plaidfinch

plaidfinch

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but wherever we live, whatever our scene, we have a choice! we can choose not to defect!

plaidfinch@plaidfinch.net

hypothesis: flakiness as a friendship norm is a nash equilibrium in cities because city social patterns encourage people to believe life is a series of uncorrelated finite games rather than a continuous interconnected infinite game, as it obviously is in smaller communities

hypothesis: flakiness as a friendship norm is a nash equilibrium in cities because city social patterns encourage people to believe life is a series of uncorrelated finite games rather than a continuous interconnected infinite game, as it obviously is in smaller communities

the next level is realizing that when you do this, the film also has a vivid mental experience of where you were when you watched it

Lúcás Meier@cronokirby.com

Sometimes I can also have a vivid mental experience of where I was when I watched the film too

realizing that if i've seen a movie once or twice, i can listen to the audio track alone and have an extremely vivid mental experience of the film

"When staff for a task force of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee asked the Congressional Research Service (CRS) to update its 2008 calculation of criminal offenses in the USC in 2013, the CRS responded that they lack the manpower and resources to accomplish the task."

plaidfinch@plaidfinch.net

"ignorantia juris non excusat"

better yet: ffmpeg -i "Top Gun (1986).mp4" -vn -acodec copy "Top Gun (1986).aac"

plaidfinch@plaidfinch.net

"Opening Theme from TOP GUN" (including the jet sounds and the transition into "Danger Zone") is the perfect alarm clock ringtone, change my view

marshmallow test fail: if lions read a little charles darwin they would be snacking instead on the Fastest, Strongest antelopes to breed easier prey

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apropos of nothing, i recently had a conversation with someone who claimed as an established obvious fact that if one thinks one can personally meaningfully contribute to making the world a better place, one is practicing "adventurism, which is a kind of fascism"

"It is not your duty to configure the options, but neither are you at liberty to neglect them." — Rabbi Tarfon, Pirkei Avot 2:16

qntm@qntm.org

Making something a configurable option does not void your responsibility to assign a good default value

hear, hear!

a spooky shoggoth@goodheck.bsky.social

I’m very down for walkable cities but I can’t get behind the anti-car sentiments because many cars are beautiful functional works of art, and the experience of driving cars, especially fast, is cool and should be accessible to anyone. Worth the trade off.

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plaidfinch@plaidfinch.net

i desired the wild blackberries and am being punished for my hubris after flying too close to the poison oak