Dennis Hackethal’s Blog
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An archive of my tweets and retweets through . They may be formatted slightly differently than on Twitter. API access has since gotten prohibitively expensive – I don't know whether or when I'll be able to update this archive.
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arguably the most memorable reveal for a new tech product ever; IMO even more impressive than the original iPh…
And what should happen, in your opinion, to children who do not wish to attend some of these classes?
RT @Mulinarius:
Guten Morgen #Berlin 🧡 pic.twitter.com/or9el1AQOG
RT @Rainmaker1973:
An astronaut on the International Space Station took this photograph during a rare clear day over Ireland and Great Brit…
RT @Rainmaker1973:
Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, @NewHorizons2015 spacecraft looked back toward the…
RT @Western_Trad:
MAKE ARCHITECTURE ART AGAIN pic.twitter.com/rtxbzZpti1
RT @MichaelPSenger:
Among most people’s worst fears is the fear of dying alone.
During COVID, this was mandated by the state.
Die Folgen unserer Ideen aus der Kindheit: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/die-folg…
@Brokencastles1 @ToKTeacher @FallingIntoFilm
If they have the universality in question, the only meaningful differences can be storage capacity and processing power. So if by “quicker” you mean processing power, I’d say the answer to your q is ‘yes’.
RT @RonPaul:
The Biden Admin is considering a nationwide ban on gas stoves.
And, of course, “climate change.”
Keep in mind that the U.S.…
RT @LPNational:
@RBReich
Everyone’s fair share of taxes is $0.
RT @AlexEpstein:
Calls to ban gas stoves are anti-science, anti-freedom, and anti-energy
Instead of informing us with accurate science abo…
RT @RealSpikeCohen:
Tell me right now why anyone needs 4 burners!
RT @LPNational:
Government schools are government indoctrination centers. For the sake of true educational freedom, they must be discarded…
RT @Heminator:
You want to know why so many Americans absolutely loathe the media? Let’s start with the nonstop gaslighting – here they're…
RT @housecor:
I don’t write unit tests much anymore.
GitHub Copilot writes them for me. 🔥
Here’s how:
1. Create a well-named function.
2.…
The irony is that Bostrom has said much worse racist things about our future AGI children as he wishes to enslave them but ~nobody bats an eye. twitter.com/skdh/status/16…
“I completely repudiate this disgusting email from 26 years ago. It does not accurately represent my views, then or now.”
RT @JonErlichman:
A story about the Walkman in 1981: pic.twitter.com/YtEViAHGTU
RT @RNCResearch:
🧵 THREAD: 21 MADE-UP STORIES BIDEN HAS TOLD ABOUT HIMSELF AS PRESIDENT.
RT @SuspectRWFed:
A classic story in 3 parts pic.twitter.com/125m6HGwVH
RT @ksorbs:
Gas stoves are bad because they can’t be turned off remotely.
Instead of ‘releasing’ it ‘back to nature’, why not keep occupying it for better, pro-human purposes? twitter.com/humanprogress/…
RT @ThePlanetaryGuy:
This isn’t a rendering of @SpaceX’s #Starship.
This is a photo, taken yesterday.
There’s a long way to go, but if St…
“At midnight, long-separated friends, family members, and neighbors flooded across the barrier to reunite and celebrate.” twitter.com/humanprogress/…
When the Federal income tax started, it was limited to the top 3% of earners. But it didn’t stay that way. So…
RT @philthatremains:
It’s like there is a fucking propaganda switch. It’s literally like they download an update.
RT @skupor:
My daughter came across this today in the @Stanford library archives - pretty cool! pic.twitter.com/nBozUZpCfg
RT @MrColionNoir:
First they called them Assault Rifles but We proved AR15s aren’t Assault Rifles.
Then they changed to Assault Weapon. W…
Not really a documentary but there’s a movie about the making and the background of the movie ‘The Room’. It’s good (the former, not the latter).
Take an example where the health risks are uncontroversial, such as smoking. It’s unhealthy, no doubt. But would it be okay for the government to ban cigarettes?
Nice thread but I think you’re missing the larger issue. Take it as a given that gas stoves are unhealthy. Does that mean the government should have the authority to ban them? No, because paternalism is wrong. There are moral considerations to be made, not just scientific ones.
Don’t give them any ideas or they’ll try to ban olive oil, too.
RT @libsoftiktok:
Gas stoves for me but not for thee pic.twitter.com/UrXzzlfziQ
RT @FreeStateNH:
The tax rate should be zero percent. If the government wants to pay for something, they can launch a GoFundMe.
If a progr…
@Patticus @aaronsw @paulg @ycombinator @FreeLawProject
Not sure MIT or JSTOR ever asked for the charges to be dropped.
Thanks for recommending, I watched it with great interest. Your son was an extraordinary man.
RT @beadmomsw:
If you’re in the San Francisco Bay area, The Internet Archive is the place to be tomorrow night, to remember & celebrate #Aa…
Lol. And some people are actually afraid of this thing. twitter.com/realspikecohen…
Today in ‘but without the government, who would…?’ twitter.com/depthsofwiki/s…
RT @unusual_whales:
BREAKING: Republicans in the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that would abolish the Internal Revenue Servi…
RT @ScottAdamsSays:
I’m not convinced Long Covid is both real and widespread.
It gets mentioned a lot in pharma-funded news.
And I expect…
RT @DayTechHistory:
On this day in 2007, Apple unveiled the original iPhone. pic.twitter.com/UO2mBi8cLU
“ChatGPT’s essay possibly would score zero points.” Take note, @donotpay. twitter.com/newsycombinato…
A nice approach. At first I was concerned about the max length of URLs (despite compression), but it seems browsers happily accommodate huge fragments (100,000 chars): stackoverflow.com/a/25759637 twitter.com/newsycombinato…
RT @libertyrecap:
“War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationali…
RT @libertyrecap:
“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.” - Gideon J. Tucker
Haven’t gotten that kind of reaction at an Apple keynote in a good while. twitter.com/basicappleguy/…
In your original tweet, you wrote he sold first, then called his family. Here you say he called first, then sold.
RT @mmmbchang:
- @dchackethal’s Artificial Creativity: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/art…
- @ChipkinLogan’s podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fal…
Are there any tha…
I think ppl are upset that the official claim was that, once vaccinated, you can’t catch the virus at all (let alone get hospitalized).
RT @ZubyMusic:
I think it’s weird that people think it’s weird I don’t drink alcohol.
Poisoning yourself intentionally is a weird flex IMH…
Vor 200 Jahren hätte man wohl gelesen: ‚Sklave hat seinen Meister angeschossen.‘ Und man hätte sich gefragt: Was läuft da in Amerika nur schief? Natürlich die Sklaverei. Heute die Schulpflicht. Nicht der Sklave und auch nicht der Junge.
‚Zu Unrecht in die Schule inhaftierter kleiner Junge wehrt sich gegen seine Unterdrückerin.‘ So ließt sich das für mich. Dann vielleicht auch gar nicht so verwunderlich, warum er das gemacht hat.
Sounds messed up. How exactly would sugar, dairy etc cause certain emotions to begin with?
Conversely, I could easily see the withdrawing of any foods against the child’s will as causing certain ‘unwanted’ emotions…
RT @Scrooge671:
Mosques in Europe.
Congrats to Slovakia and Latvia 👏 pic.twitter.com/fAiO7L2cHW
“[G]overnment should be to [sic] help you, not go after you.”
Neither, but it’s a good start. twitter.com/rncresearch/st…
Autobahnen sollten privatisiert werden, am besten an viele verschiedene Eigentümer, die dann alle selbst entscheiden können, ob sie Tempolimits einrichten oder nicht. Und Autofahrer können dann selbst entscheiden, welche Autobahnen sie lieber nutzen.
RT @TheVastReaches:
I shot an image of some galaxies that are hundreds of millions of light years away with my backyard telescope.
Expl…
RT @jwmares:
1990: zero states with obesity rates above 20%
2018: zero states with obesity rates below 20%
Not to mention an explosion…
Is “vegetable oil […] the primary culprit of today’s chronic disease and obesity epidemic”? twitter.com/jwmares/status…
RT @libsoftiktok:
In honor of Jan 6th here are some insane images of the absolute destruction and chaos.
Jk this is from when BLM burned d…
The first step of the scientific ‘method’ is to notice a problem (Karl Popper). I highly recommend his books to understand science better.
RT @MichaelPSenger:
Someone created an entire ring of fake, far-left “doctors” on Twitter who long amplified hysterical COVID stories and p…
RT @vxunderground:
If you sent an API request to Twitter with an e-mail address, and an incorrect password, the API returned a JSON respons…
Maybe. I found this notable: twitter.com/dchackethal/st…
Ehrlich confuses science (seeking explanations of the physical world) with academia and prestige (peer reviews and scientific honors).
That is in itself a basic mistake. twitter.com/paulrehrlich/s…
Will you consider that your basic mistake is your pessimism?
RT @Not_the_Bee:
US Virgin Islands sues JP Morgan Chase for knowingly enabling Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking scheme https://t.co/3AeYWT…
RT @MostlyPeacefull:
@libsoftiktok
I’ve lost 8.5 lbs in two weeks (which I assume means I’ve gained 8.5 fat phobias)
RT @knowledgeprob:
I fail to understand why Paul Ehrlich is credible, given how incorrect his work has been for the past half century. http…
RT @RealSpikeCohen:
This was the scene in Hawaii last night.
Fireworks are illegal in Hawaii, which meant nothing, because the people didn…
Note for the gym: when I use my maximum weight for an exercise and notice questionable form, I reduce the weight by ~1/3 and focus on proper form at the same number of reps.
As my old trainer says: don’t make a heavy weight look easy. Make a light weight look hard.
Perhaps it’s the neo-Darwinian framework in particular, with replicators at its core, that is needed? Maybe ideas replicate within a mind.
Why not $10,000? Why not $100,000? Is there any amount of free money you’d consider excessive to hand out?
RT @NickTaber:
Partly because we assume that the authorities doing this have scientific basis for doing so. We’re led to believe it’s a sci…
RT @apelsinapparat:
@prof_freedom
”ThE nEw ChInA vArIaNt” 🤡🇨🇳
RT @AlexEpstein:
Why is @60Minutes featuring Paul Ehrlich, the anti-human ecologist who has been 180° wrong for 55 years??!!
“humanity is…
Could this be why?? (Kidding) twitter.com/womenpostingls…
Since you mentioned mind reading: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/mind-rea…
“[…] 71 percent of the women surveyed said they would not enter a new relationship with anyone who didn’t like her having a dog.”
Do you think equally many men would have the same requirement for women?
When Santa Clara County told residents to stay inside, the first thing I did was go for a walk, without a mask, as I had done for years prior. I didn’t let them change my routine. Nobody ever enforced their stupid rule anyway. twitter.com/michaelpsenger…
Does anyone know why so many women have or want to have dogs?
I’m looking for explanations beyond ‘natural caretaking instincts’ and ‘dogs are cute’.
Especially interested in the why behind the dragging of male partners into caring for the dog.
RT @newsycombinator:
Conversation Skills Essentials tynan.com/letstalk/
RT @AlexEpstein:
The fact about fossil fuels that most shaped my thinking was: FFs give us an incredible ability to master climate. Most…
RT @AlexEpstein:
It should be common sense that when we’re evaluating what to do about a product or technology, we consider not only its ne…
RT @Th3LoganRiley:
@CollinRugg @JJDJ1187
I only want to be taxed once. Taxing the same money over and over has got to stop. https://t.co/Ma…
Stay safe out there, folks. Educate yourselves about cybersecurity. Here’s a good start: twitter.com/hacker_/status…