PARENTS: Have you gone to church recently ME (drank 2 beers, put "San Francisco" by Scott McKenzie on a loop and re-read SSC "Fear and Loathing at EA Global 2017"): In a way

Incorruptible. 🫡

It's weird that IQ is testing precisely the stuff that your brain was not evolved to do, but it's robust and heritable. "Oh yeah, we gave this machine the 'out of distribution' test, it does about 90th percentile on any out-of-distribution task. All kinds, doesn't matter." ???

After integral calculus replaced the method of exhaustion people were walking around like, "The Bitter Lesson: Rectangles Are All You Need"

@constans Frog said, "Let's design policy as if from behind a veil of ignorance where we do not know our personal circumstances." "But we do know our personal circumstances," said Toad. "That is true," said Frog.

Coding language for building small, decorative apps, call that objet-oriented programming

How meteorologists feel saying "Nor'easter"

Dunkin Donuts workers are baristas too

Fuck everything, we're doing five-factor authentication.

"Chat, Are We Cooked? Generation Z Confronts Climate Change"

In this near-empty restaurant, a guy from the kitchen is showing the slightly confused hostess the fight scene between Peter and Harry from Spiderman 3 on his phone. Shooters shoot.

Patrick is an oaf, you know, as a starfish he is literally brainless and so on. And precisely because of this, he is too stupid to adopt the corporate identity from the petit bourgeois Mr. Krabs. He violently asserts his individuality, he is a totally evil guy, I love him.

🎵 Are we Patrick? Or are we Krusty? My skin is orange My hands are fins 🎵

@EoinHiggins_ The neocons thought they had to justify invasion with nation-building. Always at pains to convince everyone it wasn't just aggression. Trump admin has figured it out: violence doesn't need to be justified. We like that part, we just don't like the slog of nation-building.

Kansas City is basically a tiny version of Washington DC.

Blackpill: You were born too late to brusquely order an adjutant to double the guard, then stare pensively into the darkness and mutter, "Surely not tonight."

About half the time I ride public transit, I get sick. Uber from now on, hang the expense. What is going on out there.

@dylanmatt Important to remember how much Elon hates USAID. He was so proud of cutting it. It made him feel powerful, "even more powerful than the president," he'd say.

https://t.co/wocDdeLw6j

Over on the r/Teachers subreddit they're discussing how to make ends meet over the summer, many people recommend asking for your pay over 12 months instead of 10.

@RodeoProfessor Okay, you're Václav Havel, it's now 1990, the communist government has fallen and you're president of Czechoslovakia. Do you punish all the greengrocers for posting the "Workers of the World" sign, or do you let them take it down and keep selling vegetables?