This has been my major issue transitioning from aerospace to biomedical engineering. In aerospace, EVERYTHING is up for debate. you wana put the wings backwards on a plane? fuck it, Sukhoi su-47. Oh you want intermeshing rotors? Kaman K-max it is. In medicine, people flex their

Ancestral guilt is an anti-life curse that enemies have cast on you. Life itself is a fight against death, and you are an accumulation of millions of years of nonstop victories. Anyone who shames you for your ancestors is trying to kill you, sever the eternal golden thread

yes, asian and african rivers produce 95% of ocean plastic but nobody asks where the plastic comes from. plastic recycling is a scam. always has been. the industry knew since 1974 it “cant be justified economically” they funded the recycling campaigns anyway because the

João Batalha Economist Adam Smith taught us this in his book The Wealth Of Nations way back in 1776. He didn't refute the term zero-sum specifically, because it hadn't been invented yet. But the ideas in his book explain the difference between situations that are zero-sum and situations

there must be an opposite of suicide, where someone suddenly and radically decides to start living, and rescues their own life from meaninglessness.

scott 🌞 abstraction is a distancing mechanism. the mind reaches for theory when the nervous system doesn’t feel safe enough for reality.

I've got everything figured out. I'm a perfect rationalist, intellectually atheist, with utilitarian effective altruistic ethics and an active polyamorous sexual life. Now if I could only get rid of this devastating depression I'll be set

Being a serious Christian in the era of the ‘groypers’ and trad wives is soo embarrassing honestly… Christ is truly testing me with all their cringe…

Operation Doomscroll the Venezuela war from bed is a go. I repeat operationBed Doomscroll has been greenlit.

Dads when the 10th minute hits and they wanna go work on their book or something

You will never guess who this girl supposed to be

Bogdanoff, drop the internationally powerful scissor statement police death video from Minneapolis, it’s time again

Never deleting this app.

Some more interesting tidbits: positive emotion representations typically precede (and promote) destructive actions (!). And, counterintuitively, strongly activating features relating to bad behaviors can often inhibit those behaviors, apparently by making the model realize how

anthropic running the exact same marketing playbook with every release. “our model is so capable and dangerous, ahh we are afraid to release it”. just put the model in the bag lil bro.

Just tell the relevant people what they need to know, there is no need to run this massive fear-mongering campaign and scare the shit out of my grandma Imagine if military contractors did this "Bro if we used our new drone on you, nobody would even know where you went. You

in peru you have to vote for the lesser of 35 evils

MUJER LLORA TRAS SALIR 26 HORAS DESPUÉS DE SER MIEMBRO DE MESA. En Trujillo una ciudadana desfogó llorando luego de que permaneciera por más de un día entero como miembro de mesa en el colegio María Negrón. En el lugar la esperó su esposo. ONPE ES UN DESPELOTE.

Literally all I need in life is a large vibrant friend group full of extroverted nerds, a beautiful smart funny gregarious girlfriend, and a high paying job that is both intellectually rewarding and socially impactful. That can’t be too hard right?

the benchmark game has entered its IPO era