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ok im gonna try operation berghain again this weekend. i got cute little shorts but its gonna be like 60 degrees at midnight. do i want to stand outside in 60 degrees for an hour in shorts....

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look. i respect that we want our calendary system to be neat and regular. but intercalary days are nothing. like. thats just fully giving up. how do you refer to units of time that cross the year boundary! are the beginning of the last month and the beginning of the last month "two months apart"? (or whatever your unit-that-doesnt-include-intercalary-days is). what are we doing

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i feel like a human child raised as harshly as a cat is could probably rely on herself for food and shelter. its just a very sad situation

Imo it's kind of dumb when experimented compare the performance of human infants to animals. Like. Babies are dumb as hell. This tell us very little

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Imo it's kind of dumb when experimenters compare the performance of human infants to animals. Like. Babies are dumb as hell. This tell us very little

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learning to ride a bike has me very aware of how weirdly flexible the human motor control system is. like...when you move your body, you dont express a will to move your hand in such and such a position or whatever, you just express a will to catch the ball or whatever the specific task is, and your body does it (or fails to). and sure, this makes sense, it would be overwhelming managing your body all the time. but the thing is, after an honestly pretty small amount of practice, controlling a vehicle works the same way! you dont express "press the pedal down slightly harder" you just express "go faster", you dont express "turn the handle bar slightly" you just express "turn, at this particular angle". i guess this happens with computers too to an extent, although you interact with a higher variety of interfaces, so you usually dont get any more elaborate than "click that point" or "type those letters" in terms of innately thought actions. although keyboard commands can enter your direct-thought actions, where you dont think "type ctrl-z" you just think "undo" and it is (un)done. idk, you can imagine an organism with less flexibility to "merge" psychologically with its tools, which always thinks of the tool-actions it performs in terms of the body-actions which cause those tool-actions, rather than the tool-acts directly.

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Radiohead's creep is not good but if it was good it wouldn't be great. The 90s were such a golden age for self pity songs. Becks loser. Teenage dirt bag tries to do this but he gets the girl at the end because wheatus evidently doesn't understand the artform

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This is plausible by I always feel antsy positing a sort of meta-evolutionary explanation for something because I'm worried there's some subtle evolution theory reason why it's actually impossible. Even though lots of microorganisms increase their mutation rate in stressful environments and so there are definitely genes selected for better evolution

learning to ride a bike has me very aware of how weirdly flexible the human motor control system is. like...when you move your body, you dont express a will to move your hand in such and such a position or whatever, you just express a will to catch the ball or whatever the specific task is, and your body does it (or fails to). and sure, this makes sense, it would be overwhelming managing your body all the time. but the thing is, after an honestly pretty small amount of practice, controlling a vehicle works the same way! you dont express "press the pedal down slightly harder" you just express "go faster", you dont express "turn the handle bar slightly" you just express "turn, at this particular angle". i guess this happens with computers too to an extent, although you interact with a higher variety of interfaces, so you usually dont get any more elaborate than "click that point" or "type those letters" in terms of innately thought actions. although keyboard commands can enter your direct-thought actions, where you dont think "type ctrl-z" you just think "undo" and it is (un)done. idk, you can imagine an organism with less flexibility to "merge" psychologically with its tools, which always thinks of the tool-actions it performs in terms of the body-actions which cause those tool-actions, rather than the tool-acts directly.

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i mean im definitely not opposed but this feels kind of half assed like. she just stuck a big bug on it.

i think the bugs necklace+collar+hat work better

(altho from what i can tell the hat is literally just like. some plastic bugs sewn to the hat lol)

side note i really like the pagan collection, look at this one

there should be more insect-inspired fashion. the aesthetic fashion tends to go for in women is kind of insectile so itd be consonant.

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the most desirable trait in a video game for me is the feeling of exploring/learning a world but very annoyingly this doesnt seem to be the sort of trait with a good word for it. i usually go for metroidvanias because the backtracking does this but this affect is extremely fragile, like, a lot of games will have tile-based graphics that make the experience feel totally artificial, for example. and games that arent metroidvanias can totally fulfill this but 3D games are imo much worse at it because its simply so much work to fill out an entire 3D area in a way that makes it feel real and "lived in". the first BotW did this which made it really incredible. a lot of open world games dont do this. i think this effect works best when theres minimal dialogue unless you do a disco elyisum. but doing a disco elysium is extremely expensive. oh, DE is a great example of doing this, that feels like exploring and learning a world! the early pokemon games were really good at this but it kind of faceplanted in the move to 3D. new snap and legends arceus were great at this though

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presumably being a baby involves doing this for your body itself

i mean this seems reasonable given our reaction to vehicles but its weird we're not just hard-coded for our bodies. i guess its adaptive to be able to adapt to injuries, deformities, etc

learning to ride a bike has me very aware of how weirdly flexible the human motor control system is. like...when you move your body, you dont express a will to move your hand in such and such a position or whatever, you just express a will to catch the ball or whatever the specific task is, and your body does it (or fails to). and sure, this makes sense, it would be overwhelming managing your body all the time. but the thing is, after an honestly pretty small amount of practice, controlling a vehicle works the same way! you dont express "press the pedal down slightly harder" you just express "go faster", you dont express "turn the handle bar slightly" you just express "turn, at this particular angle". i guess this happens with computers too to an extent, although you interact with a higher variety of interfaces, so you usually dont get any more elaborate than "click that point" or "type those letters" in terms of innately thought actions. although keyboard commands can enter your direct-thought actions, where you dont think "type ctrl-z" you just think "undo" and it is (un)done. idk, you can imagine an organism with less flexibility to "merge" psychologically with its tools, which always thinks of the tool-actions it performs in terms of the body-actions which cause those tool-actions, rather than the tool-acts directly.

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they should have put FDR in a mausoleum like lenin when he died

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i think behavior in novel environments should be a central metric for assessing animal intelligence. if you "know what the questions are going to be" its relatively easy to design a simple system that has "memorized the answers". but a system that can give you the right answers to a larger variety of questions, questions that its designer (so to speak) cant have anticipated, must necessarily be more complex (theres probably an information theory argument here). and some animals do better with novel stimulus than others. for example the light-attracted behavior of many small insects i think suggests their navigation is relatively "hard-coded" with a few simple rules rather than a dynamic model of a 3 dimensional world (esp b/c of the theory its due to them keeping a constant bearing towards a light source. although i guess their vision is poor enough that maybe thats simply the only viable way to navigate at night?). while the ability for many organisms to navigate in totally artificial environments suggest they really are storing a full model of the world.

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there are a lot of closely related species where some are social and some are asocial which has the weird trilemma that either these elaborate social behaviors require almost no interiority OR there are lots of organisms with rich interiority but no social instinct so they just spend their wholes lives thinking but alone OR interiority can emerge and disappear on relatively short evolutionary timescales as-needed.

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the role of the aristocracy in modern britain is really confusing to me. as far as i can tell theres not actually that much wealth in the hands of the aristocracy, i mean, theyre rich but theres not that many of them and theyre not that rich, all things considered. like, i think theres more people richer than the aristocracy than members of the aristocracy but they have a significant amount of non-monetary cultural power. the british people dont seem to have realized that aristocracy is cringe

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Happy Passover from Rudy Giuliani

#what did he mean by this #passover only happens once a year #does he think of that as all the time...? #or is he mistaking something else for passover?

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did anyone else see a tweet that said "when SBF x Caroline porn, I'm horny ;)" from her that immediately got deleted or did i hallucinate that

#oh grimes...

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if taylor swift wrote a song that mentioned being horny for a human body part that was even slightly risque (balls, etc) i think this could resolve the crisis in heterosexuality (assuming such a crisis exists)