If You Read The big CHAZ/CHOP Post I Made In Early June, Most Of This Won’t Be New To You. But

If you read the big CHAZ/CHOP post I made in early June, most of this won’t be new to you. But I wanted to share it.

I don’t agree with everything in the video, especially not the jumps to attribute malice to the SPD when mere incompetence is a plausible explanation. The guy is clearly pushing a particular angle, and the timeline jumps quickly from one event that makes SPD look bad to another, almost implying that nothing except those events took place.

But the concrete facts he does report – those all happened. And the tone of the video captures how I felt about them then, and still do.

(I want to draw particular attention to the June 20 shooting and the claim that the cops were met by a violent crowd. The “body cam video” mentioned is not some obscure thing you have to look up a database – the SPD provided that footage in their official post about the incident, the same post that mentions a violent crowd. Do they … just think you’re not going to watch the video???

All this stuff was like that. Stuff that feels to me like a carrier wave for a fundamental message, reiterated again and again: I know I don’t have to make sense. No one cares if I’m lying. I have sovereignty and so I create reality. I cannot be held responsible for my actions, because I am the one-who-holds-responsible. Morality and law are things for you mortals, not me.)

Moses is gone, post Golden Calf

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4 years ago

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6 years ago

So I was looking up a certain kind of cellular automata on Wikipedia out of curiosity, and then I ended up seeing a link for something called “billiard ball computers”.

So basically it’s a theoretical construction to show nature has results that can be reversible or something. You do have to let the billiards be frictionless, though. So it’s not like you could implement this in real lif-

Um…

This guy???

Wait,, just look at the pictures they have though. The captions refer to crab groups as “swarm balls”, which is a very endearing term IMO.

Unfortunately, these gates take up a lot of space, so to do big computations you’d need lots of crabs and several hundred feet of cardboard.

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5 years ago

Question for the day: how many people in history of civilization have been as bad or worse at sex as Stalin? I don’t mean in the “physical sex life was bad” sense, i.e. he’s a notorious P&V kind of guy. I mean in the “hardcore statism sex is bad and this is why people did horrible things” sense. Stalin had the best sex life of anyone in history. (I mean, last I checked, anyway.)

(He also invented the kaleidoscope, for some reason. I dunno.)

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7 years ago

Today, In Public Speaking Class

The professor was giving us protocols for formal interaction. He said it was important to introduce people of higher rank first when introducing multiple people. As an intuitive Socialist, I was annoyed by all of these, since everyone is a comrade. However, some of these were worse than others:

The order, by rank and status, was as follows:

Bishops before priests

Prime ministers before cabinet ministers

Bosses before employees

Teachers before students

Parents before children

Men before women

…What the serious fuck

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4 years ago

Happy Apollo Day!

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9 years ago

now this sandstorm is rly a party

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4 years ago

oh god you don't even know

Oh man, I'll give you a challenge, but you must pass the Turing Test.

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5 years ago

some of you are like “if a homemade cloth mask isn’t 100% EFFECTIVE AT PREVENTING DISEASE it’s worth LESS THAN NOTHING and you might as well go around licking doorknobs and DIE than cover your face AT ALL for ANY REASON”

look okay coughing or sneezing into your elbow isn’t 100% effective at stopping fluid particles from being dispersed into the air or on surfaces but even a measley 5-10% reduction in spewed particles is better than 0%

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