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Replying to @asglidden
this place that use to have a fence could really use a fence
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Replying to @RandomSprint
here's the problem
you get these things (new tech), and they're kind of nice
then you hedonically adapt to them so you aren't much happier, but now you have this thing that you kinda built your life around so the idea of losing it feels bad
but most of these advances vaporized social capitol and when you complain people are like So YoU dOn'T LiKe MoDeRn MeDiCiNe LuDiTe?
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Replying to @atlanticesque
the dollar has never been this weak since
*checks notes*
september of last year
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Replying to @ouranometrian2
The wife tried "no screens", but eventually I saw the winds of chaos blow her like reeds in the marsh.
1 No Screens
2 Movies of cultural significance
3 An hour "to have time to cook"
4 Two hours
5 Educational youtubes
6 Skibidi Toilet
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Replying to @Duderichy
all bespoke insightful takes are simply selection effects
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Replying to @eigenrobot
democrats really struggling to rid themselves of this turbulent priest
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Replying to @TheLaurenChen
would you give up your gender's right to vote if it meant a sustained noticable shift towards your preferred political outcomes?
32%yes/m
32%no/m
11%yes/f
24%no/f
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I think part of the reason we're so confused is we impose western ideas like consistency and logical consequences on russia when they demonstrate again and again that they only loosely adhere to them when convenient and always manage to step back from the brink without them
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all regulation is anti-poor
this should be spelled out much more often and loudly
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There's an interesting digression here where the reason children are so vulnerable to and forgiving of abuse is because (of course) children are *not able to distinguish* abuse from "correct actions of their parents that they dislike in the moment".
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answer if you are at least ingroup/tpot adjacent
how much free will do we have?
14%libertarian free will
45%something in-between
36%self-aware p-zombies
5%unsure/not ingroup
22 votes • Final results electron emitter retweeted
"Since I have no underlying conditions, I estimate my risk at about 5.4% of the base risk of 0.6%. That comes to about 1 in 3000. That’s about three times my annual risk of dying in an auto accident." econlib.org/what-im-thinking…
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“the entire notion of public comment on new construction was inherently flawed, because the beneficiaries- the people who would eventually live in the buildings- couldn’t argue their side”
Great framing of the issue @SonjaTrauss @ConorDougherty nytimes.com/2020/02/13/busin…






