arctanthrope

they learn it in church. from the time they’re tiny children they learn that even the most perfect being that could ever conceivably exist can decide that someone deserves to be tortured for eternity because they wore mixed fabrics, and still claim to love that person unconditionally

oh cool, more supervillains appropriating Tolkien

it probably produces dialog that sounds more like it was written by a human

would love to see the Venn diagram of “patriots” who know nothing about the country’s history vs Christians who have no idea what Jesus said vs people who unironically use the word “sheeple” (i.e. who accuse others of blindly following without thought or knowledge)

I don’t have a good source myself, I heard it secondhand from someone who was citing an interview with one of the hostages, but I wouldn’t know where to find it

“fun” fact, Stockholm syndrome doesn’t exist. it comes from the fact that some of the hostages in a particular situation felt that the police constantly attempting to escalate were a greater threat to their safety than the people who took them hostage, and wanted them to just negotiate instead of repeatedly trying and failing to do swat-style raids of the building. this perfectly reasonable reaction couldn’t be allowed to be presented in the media, so they made up a fake psychological condition to explain it

yeah but then the people you’re talking to are 4chan users

I try to do an activity that requires attention, both mentally and physically; for me that’s usually playing guitar, but it could also be cooking, organizing, some kind of craft, whatever. usually what’s keeping me stressed out is thinking about how stressed out I am, so if I can distract myself from that and force myself to think about something else, it breaks the feedback loop, and doing something physical gets some energy out. not sure if it works for everyone, but it often helps me

the simple forms of conservation you probably learned in school are not entirely accurate. you probably learned that neither energy not matter can be created or destroyed; whatever you do, the mass you begin with will be the same as the mass you end with, and the same is true, separately, for energy. that’s not actually true; mass can be converted into energy, and vice versa. the correct form of conservation is that the combined mass-energy is constant. mass can be destroyed, but only if a proportional amount of energy is created. the coefficient of that proportionality is the square of the speed of light. that’s what E=mc² means. that’s how nuclear weapons work, and why they’re so powerful. c² is obviously a pretty big value, so when a small amount of matter is destroyed, it creates a large amount of energy

similarly, energy can be converted into mass, but doing so makes it much “smaller.” c² units of energy will become 1 unit of mass. and mass, of course, interacts with space-time

E1, about 41.2Hz

are they gonna fix the bug where it didn’t turn everyone gay?

I thought this was about the new Elder album “Through Zero” that released a few hours ago. haven’t listened yet but I’m hyped

quicky

how are you still doing that, I thought they all shut down like three years ago with the whole API debacle

that’s what we call ketchup

this is poor writing, highly ambiguous, there’s no way to tell from context which country “its” is supposed to refer to

edit for those apparently not getting it: there is, but only because we know he’s a hypocrite

there’s a conspiracy theory that the term “conspiracy theory” was intentionally manipulated in the cultural lexicon to include both realistically plausible things and pseudoscientific nonsense. this creates an equivalence in perception between people who say “the FBI killed MLK” and people who say “aliens abducted me and took me to the other side of the flat earth where I met Bigfoot,” so that any accusation against the government is immediately dismissed

CiviClick, which bills itself as “the first and best AI-powered grassroots advocacy platform.”

so the word “grassroots” just doesn’t fucking mean anything anymore, huh

ok I see. my understanding of imperialism is that it encompasses both of those, meaning broadly, expansion of influence, especially (but not necessarily) by claiming areas of land, in order to gain control of resources currently held by others. but I agree, there are two types within that, and the distinction between them is whether the people currently occupying the land (or in particular their labor) are part of the resources that the empire is trying to claim