maybenextmonday.bsky.social
VT ECE 2025
I make software, occasionally music, and even more occasionally art and photos
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It’s insane how long manufacturers just CBA to fix this massive and exceedingly obvious flaw. I’ve only recently seen washers that actually prevent it.
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I feel like that could be solved with good article design
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As of this moment, you’ve ratio-ed the original post, lmao
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I still like target over Walmart, because Walmart as a company & place is the physical incarnation of all of America’s trashiest qualities, turned up to 11. But yeah, I avoid both almost entirely after their equity 180.
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Why do polycules need any more mirrors than couples?? Like, do they think only one person can look in a mirror at once??
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Interesting, I’d assumed it was called that because it was dead center on the spectrum of time zones.
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Lmao. Telling the truth is hostile and political now.
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Are new grads on the radar, or are these spots mostly intended for more experienced folks?
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“New follow DMs” as if anyone besides the catfishing bots is itching to talk to him
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“Nearly the 5th” as a way of saying 6th is some industrial-grade copium
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“Some guy with massive stake in the success of AI products said so”
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Crazy how the mid-2010s had *less* clean energy than the year 2000. Tearing down nuclear power has been such a detriment to society.
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I feel like you’re kind of arguing with an archetype you’ve assigned me to rather than actually addressing what I’m saying.
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I don’t fundamentally disagree, but I’m trying to push the phrasing in a better direction - there’s a sneaky brand of anti-intellectualism that preys on the well-intentioned attitude against capitalistic influence on education. It’s a shade too easy to slip into “don’t stay in school” from there.
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Wasn’t really saying it was to do with Trump, just that universities aren’t the villain here and are at worst passive on the issue - my personal experience is that the humanities requirement at my uni opened me up to a lot of lifechanging information.
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I’ve always found the differential equation solving a lot harder than yapping about a provided subject for 3ish pages.
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High schools maybe, but universities are frankly the only form of education (in the US at least) that are keeping humanities and critical thought at the forefront.
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I’m pretty sure the 2005 Camry’s throttle controller had like 8 of those
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It will never cease to amuse me that meta chose both “maximum realism and technical capability” and “fully in-headset hardware” as their two defining traits. It’s like an even more absurd version of Tesla dying on their anti-lidar hill.
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The research report NASA did on their throttle software after the recalls is fascinating, some real head-scratchers in that codebase.
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Arguably worse is when it does arrive, but after an insulting amount of time. I swear some of these people are hosting their SMTP servers on the throttle computer from an ‘08 Camry.
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I won’t be losing sleep over fitting stereotypes cared about only within conservative religious circlejerks.
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I’m just fascinated by the paragraphs upon paragraphs of shadow-boxing finding their way into my mentions. I’ve never encountered someone quite so high off their own supply.
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Yet here you are doing it, by your own definition. God forbid anyone debate anything ever.
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You have a fascinatingly fictionalized image of me, I struck some kind of nerve clearly.
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Look, you can go ahead and wax masturbatory about how intellectually superior you are to whatever bizarre strawman you’ve summoned here. The reality is none of us know or care about whatever early 2000’s apologist sore spot gets hit when we dare criticize religion online one fucking time.
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Again with the compulsive need to tie it to Dawkins or whoever the hell else. At least find someone to make kneejerk comparisons to who’s been relevant inside the century. Though most atheists and agnostics got there by themselves and don’t care about the apologism / anti-apologism circlejerk.
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Some pseudo-academic nonsense used by apologists to legitimize themselves. Essentially the world’s most formalized strawman. Might as well say “globehead” lmao.
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I had never considered the authorship was so deeply interleaved, though it does make a lot of sense logically. It’s a long-lived tradition.
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I might be able to track it down through my university library. But I think between that paper and wikipedia I’m kind of getting the picture - it seems like an “editing” stage that happened later in the lifespan of the Torah.
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If it’s not too basic a question, how do we define the terms priestly and non-priestly?
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Oh wow. I didn’t know it went that deep. My exposure to Bible scholarship came mostly from the shade of Christian to whom such ideas are uncomfortable and hand-waved with “scripture is infallible.” Forgive me if my rhetorical approach has been ignorant of the more intellectually rigorous side of it.
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Semi-related, that lecture series you linked is fascinating. I’ll have to give it a read.
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Right. I’m less informed on that front - I generally believe whoever wrote the torah wrote the whole of it, though I do think a lot of other cultures’ ideas worked their way in and, while reconcilable, require some squirming to make fit - again by that literal reading.
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In that case I see the veracity of your argument - the context I had assumed of the original anecdote I responded to (and assumed the other guy was defending) was the literal, only-what-they-wrote fundamentalist reading.
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Perhaps my terminology is a point of conflict here. By contradiction, I mean anything that logically breaks the claim “the contents of the Bible happened as written,” i.e. Christian fundamentalist infallibility of scripture. Just what I’m used to debating having grown up in (and left) that sect.
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What I’m getting at is that neither end of the boolean “cain married his sister (or niece)” does wonders for the internal / real-world consistency of the bible. If false, oops, more first-generation humans exist. If true, oops, the Bible doesn’t follow the rules of genetics.
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I don’t think that at all, you just chose to interpret that wording as an attack. It could have been written, oral, or fucking VHS tape, the principle remains the same: ancient cultures loved to integrate each other’s mythology into their own, and the ancient Israelites were no exception.
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“You’re wrong because some guy made a bad argument one time and I conflate you”
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Is snark your only option, or do you have an actual answer to the dilemma here? Either the story contradicts genetics, or it contradicts Genesis up to that point. Take your pick, or maybe just dodge with some more condescension. Up to you.
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It being used as a gotcha doesn’t make it any less a valid question, and no matter how you answer it the implications don’t help the story’s case.
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You have yet to articulate an actual logically-grounded point beyond vaguely accusing me of having assumptions.
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imo the contradiction is massive. People always yadda-yadda over the bit where he just casually moves to an entire different region from the only two other humans confirmed to be alive at that time and marries there. If it *is* his sister, the laws of genetics also somehow don’t apply yet, lmao.
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You could argue it doesn’t *necessarily* contradict, but it takes way less mental gymnastics to conclude that Cain and Abel is a regional folk tale about the origin of murder that got integrated into the oral tradition sometime before the Torah started getting written down.
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They’re always like “the bible has no contradictions!” then proceed to gloss over the *very* poorly grafted origin myths and folk tales.
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This feels like a Zoolander bit
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Right, yeah I’m not sure what the nuances are for stuff beyond the walls of the kernel.
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I think a lot of this traces back to the suburbanization and commercialization of US culture. We have no town squares or social gathering places, just parking lots and multi-lane business roads. StrongTowns has some great resources on the social impacts of the issue.