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A Cultural History of Physics' by Karoly Simonyi
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Truly the journ*list menace has been with us for all of time, and been hated across generations. I knew my hatred was in part an ancestral memory.
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It's jarring how proud s are of being illiterate science and math wise
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!bookworms, this is exactly why I love the recommended reading list at the end of Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren's How to Read a Book. It's got all the philosophy and poetry you'd expect, while also including all the mathematics and science a person with a proper liberal arts education should possess. Journ*lists, being drooling !r-slurs who occasionally pretend to possess the ability to turn a phrase, focus exclusively on the trivium and forget the quadrivium is just as important.
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You should just get “how to talk about books you've never read” instead, only book you'll need to read.
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What is a quadrivium bb?
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I'm gonna let Sister Miriam Joseph, who quite literally wrote the book on the trivium, field this question.
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Interesting bb
I never took an astronomy class so I'm ngmi
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Got a link to the cliff notes on that?
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This perfectly describes rightoids with politics
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Politics are inherently r-slurred, whereas computer shit actually has correct answers
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There is an objectively correct answer in politics tho. It's called whatever I believe in.
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Reads like Kaczynski (WaPo guy)
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Not the cool one?
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LMAO this is the same guy who wrote the "Reddit is good actually please buy their stock" article
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/technology/reddit-ipo-public-content-moderation.html
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He also wrote a pro NFT article
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LOL how can you not understand what a database is while pretending you can judge the legitimacy of NFTs.
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I don't think he's malicious, he's just a fricking r-slur
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writing opinion pieces is an act of malice, r-slur or no
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I also notice hes the resident AI expert, based on a series of articles that amount to
Look at this crazy conversation I had with a LLM omg is it heckin sentient??
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what a piece of shit
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Jesus, why be a tech writer if you don't understand tech and have a hatred for it?
Those who can - do, those who can't - become journos I guess.
Follower of Christ Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.
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My little dramanaught, this is the Ying and the Yang, the perfect balance of emotions.
You must clear your heart and embrace radical centrism to understand this level of enlightenment.
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hypocriticism is not centrism
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Correct. It's radical centrism.
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Shut up! 😡
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Thats all modern journ*lists. They are all just nobody bloggers with no skills so they get hired to write opinion pieces for niche topics they know nothing about.
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i'm gonna become a journ*list who specializes in the culture and life of urban african americans.
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Just make sure not to notice anything too hard
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all i'll have to do is treat them as if they are inherently better than non-blacks and follow the "these things are white supremacy" rules laid down by the smithsonian. i'll probably win awards!
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You may not like it, but this is what peak journ*lism looks like.
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I hope they play the knockout game with you
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Those who can, do
Those who can't, teach
Those who can't teach, teach gym
Those who can't teach gym, become journ*lists
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I'm not a fan of Journ*lists because my dad was a local editor for the newspaper, and I remember that he would want to edit my papers in 2nd grade and seemed to expect me to write at a college level.
My essay was all about catching Mewtwo in Pokemon and the day I traded it for a Beedrill because I didn't know that beedrill was an evolution of a common Pokemon and I kind of got scammed and I spelled Cat with a fricking K. I wrote about how it was the best day of my life.
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Being a child is no excuse. When I was 6 I was preoccupied with the balance of strategic nuclear forces compared to the Soviets.
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I traded my Platinum starter for a Bidoof but I legit beat the Elite 4 with the Bidoof because it had stellar EVs and an XP boost from the trade.
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Honestly, I'm kind of glad my parent was a journ*list, thinking of things. Having intellectual and developmental disabilities it gave me a very high vocabulary intelligence and although I still have the accent that people have when they have neurological disorders which makes them sound r-slurred in real life, it allows me to kind of pass as normal because I can speak eloquently.
I have a lot of cognitive issues and learning disabilities, but I can kind of pass as being normal due to my ability to use words. People with intellectual disabilities aren't fricking stupid. I may have an IQ of like 76-80, but I've worked to accommodate to it by reading and studying a lot. I just think differently.
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??? what
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There is a certain way people with intellectual or neurological disabilities have when talking which tells people "This person is r-slurred".
It's like a gaydar for r-slurs.
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Do you by chance like Sonic Underground?
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I've actually never played a sonic game.
I was really into Medieval fantasy games after playing Zelda Ocarina of Time and had an obsession with Chrono Trigger.
My interests as an adult have been biochemistry and I've been reading every Marvel comic in chronological order from 1961 with Fantastic Four #1, and I'm now on 1978 comics, but honestly, I'm getting bored but I've put in too much effort to stop.
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I'll give this journoid a pass bc he made neurodivergent nerds seethe over something no one cares about
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Is it really that hard to explain that a database is basically just a spreadsheet for coders?
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handles pivots better.
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the internet was the death of journ*lism. it made it so any r-slur could write articles for major news publications.
journ*lists used to be...real journ*lists. respected. unbiased. reported the actual news. asked the hard questions. dug for the truth.
now something like lol i don't know what this thing is. i won't try to understand it. it's dumb and boring and lame. from a new york times journ*list isn't seen as shocking or even bad journ*lism.
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I used to believe this, but then I found out it was mostly revisionist history. People have always hated journoids for much the same reasons that journoids are hated today.
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More importantly the internet destroyed journ*lism's near monopoly on advertising
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Tbh I can't blame the journo in this case. I've programmed for fun a lot and I work in tech and even to me, a lot of this shit is incredibly boring. The fraction of humans who would not be bored learning about the details of how PostgreSQL works is maybe like 1/10000. The journo's statement is accurate.
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There's no need for him to make a snide remark about how boring it all is. He could just finish that sentence after the word "PostgreSQL" and it would be fine.
edit: There's also no need to talk about yourself and what you can or cannot explain correctly, assuming this isn't a memoir. Write about the actual subject of the article and get somebody else's help if you can't do it.
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Eh
On one hand, yeah maybe you shouldn't be writing about a topic if you don't know something that basic.
On the other hand, you neighbors really think the average NYT reader gives a shit about Postgres? 99% of them don't even know what a database is.
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Shit, even people who supposedly understand computers have chosen to use mysql instead
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!codecels
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I actually hate journ*lists way more than this excerpt warrants.
This post rests on native land.
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That impossible inscrutable description, "a database".
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What is it about journo hate that riles people up. Being industrial grade rarted is pretty Chad if you own it. Is it the fact the journoids pretend they're not rarted that's the problem?
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You filthy PC plebs wouldn't understand the overwhelming feeling brought on from being an owner of the majestic device known as Mac.
Mac is not a thing, not a device, not a person. It is nothing yet everything. I tend to use God as an analogy. Mac and God tend to go hand in hand. Both are set on improving society and bring joy to people. They fulfill wishes, bring smiles to children, and provide Faith.
Faith is what you PC plebs lack. There is no proof for God, yet the majority of people believe in him. Chances are you do. Why can't you use this same Faith to believe in Mac? Mac shares the same ideals as God. In fact, many people have begun to merge God and Mac into one, known under the name as Mac.
Mac was chosen as it is similar to Om. Buddhists will be familiar what I am referring to. The simple act of saying the word "Mac" brings comfort, relief, and joy to ones self and those listening. It is a word that means everything good and defeats all that is evil.
This evil is you. Yes, you PC plebs. Our Lord and Savior Steve Jobs died at the Cancer for your sins. Because of you, The Lord perished. But save your lamenting, for he voluntarily died for your sins. He knows there is good in you. He knows that one day, you indeed will be a Mac.
Until that day I pray for you. Yes, I pray for my enemies unlike you vile demons. I pray that Steve Jobs may forgive you and your sins. I pray that you will discover the wonders of Mac.
I pray Mac.
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