cae_jones
20hr ago
Cephalopods are mollusks, too. I'm not sure about the nervous systems of gastropods, either. It's mostly bivalves that are effectively meat-plants. outside of mollusks, some echinoderms had, then lost brains at some point, but display far more complex behavior than bivalves, so IDK. Sea Anenemies (HTF do you pell that I've tried like 6 ways and can't get any spellcheck suggestions) seem fairly plant-like, but does anyone actually eat them? Does anyone eat echinoderms besides seacucumbers?
cae_jones
2d ago
I've heard it's because of the balance of power in the Middle East. Also because the US burned bridges with Iran after meddling in their politics during the Cold War, and KSA is the only countering power that the US plausibly could work with. Also oil, probably.
cae_jones
13d ago
If it's the video I'm thinking of, no, they did not. It's rapid-fire cuts between them identifying themselves and their credentials and telling the military to refuse illegal orders, as though they all read the same script and then each recording was cut into 3s or less chunks and quilted together. It's kinda disorienting.
cae_jones
16d ago
... But with surrogacy, you get to keep the baby. It's less broadcast-spawning, and more reproductively viable MGTOW.
cae_jones
17d ago
Surrogacy so men with $100k to spare can reproduce without the need for a partner seems like the simpler alternative to navigating the sociosexual hellscape of this decade.
cae_jones
17d ago
Because it was recommended on /r/rational or TVTropes, in my case. Also because Naruto moves at a glacial pace and fanfiction does not.
cae_jones
18d ago
The Democrats trolling the Epstein files for anything that makes Trump look bad. It immediately turned into a weird 2-movies-1-screen soap opera and you have to tune in tomorrow for the next plot-twist, which will seem really cool but ultimately mean nothing.
In other words: Epstein gives off spiteful ex vibes and sent out lots of emails full of the kinds of things Boomers post on Facebook about Trump. Apparently there was some comment in there suggesting TrumpxClinton happened? I haven't seen anyone actually quote it, and they've quoted a ton else. Half of Asmon Gold's comments section is people calling Epstein patient 0 for TDS.
cae_jones
24d ago
My nostalgia comes from the fact that childhood set the bar at things like family, cartoons, playgrounds, and succeeding at educational challenges. Then those things all changed rapidly and I had no framework on what to do and tried filling the void with memberberries and creative writing failures. I want to go on unfocusedly for several paragraphs, but that'd probably just reenforce it.
cae_jones
25d ago
Funny story, there. I read Themotte with a screen reader. I kept hearing it as "Scuba Dentist". One day, I decided I really needed to check—that which can be destroyed by the truth should be, and all. Such profound disappointment that you are not commenting between sessions of treating tuna toothaches.
cae_jones
26d ago
FWIW, default Voiceover TTS says /amədʒ/. So English -age, but French silent h.
cae_jones
1mo ago
Now I'm wondering ... what could Israel have done differently to not taurch their reputation?
cae_jones
1mo ago
I had this problem in a small custom engine that I threw together for my own amusement. I showed it to Claude, and it made a bunch of rewrites that fixed the problem.
Since that can't be applied to Unreal, I'm not really sure how else to deal. I'd probably try to write something to identify when the problem happens and counteract it, but in my example that just made it worse.
cae_jones
1mo ago
FWICT, the right believes that Trump is in the process of trying to rig the elections by:
- Deporting illegals, since many on the right believe that places like California and Oregon actually have been making it possible for them to vote.
- Pushing for more gerrymandering, claiming it's in defiance of far more extreme democrat gerrymandering.
- The VRA is currently before SCOTUS, and if gutted, could lead to the loss of several majority black districts in the South.
Additionally, the Putin loophole does not seem to be addressed in the 22nd Amendment. I think Trump running as Vance's VP as a backdoor into a third term would go against the spirit of the 22nd, but whether it's actually forbidden would be something the courts would have to decide.
cae_jones
2mo ago
Richard Paul Pavlick was prepared to take out JFK in 1960, by loading his car with dynamite and ramming it into Kennedy's. He backed out after seeing Kennedy with his wife and children.
cae_jones
2mo ago
I think part of this ties into the contagiousness of mental pathologies. Scott discusses how in countries that have never heard of depression, nobody has depression. Before Columbine, nobody had ever heard of a school shooting, so nobody did school shootings (and even today, outside America, nobody does them).
I know people have harped on this already, but being that the Westside Elementary Massacre happened in the school district next to mine before Columbine, and family and friends were there at the time, I feel the need to contradict the point. How much people get away with terroristic threats always feels similar to all the people getting away with larceny to me, because immediately after Westside, we got authority figures drilling home that terroristic threats would no longer be tolerated, period.
cae_jones
2mo ago
The porcelain people are in the south, in Glenda’s domain. The Winkies are their own thing.
Update on my summer legally-not-a-cult situation:
First, I did not spend $7500 to attend the retreat thing. I did observe the first night as a guest on Zoom (until I fell asleep, anyway), but that was largely just a mix of hype and the same stuff from the workshop I attended.
My friend did not reveal the secret sauce in the "breakthrough"s, but the rest ... sounds like Bay Area group-house stuff: long eye-gazing sessions with strangers, obligatory showering people in affection and praise... there was even a spontaneous cuddle-puddle in the room she was staying in on the last night (of phase 1; phase 2 is the end of this month).
It's painful listening to her wonder and joy at all the emotional expression and physical affection and positivity, meanwhile everything she says is something I've heard before in cautionary tales and I know saying so will probably backfire. Also she straight-up quoted Werner Erhard (with attribution) at one point. I at least take solice in her saying she's probably not doing it again after this. And while I'm no fan of death even for my enemies, the leader does seem to think-he's nearing the end of his life and is looking fora successor, but most of the enthusiasm is centered around him specifically.
Anyway, I'm planning on going to the homecoming after phase2, on the grounds that people feeling unloved is how they fall prey to this crap in the first place.
Oh, also, ad for a workshop I was invited to in July. I really thought something that ... that would be obvious to her, but here we are.
I'm mostly just frustrated because of all the conspicuously vulnerable people who showed up at the one I wrote about in June/July.
cae_jones
2mo ago
I've been getting this feeling like the Left is pulling an ISIS, and basically begging the Right to go full violent conquest on them, so they can get the martyrdom they always dreamed of. Everytime Trump raises a finger against leftist violence, the leftwing politicians and talking heads shout "he wants a civil war! Really this time! Tanks! Disappearing grandmas!" Then the Feds conspicuously don't shoot rioters in self defense, even when it's clearly legal due to lethal force being thrown at them.
Trump is very conspicuously holding back, and it feels like the Left is trying to change that. God help us if they succeed.
cae_jones
3mo ago
I don't think Windows Update fighting me so hard whenever Microsoft says it's update time makes my computer conscious, but it sure resembles intention and ability to act. Or do those terms have standard definitions in philosophy that I'm missing?
cae_jones
3mo ago
Ultrasound is in a weird spot because it's evolving from a "nobody in the ED to can do this" to "we are starting to train everyone from day one to do this because its safe and cheap" but we are in the middle of that process. Wouldn't be shocked if in 5-10 years most PCP offices were doing it.
Wasn't there a story recently about a farmer getting in trouble for doing his own Ultrasound on his cattle? It made it sound like it's taking longer than it should to liberalize for reasons that sound ... guildy?
cae_jones
3mo ago
Wasn't it The Grey King that got the Newberry? I mean, it has conspicuous Newberry bait at one point.
cae_jones
3mo ago
Yeah, this whole thread, I'm thinking, "someone mention that the costs are too high", and you got the closest. If you showed this thread to Trump, he'd probably argue that he's working on pressuring the drug companies to bring prices down. How likely that is to work is another matter entirely.
I suspect that, if prices don't come down, this will mean budget cuts for my workplace, and that will almost certainly result in some unpleasantness with supplies and their quality.
cae_jones
4mo ago
Didn't Epstein get banned from Marlago for sexually harassing a member's teenaged daughter?
cae_jones
4mo ago
If I may be less serious and delve into some Cabalistic insanity, and site Psalm 89: "Thou has a mighty arm, strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand."
So, first, go read Unsong so as to avoid spoilers.
So there's this wordplay that equates Neal Armstrong to the right hand of God. After all, what strong arm has been higher than the Moon? But I'd take it a step further, and go back to the example of raising one's right hand high: when Israel was attacked in the wilderness, and Moses controlled the outcome of the battle by the raising of his hands. Notably, he was old and tired and the battle lasted for a while, so assistants had to prop up his right arm to keep his right hand high and win the day.
People like to point to the early 1970s as the beginning of the decline of the West. Not coincidentally, that overlaps the Apollo program. If we allow that Neal Armstrong represents the right hand of God being raised high, and Apollo is the climax of human achievement (that and eradicating smallpox, around the same time), then it's not so odd that the decline follows Armstrong's return to Earth. Like Moses, the strong arm tired and fell, and so too the tide began to turn against its people. But unlike Moses, we didn't have anyone prop up his right arm to win the battle.
So to answer the question: we're doomed unless we go back to the Moon. And the Artimas program is not encouraging.
Somalia is (east) African? If people are finally learning to distinguish African regions better in America, fair enough. Just would be nice were it in better circumstances.
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