[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago

Maybe the gormless rich kids give him cocaine.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago

And then they denied that any of them had ever embraced the term, stapled tea bags to their hats, etc.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago

Carrie Bradshaw And The Methods Of Rationality

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 6 points 9 months ago

Supposedly the head of baseball legend Ted Williams was frozen, but was dropped and cracked at some point. Don't know if that was the same company.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 6 points 9 months ago

What's racist? Seems to be entirely based on Cheong's decade-plus of well-documented online behavior, not on his race.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 6 points 10 months ago

Oxman didn’t resign

She's pretty much self-employed and out of academia, so that probably wasn't in the cards to begin with. Perhaps her company will lose some business, but I kind of doubt it. The stuff she does seems sufficiently low-profile that nobody will care that she plagiarized a bit.

I mean, if you see a bit of sculpture in a corporate lobby, you're probably not going to wonder if the designer stole a paragraph in a thesis, let alone care.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That seems like an inefficient use of space if the ceiling is anything more than six feet high. If they're ten foot ceilings, then the shelves are spaced about 20 inches apart, which is rather larger than typical books. No wonder there are multiple layers on some shelves and books overflowing onto other surfaces.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

"What do you think would happen if you asked the redheaded couple about race and IQ?"

Oh god it's those two again.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

I might be anhedonic because I've been using methylphenidate for ADHD since 1992, but I've always been somewhat anhedonic. To paraphrase Maria Bamford "Some people really love life. I've always been on the fence." The question "what do you do for fun" has always been a bit difficult for me.

Of course it's also hard to find pleasure in many things if you can't stay with them long enough for the pleasure to really develop.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

They've been playing the long game. It's all been building up to this.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

Not like that.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

I suspect that was simply Singer's nod to religious opposition to voluntary contraception and he wasn't necessarily suggesting that the things you list are viable options.

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