FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
And every gimmick hungry yob
Digging gold from rock n roll
Grabs the mic to tell us
he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this
And it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns
Will later join the church
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FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
6hr ago
I don't like that we're describing every accusation as a blood libel now. I'm not a fan of creeping woke rhetorical norms.
The doctor above objected that while they had seen cases of dogs anally penetrating humans, it was always consensual. This is an absurd assertion: the dog has no concept of consent.
I remain blissfully ignorant on the practicality of this entire episode.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
8hr ago
The answer: because it's fun.
Empirically, shitposting is proven to be one of life's great joys. The richest man in the world and the most powerful man in the world have both purchased their own social media networks specifically to feed their massive shitposting habit. Kevin Durant is an all time great basketball player, the night after the USA beat Serbia he was an olympic medalist, immensely rich, in Paris with thousands of other super hot athletes, and what did he choose to do that night, exhausted from his effort on the floor? Shitpost on Twitter.
People who can do anything they want still choose shitposting on twitter all night.
Having half-informed opinions about things is one of the great joys of life. Whether you're in a dive bar in Reading, PA; you're a weirdo autist on themotte, or you're on your iphone on your private jet.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
11hr ago
I love the argument that dogs have sex with humans, yes, but they can't rape humans because they have an instinctual understanding of the Oberlin model of consent.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
21hr ago
The AI investment boom is not based on fundamentals or on logical projections of existing technologies, there is an irreducible element of immanentizing the eschaton that underlies the story here.
Some portion of those working in AI believe in some form of the Singularity built around building the first AGI. This can range from "whichever company invents AGI first wins" to "fully automated everything" to a full on Singularity where technological progress goes vertical. Motivations range from the pseudo altruistic "We, the responsible and noble and freedom loving, must achieve AGI before They, the evil and oppressive and cruel, achieve it first" to the desire to become an all powerful feudal lord empowered by their newly created machine god. This doesn't matter to the analysis, the common aspect is the belief that after AGI is achieved, things like capital allocation and debt ratios won't matter.
They're not analyzing this along the lines of "based on our current services on offer and revenues this might be too much capital..." They're analyzing it along the lines of "what gets us closer to AGI before anyone else."
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
3d ago
Life imitates art, first as farce, second as tragedy.
This feels like when I was watching Entourage and realized that all the awful absurd fake movies that they fake as a satire of bad Hollywood projects, have actually been made now, unironically. Narcos, Aquaman, Fire Country, these were all failed Vince and Ari projects before they were real movies and shows.
I have this theory that the government shakes the "ALIENS" coins in a coffee can every time that conspiracy theorists start to get popular, knowing that conspiracy theorists can't resist talking about aliens and will start going off about it and scare the hos. Right now, conspiracy theorists are getting increasing headway on right and left as a result of some of Trump's apparent policy reversals in office, so it's time to shake the coins at them and distract them.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
Thank you! I've had a lot of thoughts about the process but haven't yet reduced them to an effort post.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
Oh man are you missing out.
Quick rundown: Russini is a sports reporter, national profile but Philly football focused. Mike Vrabel is an NFL head coach, formerly of the Tennessee Titans currently of the New England Patriots. They were photographed together at a romantic resort in Arizona, and as a result evidence has emerged of a long running affair. When Vrabels team was on a losing streak she made a Spotify playlist called "keep your head up" or something like that, and shared it with someone named Mike on Spotify, it contains songs that Vrabel is known from interviews to love. They've been seen together all over, the joke is if everyone checks their camera roll they might find them in the background. They rented a boat together while she was pregnant.
And the kicker: her son is named Michael, and she was covering Vrabels game on site nine months before the birth.
Russini hasn't spoken publicly on the topic to my knowledge, while Vrabel has soft-confessed by publicly skipping day 3 of the NFL draft (arguably the most important day between March and August for an NFL head coach) to go to marriage counseling with his wife.
This is the gamergate of sports, because while it's mostly sordid gossip, but there's an inescapable element of journalism ethics here. Was Russini planting stories to help Vrabel? ((In Philly this is about Russini reporting on wide receiver AJ Brown being dissatisfied, possibly reducing his trade cost for Vrabels Patriots)) Was Mike leaking inside team information to Russini? If she was sucking dick for stories, is her career more or less ethical than Stephen A Smiths?
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
Bro science answer:
-- Do I know how I hurt it? If the answer is yes (Dave cranked on that armbar/I shouldn't have gone for that deadlift), then I'm more likely to know how it will recover
-- Is it getting better over time or worse?
-- Is it getting in the way of day to day life significantly?
If the answers to those questions are bad, then going to seek treatment is a good idea.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
Yes. Due in October. A daughter.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
I have NEVER seen translation abbreviated as TL, and I was very confused until you mentioned Emily Wilson.
Fagles is the one that comes most commonly recommended as accurate and well done. I enjoyed Wilson's Odyssey, but I see where people didn't like it, I think Wilson is an interesting pairing with the War Nerd Iliad.
My favorite translation though, is Pope's
Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring
Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!
That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign
The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain;
Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore,
Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.[41]
Since great Achilles and Atrides strove,
Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove![42
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
Even with a low in group preference you would think that men would organize jointly on matters that impact all men, like with the evolutionary disadvantage men have when it comes to ensuring paternity.
The most masculine way to organize a solution is "may the best man win." Which is the core issue with most male solutions to problems.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
I just want to know if this is a Mike Vrabel -- Diana Russini post.
Somehow, as I approach fatherhood, the whole world is back to my teenage years. I'm playing WoW and sucking at martial arts, we're in a confusing and ill-planned war in the middle east, and the New England Patriots are ontologically evil.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
5d ago
There's also the guy who can't get a gun because he can't find three unrelated people who would vouch for him.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
5d ago
As we should be.
distinction without a difference. Having strong half-informed opinions and arguing about them is fun.
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