Thx for getting it. :)

Ooooh. Welcome blast from the past. That sound…

Say what you will, this is an efficient and elegant way to store your adapters. I’m envious.

It’s a bit weird the first time it really hits you.

My moment was when we were a bit early for a holiday dinner and my mom was trying to prepare a turkey, but was having trouble stuffing it because it hadn’t thawed completely. She made a comment about the legs being a bit stiff and hard to spread, and my father said ‘Give it a margarita.’ (my mom’s favourite drink).

Money hoarders. They need a coordinated intervention.

Those aren’t ‘apps’ to him – they’re pictures he presses on his phone that let him do something.

My theory: he was recently in a conversation with someone about an app he doesn’t use, and they had to explain the concept to him. They probably complimented him when he seemed to understand enough, since he’s surrounded exclusively by sycophants, so in his mind he’s proud to be smarter than most people about this.

We’ve seen this exact scenario play out before. He’s so predictable.

It’s important to understand the prevalence of coincidence and incompetence. Humans are exceptional at pattern-finding – too good, really. In order to think critically, we need to recognise our own tendency to find patterns where none exist.

And this a very common mindset, because most societies (some more than others) take children’s* innate curiosity and pound it flat for the sake of efficiency by way of standardisation. It really is a shame, since we waste a lot of potential as a species this way.

e: a word

We do, though.

Just to make sure my understanding was accurate, I asked Gemini to critique my explanation:

.

Unless it’s lying to me about itself, I was able to explain the basics of it in two relatively simple sentences. Of course that doesn’t cover everything, but Gemini thinks that’s a pretty good overview. After expanding on each point in its reply, it said this:

I think a lot of the confusion over these models stems from hype and marketing that makes them out to be more than what they are.

Well, this is obviously ridiculous. If you want to maximise your chances, make it as easy as possible. Send an exe.

45 minutes at 350F seems like it will burn these tiny filets to a crisp, but I’ll try. I do love a mayo and garlic sauce.

I’m pretty vocally atheist, but I watch debunking content, and part of that is anti-Flerf and anti-fascist stuff, so maybe the algorithm picked up on that.

It’s so fracking adorable, I could eat it up. Any recipes?

Wait – is this how we prevent our socks committing suicide in the dryer?

Alex Jones screeching

This is abuse, full stop. If a child (16 is a child) marries an adult, even if the age gap is only a few years, that means a child is expected to have sex with an adult who should know better. That child cannot understand what they’re getting into.

I’m saying this from experience. I was married at 16 to a 22 year old. I thought I knew what I was doing, but I did not. I was intelligent – precociously so – and from a middle class family. It should not have been allowed, and it fucked up my life in ways I could not possibly have predicted.

There’s no such thing as a benign child marriage.

Quiverfull movement.

Because women and children are just props – objects you borrow, like a carpet steamer. I just need it for a day, I’ll give it right back.

The country with the highest per capita consumption of vinegar in 2018 was the Netherlands, with 3,108 liters per 1,000 people

This checks out. As we all know, the Dutch only inflict depression, they’re never depressed themselves.

I do, too, and alongside that are articles about how new discoveries in cosmology are upending all of science, and alongside those, thinly veiled creationist articles about how that means science has been totally wrong all along, therefore god. The Hubble tension has spawned a lot of these, with at least one article in my feed per day from the Discovery Institute and the like.

e: articles like these:

Were We Made to Make Black Holes? Evolution News is part of the Discovery Institute

The “Hubble Tension” and the Big Bang Evolution News

James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Fast-Growing Galaxies Answers In Genesis, speaks for itself

I’ve been noticing a disturbing trend lately, and I wonder if the way these headlines are written is feeding it: creationist articles have been slipping into my science news feed, usually riffing off whatever bullshit alarmist/exaggerated headlines spread through the popsci realm the day before.

If you don’t know what you’re looking at (and most people don’t), you’ll wind up reading creationist propaganda when you think you’re reading a science article.