AppleTea
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- Comment on ..? 2 days ago:
Genuine political change has to come from the people who live under it. If Trump got blown up tomorrow, it would no more change US politics than this is gonna do anything for Iranians. If you want a people to rise up against their “dictator” give them space to decide the best course of actions for themselves.
Why should Iranian citizens look on this as a good thing when the country that bombed and ransacked their neighbors for 20+ years is looming like a vulture?
- Comment on big facts 2 days ago:
People who grew up around the same time and geography have the same historical pressures on what behaviors they learn. Obviously outcome varies a lot individual to individual, but it creates broad trends among large groups. Sorting chronologically brings those trends to the forefront.
- Comment on big facts 2 days ago:
You might enjoy Terry Pratchett’s witches series. There’s magic, but the real trick is solving your problems without ever using it. Wyrd Systers or Wee Free Men are good places to start.
- Comment on big facts 2 days ago:
To put on my obnoxious skeptic hat, it sounds like you are analyzing how the historical conditions of people’s upbringing affects each generations’ behaviors and mannerisms. Just, with an astrological chart rather than with a calendar.
- Comment on Stubborn, maybe, but if it ain't broke 2 days ago:
“Ain’t broke” is a lot better of a description than “fittest”.
Evolution selects for the first thing that happens to work. It’ doesn’t have to work particularly well, only well enough to not die from it.
- Comment on New Zealanders' biometric information and other sensitive data may be handed over to the United States government under a new border security agreement between the countries 6 days ago:
The logistics of the Holocaust was enabled by IBM tabulation machines; this comparison isn’t that much of a stretch.
- Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 1 week ago:
whaaaat surely BYU, the school that claimed to have done cold fusion, is an upstanding pillar of academic research
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 2 weeks ago:
I have pointed to the history, and your response is to say “nuh huh read more”
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 2 weeks ago:
Convince them that your priorities is minorities and foregin policy and they will tell you that it’s all good and well but they are about to lose their job and the cost of living is going up so they are just going to vote for the other guy that promises to fix that.
I recall a damn lot of the Biden administration was spent saying “no no the economy is really really good look at the NASDAQ and the S&P and stop talking about groceries!” and not promising to fix anything.
Does that sound like effective campaigning to you?
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 2 weeks ago:
“There’s always never-ending conflict in the middle east” is a rather convenient position to take for the globe-spanning military super-power that’s been meddling in the region for more than half a century.
- Comment on Follow me for more shitty diet tips 2 weeks ago:
when your nutrition app has a contract with Suntory
- Comment on ESL homework 2 weeks ago:
Damn, these look kinda fun…
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 2 weeks ago:
the other day I heard someone make the point that Amazon is just a more successful Palinteer
- Comment on Fax 1 month ago:
hey, fax machines are cool
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 1 month ago:
Gizmodo didn’t always look like the penny arcade website, did they?
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 1 month ago:
As tempting as that sounds, I can no longer touch-type on practically any other desktop. Give me a Dvorak phone, and I wont be able to thumb type either…
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 month ago:
Euro bonds, the EU needs to start issuing bonds
- Comment on Humid Acid 2 months ago:
is… isn’t most soil full of bacteria and fungi? what’s with the “vs”?
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 2 months ago:
fuckin’ just tell me im living in Interesting Times why doncha
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 2 months ago:
shredded cheese
- Comment on New Ways to Corrupt LLMs: The wacky things statistical-correlation machines like LLMs do – and how they might get us killed
2 months ago:
It’s almost like basing your whole program on black box genetic algorithms and statistics yields unintended results
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 2 months ago:
And this is why I do the captchas wrong.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 2 months ago:
It’s not strength, but rotation. Shoot a photon at the cube at a certain spot, you get data out of it. Hit the same spot in the cube with light that is polarized perpendicular to the first, and you get different data out of it.
Er… that’s what it sounds like, anyway…
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 2 months ago:
those are the places that most need it though
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 2 months ago:
See, now this is the tech I would understand pouring billions into. Give every nation on earth a durable copy of the last 100 years of medicine, physics, biology. That’s what a reasonable ruling class ought to do.
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 2 months ago:
Nah, science has always worked like that. This is what peer review is for.
What’s better than finding evidence that proves your own preconceived notions? Finding evidence that contradicts someone else’s. Schadenfreude is the great engine of scientific progress.
- Comment on Particle Physicists Detect ‘Magic’ at the Large Hadron Collider 3 months ago:
Sorry, that was just the Dean of Unseen University again.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
glowing?
- Comment on Amazing 3 months ago:
- Comment on spongebob big guy pants okay 3 months ago:
is this the biologist’s equivalent of “assume a flat, frictionless plane”
Assume A Perfectly Homogeneous Liquid Mouse
