the "sufficiently" in the first sentence there is also doing a *lot* of work lol

kind of related but I saw one of those "$person must have been a miserable friendless person in college" posts and it's like, no, I literally knew $person, we hung out! he was cool! idk if he was just good at hiding the fascism or something happened afterwards

obviously they need to hire the real ethical experts: people who run PR firms

youtu.be/3GTo0VQLxps

I think there is something to the idea (i've seen people say e.g. that Palestine is a climate justice issue) but like with any snappy term of analysis it rapidly becomes useless

writing `select * from tbl` on my local postgres database with like a million rows and I am incinerated by the heat of the sun

either the worst machine known to man or an absolute bonkers lie and I can't tell which is funnier

oh my fucking god what

well now I have to hear this story

that being said: antibiotics in particular are obviously very new and so law easily wins here. it's law vs medicine that gets fuzzier

i think this is only true if you use "medicine" to mean "modern medicine", which is incorrect in the same way that using "technology" to mean "computers" is

I think part of why I have a hard time here is that for several years I would see people argue that interpreting "abolish the police" literally was bad-faith liberal centrism

& like I'm fully on team "slogans should be true" but it feels like there's always an "except for the ones I like"

Nate Tin

mathematician who gets mad about people using "group", "set", and "category" as synonyms

god it really is weird watching the "waifu"-as-character phenomenon mainstream so hard now that realistic dynamic image/video gen is accessible

live your truth king ✊😔

the other day I saw someone making fun of the thing I work on at work for not doing X, and it took all of my soul to refrain from saying "hi I work on this, we have observable metrics showing that doing X results in worse performance :)"