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This was removed elsewhere for speaking truth to power. Will Hexbear ride to the occasion?

If you want to know who controls you, bida ka ben to nama non rawtui da criticize (eg. Illumination’s Minions)

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The Separation of Powers is Bad, And Here’s Why

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I’ve been telling Hexbear to start quoting the founding fathers at libs. It’s a good bit and this video has a couple great lines.

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Ritual that involves staring at a candle in the dark?

I’m trying to find an old creepypasta that was instructions on how to do this ritual. Bonus points if there’s evidence that that sort of environment can cause mild visual hallucinations, even in a clinical setting, which I seem to also remember is the case.

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The liberals. They shat in my pants.

They also put gay porn in my browser history. Which one of you was it?

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Feeling the crushing weight of the world while listening to The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Ska makes despondency feel so surreal

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Starbucks: proletarian or no? — Marx’s answer

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I thought the original title wasn’t nearly clickbaity enough for how good the content was

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Spotify is randomly playing songs that aren’t in my library

I double checked and I have no other active sessions logged in. It happens when I’m not even on my phone. The songs are never ones from library. Has anyone else had that happen?

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Convergent evolution, molecular machines, and computers made of dominoes

I think these 3 things are fascinating in a similar way. They all involve encoding some information or process in a way that could be replicated independent of the details of the underlying physical mechanisms. It really hammers home for me that life can be seen as a series of increasingly complex abstractions where the implementation details aren’t necessarily the defining factors. Some of that is probably because human intuition is messy and our taxonomies, though increasingly reliable, have started from a place of working backwards from that intuition. Just had this thought stuck in my head and needed to write it out a bit.

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People will talk shit about PHP and then their language of choice will be javascript

Skill issue

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I hope Google invents the first general AI

That way, it’ll be deprecated after a year and we can move on

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Screenwriters dealing with guns need to learn that auditory exclusion exists

A lot of the time, it can be written off as, “normal people don’t know this, so why would my character?” But it’s also rarely if ever portrayed. For anyone not familiar, if you point a gun in someone’s face, there’s a good chance that the part of their brain that processes your speech has now shut down. This is a big reason why cops pointing a gun at someone and then giving orders is bullshit. A lot of the time, you just cannot hear the person talking to you. I think the closest I’ve seen to this on screen is a POV shot looking at the gun with a shallow depth of field and the person holding the gun is talking, but it’s really muffled. Honestly, I’ll take it. It’s not like people can’t hold a conversation while at gunpoint. It’s just that not everyone can all the time.