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BTW, I should probably say that I may put spoilers under posts I CW "Genshin Impact", so if you dont want spoilers for that game, maybe be careful about those posts.

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Friendly reminder: it's good to be assertive, but it's not good to be aggressive, and there's a not-so-fine line between assertive and aggressive, and you cross that line (nay, yeet yourself deep into aggressive territory) the moment you decide other people's boundaries don't matter. Assertiveness is a good thing, but assertive people also take others into account and try very hard to not cross others' boundaries. Be assertive, not aggressive.

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In case you were curious, we were visited by a small flock of doves this afternoon

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steve jobs' open letter on flash is to computers what "reagan elected president" is as a temporal data point in socioeconomical graphs

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sometime after steve jobs killed flash computing as a whole lost all its whimsy

when is the last time you've seen a funny screensaver

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Lewd, no context 

The penis growth spurt

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they just announced the merriam webster word of the year 2025 and it's roguelike deckbuilder

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look I may not be much into the baseball but after Blue Jays won tonight it's still relevant:

fuck the yankees

I mean, I say rant, but I explicit said my rage died down so it was more of a mildly irritated ramble. Still, got to complain about problems in Searle's arguments.

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Nonsense vaguely related to my rant from earlier 

"If it walks like a human and talks like a human, it probably is a human...unless it's a computer in which case OH SHIT THAT'S A THINKING MACHINE BOIIIIIII!!!"

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Hot take 

The Chinese Room argument against computer sentience doesn't sit well with me for many reasons, but first and foremost is the fact that Searle's reply to criticism seems to be "Ah, but if you look at [thing indistinguishable from his original room], you'll find the man doesn't speak Chinese, therefore I am very smart."

Remember a couple years ago when I ranted about John Searle and the Chinese Room? Well, guess what class I'm taking this semester? That's right! Philosophy! And guess what came up in the chapter about ontology? That's right! Searle and the Chinese Room! Oh, but it gets better. One of the prompts for this week's discussion post was about if anything made us angry. Guess who got to rant about how much they hate John Searle! So, that was fun. Shame I don't have this class in-person...

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smoking the weed that makes you a werewolf

I'm just saying, having an epilepsy warning is all well and good, but maybe consider just not having all the flashing to begin with. Even for people without photosensitive epilepsy, it's not particularly pleasant to watch rapidly flashing colours

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"I don't know if France even still exists..."

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