OrteilGenou

joined 2 years ago
[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

The doeping tom

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 16 points 16 hours ago

It's copelicated

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah there's nothing I like more than having AI integrated into everything I do. It's sure fun to have educated guesses crowbarred into everything I search for!

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yes that's a great one

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The Lovemongers version of Battle of Evermore catches me the right way sometimes. I prefer the original, but their version is excellent as well

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ooh PP burn

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

A perfect example. Early "conspiracies" like bloating the numbers by counting anyone who died "with COVID" as having died "from COVID" and the disease having come from a lab due to gain of function research appear to have been borne out, among many others, too many to count, that ended up being bullshit.

That was a perfect storm of misinformation and disinformation that is still being pored over to this day.

Another good example is 9/11. People who refused to believe that steel infrastructure could not be damaged to an extent that it would implode and collapse into its own footprint - even if it wasn't hit by a plane at all - were labeled "truthers". Whatever you believe about 9/11, it's very difficult to look at it in retrospect and not admit that something very wrong happened, and many questions are glossed over or left unanswered.

Labeling something a conspiracy immediately causes people to recoil lest they be categorized as tinfoil hat kooks, but the idea that powerful people will do horrifying things for their own interests under the thinnest cover and get away with it is not new.

That said, it is far too easy to lose grip on reality and start seeing everything as a conspiracy, so it's always advisable to hold truths lightly, and examine them frequently. Hand waving things away with "they" statements is the worst kind of intellectual laziness and doing so is a great disservice to oneself.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

A theory is valid only when no proof to the contrary is known, after which the theory must be adjusted to accommodate the new findings, or discarded.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

A display of and testament to your eternal commitment, so that your loved one feels the intensity of that love, and your brother in law can get hammered and try to fuck your second cousin.

Seems pretty straightforward to me

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

If you know you know

I mean, I presume... I don't know, so I don't know

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Green or red?

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Muppet rule (muppetcentral.com)
 

Fascinating stuff about how the brain works, specific to sexuality.

 

Kovacevic and Guhle chemistry: that is good news

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