critical slop studies

Lots of other ideologies are cruel too

Working on an affordable project now…wood frame, surface/tuck under parking, no bells or whistles, coming in at $800k/unit and is probably never going to get built. What are we even doing here?

The bad news is that Trump is probably going to get somewhere between 100k-10m people killed. The good news is that decarbonization will accelerate dramatically and likely stick

I am 0 percent surprised

everyone has to make their own couches

I feel like I see a post like this every 2 weeks on here

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I feel like David Graeber really captured something about lefty academia because the concept of “bullshit job” is very resonant and has a lot of intuitive appeal but his exploration of it is totally hamstrung by the fact that he’s never left campus and is very vague on the mechanics of actual work

For all the talk of an Asian century, China and other Asian powers never prepared for scenarios where the US would flip from the primary security guarantor in the Middle East they relied on to the primary source of instability that would undermine their energy supply chains

Social media sets up this dynamic where people have a pet theory or pet issue or pet topic, and have to react as if in crisis mode every time that [theory, issue, topic] falls within their line of sight. Knee-jerk reaction, sure, but it's more than that. It's like seeking out chances to overreact.

I’ve always used 3 dashes even outside latex because I never learned the keyboard shortcut for a proper em dash

The job of the headline writer is to undermine the article. Don’t attack union workers for doing their jobs.

The way people go “waaah privacy violation“ at the slightest mention of LLMs on here regardless of context is something. i remember when someone threw a fit about how feeding his public preprint to an LLM was a research ethics violation

*of me

They don’t like not receiving an acknowledgment. the neurodivergent part of it is like “wouldn’t it be great if we didnt expect a lot of these acknowledgments”, but we do

relatedly, failure to understand the distinction between situations where writing by hand has benefits (e.g. clarifying your thinking) and where it doesn’t (e.g. pro forma acknowledgrments) is an error shared by both extreme hypers and extreme denialists

What

Lib dems?

Cruspy

As a German speaker, me too

not only do they not impact my personal finances, I also think a lot of ills in American society would be ameliorated by higher gas prices

Not driving is GOATed when not caring about gas prices is the vibe

It’s not 5 years from when you get a work visa. It’s 5 years from getting a green card which typically takes quite a while after getting a work visa. The only way to shorten it is to marry a citizen

A very underrated third place to work from. You don’t even have to buy anything to sit in the lobby and use the high speed wifi

I am more interested in what the claim is taken to imply. it's virtually always an implicit or explicit "and that's why LLMs can never do X". but often this X is something they obviously can do, so the whole thing is silly: appealing to the lack of reason to explain something that's not even true

34% are for open borders

And you can still have modern slavery in Singapore and Hong Kong

If it works like the peace prize, we should give it to those most likely to wage war in the future

is Trump first Ottoman president?

>gilded everything

>retarded, constantly scheming sons

>a harem of slavic wives

>elaborate headgear

>at war with Persia

I'm flying across the pacific so I think it's relatively safe