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the Matrix could've desperately used a prominent femboy character. Neo and Trinity should've been merged. when she prances around in that shiny bodysuit? that should've been keanu reeves

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thinking about that post that's like "by providing a face-preserving way to admit the outgroup can be correct, that 'heartbreaking, the worst guy you know made a valid point' article has done more to rectify online discourse than any rationalist ever will"

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as a child being told "the moon controls the tides" with no additional explanation was like. oh okay. you want me to believe in magic? you're talking about magic right now? okay. fine

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im not christian but i do believe in the power of prayer. for this reason i keep a little homonculus in a dog crate under my bed which i have raised as a devout catholic. whenever i want something in my life to change i poke him with a stick and he clasps his grubby little paws together and starts chanting in latin. his prayers always go through because he has never known sin

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I like to collect headlines that read like a time traveler’s last desperate gambit at fixing reality

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the head of the catgirl space empire’s war fleet is wordlessly chainsmoking as she finally reads over the list of ship names she sorta ignored when she signed off on the approval. like, for instance, the catgirl space empire eschaton-class superheavy warship Slutty Dads Ahoy. Then there’s Catgirl Space Empress RPF. Lox Bagel, Please. Kill Yourself. Ship Namer’s Local 2323 is On Strike. she’s gonna start drinking before she finishes the list

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being bad at data mining and summarization. It's hard though, so you better write 1000 pages about it.

Data Mining - Concepts and Techniques is an 800 page textbook but if you distill all the useful information out of it you have like. a 50kb notepad file. what are we doing here

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you're wrong, but in a dumb way

my worst quality is that i really, truly, genuinely love assertively stating my opinions on the internet and watching people get angry at me in dumb ways.

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Remind me later.

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What couldn’t we mean by this?

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Spinoza would agree.

The standard model accurately describes the universe except that the LORD is constantly performing miracles to make it behave in accordance with general relativity.

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This is one of the funniest holiday cards I have ever seen.

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Remind me later.

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Morale and skill are very important.

Recent events have me thinking about the first (1990s) Gulf War and Desert Storm, there was a story there about the high-tech superiority of American weapons managed to totally annihilate Saddam Hussein's army, which at the time was taken seriously as bloodied in the Iran-Iraq war. Saddam's army just seemed to totally melt away in Kuwait, and then later in the 2003 Iraq invasion his conventional forces melted away.

Take it to now though, and we've seen quite a few forces totally melt away in the face of low-tech opposition, in Aleppo right now, the Afghan government, and the Islamic State's blitzkrieg earlier. On the other hand, we have seen high-tech weapons totally fail to accomplish this in the Ukraine war, neither side collapsing for a long time.

I don't want to read this too far, there are reasons not to read too much into this. But you pick up how the first gulf war was viewed, that America's military was unchallengeable, that we had pioneered a new age of weapons, precision strike was the future. Hits different now.