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to my credit i remember daniel dae kim, but i confused randall park with benedict wong, who also seems to be getting a lot of work, liked him in Weapons.

the Daniel Dae Kim / Randall Park congruence of appearing in every damn thing

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the kangaroo story but for reals

another iceland fact

tourists are posting pictures from several different places in the country and tagging them with the name "gjaldskylda". they seem to be under the impression that it's the toponym of the beautiful waterfall/lava field/mountain/etc. they're visiting.

gjaldskylda means "you have to pay to park here" and it's on an unreasonable amount of signs

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scp fans can say "682" and i'm like yeah that's a good one

xkcd fans are the only fandom I've had direct experience with where people do the stereotypical nerdy fan thing of referring to installments of the thing they like by their release order numbers instead of their titles

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me: is mom pretty?

andreia: yes!

me: is dad pretty?

andreia: no!

me: why not?

andreia: [mental gears turning...] i love you, dad!

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man. that's philip reeve's Mortal Engines on the side. i had to install windows (xp?) because there was no way to get the usb dongle to work with the eeepc linux distro. next to the keyboard is a pretty good timex, but the last non-casio watch i ever wore.

looking through old photos, this is from 2009. i was using an Asus EeePC connected to a CRT monitor, keyboard, usb internet dongle

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Do you hear it? Do you hear it? Can you hear it?

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bob dylan has to be on the list for sheer influence, most referenced in judicial written opinions

Okay, so if the best poetry is to be found in song lyrics, who are the best English language lyricists?

Is the idea that it's Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell?

or like, it's Nas and Ghostface?

or Jarvis Cocker and Alex Turner?

or John Darnielle?

I'm not sure who people mean.

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religion, analgesia of the masses

vampires reported distress at presentation/contemplation of religious images

“Using functional magnetic resonance imaging in practicing Catholics and avowed atheists and agnostics during painful stimulation, here we show the existence of a context-dependent form of analgesia that was triggered by the presentation of an image with a religious content but not by the presentation of a non-religious image. As confirmed by behavioral data, contemplation of the religious image enabled the religious group to detach themselves from the experience of pain.”

Wiech, K., Farias, M., Kahane, G., Shackel, N., Tiede, W., & Tracey, I. (2008). An fMRI study measuring analgesia enhanced by religion as a belief system. Pain, 139(2), 467–476. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pain.2008.07.030

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Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

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Blazing Red Tassel | by: 趙聰、劉冬 | Cover: 眷墨花生醬

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qc public library

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timed and framed so perfectly i wondered if this was faked, but it's real

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one sign of the cross at the start of a car trip, i've seen some catholics do that. but continuous, i'm imagining an escalating hierarchy: driver's high, police bolo imminent, car's stolen, guy in the trunk...

Is it good if the Uber driver is making the sign of the cross? Or do they only do that when they're about to crash the car?

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children long for the centrifuge

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FUCK YESSSS

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TIL when the young darwin was at university, years before the Beagle, he read william paley, the watchmaker argument guy

...there would be ten questions on the book Evidences of Christianity, by one William Paley. Darwin had already read the book, but now he read it again with new attention – and loved it. He found the logic fascinating.

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