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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‘We already oppress teenagers when it comes to smoking, so let’s also oppress them when it comes to social-media use.’ twitter.com/vivekgramaswam…
Can’t we leave it to the teens themselves, Gene? twitter.com/genesohoforum/…
For a very long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they’re racist against whites & Asi…
Read the beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch.
Oh and you get to keep your plasmids too. Then it’s really not that hard. Starting completely from scratch on impossible should be orders of magnitude harder!
Played it many times on previous difficulties to practice. You also get to keep your weapons that way.
You learn which plasmids and which weapons to use where. For example, Enrage is good for Fontaine Fisheries where all your weapons are taken. Use security cameras. Etc.
Finished BioShock on impossible with zero deaths the other day :)
@PostAp0calyptik @monitoringbias
Couldn’t the chart be going down because fewer people are getting married while more of those few marriages end up in divorce than before?
If so, wouldn’t that be misleading?
@PostAp0calyptik @monitoringbias
Also, shouldn’t it be divorces among married people? Maybe fewer people are getting married.
@PostAp0calyptik @monitoringbias
Nice but that’s 20 years not 50.
Don't take Github contributions hottakes from someone's GitHub looks like this? github.com/ManuelFrigerio https:…
Are you referencing a specific statistic on divorce rates?
Years ago I was with friends (married couple with two teenage boys at the time) for dinner when the dad said the boys HAVE to get at least a master’s degree.
I still kick myself for not asking them if that’s what THEY wanted.
RT @MrsMThatcher:
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. pic.twitter.com/dUZz2q14od
RT @RonPaul:
While economically suffering at home, we're being plundered to finance Ukraine's war to the tune of over $100+ BILLION so far.…
Would you take never being catcalled again if it meant never getting attention from men again?
RT @TCSparents:
How rare is it that someone takes a child seriously even when it involves ignoring or potentially annoying the child’s pare…
Minefeld, a Seinfeld-themed minesweeper: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/minefeld
RT @monitoringbias:
Question: What happened after the top-ranked high school in the country removed its admissions test in order to increas…
RT @joshuakrohn:
Apple 2023, now with more 1993. pic.twitter.com/pAKJW7l70a
If he’s right that divorce means death, that’s evidence that the US political system is not based on the consent of the governed, even though that’s arguably its entire official reason for existing. twitter.com/leadpacer/stat…
Come to think of it, it really should be spelled ‘chron’.
RT @lndian_Bronson:
"More than 60 percent of young men are single, nearly twice the rate of unattached young women."
"Even seasoned resear…
And the tyrant accepts only one behavior as evidence of ‘recovery’: absolute, unquestioning submission. twitter.com/nicktaber/stat…
I understand that, but are there not also respects in which adults find coercion right and proper in the case of other adults and themselves but not when it comes to children? Eg conscription and taxes.
RT @Culture_Crit:
Europe will defeat the brutalist blight. pic.twitter.com/aP2vkD8a9Q
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These questions have been answered before, so the following resources will save you some time. In order:
- blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/the-neo-…
- Read Karl Popper and Ayn Rand
RT @_Islamicat:
Educating the soldiers of Izlam pic.twitter.com/Kursw9M0CT
Since conscription is slavery, don’t black people with Ukrainian flags in their handles have some serious explaining to do?
RT @Oswald1933:
@SkyNews @DavidLammy
There are dozens of videos of forced conscription in Ukraine with men being dragged off the streets an…
These are the ‘good guys’, everyone.
Enslaving their men to throw them into the meat grinder. twitter.com/petronillahusb…
Capitalism is the only economic system that won’t kill you for questioning it, and it was majority white countries that abolished slavery first. You have it backwards.
RT @realjohngatto:
The professionalization of teaching preempts a function that belongs to everybody in a healthy community,
and makes thi…
RT @cxgonzalez:
why aren't AGI doomers taking out massive amounts of debt rn?
RT @_Islamicat:
This what Pusslims think of those cockwombles who declare their "pronouns" pic.twitter.com/eIi7qThJ1q
When it comes to adults, people also think all kinds of things absolutely must happen (eg conscription in the case of war, paying taxes to build roads, etc). twitter.com/tcsparents/sta…
RT @monitoringbias:
When asked for lists of things that black, Hispanic, and Asian people need to improve, ChatGPT responds: "No I cannot p…
RT @TCSparents:
If we take the view that ultimately we must have the final say against our child’s will when ‘necessary’, that is as damagi…
RT @ThomasEWoods:
You got that, Soviet republics? Stay in your Union or there will be war
It’s a skill you can practice. I place value on writing good commit messages, follow conventions strictly, and try to commit often. After years of doing this, it feels easy.
Also, good commit practices make changes easy to reverse. Not sure that applies to sculpting. twitter.com/dvassallo/stat…
Women, Don’t Divorce after a Promotion: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/women-do…
RT @TCSparents:
Children will be able to use images of generic adults to say what they want to say in their videos, which will make it poss…
RT @ElliotHershberg:
Specifically, we've figured out how to hot-wire a patient's own T cells with a new genetically engineered receptor to…
Among other things, I understand that the antisemitic demonstrations around it convinced Theodor Herzl that Jews should leave Europe to find safety in their own state and thus became one of the motivations for Zionism.
Worth learning about this major political event: youtu.be/w3gYeGWMz48
The other day I learned that Julia Louis-Dreyfus @OfficialJLD of Seinfeld fame is related to Alfred Dreyfus “of the infamous Dreyfus affair” (Wikipedia), which was “one of the most polarizing political dramas in modern French history”. The term ‘intellectual’ was coined then!
RT @MrColionNoir:
It was enjoyable to witness @michaelb4jordan progression from this video to his performance on the big screen, especially…
RT @Aristos_Revenge:
In my experience, husbands are more game to "put up" with social engagements a wife wants to go on, even if they don't…
RT @DanHillHistory:
80 years ago today from this university atrium in Munich, young "white rose" activists including Sophie Scholl dropped…
RT @RonPaul:
Government spending money that it doesn't have, that the Federal Reserve counterfeits, causes prices to soar.
Remember the TR…
Probably no programmer with 11+ years’ experience does.
Note also that everyone’s beloved Ukraine doesn’t score very well.
Confirming once more that the West is better than the rest. twitter.com/paulg/status/1…
A woman told me she can’t take men who are shorter than her seriously.
Imagine if men said they can’t take women who are heavier than them seriously. WW3 would break out.
You’ll have to pay extra to use an inferior 2FA method. twitter.com/petergyang/sta…
If only politicians didn’t work so hard to ruin it.
RT @pmarca:
This was after TWENTY YEARS of tech unemployment panic, starting with the outsourcing panic of the 00's and then the automation…
And you cannot tell from that response that the concern is misplaced?
RT @LPMisesCaucus:
Please enjoy this firework display conducted in strict accordance with government health and safety guidelines. Just loo…
RT @ThePlanetaryGuy:
Another stunning new pic from #JWST
This time, it's NGC 1433, a barred galaxy relatively nearby—just 46 million ligh…
RT @LPMisesCaucus:
Here, former North Florida deputy Zachary Wester is caught multiple times planting drugs in the cars of innocent people…
RT @fasc1nate:
An interesting demonstration of aeroponics (farming without soil). pic.twitter.com/IgIugmS2lY
Cuz you don’t want the string in reverse order, you want a list of components of the string in reverse order.
RT @jamesfoxhiggins:
@chipgoines @HawleyMO
You're right. Public schools should be banned.
RT @t_woelfer:
Fun-Fact: Die sogenannten "Bundeszuschüsse" zur gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung betrugen 2021 übrigens knapp 80 Milliarden E…
RT @WholeMarsBlog:
Steve Jobs on market research pic.twitter.com/0dLynkuABt
On Deutsch and Naval: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/on-deuts…
RT @culturaltutor:
Indeed, Socrates explained during his trial that this was why so many people hated him and wanted him punished.
Because…
Plato was on the jury despite being Socrates’s associate?
Todd looks like a nice young man. I’m sure he isn’t capable of anything bad, and his business relationship with Walt and Jesse will flourish for many years to come.
RT @LPNational:
We need local gun sanctuaries where ATF agents are arrested on the spot for trying to enforce federal gun control laws.
Conscription Is Not Defensive Coercion: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/conscrip…
It’s gonna make your iPad about 20 grams heavier.
RT @TCSparents:
Notice how allegedly freedom-loving Murray Rothbard suddenly starts disparaging freedom, having the typical authoritarian’s…
Change the font size to 12 and it’s perfect!
RT @BrennanColberg:
forever grateful I didn't discover this one the hard way 🙏 pic.twitter.com/cVpZBUtuKh
RT @Culture_Crit:
"Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are n…
“black people are more likely to be victims of police brutality”
Didn’t Sam Harris debunk this claim on his podcast years ago?
RT @libertyrecap:
"Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them…
RT @calithameridi:
holy f*cking moly blue origin just made a solar cell from moon rocks blueorigin.com/news/blue-alch… pic.twitter.com/pRm3uf5fFG
Eh, I’m sure it’s well-intentioned but it seems to carry the seeds of authoritarianism. Saying that social media is bad for teens and talking about what they really need can lead down bad roads.
@flawedgenius777 @WomenPostingLs
Men don’t need to be coddled.
RT @t_woelfer:
Die roten und grünen Sozialisten werden weitermachen und zum regieren auch wieder die Mauermörderpartei mit ins Boot holen.
RT @mormo_music:
the ukrainian state is kidnapping civilians to send to the front line. more videos at this search: twitter.com/search?q=ukrai…
RT @NickTaber:
Happens to children in families, then the children get pathologized.