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by yawpitch 10mo ago
> Christ is the anti-antimeme because He does the one thing the system cannot tolerate. He voluntarily becomes the victim: innocent, condemned, killed, risen. If , that is, you’ve already swallowed the meme. Once you’re infected you’ve
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by yawpitch 10mo ago
> Technology is a living organism. Oh my, the shear number of philosophers, biologists, ethicists, and, for that matter, bacterium rotating in their graves. Life might be a technology… many technologies are not only not-living, they’
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by yawpitch 10mo ago
> especially since there is a collection of powerful companies (Palantir, Anduril, SpaceX, etc) that are being embedded into the government and into defense by the Trump administration. Note this was all happening — and obvious — well
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by yawpitch 10mo ago
Interesting… I’ve been all over the planet, and in none of the really interesting, out there places have I ever seen someone looking at an obscure travel vlog about interesting, out there places. I have seen a lot of people consumed by th
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by yawpitch 10mo ago
What an interesting set of increasingly bad metaphors. IT defenses are just an existing human cognitive bias carried forward into a new realm… a bad idea carried forward is still a bad idea. The cell wall of the vascular plants doesn’t exis
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by yawpitch 10mo ago
We should be, then, at least equal to animals in our behavior, and should also aspire to improve on them.
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
There are incredible people along the way, there are also incredible people watching and cheering on people who vlog. Communities can — and very much should — be much larger than just who you happen to have found yourself physically nea
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
Ahh, the Telegraph… one of the shittiest rags in the UK. http://archive.today/fQcWH
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
I’ve met some really brilliant people who only finished the challenges they gave themselves because they had a community’s encouragement. Seems to me you might want to relax your filters a bit and meet some of the other brilliant people.
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
Right, well we know which side of the enclosure of the commons you for some unaccountable reason assume you’d have born in.
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
So you’re saying we are no better than animals, and shouldn’t aspire to be?
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
“Nazism” with the capital N represents a specifically German instance of “national socialism”; to whit, the instance that reflexively called Adolf Hitler’s assassin “Mein Fuhrer”. Nazism modeled itself, in turn, on a specific instance of “f
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
Notice your own use of the German word “Nationalsozialistische” and not the word “Sozialistische”? They are two different words coined with intent to have two very different — in fact pretty much opposite — meanings. That’s a fact Hit
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
He was a natural-born American, from birth, with less colorable questions than applied to John McCain, who was also a natural-born American from birth, even though he was born on the occupied territory of another country… the only sort of
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
From the kind of folks who brought you “islamofascism”, “death panels”, and “Barack HUSSEIN Obama is a card-carrying Nigerian communist!”.
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
The link is to a post about airport upgrades.
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
Ok, but the simulation could easily have been written to include an adjunct professor at UBC’s much -less-well-known Okanagan campus who isn’t actually that great at Gödeling.
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
Sure am glad that in the pre-Grok days I just happened to already know the signs of one of the world’s most common gastro-intestinal emergencies. I’m honestly not sure how anyone else survived prElon.
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
tl;dr: might be a good time to learn Mandarin.
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credulity
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
What lazy dick joke? I was talking about the man’s brain. Also nothing about this thread is fit for HN.
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
> These policies created real prosperity for million[s of pounds that moved to overseas tax havens]. FTFY.
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
You wouldn’t make it to a response… current leader of the free world would sit down for Bun Cha Ha Noi, ask for ketchup, and immediately get stabbed through the neck with a pair of chopsticks by a righteous Anthony Bourdain. Secret Service
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
I don’t think it’s actually getting cheaper, in real terms, and if it were and there was a financial incentive to go we’d have gone. There’s no financial incentive to go where the resources aren’t, and humanity is a long way from being
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
> Comparing these with contemporary forecasts […] shows that these forecasts were accurate over a 5-year horizon, but they underestimated the impact over a decade. Funny how polities keep underestimating the damage caused by shooting one
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
Well, “saved” until the airframe was lost a few weeks later in an unrelated incident.
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
If and when a random N-ionaire actually does so, and their probe is both actually moving faster and resilient enough to be responding long enough to track, we’ll talk. The odds we could surpass Voyager aren’t shrinking, the odds we will
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
You’re assuming we, as a species, have the wherewithal, resources, and attention span necessary to both try again and try to surpass. We haven’t even set another foot on the moon during my lifetime, and we’re not factually any closer to doi
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
I think it literally every day… and with literally every day the odds of our surpassing ourselves on this one gets, again very literally, further away.
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by yawpitch 11mo ago
Hands down the funniest thing I ever saw, live and in person, was Anthony Bourdain staring with naked, enraptured joy at the woman doing the American Sign Language translation of what he’d just said, then stopping just after she did to let

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