This is just awful. We live in a 5 story bldg in Manhattan being swallowed by high rises and are currently in an impossible battle to stop the “tallest hospital in the world” from being built outside our windows.

Families want to move because traffic/construction will endanger… https://t.co/AEKFxkTlPb

— NYC Parent (@nycfreethinker) May 18, 2024

I have a very serious question for folks that have airbnbs and are adamantly against parties. Why else would someone need a house that sleeps 12, has a pool in the back, pool table wet bar and 100" TV in the basement? That isn't for a quiet vacation.

— Cowboy Rai (@yay_itsrai) May 17, 2024

Fellow females, always cut off their peepees first so you can go on the social media apology tour instead.

!metashit

this is going to turn me into the joker pic.twitter.com/BDz8FgWtV8

— and my name is alex (now on bsky) (@DudeExclamation) May 19, 2024

https://twitter.com/manuclearbomb/status/1426363490638483457

A big Simpsons thread from two years ago is getting new traction on Twitter as new generations realize the Sneed show was funny (rip Phil Hartman). However, zoomers are so used to musicals that reheat dead franchises with corny music that they fail to understand why Planet of the Apes: the Musical is funny.

Full clip:

Additional seethe (mostly 15 year olds asking where the shiny lights, references to modern movies, and Rick and Morty references are in a clip that is older than they are):

https://twitter.com/socialnomadrach/status/1791794323425800223

https://twitter.com/sonyplaytation/status/1792336067598881226

https://twitter.com/thegrayfruit/status/1791820189648003214

https://twitter.com/wiiiframe/status/1791918626767020186

I HATE EVERY APE I SEE

FROM CHIMPAN-A TO CHIMPANZEE

Let's check in on the song that the latest season of the Simpsons was advertising in an episode last week by the way, extreme coal warning: https://twitter.com/thesimpsons/status/1789816702869348687

https://old.reddit.com/r/Plumbing/comments/154bvud/overflowing_clogged_potty_and_wont_flush/?sort=controversial

Close and lock the door. Then move and change your name.

My thoughts

auger

My plumber got so pissed off he kept having to come back and unclog my potty that he bought me an auger. LOL, and he was charging $100+ for each visit hahahah.

Bro at that point I would just burn the house down honestly.

Like even if you get the potty unclogged you gonna have to bleach the whole bathroom and the potty seat gonna have be tossed unless you really about that life ahahaha

!poopers

Pearl clutching straggots

Prostitute Girlfriend Drama "My Girlfriend Sells Spring" vol 1 by Goto Negi

Human Drama about a man who meets a cute girl on a dating app and quickly they fall for each other. However the girl lies about her job in her profile, saying she's in the fashion industry when she is in… pic.twitter.com/RSylzJFQir

— Manga Mogura RE (Manga & Anime News) (@MangaMoguraRE) May 16, 2024

!anime the Nips are cuckposting again

She's still trying to recover from a bad breakup so I'm trying to be patient with her. She definitely has autism but clearly it's not the cool high-speed/low-drag type like I have.

Horizon only have 2 games and has almost outsold the entire Souls franchise. LMAOhttps://t.co/2IuoWYgEKR https://t.co/BYQTH61JKG pic.twitter.com/9ggwSma9tr

— NoHayNadie (@Soplox) May 18, 2024

Any body of academic thought whose paradigmatic communication medium is video rather than text is prima facie suspect. Might you please link a written statement of the salient position(s) of any one of these gentlemen?

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I think it's pretty elitist to judge the quality of a content via whether it's in a book/journal or not. In fact, the recent wave of scientific fraud discovery shows that one can hide data manipulation pretty effectively in an academic journal. I'd much rather scientists spend their time making eli5 videos.

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Just curious, why do you write like that? Reminds when I was 11 and wanted to sound smarter on the internet.

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My reply is an attempt to address the original comment with precision. To diagram its intended meaning:

alternative theories of consciousness

"Any body of academic thought" [I accede the scientific legitimacy of the domain of discourse, rather than dismissing it.]

know where to go to find well-argued positions on the topic.

"whose paradigmatic communication medium" [This is the beginning of my challenge to the Original Commenter, by granting the information provided authoritative status, which they perhaps cannot fully defend.]

On YouTube you can find plenty of discussions

"is video rather than text"

it's particularly important to explore these discussions as dispassionately as possible if you regard materialism as the only theory of mind that has any scientific credibility or validity.

"is prima facie suspect" [The Original Commenter has asserted that discourse and engagement are important, yet provided only time consuming, low signal-to-noise sources of information.]

As Christopher Hitchens reminds us in his legendary oration on John Stuart Mill and free speech [2]

"Might you please link a written statement of the salient position(s) of any one of these gentlemen?" [The only written citations are 1) generic and 2) ancillary to the core topic. I invite the Original Commenter to further his argument more substantively, without demanding exhaustive citations.]

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OK, let me rewrite it:

Any body of academic thought whose paradigmatic communication medium is video rather than text is prima facie suspect. Might you please link a written statement of the salient position(s) of any one of these gentlemen?

Academic content is usually in text, not video. Do you have links to written work from them?

Shorter and the exact same meaning. Also doesn't sound like you've been perusing your thesaurus all day.

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No, the second approach's meaning is more obtuse. What does "usually" mean? Are there acceptable alternatives? If content is in an alternative mode of communication, is it acceptable?

These vagaries permitted in your revision are clear and inherent in the original commenter's motion. Therefore, I submit your adjudication of "shorter and the exact same meaning" is woefully superficial in it's drive for simplicity, to the point there is no thought left that is clear in the original garden. Further, exact and technical communication is what separates Hacker News commenting from the hordes of subreddits that thrive on imprecise babble.

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At minimum, this does not capture that I _am_ challenging the Original Commenter ("prima facie suspect") to more rigorously defend his position, but doing so respectfully. "One salient" written source is a carefully chosen framing: the OC cannot meet it by replying with support peripheral or meta to the main argument, but neither can he dismiss my request as burdensome, demanding multiple links.

The proposed revision suffers from its terseness, losing both nuance and completeness.

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Communication is about being understood. Not about crafting the perfect sentence. Even if you craft the perfect sentence, that will be the perfect sentence _for you_, and it might be completely lost on many people, some perhaps even more intelligent than you.

The subtext of "Academic content is usually in text, not video" is "I don't trust this because it's in video, not text". Now if you say that is not clear, sure, but the subtext of your comment is "I opened a thesaurus and tried to seem smart", which is why this conversation derailed here. You can't ignore the subtext to craft a mathematically perfect sentence..

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Communication is about being understood.

The subtext of "Academic content is usually in text, not video" is "I don't trust this because it's in video, not text". Now if you say that is not clear, sure

Indeed, relying on the implicit when the explicit is sufficient [0] does a disservice to one's readers, in whose ability and charity to comprehend my surface text, without presuming confounding subtextual meaning, I have every confidence.

[0] It is not always; some things can only be gestured at, not grasped.

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I hope some day you realize how cringe your comments are.

There's more in there... !clinklickers but I got sick of trying to copy the formatting right because the HNewses also love their >

Ontop of this, what would the ideologies be? What are your ideas for them? It is a world in which websites are countries, so i am sure some omega autist can help a small autist out

So uh, i guess i would need some ideas for leaders for rdrama, and some alternative roads for the focus tree.

The plan right now is to also make around 30/40 "significant nations" with national ideas and so on, then fill it up with small irrelevant countries and so on.. Then make a custom map and put everything together and boom cool alpha of mod.

Women Nowadays 😹 pic.twitter.com/kaeZPY97fK

— raviraz (@zravirazz) May 18, 2024