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Norwegians use “Texas” as an adjective for a situation that’s getting out of hand.

this headline is quoting an athlete describing the handling of health data by the host of the Olympic Games as being “completely Texas” — completely out of hand:

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>be human
>take funny seeds
>crush them
>separate the soft inner parts from the outer crunchy shell
>mix with water
>heat up
>apply heat until it's almost burned to give it a crunchy texture

galaxy brain moment

everybody talking about harambe being the moment reality broke. for me it was the debacle with communist subreddits banning catgirl comics.

“Space Romans! Sandalpunk! The EU is just a semantic anagram of SPQR!”

“metamask”, “betamax”, coincidence?

why does my latin anki vocab deck contain a card for rhodium, an element discovered in 1803‽

what's the cardinality of the set containing all uncomputable reals?

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the awareness will continue to expand until the morale improves

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lecturer is describing von Neumann as an economist, which, yeah, isn't entirely incorrect, but…

i am very ready to start a lesswrong shitstorm by asking for “a good textbook on causal inference, unlike the Pearl one”

first option in the multiple choice quiz is “none of the above”. don't know what to do

you are a fed trying to manipulate readers of less wrong, i am a novel rodent control agent

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