Whereas most races are content to evolve slowly and carefully over thousands of generations, discarding a prehensile toe here, nervously hazarding another nostril there, the Haggunenons would have done for Charles Darwin what a squadron of Arcturan Stunt Apples would have done for Sir Isaac Newton.
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13·8 months agoI’m pretty sure that in Israel, joining the military is not a choice.
41·10 months agoMixtral is an amazing one that isn’t super slow or require incredible hardware foe a decent speed.
In general this guy has really good videos/tutorials for the latest tools.
The main things that stuck in my head after all those years was that stuff like assault, rape, murder, torture, entertainment-based animal abuse all used to be much worse. He said that people used to nail cats to posts around town so they would flail around until they died, just for the hell of it. I never fact-checked these claims.
Thanks for the information, I had no idea that Pinker had such an anti-following. I’ve not read or even thought about him in years. I just vaguely remembered that that book did a lot to make me more thankful for the current state of things compared to how they used to be. I appreciate you letting me know that he is such a questionable fellow.
The Amazon reviews are really bad. If anyone is looking for a book with this same idea, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker is really great.
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4·1 year agoAwesome. Any idea what the name of her headset is?
1·1 year agoYep, use it, love it. I just have a bunch of alerts set up for any new articles that include search phrases in my areas of interest, mainly bioacoustics stuff so I can post any new relevant articles or papers on [email protected]
Awesome! Thanks so much, I really appreciate the info, I’m adding some to my list now. I am quite interested to hear an Ausie perspective of Trump, and a good science podcast sounds great. Thanks again!
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Awesome, I’m sold! Downloading them now. Thanks so much for taking the time to write this. Looking forward to listening!
Do you recommend any episodes in particular of these?
Are there any episodes of these in particular that stick out to you?
Oh yes, hardcore history is so good.
Darknet Diaries is fantastic!
Just downloaded them, thanks for the recommendations!
Probably “Philosophize This”
Any episode of any of these that especially stick out to you?
Darknet Diaries
Intelligence Squared
Sean Carroll’s Mindscape
Is this what it looked like to your eyes, or is this the result of a night setting on your phone?