8911 pts ยท August 18, 2021
They were all in the wrong time signature.
#1 This image is used for Ulver's album Shadows of the Sun.
I had exactly the same thought.
I think I remember that being called the suicide grip, presumably with some reason.
It's a little chilling to hear the Locust Queen giving medical advice...
Fledgling by Octavia Butler.
Regarding realism in games, there is a recently translated interview with Miyamoto and Itoi (Mother, but I confess I haven't played it) that discusses realism, among other things. https://shmuplations.com/itoimiyamoto/
The word leftist does not occur in that quoted paragraph...
Detailed description here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/09/is-thomas-sowell-a-legendary-maverick-intellectual-or-a-pseudo-scholarly-propagandist/
The Ethnobotany of Eden appears to be a book by a guy called Voeks. It sounds really interesting actually, but is that what is referenced in the last line?
I always wonder about EDC stuff... I mean do you actually use them? Is it worth carrying torches when you likely have your phone?
Hmm, maybe they mean it will be just a single option, instead of lots of fiddly settings.
It quite literally says opt-in in that thread. But I don't use Firefox, maybe it's currently opt-out?
The doorway has a vulva shape if you squint enough, and there's a rectangle just where the clitoris would be.
#32 Think I want a poster of this...
#9 Surely it should be a sexy prime... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexy_primes Or maybe, a sexy prime-1...
Cool to see Weizenbaum mentioned. He also created a chatbot in the 60s called ELIZA that simply reformulated statements as questions. It was enough that, even when informed how it works, humans responded emotionally and assumed the program was invested in the conversation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect
#35 I wonder what it's like to think this is a small detail that almost no one would notice.
What is 'filthy rag theology'?
Also right beside the Bedtime Bible Stories.
Beautiful. Gibson as well.
Seconded, as well as his other urban fantasy work.
#20 What are you all reading? I'm in the middle of Persuasion by Austen, Sustaining Natures, an Environmental Anthropology collection, and Deterring Democracy by Noam Chomsky.
I've heard the book The Framer's Coup is a standard text on this, although I haven't had a chance to read it yet.
Think of it like taxes, especially when gold was a thing. If you're the king you already own the gold and silver mines in the country, why bother giving it out to everyone then asking for it back in little pieces? Because then they have to do the things you want them to do (economically speaking) otherwise they get into trouble for not paying their taxes. Blood god might have had similar ideas.
This doesn't really seem to be any more nuanced. The response of the scientific community a bit further down emphasises that he misrepresented their results on the topic, and the Crichton's claim that the science is politicised is a typical denialist tactic. One sees the same tactic used by transphobes for instance. The real distortion and politicisation of evidence for climate change comes from the supposed skeptics, see for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt
The existence of a state itself is authoritarian. I also wondered where they got the figure, but because I thought 72% was on the low side.
Is this a Dune reference?
#29 I suppose it follows that letting people graduate high school is a way to prevent them from learning the Truth.
Charity maintains the hierarchy. There are broadly three main types of exchange: communism or gift giving, exactly equal exchange/market exchange, and hierarchical. Each tends to come with certain social expectations. Hierarchical tends to come with the expectation of recurrence. E.g. it used to be that giving a gift to the king would result in him expecting a regular gift. At some point there were forms you could get to prove that it was a one time thing: see Debt by David Graeber.
They were all in the wrong time signature.
#1 This image is used for Ulver's album Shadows of the Sun.
I had exactly the same thought.
I think I remember that being called the suicide grip, presumably with some reason.
It's a little chilling to hear the Locust Queen giving medical advice...
Fledgling by Octavia Butler.
Regarding realism in games, there is a recently translated interview with Miyamoto and Itoi (Mother, but I confess I haven't played it) that discusses realism, among other things. https://shmuplations.com/itoimiyamoto/
The word leftist does not occur in that quoted paragraph...
Detailed description here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/09/is-thomas-sowell-a-legendary-maverick-intellectual-or-a-pseudo-scholarly-propagandist/
The Ethnobotany of Eden appears to be a book by a guy called Voeks. It sounds really interesting actually, but is that what is referenced in the last line?
I always wonder about EDC stuff... I mean do you actually use them? Is it worth carrying torches when you likely have your phone?
Hmm, maybe they mean it will be just a single option, instead of lots of fiddly settings.
It quite literally says opt-in in that thread. But I don't use Firefox, maybe it's currently opt-out?
The doorway has a vulva shape if you squint enough, and there's a rectangle just where the clitoris would be.
#32 Think I want a poster of this...
#9 Surely it should be a sexy prime... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexy_primes Or maybe, a sexy prime-1...
Cool to see Weizenbaum mentioned. He also created a chatbot in the 60s called ELIZA that simply reformulated statements as questions. It was enough that, even when informed how it works, humans responded emotionally and assumed the program was invested in the conversation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect
#35 I wonder what it's like to think this is a small detail that almost no one would notice.
What is 'filthy rag theology'?
Also right beside the Bedtime Bible Stories.
Beautiful. Gibson as well.
Seconded, as well as his other urban fantasy work.
#20 What are you all reading? I'm in the middle of Persuasion by Austen, Sustaining Natures, an Environmental Anthropology collection, and Deterring Democracy by Noam Chomsky.
I've heard the book The Framer's Coup is a standard text on this, although I haven't had a chance to read it yet.
Think of it like taxes, especially when gold was a thing. If you're the king you already own the gold and silver mines in the country, why bother giving it out to everyone then asking for it back in little pieces? Because then they have to do the things you want them to do (economically speaking) otherwise they get into trouble for not paying their taxes. Blood god might have had similar ideas.
This doesn't really seem to be any more nuanced. The response of the scientific community a bit further down emphasises that he misrepresented their results on the topic, and the Crichton's claim that the science is politicised is a typical denialist tactic. One sees the same tactic used by transphobes for instance. The real distortion and politicisation of evidence for climate change comes from the supposed skeptics, see for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt
The existence of a state itself is authoritarian. I also wondered where they got the figure, but because I thought 72% was on the low side.
Is this a Dune reference?
#29 I suppose it follows that letting people graduate high school is a way to prevent them from learning the Truth.
Charity maintains the hierarchy. There are broadly three main types of exchange: communism or gift giving, exactly equal exchange/market exchange, and hierarchical. Each tends to come with certain social expectations. Hierarchical tends to come with the expectation of recurrence. E.g. it used to be that giving a gift to the king would result in him expecting a regular gift. At some point there were forms you could get to prove that it was a one time thing: see Debt by David Graeber.