Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
1mo ago
I was wondering how a Christian worldview would mesh with interplanetary science fiction, but this explains it.
Quantumfreakonomics
1mo ago
Well sure from a deterministic perspective this is trivially true, but the sense we are using it is that a woman doesn't have to do anything in order to be wifed up and have a decent lower-middle-class family life except excercise judgement over which specific suitors she ought to choose. In this frame, far from being slop, Twilight is actually the core female struggle heightened by supernatural fantasy elements.
Quantumfreakonomics
1mo ago
Maybe what you consider "basic storytelling rules" are actually male character archetype rules?
Quantumfreakonomics
1mo ago
This is unironically why payment-for-order-flow is so lucrative.
Quantumfreakonomics
1mo ago
My tinfoil theory is that this is a false flag by the Louisiana seafood industry to scare people out of buying imported shrimp.
Quantumfreakonomics
1mo ago
Every few years a radioisotope source from an abandoned hospital or lab in a third world country goes missing and ends up in a junkyard. There are hundreds of slightly radioactive buildings in Northern Mexico because one guy sold a dismantled cobalt-60 radiotherapy machine to a scrap metal company.
The nightmare scenario is that there is some town in Indonesia somewhere whose entire water supply has been contaminated because someone threw away some old medical equipment.
Quantumfreakonomics
1mo ago
If Terrance Tao wants my support for his academic research, he can start by writing a substack comprehensible to a STEM undergrad explaining what the deal is with inter-universal Teichmüller theory. Until then, have fun in the private sector buddy. Meta is hiring.
Quantumfreakonomics
1mo ago
Good god it’s a slow news cycle. We’re actually speculating on whether or not a nearby comet is aliens.
Quantumfreakonomics
1mo ago
Investors want to hear that the company is taking advantage of AI technology.
Quantumfreakonomics
1mo ago
Not that the Catholic Church cares much about doctrinal integrity these days, but there are at least two major heresies in this interpretation, the heresy of monothelitism and the heresy of adoptionism.
Quantumfreakonomics
1mo ago
If you are using bitcoin as a hedge against financial collapse, it's a bit risky to use custodial counterparties that would go under in the event of a financial collapse.
Quantumfreakonomics
1mo ago
I feel like I need to see the actual encounters being solicited and/or prosecuted to have an opinion on this. Making it illegal to hit on women in public is left-coded (feminism run amok), but arresting flashers on public transportation is right-coded (tough on street crime). Which one of these is, “sting operation on catcalling hotspots,” closer to? I have no idea.
Quantumfreakonomics
1mo ago
This shit turns people into the Joker.
Quantumfreakonomics
1mo ago
I'm pretty sure the ejaculatory metaphor came first, and then the donut application became the SFW go-to because, uh... I think you can figure it out.
Quantumfreakonomics
1mo ago
I initially thought the move was a mistake, but it was a sizable quality-of-life improvement to not have to worry about the sub being banned every time I saw a particularly spicy comment.
Quantumfreakonomics
1mo ago
I had thought the internet collectively agreed that RLHF had resulted in glazing that was a huge issue. But it turns out a sizable amount of people actually loved it.
I thought it was widely understood that Glazemageddon was the result of naively running reinforcement learning on user feedback. The proles yearn for the slop. It’s only weirdos like us who actually want to be told when their ideas are provably wrong.
Quantumfreakonomics
1mo ago
I saw a viral tweet this week of white guys doing roofing work, and I couldn't get the glaring OSHA violations out of my mind.
Of course, the dirty little secret is that basically no roofing company is compliant, but these guys aren't even trying.
Quantumfreakonomics
1mo ago
The guy who drafts big names from five years ago way too early, and acts like he can't believe they're still on the board
Zach Ertz is still good goddammit. Can't believe I picked him up for free last year.
Quantumfreakonomics
2mo ago
Quantumfreakonomics
2mo ago
Real civilization has never been tried.
Quantumfreakonomics
2mo ago
We don’t have to imagine fake Canadian history, we can imagine real American history. Let’s say tomorrow the Navajo decide they’re done being the white man’s bitch and attack the Grand Canyon with smuggled Iranian weaponry. They kill about a thousand people and take a few hundred tourists hostage. The entire white population of the Navajo reservation is evacuated. Twitter is overflowing with clips of Navajo warriors doing the ghost dance over the dead bodies of raped American girls. Big Chief Leaping Antelope declares no surrender until the entire Colorado basin is free of American influence. Bands of raiders take potshots at towns across the Southwest. Dozens of American troops are killed or wounded every week during the attempted occupation by ununiformed partisans blending in with the population.
You know exactly what would happen next, the same thing that happened to all the other tribes who refused to accept American sovereignty.
Quantumfreakonomics
2mo ago
there is no evidence of Hamas ever taking aid.
Okay, where is Hamas getting its food then? Do they have a giant stockpile that they have been surviving off of since October 2023? Have they invented the world’s most efficient solar-powered hydroponics system? Does every Hamas militant spend 23 hours a day in a cryostasis chamber? How are any of them still alive if they aren’t surviving off of food aid?
Quantumfreakonomics
2mo ago
Thanks for getting me to ask ChatGPT, "how many Jews could survive on South Georgia Island?" which definitely didn't put me on a list somewhere. (The answer is 5-10 thousand btw)
Quantumfreakonomics
2mo ago
The default assumption at this point is that Israel is waging a cargo-cult war. They're shooting people, and blockading checkpoints, and bombing suspected targets, but they don't seem to have any coherent goal beyond, "do war stuff to bad guys". They know cutting off supplies to the enemy is good, but they're also scared of the mass starvation that would ensue if they won too much.
If we take as an assumption that Israel knows what they're doing, then it sort of looks like their strategy is to technically let in enough food to feed the population of Gaza, but simultaneously to destroy the institutional infrastructure that would enable actual distribution. That way they can go, "see, we gave them enough food, Hamas was just too evil to give it to their people. They ethnically cleansed themselves," as if effectively rationing supplies to an entire population is no big deal.
You’re overestimating the effect weight has on a woman’s desirability. The most unattractive aspects of the median secular modern woman are tattoos and piercings, which are things she had to actively do to herself.
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