If I’m being charitable I could presume that they left them so as to not disrupt sting operations

Involves a cat, well known meme vehicle for millennia

I could take a gander as well, but they don’t actually say anything substantive so I guess we’ll never know.

I used to love this kind of conspiracy stuff as a kid. It was like X Files. Then I learned people took it for real 😒 and it did actual harm to real academic work

I came into the comments ready to go off then I saw the fkn boot rofl

It makes me want to be angry and laugh at the same time

you geometry people go too far stop personifying vertexes, planes, and points math shouldn’t be fun

It’s like if Aperture Science designed a Dalek

My folk, it’s always weevil time 😎

We don’t deserve weevils

Look at that tiny numstat, I’ll finish the review before the CI is even done

These are the kinds of problems I want our species solving

Hell yeah, you’re killing it with these links, thank you.

I’m not surprised it’s a known phenomenon, but still excited to catch up on others’ thoughts.

I know I shouldn’t have even started, but I did, quitting smoking and drinking. It was really, really hard.

I think of that paper often, though I think it applies equally to other humans. Like I’ll never know how it feels to be Doug unless I fully become Doug, and thus lose my own perspective.

Like how much of empathy is just projection?

I feel like a lot of it. We can talk about similarities in physiological responses to events, but as far as the actual subjective “qualia” (I think I’m using the term correctly) 🤷‍♂️

I’m not even sure a shared taxonomy of human emotions is particularly accurate, given how differently people sense even nameable emotions.

But they’re still valid emotions ofc, just kinda unknowable

I just don’t have time to invest in learning a new operating system.

That’s fair. I got turned on to Linux in college so this is how I feel when confronted with Windows or Mac devices. I just get so frustrated every time I try, and it doesn’t seem like the end result is worth it if I can just stick with what works and not have to worry about some random update radically and inexorably altering how my computer works.

Oh ok, ya same. Thanks!

Do people actually see grackles like this? I find the black/blue difference very subtle

Howling Dogs: https://xrafstar.monster/games/twine/howlingdogs/

It’s a little Twine game that you can enjoy just in your browser (see link above), but it’s great.