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Makes me wonder about how the two interact in the human phenomenon of generational oscillations

eh… can someone please accurately vibe code this for me?

    s/(s\\\/egg\\\/which)/s\/egg\/egg which\//

Now I want McDonalds McEggWhich

Realized, timely, and definite.

Perfect post.


“inhumane prisons” is as redundant as “ink pen”

Not every implementation of "prisons" in the world is about payback or keeping harmful people out of society, some places focuses on rehabilitation, and more often than not, those prisons are not inhumane at all, because that would defeat the very point of the prison.

Maybe if you consider "Can't walk wherever I want" as inhumane, all of them are, but there is definitely a difference between a prison in Rwanda vs one in Norway, and probably one would feel humane after observing the other.


There are plenty of humane prisons out there.

not in america but yea…

Even in america

name one

"Club Fed"

Neither is grace a common defense.

Prevalence by existence. A coarse but realistic heuristic for very small sample sizes.

Can we use the same argument for life among the stars?

Intelligence, even?


We basically do. The habitable planet hunt is almost definitive for "since we depend on water and complex organic molecules for 'life' we will hunt for this signature to define if we think we have found extrasolar life, radio signals aside"

Who let the arms races reign?

Not sure about your N = M

TikTok isn’t much bigger than open mics?


That headline resonates with me, echoed even. Then I saw it was by Cal Newport. Then I thought, when I have adequate attention I’ll read the article through, but I’m on the last 30 pages of a book and on my phone too.

The distinction isn’t non-discriminating, but if it is then, what it is, I believe.

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