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“Was that an acustic, syntactic or semantic ‘What?’?”

“……… What?”

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there's this bit my brother came up with where you find someones unlocked car in a parking lot and so you get in the drivers seat and wait until the person comes back, then you get out of the car and say "Hey, you left your doors unlocked, so I decided to make sure nothing weird happened. There are a lot of sickos out there, yknow."

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Kinda hate the idea that all tech development is "progress", particularly with AI stuff. Sometimes tech makes life worse, and it's not "being a luddite" to believe that.

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Right, the "beetle guy→speedrunner guy" explanation

And I hadn't considered Wikis as an attractor state, but that makes sense: exactly the type of person who writes en.xen.wiki/

@galena I was thinking more from a CS angle: if you do a linear search on a list, you'd expect to find the item halfway through the search

but this is also a good interpretation

It takes humans twice as long to detect the *absence* of an element in a set of visual stimuli than the presence

@why i wonder whether there's a good method of preventing wet dreams

Where are all the Ramanujans? Shouldn't widespread proliferation of the internet have unearthed them by now?

i am normal and can be trusted to be invariate under conjugation to my supergroup

"So you're proposing an economic intervention" checklist like the programming language one

things becoming increasingly insane is lindy

Everybody is unhappy because everybody is a price taker

(retweeting some old posts I think were bangers)

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