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Then what happened
Just tattoo a Speedo over it
Great info! Thank you! The other thousands of varieties are scattered all around the world I think
And each one has its own wasp varietal
It has to go in a golf course.
I can’t help but hear it in my mind as the refrain in a country song
And republicans will be wheeling out this stupid report forever as “proof” that democrats do
I predict he gets an Ig Nobel for this
You mean CAPS
Insufficiently evolved. Humans have been bipedal for only a couple million years, and our spines are still designed for all fours. In a couple million years more you’ll be fine.
I’m standing up for truth. You made a false claim. Did murders in DC go up or down in 2025?
Yes it would, and a presidential signature. So it won’t happen till Dems win both houses and the presidency, sadly
I see many people asserting with 100% certainty that there will be no more fair elections in this country. This is an incredibly self-defeating attitude. The only way Trump can have such power is if people willingly give up their right to resist
Yup
The constitution doesn’t specify the borders of the district. They can be redrawn to cover just the main federal buildings and monuments. The rest of DC (where all the people actually live) can be admitted as a state
It’s not necessary to change the constitution. Congress can redraw the borders of the federal district to just the Capitol, White House, and Supreme Court, and admit the rest of DC as a state
Nope. Went way down in 2024, down even more so far in 2025.
The Measure of a Man
Thank you for the info. Horrible but not surprising.
PR has been hugely important to NYC. A pipeline of culture and politics and baseball players
I’m totally in favor of PR deciding for itself. I also think the US would be a better country if it had PR as a state if that’s what PR chooses.
Yes statehood for DC and Puerto Rico would be a small step towards a fair senate. For those who think this is somehow rigging the game, ask them if they know why there are two Dakotas instead of one
Wallace and Grommet answered that question already
Your house must be stuck halfway through a farcaster portal. You better hope they don’t shut off the power before you get through.
Learning from others is sitting in a museum with a sketchbook and copying a drawing to learn a technique. Training AI is selling your sketch as a Picasso original.
I believe Marco Rubio himself is also a Marco Rubio impostor
Enjoy the journey. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjCg...
Every US corporation should be required to put Claudius in charge of one division.
This is the worst possible name so it’s a sure bet, you can start churning out the merch
A true Eeyore would not be posting in your mentions. What would be the point?
Proposal: to copyright AI generated content, you have to get explicit permission from the copyright holders of every bit of copyright material used in training the AI. Otherwise, it’s public domain.
My anecdotal impression is that a lot of hedge fund owned big rental apartment buildings built in the last 10 or 15 years are no longer getting their asking rents because of (1) tech layoffs and (2) terrible reviews due to problems caused by shoddy construction and stingy maintenance
The Morality question: does consciousness entail moral responsibility? Does moral responsibility entail consciousness?
I had in mind conscious experience. Other aspects of consciousness are interesting as well, but for the differences to be noticeable wouldn’t they have to affect experience in some way?
Another question, related to Unity: do split brain patients have one consciousness or two?
That’s true. There are even subtle differences in the colors I see with each eye. But my intuition is that if I could climb into your head it would seem weird but not incomprehensible. But who knows?
One question that interests me but may well be impossible to answer: how different is consciousness for different people? We all seem to be talking about the same experience, but is it really the same?
For a MAGA audience cheap is deep
Turns out you *can* put thyme in a bottle
At the time of the events of Lord of the Rings, Middle Earth has been experiencing FIVE THOUSAND years of economic decline. Is it any wonder that some people were turning to Sauron, who for all his faults was at least a different kind of politician?
Where’s the King of Queens
Could it be related to the temporal/modal aspect of the two emotions? Fear is about what might happen, displeasure is (usually) about what is happening
He would lose in the primary to AOC if she ever runs against him
Doing large scale immigration enforcement only in blue state cities is a good way to get immigrants to move to red state cities.
Nothing goes to plan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOU4...
And I got a cool chunk of uranium ore for my rock collection when we visited Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
There probably was a scientist working on building bananas in America but their grant was cut so they are now going to work on building bananas in China
We spent days mixing random chemicals in our chemistry sets, cooking plastics at high temperatures to make Creepy Crawlers, and launching Estes model rockets (not always vertically). We were unaware of the concept of adult supervision.
You make me feel like I am free again www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5qI...
Saying it will either rain tomorrow or it will not rain tomorrow doesn’t tell me anything about how things are, except to the extent that it goes beyond a tautology, for example by positing that there is such a thing as rain which sometimes happens
Is a fact that doesn’t tell you anything really a fact? Is it a fact that either it will rain tomorrow or it will not rain tomorrow or the moon will turn into green cheese? Then the number of facts is vastly infinite and the proportion that would contribute to our knowledge is an infitesimal
A tautology is true but is not a fact because it carries no information
There is actually more human genetic diversity in Africa than outside it. It’s one bit of evidence that humans originated in Africa, since genetic diversity is generally greatest near the source.
Right, expect is too strong. We might even know our friend has their weak points and expect them not to do the right thing in some particular circumstance, but nevertheless we would be at least a little disappointed.
It’s not quid-pro-quo reciprocity, it’s reciprocity of values. We help our friends because it’s the right thing to do, and we expect/hope our friends to help us because it’s the right thing to do. It’s mutual advantage in practice, but we experience it as morality.
That printer would never actually print anything because whatever you would want to print already exists in ideal form on that same transcendent plane of existence
No, Google did not build an AI that can communicate with dolphins. Anyone can talk to dolphins. They just have no idea what you're saying.
I remember a time when tariffs were so rare you didn’t need a bucket, you could fit them all in your pocket
Make it make sense
Which to me means it’s too early to rule out that a complete theory of consciousness won’t require some revision or extension of current scientific theories. I don’t think this is an anti-scientific view
I exaggerated, I admit. Still, the theories of consciousness I’m aware of that call themselves scientific, like Global Workspace Theory and Integrated Information Theory, are not so much scientific theories as philosophical theories that are broadly and loosely compatible with neuroscience.
Being anti-scientific is not as problematic when the available scientific theories of consciousness are still at the stage of humors and spontaneous generation.
There are many good reasons to oppose Cuomo besides me too. He is arrogant, petty, and happy to sacrifice any principle for his own benefit, as long as he can cover it up with sanctimonious blather and hard nosed political retribution. Every New Yorker who has been paying attention knows this
Yes, that makes sense. Would it be fair to say that the a priori truths affect the agent’s behavior even if they don’t cause it?
And this knowledge that does not arise from causal contact with its subject matter nevertheless has causal power in the real world, for example when someone uses a priori rules of arithmetic to calculate the area of a wall to determine how much paint is needed
Mahmoud Khalil's new op-ed from detention— "Faced with a movement for divestment they couldn't crush, your trustees opted to set fire to the institution they're entrusted with…History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence."
Hello! The US housing market has gotten very expensive, but I still dream of one day owning a home in a walkable neighborhood. In that spirit, I'm offering my consulting services. If you support the Trump tariffs, I can help you find US suppliers. Let me show you some examples. 🧵
Do they have any opportunities for law school summer interns? It doesn't have to be a paid position.
americans what the fuck did you do to the bloc quebecois
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
I miss Frans de Waal
Someone made a Wiley E. Coyote style painted wall to see if Tesla’s autopilot would detect it and well…
Legit question. What do you call the thing that sticks out from the bottom of a mouse cursor? Trunk? Leg? Shaft?
Fun perk of having a kid is you can see a dog on the street and go “hi doggie!!! Woof woof woof” and pretend it’s for the kid and not your honest thoughts whenever you see a dog
PUT THE WOKE BACK NOW!!!!
Schumer is acceding to the GOP’s plan to blow up D.C.’s budget by prohibiting us from spending a billion dollars *of our own money,* forcing devastating cuts to vital services out of pure spite toward our city and its residents. And he doesn’t bother defending his decision to throw us under the bus.
This DEI panic is so boring. I miss when they were calling it "Critical Race Theory", because you would have right wingers saying stuff like "Immanuel Kant is the source of woke", or "Hegel led us down the path to BLM." It was a much sillier era of racism.
Once English is the official language we’re going to have to say lorry instead of truck and colour instead of color
Some of you have never been chased around a mysterious island community by a giant wobbling white sphere and it really fucking shows
Tell them the tooth fairy program was frozen by Trump and the fairy was fired
You can’t store soup in a square tupperware container, it has to be a round one. Soup is round
Someone should ask her how she knows XX and XY chromosomes determine sex. Does she get to use science when it’s convenient and reject it when it’s not?
Fourth kind: people who pick up only the litter they personally drop, even if it’s surrounded by other litter
Do atoms exist? Boltzmann-Mach debate
The o-in-itself causes the sense data and the sense data causes the o
Not quite. Seeing o starts with sensing light. There is no o until your visual system processes that sense data and decides it’s an o
The way I see it a human being has both calculable AND incalculable worth
This plaque in Prague has been rubbed to a shiny gold because for centuries, passersby have touched the dog for good luck, and also to reassure him that he's a very good boy. 14/10
I like how friendly Hawaii is, the cities there always say hello
My all time favorite
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
Could it be the shadow cast by a shadow
💯 It’s a work of comic genius
Every billionaire up for nomination should be asked if they understand what life is like for most Americans, and if they say yes, they should be asked how they achieve such understanding. Of course it’s all but impossible.
I think this is on the right track but I think a better definition would be creation of knowledge rather than processing it, with knowledge defined broadly as usable and effective information. So stimulus-response is not enough; the organism has to capture the information implied by the stimulus
I am convinced Biden could have gotten this deal a long time ago. He simply refused to use the leverage he had.
And they have a lot more smell.
They are smaller but more importantly they are dog-shaped.