does walking in botanical garden count as walking, or is it a separate category?

right wing neojibbertarian

(I don’t know what it stands for either)

Taylor Swift being slightly older than me, however, is perfectly fine because it means I still Have Time

“But it’s funny!”
“But they deserved it!”
Both can be true, but they can also be true while your posts are, also, small

hot EA takes, yes

there are a handful of absolute madlads that still try to “synthesize things from scratch” (Total Synthesis) by just doing the right series of alchemical incantations, but this is a rare, particular insane breed

yeah probably worth trying to audit / read more about synthesis courses. much of the cool stuff these days is happening closer to biology (e.g. tricking bacteria into synthesizing what you want for you) or closer to material physics (e.g. surface chemistry)

these journeys can (and often do!) meet in the middle somewhere, but not always, and don’t have to!

which is really a long way of saying, I’d suggest very different pedagogical journeys if you a) wanted to know how to synthesize stuff or b) wanted to know mechanistically what the heck is going on

chemistry is maybe the ultimate blackpill on the theory<->practice divide, where a functional understanding of how to (say) synthesize some target molecule is maybe anti-correlated with a precise theoretical understanding of what-atoms-are-actually-doing

Oh yes, did not mean to imply a directionality to the object level, just that the evidence was skewed by the more-Online-ness of the adjacents

rationalists don’t Post nearly as much as the adjacents, so take that how you will

sometimes, it still starts giving me the whole file again, and I feel bad for interrupting it

sir here please let me take your utensils, sorry that must have been so inconvenient, here’s an identical set of utensils

_are you ready?_

*protagonist looks upwards towards camera, whispers:*

_no, but I have to be_

SUMMER 2023
LUC BESSON

TOOTH OF SPACE

*series of quick cuts as he steps out, grabs a fleeing human, and his helmet retracts to reveal giant mechano-space vampire fangs*