Wow. This forum.
“Ukraine has corruption so…” (Implied: the US should let Russia invade and annex them)
“Russia and the US have some details in common if you blur your eyes so they are morally and politically identical”
“Zelensky sucks”
“How can anyone know what truth is in this topsy-turvy world?”
So… Why Photoshop the Ukrainian flag onto this meme?
This is a guy from the 18th century speaking his thoughts about his time, which was quite violent. There is no reason to believe he was a prophet seeing 250 years into the future of the nation he helped create, or even that he was some kind of ultra-insightful historian who understood all the cycles of the world better than all the historians before or since his time.
He was just a guy in a time. A smart one, but just a guy.
It’s this super unknown band. Very underground. Nobody seems to know who they are. They’re called Apostrophe.
Since you (like me) are pedantic about apostrophes, I’ll be pedantic about “pedo.” There’s no evidence Trump is a pedopile–that is, primarily attracted to children who have not yet reached puberty.
Plenty of evidence strongly suggesting he’s a child molester, though.
I just saw that 2024 Moto G models (or at least one of them?) is supported. This makes me happy.
As a former Mormon I find this mildly interesting, but I don’t have much hope that large numbers of LDS people will begin to protest against the genocide. The pro-Israel thing is deeply embedded… as in, I’m pretty sure there are an awful lot of LDS people who will see the sacrifice of a million or two Palestinians, even if totally innocent, as a reasonable price to pay for God’s Chosen People getting the Land Of The Covenant to usher in the Second Coming.
Even deeper than that: Mormons are mostly herd animals. Dissent has been trained out of them (unless the dissent is authorized by the First Presidency).
This is awesome because I don’t want or need any of those things. If this is all that’s missing, I think I’m ready for a Linux phone when my android dies.
My FB account, for the last year or two, is nothing but hundreds of memes and comments yelling at conservatives for being hypocrites and fascists.
My partner tells me these things and I love her for it. It’s both information (I usually care about what happened with the cats) and like a dolphin pinging other dolphins to let them know where and how they are.
Language is an important part of how most humans bond. The amount and content of the language varies from person to person, as do their preferences for various aspects of communication. There are very few humans who can feel close to another person with no communication (and language is our most easily-identifiable and possibly our most important method of communication. Notably, even groups of humans previously thought to communicate very little–like nonverbal autistic people, for instance–communicate a significant amount, even when it is nonverbal. But most humans communicate verbally in addition to other ways.
I’m saying it’s normal and a happy thing that people tell each other about their day.
Non-joke answer: I’ve always heard it as a hard G, like in Gesture,
Not having true vectorization and having to regularly code that into Python helps even the odds.
This has got to be the best, most legitimately funny programmer/computer joke I’ve seen in years.
And that’s how it’s been understood for decades. The article creates a silly and false premise.
Yes, that’s always been more or less the case. However, the brain’s uptake/use of neurotransmitters like Dopamine has been understood for decades to have at least some specificity to it. We always knew we were shooting flies with shotguns, though.
Dopamine doesn’t flood the brain as once believed – it fires in exact, ultra-fast bursts that target specific neurons.
Thank you. Almost every word of the sentence above is very much not what college freshmen have been taught for 30+ years. Dopamine was never thought to “flood the brain.” For a few decades it’s been understood to have highly targeted action, restricted by various factors not least of which is the fact that dopamine is only produced in/near certain synapses.
Straw men are sometimes the most annoying men.
If you have a worldview that includes gods, spirits, fairies, the universe as an entity, etc., that worldview often also provides you with the “meaning” bit. It can be stifling, reassuring, motivating, or depressing, depending. That was me for a few decades. Without that set of beliefs there is no built-in meaning afaik. You can study the stars or atoms or human behavior or plants your whole life and those things will not reveal a purpose or meaning for you, the universe, or humanity.
In the absence (for me) of any built-in meaning or purpose, we make our own meanings. If your meaning is “nothing matters so fuck it,” that is the meaning you are choosing or accepting as some kind of default. Like many other people I choose meanings around happiness: the greatest good for the greatest number, as Spock (and probably some lesser figure) said. In this mechanistic universe we somehow came to be, and we can think and feel and understand and learn. That is almost unimaginably amazing to me. We are people, not just idk viruses grinding away. I choose a set of meanings that value people and their happiness. Life is miraculous and apparently rare. In that special group we, humans, are the most phenomenal thing we know of in the universe. I choose to value us.
Finally being able to (mostly) make decisions without undue influence of horniness.