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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • 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.


  • His leadership position was voted on before the DNC chair.

    So his threats to cut off funding to the state of any Dems that wouldn’t back him still had some teeth.

    It doesn’t now, mainly because the DNC immediately jumped into the largest twin esture into state parties, ever.

    He’s been a lame duck all but maybe a month of this senate leadership term, and will almost certainly lose it next year.

    If he doesn’t, it’s a bad sign.








  • It might have already happened…

    Capturing a foreign leader you’re not at war with like this is a huge fucking deal, but it hasn’t even been 24 hrs yet, we can’t act like there won’t be a response.

    Not anything overt, but our election system is sloppy as fuck.

    Why wouldn’t foreign governments start using all the loopholes to pay (relatively) nothing to limit his powers in midterms and get rid of him in the presidential? A couple million thru a PAC isn’t even really breaking any laws, and compared to the cost of the chaos from trump, it’s a no brainer decision.

    It’s why turnout for primaries is so important. We have to ensure that the people who make it to the general are going to be good in office.