Se [Fabiano] aprendesse qualquer coisa, necessitaria aprender mais, e nunca ficaria satisfeito.

Hans Asperger was a Nazi collaborator.

I had a great idea, what if we tried to do science, but with data??

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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • This graph is golden. How I’d long for a time machine to show this graph to every annoying redditor talking about how Zelensky would march on Moscow with their “spring counteroffensive” 8 months ago.

    This other one is also a great visualization. I’ve been in small cities with less than 1 million inhabitants with more territory than that.

    If anything, this makes Russia’s new gains sound very unimpressive, if one can only think of war in terms of Paradox game map painting. Clearly that’s not how it works, but I won’t opine on how the war really is going because I haven’t done enough research.

    Could this war perhaps be over this year? I wonder how it’ll affect USA elections or the inevitable riot upon Confirmation Day if it ends before then.






  • The United States is not Ukraine’s only ally, but it is the only one with the willingness and means to supply Ukraine’s war effort. Many European nations lack a political tradition of arming other countries. They have sent Ukraine some impressive weapons, like German tanks and Swedish shoulder-fired missiles. But “they cannot pump out munitions,” Julian said. “They cannot produce large numbers of artillery shell rounds — the No. 1 thing Ukraine needs.”

    This whole paragraph is truly a piece of Yankee writing.


  • The USA is the leading tiktok-using country, I’ll give them that. But according to this statista page, the following three countries already double the total of USA users.

    That means ByteDance stands to lose way more by divesting themselves of TikTok than losing their USA audience. Not only are they isolating themselves diplomatically and economically from the rest of the world, now they’re backing down in hubris culturally as well.

    Although I really dislike the TikTok business model for obvious reasons, banning it on USA territory is going to be really nice for the whole TikTok ecosystem.

    So, when poor oppressed Americans are going to start getting VPNs to escape their Great Firewall?









  • I’m too busy not wanting to have a body or expression to think of which gender this body should express itself as. To be fair, I’m not sure if this counts as cis, but it’s similarly easy.

    This video by Vihart encapsulates my feelings on gender pretty well.

    But on the “straight” part, attraction is a very complicated thing. Lots of people will never or hardly ever feel any sexual attraction to people of a gender for a myriad of reasons.

    And I suppose that, for a lot of cis people here, they actually like the role at least a little bit. Considering how toxic the enforcement of those roles are, I think we should also cherish our cis comrades who feel the most comfortable in them while being receptive of trans people and being good people in general.

    Nothing wrong with being cis, just with being an asshole about it.

    Edit: I couldn’t tell it wasn’t actually serious.





  • Personally, I think banging hard on the ‘GPT-4 is AGI angle’ is a really mistaken line of argument and it’s a huge weakspot in their case.

    I also agree, but on the other hand it’s going to be really funny seeing them backpaddle their self-aggrandizing nonsense in order to not lose a trial.

    “Our AI is quite dumb really, the technical term is weak AI, we’re actually pretty far from any actual intelligence in our company.”