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why the fuck is it called the xbox 360 what does 360 mean???????????????????

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oh my goodness, one of dian fossey’s first close up observations with gorillas happened when she was trying to climb a tree to see them better, but so badly that by the time she’d gotten up the entire group had come out of hiding to look at her: “Nearly all members of the group had totally exposed themselves, forgetting about hiding coyly behind foliage screens because it was obvious to them that the observer had been distracted by tree-climbing problems, an activity they could understand.”

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You know, it really is quite frustrating the amount of times I scroll by a post that says "if men experienced [thing that trans men experience], this wouldn't happen [except it does, to trans men, usually worse than to cis women]"

"If men could have periods, tampons would be free" >>> trans man gets beaten up for requesting sanitary products in bathrooms

"If men got uterine cancer, there would be a cure" >>> trans man killed via medical neglect due to being trans as his doctors wanted to punish him for being transgender and betraying womanhood

"If men were catcalled, it would be considered assault" >>> trans man gets catcalled and then sexually assaulted for ignoring their advances

"If men had to worry about being alone at night, there would be a streetlight every 5 feet" >>> trans man murdered while walking home alone from work

But then if I say anything about it, I'm told I'm a misogynist "erasing women's struggles".

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I gotta say, seeing furries get hit with this fiction-is-reality bullshit after seeing them dog on lolishos in general, slander us as creeps & cheer on us & other "problematic" NSFL artists getting censored & banned for YEARS is...something.

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“No bedtime politics” but from the right

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some of my favorite woven tapestries, by Cecilia Blomberg:

Point Defiance Steps

Mates

Rising Tides

Vashon Steps

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President Trump on Israel and Iran: "We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing."

Based Trump arc incoming, speak truth to power my friend

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looked at some letterboxd reviews for the big short and like, major feldspar and quartz moment cause many of them are like "I couldn’t understand half the dialogue because of all the financial jargon" and I thought there wasn’t nearly enough technical finance jargon. like c’mon, you’re having ryan gosling’s investment banker character explain to steve carrell’s hedge fund manager character what a tranche is. every kindergartener knows what a tranche is, right? right?

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the prophecy gets real specific

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I think when people say “no consequences for the financial crisis” they’re referring to nobody facing serious criminal charges, the banks being bailed out, etc

the only country where any of the bigger players went to jail was Iceland, if I remember right.

There’s probably some halfway-decent Econ explanation for this, but I’ve never understood why we gave the banks money to continue operating as private entities. Same thing for the auto bailouts; if the business is “too big to fail” just nationalize it, and be honest that it’s apparently a necessary public service.

yeah but instead of imagining what the big short said or finding someone else who said something else, and imagining that I said it lied about something else than I said, you can actually look at what the big short actually said and what I specifically said it was lying about.

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So... IS the new Supreme Court decision that lower courts can only start injunctions with respect to specific plaintiffs?

i.e. That if the next President signs an executive order making hand gun ownership illegal, the lower courts can only block the executive from seizing the particular guns of specific, named plaintiffs, but cannot block the executive from seizing the guns of anybody else?

Hey, so, the question I have with basically every single one of these rulings and Trump executive orders follows here:

How come this didn't apply to student loan debt cancellation?

Doesn't this mean Biden should have been allowed to continue moving forward with student loan cancellation in all the states that weren't suing him?

What, uh, is supposed to happen in cases where the Supreme Court actually rules against the government, but, e.g., the government has at that point already seized and destroyed all the firearms.

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Stanford paid 35,000 people to quit social media. This was the largest study on emotional health in history. The results were so shocking, scientists called it "comparable to therapy."

Null effect? Damn

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One field that badly needs to be purged of "Great Man-ism" is architecture.

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Well, I think that's part of the appeal—believing unflattering stories about the world makes you feel privy to the Dark Truth that everything else is Too Afraid To Admit, while also giving you plenty of material to tar your opponents with, etc. etc. But really it's uniquely shameful for the rationalists, because evopsych is at the intersection of like three axes of epistemic shaky-ground.

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Well, I think that's part of the appeal—believing unflattering stories about the world makes you feel privy to the Dark Truth that everything else is Too Afraid To Admit, while also giving you plenty of material to tar your opponents with, etc. etc. But really it's uniquely shameful for the rationalists, because evopsych is at the intersection of like three axes of epistemic shaky-ground.

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Seeing a thousand "fork found in kitchen" and "believe scientists" and "we all knew about AI" tags on a post with an AI incorrectly summarizing a preprint study advising thoughtful use of AI as "AI is making your brain weak and ineffective" was making me crazy i'm sorry i tried not reblogging it like four times and every time i didn't reblog it it had like an order of magnitude more notes