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10th thoracic vertebra? How about all the vertebra?

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this is still the funniest way to start a romance in a video game possibly ever

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real question,

why do proshippers love rape so much? do you guys want to rape someone irl?

why do you guys love pedophilia/grooming so much? have you ever had thoughts about doing those actions or irl minors?

why do you guys love incest so much? is this just a way for you to vent your frustration cause your sibling(s) /step sibling(s) rejected you for your literal illegal behavior?

why do you guys love all these crimes so much? why do you love it when someone calls sexual and predatory abuse attractive as if it hasn't traumatized billions of people word wide?

this is like a genuine question I'm being deadass

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Cory Booker has been talking in the senate for over 20 hours now

He’s not filibustering. He’s protesting the current administration.

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Sound on!

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i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.

this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.

anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you:

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a funny thing is that we know since Turing that "machines cannot think", so over time we've discovered more and more activities do not actually require thinking, like playing chess, searching mazes, engaging in small talk, solving maths problems, painting, and so on

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I keep chewing on this topic but people really seem to struggle to accept that intelligence is computable (in the technical sense of the term), presumably for the same reason they struggle to accept that humans are made of atoms (or "humans are complex assemblages of molecules").

but the consequence of this worldview is that anything that can be computed is not intelligence, so we end up with this god of the gaps situation where the definition of intelligence is constantly shrinking to exclude things that computers can now do.

a lot of religious people just say intelligence = soul and end the discussion there, which is obviously crazy but actually more defensible than the muddled middle who theoretically accept how the universe works but in practice retreat into vague platitudes that make no sense at all.

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Born to say wanna go grab a drink pal forced to say you look alive and kicking

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Halfway through day 1 of the bloomflower trials event. “Medicine born from guilt” So Ifa’s ancestors probably were involved in the last bloomflower trials held 500+ years ago, and they bungled something that caused lots of saurians to die? Probably mishandled a sacred flame crystal in some way.

The “old qucusaur” who says things that Naiyan can’t understand, and doesn’t have any other friends, and mumbled something about beguiling human hearts… it’s got to be Cacucu right? It’s rather poetic… right after the other chiefs complimented Ifa on having a saurian he can talk to… when the truth is that the most important thing Cacucu wants to say, can’t get communicated at all. The struggles of only being able to speak in repeated phrases 🥺

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Deceased.

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As much debate as there is about tone tags, 90% of the issues would be solved by just typing the word. Like instead of typing /gen or /hj you can just write (genuine) or (handjob) and you'll be doing pretty much the exact same thing.

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okay here's the video from the tiktok post from earlier!

Like I said I appreciate the clickthrough but this is being posted in straightup video format for all of yall who ain't going over there

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Cool but also a bit anxiety inducing... imagine being the person who introduces a new invasive species to your region 😱

I bought a 30 year old car and drove it cross-country back home. The other day I was taking some of it apart to work on it, and all manner of seeds and other flora that are not indigenous to my region came tumbling out. There was Spanish moss so old it turned to dust when I touched it. This plant matter traveled 3 decades and 2,000 miles to be here with me. How about that huh

this is also modern megafauna dispersal. seeds will be like oh man im so ready to fall off, i have so much food and water saved, if only a very strong and fast creature beyond my comprehension would carry me 2000 miles to a soil patch that looks like this one but different. nothing has changed

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The policies are there to counteract situations where one race already has it worse. It's not trying to create differences... it's trying to cancel out differences that were made by upbringing and circumstance. I say this as a Chinese-American living in the US. All the college admission rules are against me and my family forever, but it doesn't come close to evening out 18 years of accumulated injustice.

I had every resource at my fingertips. Expensive extracurriculars, expensive advanced classes, academic programs for summer camp. One of my relatives had their college essays edited by a professional editor who charged $1000 an hour.

My spouse grew up in poverty, where he got up at 5am to catch the bus to ride 90 min to school, dressed in the discarded clothes the family scavenged from the beach, and then got back after dark after a 90-min bus ride back, to the trailer home where he shared a single bedroom with 2 siblings.

If that impoverished kid comes to me and says, "this isn't fair and I shouldn't have to score as high as you," am I supposed to react with "you're hurting me by taking my spot and that makes me want to kill you"? Won't catch me coveting my neighbor's 200 point advantage on the SAT, not unless I also want that upbringing.

I know that race is not a perfect indicator, and that there are Asians living in poverty who get the worst of it, or wealthy minorities who take advantage. I always think maybe family income might be better—but that's not perfect either. I do think race is part of it—teachers may be subconsciously harsher on black kids or less likely to recommend them to advanced classes.

In any case, surely the solution isn't "hold the impoverished kid and this kid with the professional editors to the same standard"... that can't be right either. If a policy helps populations with high poverty rates, then I support that, even if it's not reaching everyone who needs it.

The[re] [is a] problem with calling [...] for indefinite racial discrimination against "overperforming" groups (or one specific such group) with no actual terminating condition.

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Why?

I'm not actually particularly in favor of the policies I think you're targeting here, but I'd like to play devil's advocate.

I am in favor of what might fairly be called "indefinite class discrimination against overperforming groups with no terminating condition", i.e. strong redistributive policies for wealth. I'm a socialist after all. I don't mind an indefinite policy of taking from the haves and giving to the have-nots qua such a policy. In fact I favor it! Moreover, I think the simple fact that one group has and another group has-not is reason enough to take from the first and give to the second, all else being equal, and issues of "overperformance" need not even come into it.

Of course, all else is not always equal, and I favor purely economic redistributive policies for all kinds of reasons, most prominently reasons of efficiency. But the objection you've stated is not to me a sufficient objection.