May 01

No Pleasure

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If liberals get any more prudish and uptight, they’re going to burst like a watermelon with a thousand rubber bands wrapped around it.

I’ve been reading fiction from the 1970s, and the way it discusses sex and normal human relations is so refreshing. Sure, there are (as they say) problematic areas, but in general it was more frank, more forthright, more human and humane, and just in general far more healthy.

Liberals being the ones against pleasure (not just sexual) is something I did not see on the horizon, but here we are. WTF?

May 01

Out of the Blue

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I need to research this claim more, but interesting stuff.

The brain gets even wilder when we zoom in. Since electrochemical thresholds activate neurons, a single proton could, in principle, be the difference that causes a neuron to fire. If a proton spontaneously jumped out of its atomic bonds, in what physicists call “quantum tunneling,” this could cause a cascade of sudden neuron activity. So even at the tiniest measurable level, the neuron’s physical structure has a non-binary indeterminacy.

The problem is that proton tunneling is much rarer than electron tunneling since the proton is 2000 times heavier than the electron. But if it happens at all in the brain, this means that you have true non-deterministic thoughts sometimes, because proton tunneling is by definition non-deterministic.

Apr 30

No Tease

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The few people who have asked me brainteasers in interviews were such obvious assclowns that it’s clear I wouldn’t have wanted to work in those places anyway.

So I am not surprised.

Apr 30

Wondering

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I wonder how much of the modern trans rights debate is a corporate agit-prop op to cause public spaces to be shut down/unavailable by making increasingly absurd, scientifically and socially-unsustainable demands.

Seems like another spear in the battle to privative everything to me. Perhaps I’m wrong, but a lot of it just has that corporate stench about it.

Apr 30

Why Picked

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No question.

Good economy (pre-pandemic) and incumbent president == landslide. Absent Covid, Biden wouldn’t have had a chance, which is exactly why the plutes/liberals picked him.

Apr 30

Various Schools

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That is true. Same people, same firms, same messages. One of the reasons culture seems and is so uniform now. Those who shape it are only a few thousand, and all hail from the same schools and schools of thought.

Apr 30

The Split

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You know you’re in a bad relationship when someone attempts to use your best qualities against you.

And you know you’re in a good one when someone helps you divert your worst qualities towards the good.

Apr 30

Progeric

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Damn. The before photo is taken in more favorable lighting and better makeup, but even with those caveats she looks 25 years older post-Covid.

Not the fucking flu.