Hegar @ Hegar @fedia.io

Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.

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I get the urge to protect cocaine from journalists but machine guns during a photo shoot is unnecessary. Calm down AFP, you're not ISIS.

One of my friends of at uni was a woman in her 60s. She told me that in her experience young people who could make friends with mature age students tended to have healthy relationships with their parents.

• A fire extinguisher to the library of Alexandria.
• A small pox variolation kit to ~13thC somewhere in the Americas. Probably the PNW to preserve the linguistic diversity there, maybe the amazon river, the Tlaxcala or the groups who would go on the confederate into the Haudenosaunee.
• Vials of horse-plague to the cucteni trypillians, see if we can't blunt that Indo-European expansion somewhat. If it's virulent enough, maybe we get lucky and weaken the power of aristocrats across Eurasia for millenia to come. (Sorry horses!).
• Just for me, some magic mushrooms to shangqiu, henan ~325 BCE ish. See if I can't convince Zhuang Zhou to trip with me.

Given the level of expertise in the trump regime, this can only possibly end with mexico reclaiming texas. I hope they rename it Alamonia. To remember.

I am the friendly staff, and I often think how much I could enjoy life on the other side.

That said, the food is vile. That's really the deal breaker for me. The first meal I made, the gravy made me wretch more than the toilet shared by 3 incontent schizophrenic men.

Never mind about the yahoo, who leaved notifications on?

Variable.

In general my working memory is shocking, and my long term memory is very good. I presume it's an ADHD neuroplasticity thing - my brain probably had to over rely on long term memory due to major short term memory deficiencies.

But it depends on topic as well. One of my coworkers pointed out that I had 4 rough guesses when asked how long my wife and I have been together but answered immediately and at length when asked about say, the Indo-European language family or bronze age societies.

3, crimes of the hot, is the one where all the robots fart to move the planet away from the sun and stop global warming, right?

Hell is other robots

A head in the polls

Problem with poplers

War is the H word

One of the serious ones, either Devil's Hands, The sting, or the one that doesn't get named.

If you know anyone who works in russia focused intelligence who's still alive, best say your goodbyes now.

I always presumed Yoda's native language was an Object Subject Verb (OSV) language, or used OSV for emphasis. It's common for 2nd language speakers to occasionally slip into native language grammar - such as Chinese speakers omitting the/a.

Yoda can correctly use SVO in English (Galactic Common iirc?), just not all the time. Again suggesting a proficient non-native speaker. For example: ”Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

Yaddle doesn't speak like Yoda, indicating either better fluency or an SVO native language - not all the species need speak the same native language.

There are no good or bad people, that's not how being a biological organism works.

Everyone has a spectrum of different risk/reward tolerances and the perceived risks and rewards of an action determine individual behavior.

Ratcheting up the risks by imposing punishments lowers the amount of individuals who determine the action to be beneficial to them. Other factors can have more influence though - raising shoplifting penalties does little to influence the behavior of a starving population, for example.

Didn't read the article huh?

A ballot with only a presidential vote and nothing else

His one flaw is he forgot to be white.

It's not outside capital that leads to enshittification, it's leverage that enshittifies a service.

A VC that understands that they can force you to wreck your users' lives is always in danger of doing so. A VC who understands that doing this will make your service into an empty – and thus worthless – server is far less likely to do so (and if they do, at least your users can escape).

Incredibly clear article pointing out that no individuals will ever be able to resist enshittifaction pressures indefinitely.

The only way to prevent people with power from emiserating others is to structurally remove any benefit to doing so.

textual info, though. Like, something you can read.

I think they probably do, but like other early forms of record keeping, the focus definitely seems to be numbers. IIRC there are some knots that just don't look like numbers.

The Chinese also used knots to record details of events, not just numbers, but the system that is used to decode the knots was complex enough that it functioned like a cipher - without already knowing how they did it, there's just no way you'd be able to work it out.

I can't recall the details but I think it's covered in the Ancient Americas video on the khipu on youtube.

I can't believe you're censoring Baathist voices. So much for the tolerant global military hegemon.

We had magic mirrors and magic fans for centuries tho.

We've had solar and wind electricity generation for centuries?

• Go to Teotihuacan to see how non/hierarchical it was, maybe trip balls if the opportunity presents itself.
• Go to Harappa or Mahenjo Daro and see how indus seals were used.
• Kindly ask the Minoans if that topless lady holding the snakes is in charge.