I don’t understand. Why is Deanna not also dressed as Mark Twain?

I have always wanted to see canyon de chelly in person

I remember an anthropology paper about the rise of pastoralism, and they cited the vitamin D in milk as a factor lol

how do milk drinkers not know basic shit about milk?! they even say “fortified with vitamin d” in the advertisements (at least in

Yeah and I don’t think the work is totally meritless. I definitely have terminal-paper-reviewer-brain.

Indeed.

lmao why can’t they actually define terms properly

fucking seriously

First, and I really want to like this paper, but I find it lacking (at least in commentary and discussion if not for their somewhat dubious assumptions):

The word “mask” appears exactly 0 times in the manuscript.

For a study on self-reported behaviors and their link to infection risk, I would think the bare minimum is asking participants at least a few basic questions about their masking behavior. Even if there isn’t a standardized survey they could pull from another work’s methods section, it should be pretty easy to have respondents report how often they mask when in an enclosed space with people who don’t live in their household. Without a reason to discount potential associations between diet and mask-wearing, this seems like a major oversight.

There’s no effort to rule out socioeconomic variability as a confounding factor.

they got subtitles.

:(

the subtitles are inside the video

I’ll call now.

Marketing people are still stuck in the early 2010s

If this is true, why am I not being bombarded by 10 guy memes when I’m subjected to advertising?

Hallowed are the Ori

Who else is fucking stoked for portnoy’s return (and hopefully with it the return of interesting stories that don’t devolve into The Astonishing)?

It had the Arale vs Vegeta fight near the end

Large Language Models “Understand” and Can Be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli

yeah sure. They “understand” that emotionally salient phrases in examples in their data are associated with a different kind of candor, but I don’t find their experiments a compelling demonstration that emotional reasoning has emerged in LLMs.

Are people not already exploiting emotional language to get around guard rails?

Word. Fun book. I love that it’s "The Canterbury Tales; IN SPACE edition.

Seriously!

I wish he’d kept up that conceit in the sequels, it was really original and fun.

Same, the first two books were incredible and the subsequent two felt like simmons was writing with one hand in a few places and trying to woo some western Buddhist with the whole

Fun fact: The Vatican has a basic plan for what to do if we encounter aliens, starting with finding out if they exist in a state of grace or committed original sin, and if Jesus visited them to do the whole sacrifice to redeem their sins thing.

The vatican should read Simmons’ Hyperion

Do you think she’s tired of hearing about how much she sounds like Stevie Nicks?

Check out The Curse

Barb x Hoss, Anti-liberal action 2024

if they have an issue with white colonizers using synthetic Peyote mescaline, is that not also worth consideration and empathy

Edited because I think I misunderstood the argument you’re making. Apologies for being a big dummy.

I can absolutely see why commodifying mescaline or rituals associated with constitutes harmful appropriation of indigenous culture against their expressed desires, but I don’t see why synthesizing (or growing and extracting at home) a substance outside of the context of its traditional use, and using it privately is harmful. Obviously it’s done against the expressed preferences of a culture that has used the chemical for centuries+ but I’m encountering some trouble accepting the notion that a being colonized necessarily prioritizes one people’s spiritual belief over private drug use.

If this also completely misses the argument you’re making, I apologize.