My thought recently has been:

1. The universe is physical, ie made of material stuff. There is just stuff and the forces between stuff

2. Stuff is governed by physical laws

3. The interractions between things are relatively simple, but get much more complex and seemingly ramdom the more stuff you add

4. This seeming randomness is not true randomness because the interractions between things are governed by predictable rules

5. We are made of stuff, down to the neurons in our brains

6. Our actions and thoughts are ultimately directly caused by neuronal activity that is (in theory) predictable and governed by laws

7. Free will and individuality aren’t “real” in the way people typically mean. Our actions are determined entirely by the particles in our system interracting with the constituent parts of other systems.

My conclusion: this doesn’t matter on a practical level. We still experience free will and individuality. But those things are illusions caused by the interractions of many complex systems.

Bringing stock buybacks up as a policy issue would be fantastic.

As a reminder, up until 1982 with the Reagan era introduction of Rule 10b-18, stock buybacks were often just illegal market manipulation. Most buybacks were explicitly made illegal before that by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 because they artificially inflate stock prices allowing for bubbles, rug pulls, general instability and shenanigans.

Now companies do this nonstop to manipulate their stock prices and get off scott free due to the 10b-18 safe harbor provision.

“Bowr-gee-oh-eye-zee”

I meal prep for the week on sunday and make food for the week. Every week what I make is as good or better than the restaurant version. This week is Kenji Lopez’s cochinita pibíl with which I make tacos. It is very good and took me like 3hrs to cook over the weekend.

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Not that unusual if you know a lot of hispanic people in the US. There’s a lot of pulling up the ladder and pick-me-ism. People who “did it the right way” and succeeded purely on their own merit (not like those illegals). These people vote republican, may consider themselves white and even be white nationalists - like the proud boys leader who was hispanic (edit: enrique tarrio, forgot his name. Man is an afro-cuban white nationalist smh).

Plenty of hispanic ppl who aren’t like that, obviously. But it’s common.

Yeah it’s a visual metaphor - the emptiness of his bowels = the concept of zero shit in bowels

Yeah líng 零 is pretty annoying as a learner of the language.

The top character is yŭ 雨 which means rain. Confusingly, this is the semantic component - the part that contains the meaning of the character. Explained below.

The bottom character líng 令 means order/command as a noun and verb. This doesn’t add meaning, it is the phonetic component: basically a pronunciation cue.

It originally meant “light rain”/“falling in drops, like rain”, actually. It began being used to mean “fragments” or “leftover part”, then as “remainder” in the mathematical sense. Then, eventually, to mean 0. Another form of líng is 霝 which means raindrops. It has 3 kŏu 口 (“mouth”) characters on the bottom to visually represent drops.

So, like a lot of Chinese characters, it really only makes sense when you understand the etymology - and even then it’s kind of a stretch

True. The colonel is not quite at indian levels of flavor town, but still pretty good tbh

Good point! Did add one.

Just made indian style (not british style) tikka masala. Let’s count em:

Just for the oil (throw away after oil’s hot):

1. cinnamon stick

2. cardamom pods

3. bay leaf

Marinade for chicken + the tikka “gravy”

4. ginger

5. garlic

6. chili powder

7. fenugreek

8. coriander seed powder

9. cumin powder

10. turmeric

11. Edit: a serrano chili

12. garam masala

11 spices + a serrano pepper. But garam masala has like 10 spices in it

CEOs also have zero idea how AI/LLMs work. They are shockingly clueless.

What I think they’re really saying is: 99% of CEOs expect to blame layoffs on AI in the next 2 years

Bribes from competitors? Protection racket? Yeah. There’s gotta be an angle somewhere in there.

Wow, texas AG office actually doing its job? Paxton must really be worried about the primary

Meant by whom? The people who do things like this have different, personal motives. They aren’t doing it to spread ideology, they’re doing it to address specific ideological needs in irrational ways.

It bothers me when people aren’t consistent.

Like when something good happens to them: god is rewarding me for being so good

When somehting bad happens to them: god is testing me and will reward me later for being so good

When something bad happens to someone they don’t like: god is punishing them for being so bad

Or like how they pray to god for individual favors. Like “dear god even though I didnt study please let me do well on this test” as though god should care and give them special treatment for… nothing. Yet they claim to value hard work, god only gives you what you can handle, are generally fatalistic, etc.

Pure pacifism relies on an idealized view of humanity’s capacity for change.

Something like “by allowing me and my family to maybe be killed, we are helping to create a more peaceful world that will change people like my killer into a peaceful person. Who knows, in the instant before they murder us, maybe they will have a change of heart”

I think there’s an extent to which showing others kindness can help to change others’ behavior, but it’s really taking it to a ridiculous extreme if you apply it to like… your family being massacred by a really bad person/people. By that point, they’re too far gone and you should really do what you need to do.

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Yeah fair point. Pretty much exactly like that. Though, I think that with so many republicans being rural and poor, their feet are disproportionately shot despite them doing the shooting.

Idk lol i think a lot of people imagined this. And warned the rest of the people very loudly & frequently.

“Hey don’t shoot that loaded gun at your foot. If you shoot yourself in the foot, it’ll hurt a lot and make walking difficult”

shoots self in foot “OW MY FOOT”

“Yeah it was a bad idea, right?”

shoots self in foot again “I HAVE DIMINISHED MY FOOT IN UNIMAGINABLE WAYS”