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i saw a space ship blow up once and immediately decided i wanted to get in one

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sigfig@sigfig
11 Nov 2024
gravity is a greater force than history
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imagine you're standing in a room that expands for hundreds of meters around you horizontally. how tall do you think the ceiling needs to be before it feels like being outside rather than being inside?
17% 50m or less
17% 100m
17% 150m
50% 200m or more
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sigfig@sigfig
Jun 12
sorry i know everyone on here is busy patting themselves on the back because of the money number. just one question real quick. what are "exchange-grade beans"?
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sigfig@sigfig
Jun 12
what is "metric coffee" i'm losing my mind
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sigfig@sigfig
Jun 12
just discovered a subculture of people dedicated to liberal-washing foucault. truly, there are still new types of guy
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sigfig@sigfig
Jun 12
maybe this is just a sign of the times. the retrolibs certainly need an injection of critique to be able to say anything other than "number go up". this author seems to have decided power was relevant during covid which is entirely understandable
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sigfig@sigfig
Jun 12
how much time does a ceo spend actively chasing profit? for what fraction of the day do the managers and workers contemplate long-term returns? is this really what an economic agent does?
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sigfig@sigfig
Jun 12
to some extent everyone knows it isn't, but i feel kind of stranded when trying to find language to describe the quantitative aspects of, uh, anything else
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sigfig@sigfig
Jun 10
the smoothness of history and the midpoint man
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sigfig@sigfig
Jun 10
i've noticed i have become much less charitable to the belief in modernity over the past few years. some of that is probably because i've spent an ungodly amount of time with longue duree historical works, but i also suspect the world around me just became much more myopic
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sigfig@sigfig
Jun 10
like beyond the millenarian movements. does anyone have an expectation for what the world of 2126 will look like? i expect it to look almost exactly like how 1926 looked to people in 1826, but i get the sense very few other people do
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sigfig@sigfig
Jun 10
to my recollection this was not a particularly radical thesis a decade ago
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sigfig@sigfig
Jun 10
a sitting president posting the west wing proportional response clip to legitimize an escalation of force in a real war has made me realize mid-2010s low effort media criticism is the strongest determining factor for 2020s politics, and that my criticism of adorno may not hold up
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sigfig@sigfig
Jun 10
he was absolutely wrong about jazz though. the german mind simply cannot comprehend new orleans
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sigfig@sigfig
Jun 10
very slowly conditioning my gf to tolerate spice. we've now gotten past cayenne. the habenero era begins
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you could conceivably put a lot of compute on a starlink node but you cannot fit 150 gpus on one unless you run them at an extraordinarily low duty cycle and waste mass. don't like that they lied about that
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lying about consumer hardware is normal but lying about spacecraft specifications is a norm shift that is worth noting and remembering
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theres a sense in which i can kind of understand the complaints people have about the prominence of marxist historiography, it is surely odd from a lib perspective to see explicitly ideological critique in historical works, but man the quality of work is so so much higher with it
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i suspect the value of the perspective has less to do with the ideological inclination and more to do with the fact that only a marxist could have the patience to synthesize as many different sources as wickham uses
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today i discovered the work of ignacio olague, a fascist revisionist historian who vigorously claimed that the umayyads never actually invaded spain, and that al-andalus was the product of a christian gnostic movement
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in retrospect all the looksmaxxing stuff was incoherent and only of interest because of the concurrent cultural introspect on vice signaling, however i do think it is a good sign that society can still produce new types of transsexual
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