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  • It’s like someone had doubts people could count much past 12

    More like the people who invented a lot of shit used base 12.

    Things restarting at 12, is because the thing is so old, it predates base 10.

    Like, pick a language, count to thirteen:

    Ein, zwei, drei, fire, funf, sechs, seben, acht, neun, zein, elf, zwolf, dreizein…

    One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen…

    Notice how 11 and 12 aren’t one-teen and two-teen?

    On each hand is 4 sets of 3 knuckles, touch your thumb to each knuckle and your finger counting on one hand higher than we can with two. Pretty sure there’s some pretty neat math tricks with their method too, almost like built in abacus.

    But all this is off memory.


  • Eh, the terracotta emporer from China almost definitely has booby traps that are likely still functional after 2,000.

    We don’t know, because the absolutely insane amount of open mercury in the tomb would have filled it with toxic gases, although it’s likely that wasn’t the intent.

    But yeah, most “ancient” tombs were pillaged centuries ago. What little happens now is entirely black market and people probably die all the time.

    I know Kim Kardashian took a booty selfie with a sarcophagus at the MET Gala a couple years ago, and one of the illegal tomb raiders recognized it. And because he never got his cut, he snitched to local authorities. So it still happens, we just don’t hear about the vast amount. Just the very careful government sanctioned ones.


  • Clémence Guetté, Vice President of France’s National Assembly, submitted a parliamentary resolution calling for France to withdraw from NATO’s integrated command structure, citing President Trump’s threats to seize Greenland from NATO ally Denmark as evidence the US-led alliance threatens world peace.

    So one politician from France submitted a resolution in the French government to do it.

    And you…

    You honestly and legitimately think that is the same thing as:

    I saw France had proposed an initiative to withdraw because of the US’ shenanigans

    Like, you didn’t just go and try to find a source but didn’t read it. You just don’t understand how what that says and what you said are vastly different things?







  • It’s because we’re just pattern recognition machines and a false positive is better than a false negative.

    So if an act might result in a positive or avoid a negative, it’s safer to just do it anyways. Giving people who get neurotic about it enough of an evolutionary advantage that it’s still relatively normal human variation.

    Maybe the environment changes to where that OCD behavior is really advantageous, then the rabbit rabbits will inherit the earth.



  • But that doesn’t leave many options for the victims. Maddie, who said she’s a 23-year-old pre-med student, woke up on New Year’s Day to an image that horrified her. On X, she had previously published a picture of herself with her boyfriend at a local bar, which two strangers altered using Grok.

    I’ve thought a lot of things would kill twitter…

    But if every time a woman posts a picture of herself, and neckbeards reply asking twitter AI to sexualize her, and the AI responds right there with it where everyone following the original account can see…

    I truly don’t understand how or why any women are still using it.








  • I’ll admit that I don’t really know how that works, or how it’s enforced, or whatever

    They almost always mean “economic sanctions”.

    Cutting them off from “western banking”…

    Essentially not letting them buy/sell any stocks in the western market.

    Which unfortunately is headquartered in NYC, explaining why it’s the NY Stock Exchange.

    There are others, Europe has 5 worth over a trillion each and some others, Asia has the NICA index. But the American NYSE is worth over 25 trillion. It’s the big one.

    But trump personally would be very hard to sanction in other markets, because he’s so shady banking institutions usually won’t deal with him. It’s why he pivoted to crypto.

    He does have some money in NYSE, but that’s overseen by the SEC, and trump won’t sanction himself.

    Ironically what we’d see is tarrifs. America doesn’t make shit, and can’t afford to buy a lot of stuff now. So other big buyers can pressure the “producer countries” into marking up anything that goes in/out of America.


  • Always have…

    If you’re over 145 (where a normal test stops), it’s only like 1 in 750, but it means you’re over 30 points above around 80% of the population.

    30 points is the line where communication is noticably difficult.

    Being smart is like being tall. A little over average is great, but once you’re statistically insignificant you’re still jammed in the same hole as everyone else even tho you clearly don’t fit.

    Like, that was the whole point of the movie. It wasn’t a warning about the future it’s how an intelligent person has always viewed the world.

    The drug abuse correlation with high IQ isn’t just “novelty seeking”, it’s actively and intentionally getting on everyone else’s level, at least for a little bit.