our belief that trying/suffering will/should be rewarded must come from school. students with insufficient ability to succeed plus social promotion requires teachers curve based on perceived effort. we witness it enough for it to seem like a fixture of a righteous universe
holy shit i looked at SSD prices and it appears i will be doing this yet again. my $217 990 4TB is now $1100 and $229 SN850X 4TB is now $600
an essentially trashy story elevated by the backdrop of elite cycling and cursive diary entries. woman leaves her long term boyfriend to "find herself" and hooks up with a famous cyclist behind his girlfriend's back for 6 months only to be murdered by her for homewrecking
now that systems are getting less sycophantic, you can dump in crank metaphysics and then simply ask "do you prefer this to Humean laws?" and if it doesn't say no, maybe you're getting somewhere
we now watch '90s movies not for the plot or even theme but to see beautiful, real scenes deliberately filmed on actual locations. The Firm as a tourism montage for the South. oddly imparts a similar CGI distaste for single camera, one setting screenplay conversions like The Whale and Miller's Girl
all this face swapping has unraveled a key piece of my identity: that i am a "face man". the exquisite taste i thought i had for exotic features dissolves and all else being equal, what i prefer to see is mostly proximity × availability, with face nothing more than stored key for the product
another: "low sodium" nuts are an innovation in Teflon coating the interior of the can so less salt is used while still delivering the same actual intake. half as much on the label, but that half previously adhered to the package walls
how much you restrain your man in a street fight reveals the inverse, an acceptable downgrade threshold. screeching and clawing to keep him at 80% power either imposes a penalty for recklessness or, at worst, awards his rival a novelty bonus in proportion to their strength gap
remember the jaw-dropping twist of "flat earth has been bleeding support for the last several years…because they're all going to QAnon"? get the same feeling watching leftists abandon the sinking trans rights ship to hop on the anti-AI/datacenter bandwagon
bet the same popping/ear cleaning instinct to excavate unseen, trapped waste that drives a subset of people (me) crazy highly correlates with attitudes about the evils of landfills and encapsulating nuclear waste. an innate desire demands extraction even when containment is more rational
whichever society has the most widely taught and accepted Helen Keller myth reaches AI first because they truly believe intelligence can bootstrap from text alone
correction: intra.
was "it costs a million dollars to raise a kid" just intrasexual competition? a way of boasting "i'm rich" to other moms by claiming they'd passed that barrier of entry?
most annoying humblebrags that you are innately calibrated toward virtuous moral good, unlike the dregs whose souls do not naturally reject vice:
* i hate opiates because they make me loopy
* unhealthy food tastes like chemical poison to me
the horrified gasps from true crime watchers suggest they are not treating these individual stories as random sampling from a known distribution, but doing invalid, radical updates of their distribution with each story consumed
Aziz Ansari deserves credit for his 1/17/2010 Comedy Central special exposing the world to coworker media by roasting his cousin's love for Burn Notice, something SNL did weeks later in their 2/6/2010 skit "Burn Notice Game Show", not even choosing a different example
was it popularized and normalized entirely by sitcom scripts invoking it as excuse for actress pregnancy that did not disrupt its "will they/won't they" stateless eternal holding pattern?
suspect the "alpine divorce" is the same desire to test influence dangerously attempted in a higher stakes environment. "no, let's go to this restaurant" becomes "let's take this path" or "let's take a break" and refusal to entertain these shit tests to alter the plan are recast as attempted murder
black tape in an X shape creates an optical illusion by visually claiming it could hide an areola no larger than than the tape's width or it'd escape the tape's intersection, yet upon removal that is somehow not the case
days of modeling reveal i'm currently 3 lbs. below a hidden set point creating 6% daily binge risk, but 12.5 mg tirzepatide is buying me 6-12 lbs. of offset (weekly dose sawtooth) or i'd be looking at 6-11% binge risk. each month the set point approaches me by about a pound (50-day half-life)
"IYKYK" seems to mean: treat your own uncertainty as disqualifying evidence. true insiders will find this a strong match, so if you're only moderately confident you understand/recognize this, assume you are an outsider.
decision rule: bias toward negative
error policy: bias against false positive
if scoring missed detail as perfect is the mechanism, interest in human goth girls and cartoon anime girls should overlap considerably.
dinergoth makes sense as convergent endpoint for middle America's narrower ancestry if goth is the best strategy for masking lower genetic diversity's phenotypes
goth as the same makeup-as-uniform. instead of makeup's subtle enhancement, it's a total overwrite. blown highlights to suppress skin texture and bone structure. graphic eyeliner that makes eye geometry unrecoverable rather than enhance canthal tilt. black lipstick to max out dimorphic contrast
we attribute the Toynbee tiles' intrigue to its schizophrenic screed, but its innovation was not idea but execution, though the latter gets no recognition: a novel recipe for reliably gluing messages to pavement in one drop, letting tire pressure do the work
and institutions promoting as virtue what prioritizes that institution over its rivals. news and police report a boy "bravely" turned his parents in for drugs after attending DARE is the news and state holding as virtue what benefits them (reporting and prosecution) over family integrity
modern autism claims from normal people are attempt to recast their status hypersensitivity as status insensitivity—to opt out of games they know they're losing by pretending they can't see them. real autistics loses sleep over the actual trains, not whether he talked too much about them at dinner
hearing romance scam victims catfished by "celebrities", it seems they treat semi-obscure fandom trivia like it's a cryptographically secure one-way function. "only i snoop enough to tell from his IG he broke up with her last year. a scammer couldn't know that! that's why i was so sure it was him"
computer face recognition and police sketch artists both seemed supernatural, impossible to faceblind me until i tried swapping bodies with Deep-Live-Cam. it squashes all but geometry. feel like i'm finally learning to recognize what's different without the crutches of hair, skin texture, and tone
