KnowledgeableNip

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[–] KnowledgeableNip@leminal.space 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lack of food and water will lead to war, and the war machine will pump even more carbon into our atmosphere, leading to more drought and less food and water. It's a self-sustaining cycle and I've no idea how we avoid it at this point.

[–] KnowledgeableNip@leminal.space 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of my state senators introduced a bill that'd let inmates choose execution by a firing squad made up of members of the legislature. Like 'If you want to kill them so bad, you pull the damn trigger.'

Isn't going anywhere but I like the sentiment. Real Ned Stark energy.

[–] KnowledgeableNip@leminal.space 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every time his mental stability or physical health is brought up, I go back to this. His supporters are so sycophantic that he could shit into his open palm and lob it into the crowd at a rally and they'd never question it.

[–] KnowledgeableNip@leminal.space 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

“I think it was 35… 30 questions. And let me tell you, you know, they always show you the first one: a giraffe, a tiger or a whale. ‘Which one is the whale?'”

He's done this enough times that he knows the first one is always this question? How many cognitive tests has he completed? Did he pass the others?

It's also insane that the bar is this low. You recognize animal shapes, here are the keys to the nuclear stockpile, have fun.

Rick Scott as well.

"You know what'd really help our finances? Being sucked into a DoTerra pyramid scheme."

[–] KnowledgeableNip@leminal.space 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

GPT4 speaks more coherently.

Not enough non-white representation to be properly aggregated.

Hard stance against immigration.

His support of 'people like them' captures 80% of reasons why they're voting.

It all adds up to them disliking people they have no actual interaction with because the news makes them scary. Just raw, unashamed bigotry marching for the Oval.

[–] KnowledgeableNip@leminal.space 35 points 1 year ago (18 children)

The parks or your own home. I don't normally go into the middle of a highway interchange for solitude.

Haven't stopped planning for retirement and all that jazz but at this point it's just theater.

[–] KnowledgeableNip@leminal.space 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's deviations from the mean, so if the deviation were "3" for example, values of 6, 3, 0, -3 and -6 would be 2, 1, 0, -1, and -2 deviations away from the central line, respectively.

[–] KnowledgeableNip@leminal.space 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Had an old colleague who kept abbreviating 'follow up' as 'f/up.'

"Yeah we should be okay, I'll f/up on that later today."

"Hey are you able to f/up on this?"

"Hey, I f/uped with our boss today on our issue."

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