Gradually supplanting the natural with the just / Me against the rats, me and the rats against the postrats, me, the rats and the postrats against the world
so what you are saying is, Century Fox is now Disney
which means the Alien franchise is now Disney
which means Xenomorphs, being born from the Xenomorph Queen, are now Disney princesses
BREAKING: Walt Disney Co. & 21st Century Fox closing in on deal that could come as soon as next week; enterprise value for 21st Century Fox assets seen above $60 billion - sources
German serial killer lured online 'coomers'
"Sarah (19) has been standing trial at the Bamberg district court since Friday. Prosecutor is convinced: the teenager lured admirers into a trap with the promise of quick sex and stabbed them in cold blood."
physics: if your correlation is lower .96 that's noisy and I worry whether you truly understand what's going on
social science: "people prefer to bang hot people in one night stands" is a .63 correlation
Here is the correlation between short-term mate desirability and ratings of physical attractiveness from our recent survey. This is .63 and for long-term mate desirability was .55.
We tend to think of a desire for physical attractiveness as a short-term mating preference (and we
I still remember that post when a zoomer watched The Matrix and was like "huh, curious. this movie plays everything straight, takes itself seriously, no quips here. is this how movies were in the before times" and I remember because I withered away and a ghost is typing this
i hate how irony poisoned everything has become. romcoms can't take themselves seriously, action movies have to have silly one liners acknowledging how ridiculous everything is, everything has to be meta and self referential... i'm sick of it!
this is the ideal bayesian updater on every tiny new tweet w new info about the LK-99 story. you might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like
Sea Robins have evolved 6 crab-like limbs that let them walk on the seafloor. These 'legs' evolved from support structures in the pectoral fins.
No matter how many times I see this, it never looks real.
People claimed the human brain was special relative to other primates in the size of the temporal lobes, involved in functions such as language. Newer data once again shows that no, the human brain is just a scaled up primate brain
me: fuck, bug in a library I'm not familiar with. Let's see if ChatGPT has the solution for m-
OpenAI: Hey thanks so much for reaching out" I’m actually at capacity / helping someone else / dealing with some personal stuff rn and i don’t think I can hold appropriate space for y
This sucks. When people told me everything in academia work takes longer than you think, I didn't imagine it meant that it takes longer than you think after adjusting for the fact that everything takes longer than you think
We often see hypothetical IQ distributions of men and women like this, but what does it look like using actual test data?
Men's greater variability doesn't look quite as stark, though there was a significant 1.1 variance ratio.
Landmark psychology experiment that indicated how easy it is to plant false memories in people's minds about getting lost in a shopping mall as a child passes the replication test with flying colors.
A mysterious ex-Big Tobacco employee just told me about how people sometimes thought the warnings you get on the cigarette boxes actually correlate to the damage that specific pack of cigarettes do. Like a man would ask for the harm in pregnancy one, assuming he was immune
@turrible_tao
@LokiJulianus
it's still cursed we search for 'examples'. it should be a tag like in fanfic sites, except quipfest people should be the ones labeling their stuff with warnings as if it was distasteful smut and let NORMAL AMERICANS watch things in peace
So, apparently, during all the Lola Bunny discourse, some people managed to slip a later fanart made by a horny furry in deviantart as if it was part of the Space Jam film.
Just the cherry on top in this episode of The Discourse, really. I love this website so much
"no you see, you have to take into account every genetic variant is highly sensitive with interactions with the environment, and you can't forget epistatic interactions with the w-"
agriculture scientists: we put a gene that makes you fat on rice and potatoes and they got fatter
Yields up 50%!
Adding a gene encoding for a protein called FTO to both rice and potato plants increased their yield by 50% in field tests
"it worked with almost every type of plant we tried it with so far"
Amazing!
On the other hand the kind of person that reads Nietzsche to their 5 year old probably is giving birth to children that are strongly predisposed to be very smart and also insane
Fwiw, this looks exactly like counter reformation (the printing press will destroy society) or even early 20th cent push back on reading radio.
No, it will not destroy democracy. Yes it will reinvent society (nationalism was a consequence of the news and radio)
'pewdiepie shows more critical thinking skills and educates his audience better than the gov and army of the united states of america' added to the long list of statements that would have surprised me in 2019 but not anymore
I asked "where are the adults?" in my essay on the new UFO craze. Well, I guess the adult is Pewdiepie, who does an amazing debunking video for his fans, and shows far more clear-headedness than plenty of our public intellectuals have on this issue
I know this is probably a lie (an attractive woman that dislikes communists saying this in visual media to try to cause them mating anxiety) because there's no way in hell a communist would shut up about politics for 5 years, no matter the potential fitness benefits
In this post, Robin Hanson says that arranged marriages make folks "at least as happy" as freely chosen marriages. his citation is a paper from India with 30 people in each group, where, actually, love married couples were significantly more satisfied
@BenWiddowson69
oh the guy with two tweets the stuff he links is so unrelated to his graph/the other guy's question it makes obvious he has no idea what he's talking about
Math teachers back in the day told you to learn their stuff because you're not going to always carry a calculator in your pocket, soon programming teachers will tell you to actually learn how to code because Assistant isn't going to be online 24/7
allow me to translate a bit from here just for fun:
López Obrador (Mexico PM) requested Spain apologize for colonialism
The group that most sees it as necesary, helps an historic debt: white Mexicans
The group that most sees it as unnecesary, irrelevant: Indigenous people
Te invitamos a leer en 'Un 62% de los mexicanos creen que López Obrador utiliza la conquista para hacer política'
🖋️
@JorgeGalindo
HILO🧵:
@Lili_siete
#Suscr
íbeteALosHechos
@tszzl
This technology would at the very least be an emotional whiplash and be bittersweet. Part of maturing to adulthood is watching family and friends die and coming to terms with your own mortality, and for that to no longer be an inevitability is even more tragic for those gone.