What? Any and all filters an intelligent species could encounter need to be factored in statistically, even if not all of those filters will 100% be encountered

Perhaps it’s a contextual Great Filter only for instances of intelligent life in which capitalistic modes of production win out.

I would probably scale the trans flag down and let there be more blue at the top and bottom, to allow all the colors of the lesbian flag to remain represented. I might also play around with placement/rotation to get more of the dark orange+purple visible

This isn’t a problem we can type our way out of

We’re in the New Gilded Age

I think it depends on the reason you do not use it. The Luddites were primarily frustrated over automation displacing their high-skill job with low-skilled ones that produced worse quality goods. It’s a 2 for 1: we are losing the jobs we need to survive, but also we lose the personal touch from the work of artisans + lose appreciation for their talent.

I am not carte blanche against AI as a concept, but it really does seem like a technology that makes interactions worse quality, more depersonalized, and on top of that it has a horrible externalized environmental cost which benefits nobody in the long run.

Addendum: I believe technology has the power to be liberating when it provides for all of us, and oppressive when it concentrates wealth+power into the hands of moguls and tyrants.

If it gets you talking about it, even in the context of telling them to shut the fuck up, it’s working :)

Allow me to make a hackneyed code block diagram

 • <- rotational center
 |
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 +👈<<<  <- pounds (force applied at radius)
 ⇡
 feet (distance from center)

Because the final unit is a combined feet×lbs, it’s subject to the commutative property of multiplication. For example, 89 foot-pounds of torque is equivalent to 89 pounds of force at 1 foot away from the rotational center, or 1 pound of force 89ft away from the rotational center.

I typically imagine it by putting a weight of x pounds at the end of a 1ft wrench held perfectly level, idk.

The gerrymandered border slicing through an American’s house to isolate its occupants into different districts

u will become crab one way or another 🦀

They don’t even have to be blue! You can have useless ticks in many different colors!

Because TurboTax lobbied to change the narrative to “we already have private market solutions for tax, therefore the government hosting a no-cost option is actually wasteful and bad for the budget”

Technically, almost all of Antarctica is located north of the south pole

I don’t disagree that they’re different terms, but I personally know a bunch of people who buy sorbet and call it sherbert, and basically use the terms interchangeably

In the US, I’ve heard it called shaved ice/snow cone if it’s freshly ground ice with flavor added by a person, popsicle if it comes in a single serving, and sorbet (often pronounced “sherbert”) if it comes in a tub. Usually sorbet tastes the most uniform and has the softest texture, but shaved ice at the County Fair on a hot sunny day hits like nothing else! (Also hits your wallet like nothing else too but that’s event pricing for ya)

Sometimes we call the squeeze tubes otter pops but I’m pretty sure that’s a brand name we use as a generic term.

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The problem is that it’s a blanket ban (plus retroactive firing) of all trans people serving in the military, not just an asterisk on serving combat roles.

Well if they die then they’re just suckers and losers like all the dead military servicepeople

Is he signed up to be an organ donor?

Hey I don’t disagree with your points but just wanted to mention that El Salvador is in North America (in a sub-region known as Central America)

edit: unless there are additional South American facilities they’ve been building that I’m unaware of