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Mechanical Principles by Ralph Steiner (1930)

Every time I see this post I interpret it as an abstract critique of pornography.

or abstract endorsement, it could be an endorsement.

and it’s kind of hot..? it’s kind of hot.

I was gonna reblog with “Eroticism of the Machine” before I saw your additions.

I’m still gonna reblog with “Eroticism of the Machine” though.

Beeeep beep beep

Eroticism of the machine, now with ballistic calculations

Once again randomly remembered this story about a couple who had a small parrot - pretty sure it was a budgie - who didn't talk but learned to communicate with people in its own way. Once it figured out that people always turn to check their phones when the notification sound comes on, it started making the text message notification sound to request human attention. The parrot also liked to follow people to the door whenever guests were leaving, and would use its wings to pantomime the motions of a person putting their coat on. A very clever, charming bird.

And every once in a while it just randomly hated some people. Not for any real reason, or even reason to suspect bad vibes, but by deciding "fuck this person in particular" for shits and giggles alone. And one time when the owners had invited a new friend to their home, the bird decided that it Did Not Like Her.

So in the middle of polite conversation, the bird - who was free to roam around the apartment at the time - hopped onto the living room coffee table, right in front of the unwanted guest. And in that moment, the owners put two and two together and understood that whatever mischief the bird had decided to do, it was now too late to stop it.

But instead of unleashing the absolute hell that even the tiniest displeased parrot could be capable of, the little budgie made its little "may I have your attention please" cell phone notification sound, and once the guest was focused on the bird, looked at her dead in the eye while doing the putting-my-coat-on wing motion.

The guest did not recognise the pantomime for what it was, but she was nonetheless delighted that the parrot would do a little wing-roll dance for her. And the host couple were at first too stunned and then too polite to tell her how impressive that gesture truly was. Their bird had shown both remarkable restraint and cleverness by using its entire vocabulary of human communication just to say

"I have an important announcement: I think you should leave."

Happy birthday, Heather Heyer! (May 29, 1985)

Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, and raised in nearby Ruckersville, Heather Heyer developed a passion for justice and the dispossessed. She was vocal about inequality and a committed activist for social justice, in which capacity she attended a protest on August 12, 2017, countering the Unite the Right rally which had been organized to oppose the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee from a Charlottesville Park. In the midst of the clash between fascists and antifascists, a neo-Nazi drove a car through the crowd, striking several people and killing Heyer. She became a martyr and a lightningrod for the resurgent antifascist movement of the late 2010s.

you: suck my dick me, an intellectual: inhale my richard

here it is! the post that started a “me, an intellectual” hell frenzy, and is officially ⭐ the worst post of 2016 ⭐

you: the worst post of 2016

me, an intellectual: modern art

in general if you believe that your job is to definitively describe, capture, taxonomise, or exhaustively define reality you are going to have a bad time imo. it's far more useful to ask "which model is useful for my purposes," "does this model basically make sense with what I know of the world," "might another model be more useful for another purpose," &c.

the best map is the territory--but describing everything about the material and social conditions of each individual person on earth, besides being impossible, would be useless. in order to be useful--to describe something about the part of reality that you're interested in, to have the power to make predictions or have insights about that reality, to propose actions in order to alter that reality--you are going to have to generalise. any time you propose to reduce reality to a model you are compromising and generalising something, somewhere. the question is where do you generalise, and how much, and what do you gain from doing so, and what do you lose, and in which contexts is this model useful (i.e. how should you constrain the field in which you apply this model), and in which contexts is it more trouble than it's worth?

another Critical Thinking hack is that you must not mistake a classification or naming of something with an explanation of that thing. sorting or naming something does not have explanatory power. the phenomenon remains to be explained regardless of the fact that "this actually has a name!"

who named it? when? who sorted these discrete ideas or phenomena into one category? why? in association with what organisation, ideology, &c.? what ideas does this classification, sorting, or naming rely on? do you agree with those ideas? in what other ways could these phenomena be grouped, sorted, named, classified? what ideas would that alternate classification rely on? must these phenomena be named or sorted into categories at all?

when you think about it it was a total dick move for humans to call something "the visible light spectrum" without even bothering to consult one mantis shrimp

Fuck'em. Wet bastards are too stuck up to talk to me.

A lot of people in mainland China are perfectly capable of getting around the so called 'Great Firewall of China' and interacting with the internet beyond it but the thing is a lot of them just flat out don't want to or don't really care all that much. Yeah sure the internet is heavily censored, but outside of that non-English spaces have gotten smaller and smaller while English takes over as the lingua franca of the internet, and they may or may not be able to read and understand English very well.

Also a lot of people on the internet beyond the 'firewall' are very hostile to them, they get treated like naive idiots or brainwashed infiltrators for the ccp. I remember a few years back when a lot of Chinese fanfic writers started uploading their stories on ao3 en masse because there had been a big uptick in websites that host fanfiction getting taken down and some people were so utterly vile about it, making jokes about how they could get the fics taken down by mentioning the Tiananmen Square massacre in the comments and things like that.

All because they were apparently offended by their favorite tags having more non-English works that can very easily filter out so they don't have to look at them at all. Because God forbid a fanfiction website that already greatly skews towards English fics have more works in other languages, right? That's like the only thing I miss about fanfiction.net, it had way more non-English fics, well that and more stories for certain fandoms than ao3 does.

And it's not like a lot of tech companies and other governments don't censor the internet to some extent or another, China isn't unique in that regard, it's just particularly infamous for being so heavy-handed and easy to use as a red herring.

hello, a chinese citizen here.

I do not like to type out long paragraphs here so I’ll try to sum it up.

Yes, I 100% agree with this guy, honestly it’s sad how most non-English communities (such as 3K) are getting reduced, and especially how some people treat Chinese people using typically banned websites like yt or twitter etc, i know that most people here are American or just not from china but cmon just give us a chance.

(sorry if my wording is kinda bad, im so sleepy rn lol)

No it's good, but even if it wasn't it would be nothing to apologize for. And trust me, 你的英文比我的中文好，我無法評斷你。

as a knitter, you start to notice how rare it is for characters in tv shows and movies to knit correctly. from worst to best, it ranges from:

- laughably incorrect, just flinging yarn around

- knitting the most basic scarf incredibly slowly because the actor Learned How To Do It For The Role

- old lady actresses casually knitting an intricate lace pattern while doing a monologue

- gromit from wallace and gromit

1. that’s a garter stitch, which you can clearly see despite it being made of clay

2. they took the time to animate a modified continental style of knitting, including showing how his working yarn is wrapped around his pinky, and that he’s flicking with his index on his right hand

3. he only has four fingers and yet this is better than the vast majority of knitting on tv

You want to know what will always be bullshit? Anything that claims you are Just Lacking This One Thing and you need to take high doses of it, unless your allopathic medical provider literally tested you and told you that. Damn near every study we’ve ever seen of taking high dose supplements of anything you’re not actively deficient in shows that it’s either useless or dangerous. It’s worse than doing nothing, because bare minimum you’re wasting money. High doses of niacin, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E. High doses of calcium. If it’s been well studied, there are usually consequences to taking a whole lot more of something than your body was ever meant to have.

Don’t believe anything about your health that seems too good to be true, especially if a supplement company is going to make money off your belief in it.

(Obligatory note in case this escapes containment: I’m a medical doctor with a master’s in a research field who used to work in human subjects research management and regulation. I know the research better than 99% of you. If you want to argue, bring high-quality research citations where the data actually support your argument.)

Ex medical statistician here, I want to focus on that high quality research citations because lots of people can't tell. So, even if you have the so-called reciepts, by which I mean 'a study that found a significant effect' there are several likely things that could mean it isn't high quality

If I want to know what the current state of the research is, I start by looking for either a Cochrane review, or a meta-analysis. These tells me how much research is out there, and how comparable it is, but I only have to read one paper.

Look at this! Somebody is patient and kind enough to give you a cheat sheet before you go throwing half-baked “””research””” at me like a chump. USE THE INFORMATION.

sorry for being a hater i want to be a lover but everything pisses me off

It is not brave or edgy. I consider it a baseline moral duty to make fun of the Catholic Church.

so we're just not gonna have a national conversation about how Boeing killed one of their own employees to keep him from talking to the press

like we're really not gonna address the fact that he died of a "self inflicted head wound" literal hours after Boeings lawyers asked him to stay an extra day. We're not gonna speak on the fact that he told his family "if I die, it wasn't suicide " before he went to go testify. None of it huh

Oh? You haven't heard? I'm not surprised with how hard the media are parrying it

THAT TOO. LMFAOOO

A friend of mine does some independent contractor work with Boeing and Lockheed and a few other aerospace firms. They say that literally everyone in the industry knows without a doubt that the guy was murdered. Literally everyone knows that the aerospace company with ties to numerous PMCs and national militaries found somebody they could pay to have him killed. Like, it isn't even a question. Boeing management isn't even shy about the "wink wink, nudge nudge" internally, because the point was to make an example of him and terrify other workers into compliance.

Yea no they did just straight up murder John Barnett I don't see a reality where they didn't do it. I don't see a reality where a man has one more day of trial and tells his close friend that if anything happens it won't be a suicide a week before killing himself. I think a man who had something important to say that could damage a company, who suspected he might be killed and warned his friend about it, being killed by the company is a lot more likely than him killing himself. Especially when literally everyone who knew him says he wouldn't, that he didn't.

Don't forget they also killed a SECOND whistle-blower by infecting him with... something. A man (Boeing whistleblower) who hasn't been to the doctor in years and years shows up at the hospital with a dozen different diseases at once that baffles the ER doctor because he's never seen any case like it. One specific disease among them which realistically is only transferred in hospital environments. Infecting a man so healthy he never bothered getting a general doctor for check ups, much less been to the hospital. And then he dies within days of arriving in the ER.

Yeah. Right. Are you telling that WASNT an assassination via disease?

Broke:

Belle has Stockholm syndrome because she falls in love with the Beast, her kidnapper.

Woke:

Stockholm syndrome was coined to slander a woman who had been in a hostage situation but openly criticized the poor police response which recklessly put her in more danger and escalated the violence. She was then belittled and discredited publically by the police for this.

So. Yeah. Maybe Belle does have Stockholm syndrome actually.

If anyone is curious here is the wikipedia section describing this.

[ID: Gif image from Disney's Beauty and the Beast with Gaston leading a large group of villagers down the road holding a torch. The atmosphere is dark.

Wikipedia screenshot containing the following:

According to accounts by Kristin Enmark, one of the hostages, the police however was acting incompetently, with little care for the hostages' safety, which forced the hostages to negotiate for their life and release with the robbers on their own. In the process the hostages saw the robbers behaving more rationally than police negotiators and therefore developed a deep distrust towards the latter. Enmark had criticized Bejerot specifically for endangering their lives by behaving aggressively and agitating the captors. She had criticized the police for pointing guns at the convicts while the hostages were in the line of fire and she had told news outlets that one of the captors tried to protect the hostages from being caught in the crossfire. She was also critical of prime minister Olof Palme, as she had negotiated with the captors for freedom, but the prime minister told her that she would have to content herself to die at her post rather than give in to the captors' demands. Ultimately, Enmark explained she was more afraid of the police whose attitude seemed to be a much larger, direct threat to her life than the robbers.]

Hope the ID helps, it's my first time writing one.

Here are some other facts you should know about Nils Bejerot: He had a major influence (this involved founding the "Swedish National Association for a Drug-free Society") on Sweden's zero-tolerance approach to drug use.

And he wrote "Barn, Serier, Samhälle" (Children, Comics, Society), basically the Swedish version of "Seduction of the Innocent"; an infamous anti-comics book by Fredric Wertham that led to the Comics Code Authority.

This is the man who coined the phrase "Stockholm syndrome", guys.

Too many people are unclear on the history of this term.