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28 any I like hollow knight and rain world

[tsarina-anadyomene]

There is something very encapsulating of the current political moment of the right that I saw: there's an AI image of the Notre Dame that is very clearly AI generated because it (1) has the front towers rotated 90 degrees and (2) has the roof of one of the proposed redesigns and one of the replies is a guy with a Warhammer 40K pfp saying "at least until the moslems burn it down." Like I genuinely think this is a straightforward representation of a huge chunk of youth reactionary politics

[tsarina-anadyomene]

like a quasi-religious devotion to a piece of culture that is not at all spiritual or particular, which serves as a mere object of fetishization for one to protect as an epic warrior

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parts of cascade tier list cascade (intro): B. would be C if the intro wasn't so iconic and for the look on people's faces when they realize i'm not getting up from the piano for fourteen minutes flare: hit me really hard as a teenager but i think that's because i was basic. C, and it hurts me to say (A in my heart) savior of the waking world: hey look it's the Doctor leitmotif! B black rose green sun: my mom asks me to play this for her whenever I visit. S

[helicalsymmetry]

i actually don't give a shit what 'human nature' is. i don't care what we're 'meant' to live like, and i'm not interested in projecting a vision of whatever validates my political/ideological beliefs onto the past. it's natural for humans to die of diseases and injuries. it's natural for humans to hit each other to death with objects. i don't care if my body is 'meant' to be a persistence predator in an (unrealistically) idyllic hunter-gatherer society because actually my body is 'meant' to lay down and die of nerve dysfunction. defy and overcome your fucking nature and do what you want without hallucinating the support of a thousand dead apes.

[weirdness-is-good]

[ilywtf]

>settings

>world settings

>set to "your oyster"

[nuclearspaceheater]

My job on the solarpunk commune will be making artisanal polyethylene.

[transgenderer]

often my first instinct is to speak in a sort of weird alien way (by my own standards) and i sometimes hem and haw about it but people almost never comment on it so i think i just need to embrace being a person who speaks strangely. i mean not that i wasnt already that kind of person

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guy who insists on calling it searle's american-chinese room and it's just as good as the authentic one even though it is different

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white boy shocks room by ordering in perfect chinese

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guy who insists on calling it searle's american-chinese room and it's just as good as the authentic one even though it is different

[hussyknee]

The most basic, intractable fact about mental illnesses is that you simply cannot willpower your way out of them. The only exceptions to this rule are the ones I have, which continue to disable me due to lack of determination and other grave personal flaws

[collapsedsquid]

[kaiasky]

as always.

[st-just]

Fandom osmosis: Homestuck

It's mostly about someone named Vriska and how she never did anything wrong ever in her whole life, I think. And astrology?

[theinternetcrab]

weird how “it was better when people knew literature and history” and “destroy non-STEM education” coexist in these spheres

[robertskmiles]

You’re not supposed to *be educated* about literature and history, you’re supposed to read about them for fun after a long day of inventing new types of metal to make trains out of.

[raginrayguns]

ok let's get this straight.

Richard Dawkins is not a scientist whose contribution to science is the "selfish gene" theory. Dawkins is a popularizer that we can credit for the "selfish gene" as a sort of poetic conceit that he uses to explain the essentially mathematical ideas of neodarwinism, in particular Hamilton and Trivers's work explaining animal altruism.

Stephen Hawking was a scientist whose contributions were the Hawking-Penrose singularity theorems and Hawking radiation. He'd be a key part of the history of the study of black holes if he never wrote any books for the public.

Douglas Hofstadter, as far as I can tell, is a literary figure. This may just be my bias that I don't think cute LISP programs from the '80s are real science, even if they're from a "cognitive science" department, but in any case I think it was his PhD students doing that. Hofstadter's work is books and magazine articles. Some of it is science popularization but he's not a straight popularizer like Dawkins, or like Hawking writing for the public. He's... I don't know... literary nonfiction?

[calllynx]

Does anyone else ever have a sort of phantom physical sense when there's something ready to paste in the clipboard. It feels like I've got something in my right hand and when I click ctrl-v I put it down.

[nokia7373]

do u like etymology

[nokia7373]

do u like hydronymy

[nokia7373]

do u fw toponyms

[mereologic]

the universe is a carefully constructed machine for synthesizing white dwarfs, the rest is marginal

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i always thought it was kinda cope the way my chem 102 professor was like nooo you cant just think about the thermodynamic product what if some kinetic bullshit happens