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Joined September 2023
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"The kings go up and the kings go down, And who knows who shall rule; Next night a king may starve or sleep, But men and birds and beasts shall weep At the burial of a fool.
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What would you do with unlimited dumb people? Personally, I'd win an election.
Unlike most people on Twitter, I’m actually using GPT3 in a production system. The mistake people are making is they are asking “how can I use this to automate a smart person’s job”, when they should be asking “what would I do if I had unlimited dumb people”
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mfw Istanbaul rug merchants cajole me into their store, where I will merrily consume 2kg of biscuits and a gallon of tea, spending a grand total of 0 lira
Replying to @abysmoftime
Easiest thing to learn in any new language -- all you need are yes, no, counting numbers, and at least one exclamation of exaggerated shock. "Çocuklarım açlıktan ölecek!"
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I am completely the opposite way; I will gleefully haggle for hours and buy nothing.
one of the craziest culture shocks I’ve had in Dubai is that I do NOT like being hawked at. nothing turned me away faster than a shopkeeper trying to get my attention. I immediately bristle like a cat and vow to never come back there again
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Easiest thing to learn in any new language -- all you need are yes, no, counting numbers, and at least one exclamation of exaggerated shock. "Çocuklarım açlıktan ölecek!"
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dusting off the 2007 meme folder
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Without looking it up, which of these denominations do you think is largest?
27%Greek Orthodox
45%Mormons
28%Presbyterians
96 votes • Final results
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Bathathon heled, im ú-cirath.
Many people make jokes about having poor/basic knowledge of another language using certain stock phrases. English speakers say in Spanish, “¿dónde está la biblioteca?” Portuguese speakers say in English, “the book is on the table.” Do you know any other phrases like this?
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this book is amazing btw
Replying to @abysmoftime
Giambattista della Porta considered this a delightful pastime
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also quite a bit of steganography and counterfeiting
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"noo Giambatista you can't just keep calling everything natural magick!" "blackface is natural magick"
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Personally I'd dose them all with belladonna.
This would be a bad idea. Psilocybin on inexperienced users with no meditation experience? Especially Machiavellic and highly political ones? It is a recipe for incredible levels of paranoia, if not suspicion and betrayal. If this happens, and it's psilocybin, make it either very low dose or very high dose (ego death level). But I'd suggest MDMA. Or if combos allowed, low dose 2C-B + pregabalin + 4MMC. Now this could produce a diplomatic breakthrough "love conquers everything" kind of result.
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Giambattista della Porta considered this a delightful pastime
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a tomcat's ambition (V češtině je to hrozně vtipné.)
the hell is a ‘metamour’ ??
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oh also Haplogroup X is the Solutreans teapawt.net/abysmoftime/status/210…
Replying to @aleksil79
selkies were druze algonquins
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you don't have to stay in the kukkucca chair, anon
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Just heard a literal sermon on Finite and Infinite Games was not expecting that
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