“I understand democracy is dangerous,” she said, “but is it really safe to replace the legislature with a group of elected think tanks?”
I think a lot of the people I regularly spend time with like me *in spite of*, rather than *because of*, who I am. I am not sure if there is a workable solution to this.
@compassionisobligatory it’s basically “oh but you’re one of the good ones”
If it’s any consolation, I’d imagine your blog followers follow your blog because of its content, not just to make you feel better or for some reason following your blog ironically.
how have I never thought of whale mermaids…??
how have i never thought of whale/shark/etc mermaids that aren’t human sized?!!?!? like holy shit? HOLY SHIT!?
And the titties make sense on a mammal! It all makes so much more sense!
Now imagine the size of the braincase in that body. I, for one, welcome our new expanded-brain cybernetic human whale overlords.
Why does hot coed always refer to a woman?
Because typical straight men value age over status, and typical straight women value status over age.
The male coed has nothing that makes him especially attractive.
You’re bi, however, so your idea of what makes a man attractive doesn’t have to conform.
GiveWell is like a test case for a centrally planned and managed economy; if they can accurately assess the return on investment and direct funding in the most socially profitable direction in a non-market driven way, then that demonstrates that at least some economic activities are amenable to this approach.
Disagree on the first sentence. Givewell’s planning is not substantially different from the planning executed by any ordinary firm, as the crucial distinction between a planned economy and market economy is use of force. Givewell has no guns, interest in using coercive force, or a democratic mandate, therefore it is not a prototype for a managed economy.
The distinction is perhaps more that more unprofitable organizations die and profitable organizations are rewarded. That’s the real magic. Property is defined by control and exclusion through force, that’s how it exists in the real world. Force was not actually removed, just moved a step back - the case with all law.
I know he’s the president
but he lies. He never tells the truth. So, why do newspapers put everything he says in the headlines? It’s not true. We know it’s not true and even if some thing true was accidentally said, how would we know?
The boy who cried wolf (in Russian).
Why are liberals like this?
OP kind of has a point though. Trump plays the media like puppets, and they just go along with it like absolute saps.
They don’t care about the country, so all that’s left is ratings. And boy golly gee does Mr. Trump-san bring in the ratings.
Why do so many leftists, reasonably intelligent (and possibly very socially intelligent) people, write posts about talking-to-upper-class-conservatives that sound like lessons on how to inadvertantly radicalize people into fascism?
If all you have is a hammer and sickle, every problem starts to look like a wheat field
That is the most bizarrely mixed metaphor to date. Especially because what’s the hammer for?
Whacking square pegs into round holes.
A Tumblr user has set their post queue to post once a day. However, they add an average of 1.8 new posts to the queue each day. There are currently 74 posts in the queue. A queue can hold a maximum of 300 posts.
A. How many days will it take the queue to reach its maximum capacity?
B. If the user sets the post rate to two posts per day, how many days will it take for the queue to be emptied?
C. Using universal laws, compute the mind state of a typical Tumblr user matching this statistical description within +/-10% from first principles, and create a sample distribution and tag-based machine-learning algorithm to estimate the percentage of shtposts in a representative post queue. Engrave your answer as a binary representation with associated decoding algorithm on a stone tablet.