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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
3hr ago
I don't often find myself agreeing with @SecureSignals, but he's right in this case. Researching how long it takes to drive to a particular location, then sending your husband to that location to get him out of the house, is rather damning evidence of planning and forethought.
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16hr ago
AGHBRL? Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
Greta Lee is to Celine Song as Daisy Edgar-Jones is to Sally Rooney.
OotL: Song and Rooney both wrote stories (Past Lives and Normal People, respectively) heavily drawn from their own experiences in which the protagonists are thinly-disguised versions of their respective authors. These protagonists were portrayed by actresses (Lee and Edgar-Jones, respectively) who each bear a passing resemblance to the respective authors, but who are vastly more physically attractive.
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18hr ago
It feels pretty mean-spirited to describe tech billionares as simply "nerds". Maybe they started off as humble computer nerds, but that was a long time ago and they've done a lot of other stuff since then.
Scott's working definition of "nerd" is something like "unusually intelligent, but lacking in social skills". Which still seems like an apt description of e.g. Mark Zuckerberg, in spite of his billions.
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18hr ago
I didn't think journalists were supposed to do "If you don't like the speech they gave, imagine a better one and report on that instead".
When the journalist likes the politician in question, this is called sanewashing. When they dislike him, it's called "dog-whistle politics".
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2d ago
Yes, there are ~70k YouTube channels with 1 million subscribers or more, against a population of 115 million YouTube channels. She's more famous and well-known than more than 99.5% of all YouTube channels. That seems "popular" to me.
Those two videos were literally the only times I'd ever seen her.
Okay. So? Occasionally I'll be watching a movie, and I'll recognise an actor who had a small part in a movie I watched many years prior and whom I haven't seen in anything else since. (e.g. I watched Minority Report the other night. The guy in the opening sequence who tries to murder his wife after she cuckolds him once went on a date with Rachel in Friends, where she gets pissed and makes a fool of herself. Haven't seen him in anything other than that movie and that episode.) I would say I'm "good with faces", not that I have a "photographic memory". The latter term implies that you have total, perfect recall of everything you have ever experienced, even things that happened years or decades prior. It does not imply that you can identify the celebrity in a video after not having seen a picture of them for a long time. I'm sure you can't tell me what you had for breakfast on April 9th, 2015.
It is also my impression that most people don't remember exactly which random Internet conversations they have open IOU-a-sauce for over timespans of years.
Well, most people don't have random Internet conversations, so this claim might well be true, but vacuously so.
I don't think you have a photographic or eidetic memory. The abilities you're describing seem fairly typical of a person who's above-average in intelligence and conscientiousness, which describes most people who post here.
Only two million subscribers? Gosh, that only puts her in the 99.94th percentile of all YouTube channels. What a nobody!
ChatGPT tells me the videos on her channel have been watched a collective 247 million times. Even assuming that only one-tenth of those are unique viewers, a population bigger than Florida has laid eyes on her at least once. Maybe "extremely" was overselling it, but she's a very popular YouTuber by any reasonable definition.
New Year's resolution check-in:
- I realise that, for the last few weeks, I've been neglecting to include updates on my resolution to post at least twenty-six blog posts this year. Fear not: I haven't been slacking. In August I published two posts about the Jason Arday scandal, both of which I cross-posted here. I posted an article this afternoon, expanded from this post. That brings me up to twenty-one posts so far this year.
- Went to the gym three times last week and again on Monday evening. My lower back isn't fully healed and I have a big event coming up in two weeks so I'm not taking any chances with squats or deadlifts: just bench press, pullups and cardio until the week beginning the twenty-first. I can deadlift 1.82x my bodyweight, squat 1.33x and bench press 0.77x.
- Have not consumed any pornography since waking up on January 1st.
How goes it @self_made_human, @thejdizzler, @birb_cromble, @ThomasdelVasto and @falling-star?
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
2d ago
One of our friends in particular had plans that didn’t involve being unceremoniously fired while on paternity leave, just 9 days after the birth of her second child.
Huh? Is this a trans-identified female who was on "pa"ternity leave?
AIUI eidetic memory is quite common among the autistic, though admittedly not universal.
My understanding is that even the existence of eidetic memory is a controversial proposition among psychologists and neurologists, making me sceptical about any claims of its incidence within any given demographic. If you have any non-anecdotal evidence backing this up I'd love to see it.
No offense intended, but am I supposed to be impressed by the fact that you were able to recognise an extremely popular YouTuber? Surely this isn't what most people are talking about when they throw around terms like "eidetic" or "photographic" memory. If you have more impressive examples of your ostensibly eidetic memory, I would also love to hear about them, but if this is the best example of your capabilities, I'm highly dubious.
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3d ago
Yes, and exceptionally tall people sometimes bang their heads when walking through doorways. And yet, curiously, men are willing to shell out a quarter-mil to make themselves taller. You don't see a lot of people spending money to make themselves shorter.
Autistic savants are exceptionally rare (as my sister, a paediatrician, pointed out, the likelihood of an autistic child being a genius is roughly the same as that for an allistic child, which is to say, staggeringly low), and not a central example of how the term "differently abled" tends to be used. There are disadvantages associated with being exceptionally numerate, exceptionally strong, exceptionally fast, exceptionally attractive etc.; there may even be certain advantages on the margin associated with being disabled (blind people save a lot on their electricity bills!). But on net, virtually everyone would still prefer to be exceptionally fast vs. wheelchair-bound, exceptionally strong vs. paraplegic, sighted vs. blind and so on.
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3d ago
Did you hear they've come out with a meal plan specifically designed for plain-looking women?
It's called the
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3d ago
Yes, I agree, I support Romeo and Juliet laws.
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3d ago
I don't consider "child sex abuse material" a dysphemism. Pornography, by definition, is produced with the consent of those depicted; children definitionally cannot consent to being sexually exploited; ergo, sexually explicit videos featuring children cannot be pornography.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
3d ago
Shit craic pal. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
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3d ago
That was my first thought. But during the day, Substack shows me notes I agree with, many of them posted by Americans. In the wee hours of the morning, it shows me notes I disagree with, exclusively by Americans. I don't get it.
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3d ago
I've made it abundantly clear that the "war" to which I referred was the recent escalation of hostilities which began in October 2023, not the broader Israel-Palestine conflict.
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3d ago
Why, when I open Substack during the day, does the algorithm generally show me notes that I agree with – but when I open it late at night or in the wee hours of the morning, I'm presented with a cavalcade of libtards?
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4d ago
But a lot of the examples of bad writing they cited were distinctly modern ones, whether at the stylistic level or in terms of plot construction (e.g. the array of plots that no longer work since the invention of the mobile phone).
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4d ago
The link in my comment worked. The only difference between the two comments is that backslash.
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4d ago
Looking at the markdown, there's a stray backslash between "film" and ")".
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4d ago
I would prefer if they actually used fragments from real novels as examples and spend their effort on explaining less obvious problems than "don't make your characters too perfect or completely pitiful".
Sounds like a great way to make a lot of enemies in the publishing industry.
Hinckley was the first person I thought of when Freddie deBoer said that an NGRI verdict means Clancy will never leave a mental institution.
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