paulmarko.bsky.social
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I looked at the test. It's pretty basic. Like, what's the year and season, remember 3 things for a very small amount of time reverse the word "word" like pretty basic stuff. I didn't think it's that implausible he passed.
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As cynical as it is. Perhaps that's how they're planning to deal with the mass migration to the global north as climate makes these areas uninhabitable?
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I wonder if a believer would find having that dream would be in itself interesting in some spiritual way.
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Missed out on mormonism!
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Even so, a gorilla moves 1000 meters a day at regular pace, the lactic acid build up from a sprint would make that thing burn out so fast. A 100 humans could exhaust that no problem in most non-enclosed environments, mountains included.
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Yeah, fair enough. I'm just picturing people whooping, yelling, baiting and keeping their distance, eventually exhausting the thing. It may be able to run a handful down, but it's gonna eventually overheat and pass out or just straight up die from exhaustion.
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Oh I see bludgeon means pelt to to death with a heavy object. In that case I just mean punch repeatedly.
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Well, I mean once it's passed out from exhaustion they bludgen it's head with their fists.
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I'm assuming the people would keep their distance, like hundreds of feet, probably pick up rocks and stuff to pelt it and confuse it as well. It may be able to get a few, but I guarantee it wouldn't be able to get all 100, no animal could full out sprint for that length of time.
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Well it wouldn't be able to move from exhaustion. So eventually with enough people you'd be able to kill it. It's brain can get rattled just like a person if you punch it's head enough.
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People forget our advantage over every animal is endurance and starting cool. In an open plane in the sun, we could easily avoid and exhaust the gorilla until it couldn't move and then just bludgen it's unconscious body to death.
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Polysymy? In THIS economy?
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Oh weird. That does seem to be the case. Is there a brain level below "brand awairness" but above basic geometry based on light and shadow cues? Because when I shift the cyan to yellow, my brain has zero trouble making the can purple.
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Not sure. I just know if you hue-shift the accent color, in this case cyan, the can changes color to whatever the complimentary color is. The white areas on the can seem to have a lower frequency than the rest of the image, so my guess is that's what's inducing the complimentary color illusion.
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Totally. But that comes from a more basic expectation. Not like an expectation of what coke usually looks like. One guy in the comments even claimed he could make it appear not red by covering up the coke logo, as though it's the brand expectation that makes it work.
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This one:
www.reddit.com/r/woahdude/c...
It makes people think that their expectation of coke cans being red makes them appear red, I. e. If they had grown up with yellow coke cans, it would appear yellow, which isn't the case.
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If you check the comments when these get reposted sections, you'll see that many do get mislead. I would argue that the inclusion of the arrows is misleading because they're redundant to the effect. Their existance raises the intuition that they're a suggestive tool, not a label.
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Yeah, this and that coke one mislead many people in the comments, who think it's the magic power of suggestion doing the work.
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Not sure if tariffs make sense, but I'm glad runaway production is getting attention! So many big American films being shot in Hungary, the UK and elsewhere. American crews are struggling! Many losing homes and careers.
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some hypothesis
1. Lower safety/time investment standards = easier per kid.
2. More families around/Co parenting easier.
3. Younger parents =more energetic and helpful grandparents.
4. Larger families means more sibling help.
5. Less moving means close family.
6. More religious pressure.
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Jesus was an alien and that's where the mothership was. :p
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Wow, no mistaking it. He's literally referring to the letters, not the symbols that were interpreted. Wow.
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Great point here. The con artist Kent Hovind was able to gain some success that way. By "talking at a 4th grade level"
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Not if "below" means the direction your feet point!
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Also he didn't account for people standing on their heads!
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I know. I have two and it's tough. :(
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They're talking about increasing the child tax credit to 5k as well.
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I agree it like "let's start with tiny conciousness, then go through like 14 orders of magnitude where it doesn't do anything noticeable, then all of a sudden it explodes onto the scene again in brains, the one thing that looks complex enough to do it on its own.
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Sara's scribbles had the same observation, lol
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That is a cute contradiction, but I don't hear many saying it was a particularly "dangerous" bioweapon, just that it was intentionally being evolved for human transmission.
There are always a few wackos who believe straight contradictions though!