mike lee, you’re a fucking senator

China has more than enough land area and incentive to massively up the earth’s albedo (for part of the day) without amerikkka

Literally cheaper to just give every person who shows up at the border $5,000 in cash, a waiver on the application fee to become a US citizen, and a bus ticket to anywhere in the country.

net positive in revenue in the long run too

I do not want to email my professor asking wtf that means

Please do (in more polite terms) and please paste the best parts of their reply. I think this is how they’re using “cum” but idk what a professional ethos is without more context.

professional-cum-technocratic ethos

bellicose and effete have both been used on

Here on Earth Prime

look at this mf who thinks we aren’t in the mirror universe

egan

I am irreconcilably jealous. My parents became straight edge 12 step devotees after my REDACTED got out of rehab and as the philosophical blinders that often engenders grew thicker it’s become damned near impossible to feel understood.

Hell yeah. Who are these people and will they adopt me?

carnists [cw carnism]:

something deeply unsettling

I think it’s that it puts even more solipsism right in the middle of the phone->human dopamine loop

100k eggs stolen from birds enslaved in disease factory by partners of central Pa. bird abusers

Who owns the fed if not the us government?

the rightful owner

Federal Reserve trade secrets

I’m a scientist, not a free market fanboy and I only kind of understand the obscure sorcery they call MMT. Why the fuck would the Fed have “trade secrets”? Are they nominally a for-profit enterprise?

That was a wise choice. It is exceptionally incoherent.

Still if you think a computer is more likely to be conscious at this stage than say a mouse you are probably deeply confused

And even then, if you can be convinced that consciousness can arise/emerge in an llm, you really ought to give the mouse (and every animal with a nervous system) the benefit of the doubt.