billgamesh

billgamesh , vor 19 Tagen

too humanizing

billgamesh , vor 24 Tagen

This is true of other skills too. Sometimes I can remember how to do things only when I stop thinking

billgamesh , vor einem Monat

Because, it helps them justify living under an economic system which harms them and the world

billgamesh , vor einem Monat

I doubt that premise. Neanderthals looked different, but not uncanny valley. Horror and fear may have been involved sometimes, but so was sex and competition... Neanderthals probably just looked like big chinless people

billgamesh , vor einem Monat

Killed off, but not necessarily by violence.

billgamesh , vor einem Monat

I think the most compelling theory is we mated them into our communities, while outcompeting for food

billgamesh , vor einem Monat

Not immortal, just long-lived and thick skinned

billgamesh , vor einem Monat

Not immortal, just long-lived and thick skinned

billgamesh , vor einem Monat

exactly. failure of english, not math. Math allows fairly accurate descriptions of the universe, humans (and especially languages) evolved to adequately percieve the narrow band of qualia that have been relevant to survival

billgamesh , vor 2 Monaten

The "black book of communism" includes german soldiers who died during WW2, it includes people who might have had 4 kids but only had 2, it includes victims of the US in vietnam.

billgamesh , vor 2 Monaten

Yeah. You don't get to revise away anything uncomfortable. USSR and China were socialist experiments that succeeded in raising quality of life and transforming rural countries into industrial, scientific states. If people wanna talk about what went wrong, great. Pretending they "don't count" just puppets capitalist apologia and doesn't help

billgamesh , vor 2 Monaten

fascism isn't a third way. It's liberalism in crisis

billgamesh , vor 2 Monaten

I don't believe in a Flying Spaghetti Monster either. It's nonsensical. Look at the packages people...

Praise unto the Flying Enriched Maccaroni Product Monster

billgamesh , vor 2 Monaten

do you manually weigh spaghetti?

billgamesh , vor 2 Monaten

We just got over a stomach bug. Everything had puke on it. We still haven't caught up with the laundry...