years, consistently more useful to me than Google has been since the middle of the last decade.
865.
by yawpitch 2y ago
> Look at his emails for [Marjorie Taylor Greene]’s story. FTFY
866.
by yawpitch 2y ago
And that’s not how long term bookmaking works, as you’ve proposed a wager where I am guaranteed to lose at least the time value of my money on either outcome, and I’m extremely confident I’d lose exactly and only that. But I’ll happily pu
867.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Been to Chitwan, absolutely lovely place… if you see an elephant there, you’re lucky. Whatever you do, don’t get close to it. If it’s a male elephant, really don’t get close to it. If it’s a lone male elephant in musth, really really do
868.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Kind of definitionally if it goes extinct it’s done evolving. And sure, plenty of carbon-based life forms — currently all known life forms — will survive, and hopefully whatever does is smart enough to learn from our own-goals. It may even
869.
by yawpitch 2y ago
I will bet you literally all the money ever printed that we don’t.
870.
by yawpitch 2y ago
How do I put this gently? Your species is already extinct. Your species is really just waiting to find out what caused that extinction. That cause, almost certainly, will have been its own actions in its own local environment. Essentially,

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