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by yawpitch 5mo ago
For the non-Americans, a semi is an HGV and an interstate is a motorway. In either case I feel for the bees.
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
Elon (definitely), Sam (albeit obliquely), Donald (nepotistically), Jeffrey (previously), Peter (apocalyptically)… really it’s take your pick, or propose one who isn’t.
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
In the old days, the rich didn’t think it was a good idea to burn the atmosphere to produce plausibly deniable child porn.
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
Honestly they’re much more similar to male smegma-removal services.
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
That’s not the title of the PR, plus “malicious” is pretty debatable, when the intent is apparently to protect human agency from inhuman agency.
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
Every year the government refunds taxes overpaid by people who didn’t owe as much as the government imagined they did. Arguably one of the main functions of the IRS is to ensure the government doesn’t have a huge and increasing liability fo
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
As Mel Brooks would say, “It’s good to be the king”. Of course, in context, Mel was about to be seized by the angry rabble and sent to meet the guillotine.
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
It’s not as interesting as it sounds, I wrote a lot of code and moved a lot of assets around for the compositing of all the glow on the suits on to the live action and CG elements… basically I was doing a lot of logistics work making sure o
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
I worked on this movie, mainly from a CentOS shell, and I approve this nitpick.
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
Technically that depends on how much water you and the gold displace.
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
We all arrive atheists, most of us are then inducted by others into their cults, some of us escape. One does not lose faith, one re-discovers one’s own agency.
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
> More realistic than god. No argument there, but “in nature everything has an opposite” is just as illogical; many things have no opposite, thus it’s not “at least two” it’s zero asshole gods in a nihilistic atheistic universe, one assh
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
I said show me, not point me at a hypothetical entity with no known pathway to reified existence.
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
That entire post, run through ChatGPT, gets summarized as “WOO!!!!”. Not sure the fourth big bang was necessary.
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
Show me the opposite, or the opponent, of a black hole.
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
By that argument zero is sufficient.
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
Loaded (and begging) questions are a fundamental part of circular reasoning.
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
Ahh, as in “om namah Shivaya” then?
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
Almost every human being started believing in god(s) because they were introduced to the idea by their parents or other family members or teachers in stories and rituals and songs, usually long before they had the capacity to focus on objec
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
First, that’s because you want to keep your weapon, which implies you don’t really want to kill the killee. I’m assuming a half inch drill, and I’m leaving it powered up and spinning. Second, note that what you don’t do when trying to h
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
Genes don’t favor (or not favor), but if a natural selection bias for precise dexterity exists AND heart lateral orientation affects dexterity precision THEN those with flipped lateral orientation should exhibit more dexterity in the left h
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
Why are you assuming situs inversus, which occurs in species with no handedness (or, indeed, hands) came after handedness? The argument is that the selection bias was towards precision and the hypothesis was that precision is influenced b
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
The heart is asymmetrical, but it’s in roughly the center of the chest. The left auricle and ventricle are larger muscles because they’re pumping through the descending aorta to the extremities, that’s the systemic circulatory branch, the p
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
In my experience as one of nature’s designated drivers, in any well-organized pub crawl only one person is fit to determine the number of stars after the first pub, and everyone else is too drunk to notice they’re wrong.
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
Here’s my multiple years of anatomy classes response: the heart isn’t on the left. The aorta is, sure, but the vena cava is on the right. Also people with situs inversus (essentially all organs flipped laterally from “normal”) aren’t obviou
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
One of many articles out there debunking the pop-psych mythology around brain lateralization: https://themindcompany.com/blog/left-brain-right-brain-myth
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
So the law is not an instrument of justice then, right… and thus enforcing the law will do nothing to fix the problem of capitalism, since those with capital have already purchased the law? This situation brought to you by the billionaires
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
“Behold, He is coming with the cloud”… Hallelujah. If you’re reading this, you didn’t get Raptured. If you can read this, you’re closer to Hell than you’d like to think. Sorry for any inconvenience to your journey, and mind the gap.
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"will I be okay?"(arstechnica.com)
6 points by yawpitch 5mo ago|2 comments
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/will-i-be-ok-tee...

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