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How are you doing?

grabbing life by the balls as usual

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Ok, but if you do, you may skip the last 2 episodes and jump straight to End of Evangelion. Avoid the rebuild films at all costs.

You should watch the show (Evangelion)

no (politely but firmly)

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There's a bit in the Quran that reprimands Muhammad's house guests for lingering too long, following that up with saying that Muhammad was too embarassed to tell them off personally, so God himself had to it. Also Islamic theology holds that the Quran is God's word that exists co-eternally with God, so yeah.

There’s a chapter in the Quran that’s just one short paragraph condemning Muhammad’s disbelieving uncle and his wife to hell.

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Man, I haven’t been frequenting Tumblr in the last few years, but I remember Argumate anime hangups from a few years back. Guess some things really don’t change. 

Western media is finally coming around to the idea of cartoons for an adult audience, but so far that usually just entails sitcoms with bleaker humor (see BoJack Horseman) rather than grand drama, so unfortunately I’m gonna concur with everyone else who’s said you’re gonna struggle to find what you’re looking for. Seriously though, plenty of people could give you a “Viewers who liked AtlA also enjoyed...” anime list, if you’d just be less stubborn about the medium

*leaning in close* watch some anime already!

*stubbornly* no.

*summons a giant hammer out of thin air and wallops me with it*

*spitting out blood* b-baka!

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They cribbed off TimeLord regen from the Dalai Lama series.

developing an advanced type of atheist guy: doesn’t believe in any religions, but like, the actual social existence of religions. like you’ll talk about the catholic church and they’ll say “you know none of that’s real right?”

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actually it was a cool night so even though it’s passed 38C now it’s still cool indoors without even using air conditioning, I’m just drama queening.

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I once heard someone asking whether "penis" gets musician's cramps. He actually said "pianist".

CONCEPT: A highly naked man politely informing you that Nova Scotia is a peninsula, not an island

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nightcore-nasheed replied to your post “another problem with To The Stars: space warfare doesnt work for math…”

why doesn’t space warfare work?

theres basically no way to defend! and with even fairly-basic technology attacks are absolutely devastating. gwern has a good post about it

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Ok, this is my jam.

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PhD reviews climate change in Civ VI: Gathering Storm

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How humanly tragic that almost one fifth of people live under such a regime.

@argumate

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Link I gave above is broken, so here is the article again explaining this detail: An Analysis On How Deepmind’s Starcraft 2 AI’s Superhuman Speed is Probably a Band-Aid Fix For The Limitations of Imitation Learning

Can we get them to make a decent 4x AI?

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Unfortunately, Deepmind kind of flubbed this one. Apparently they’ve failed to limit the Alphastar’s actions-per-minute, so we can’t quite say that it got ahead through superior strategy. I’d have preferred that they did test it in a 4X game, just so that we’d avoid this whole actions-per-minute nonsense.

Can we get them to make a decent 4x AI?

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Marie Kondo, in a brand new series, Merry Condo.

Hmm, more like, Marie, ah… Kondom?… Mmm. Marie Kondom. Marie Kondom.

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So let me get this straight, there are still pornbots, just with strategically-hidden .. oh good lord!

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I alternate between sad angst and prideful Ubermensch angst.

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Well my workplace finally unblocked Tumblr, so there’s that I guess.