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Case in point: every single TNG episode where Troi has a non-Riker love interest
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Case in point: every single TNG episode where Troi has a non-Riker love interest
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rear-end me daddy
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
rear-end me daddy
rear-end me daddy
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
rear-end me daddy
Man I’d forgotten about that. Fully chortling
November 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Man I’d forgotten about that. Fully chortling
*not the level of processing itself
November 18, 2025 at 7:09 AM
*not the level of processing itself
Also, physical computers don’t carry out abstract computations. They carry out physical processes that (by design) *can usefully be modelled by* abstract computations. The abstraction takes place on the level of theory, not the process of processing itself
November 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Also, physical computers don’t carry out abstract computations. They carry out physical processes that (by design) *can usefully be modelled by* abstract computations. The abstraction takes place on the level of theory, not the process of processing itself
This is actually very important when it comes to talking about what they can and can’t do
November 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
This is actually very important when it comes to talking about what they can and can’t do
So there’s a bunch of stuff here I used to agree with and now don’t, but one particular point I think it’s important to clarify is that digital computers are not Turing machines: they interact with the world around them, which TMs do not, and they are finite, which TMs are not
November 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
So there’s a bunch of stuff here I used to agree with and now don’t, but one particular point I think it’s important to clarify is that digital computers are not Turing machines: they interact with the world around them, which TMs do not, and they are finite, which TMs are not
this was first described to me by my cousin as ‘the Shit Man Theory of History’
November 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
this was first described to me by my cousin as ‘the Shit Man Theory of History’
definitely a scam
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
definitely a scam
I’m making a purely historical point here
November 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I’m making a purely historical point here
Now if you’d like to argue there’s some sort of step change into modernity that happens specifically in the subsequent 35 years you’re welcome to but I think it’s a hard case to make
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Now if you’d like to argue there’s some sort of step change into modernity that happens specifically in the subsequent 35 years you’re welcome to but I think it’s a hard case to make
The founding of the Metropolitan Police in 1829 is commonly recognised as the birth of modern policing
November 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The founding of the Metropolitan Police in 1829 is commonly recognised as the birth of modern policing
I’m pretty sure 1830s England didn’t have any slave-catching patrols
November 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I’m pretty sure 1830s England didn’t have any slave-catching patrols
I’m really bad at bar work
November 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I’m really bad at bar work
oh yeah no I wasn’t joking
November 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
oh yeah no I wasn’t joking
if working bar is unskilled how come I’m so bad at it
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
if working bar is unskilled how come I’m so bad at it
Liquor maybe? Furs?
November 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Liquor maybe? Furs?
reading this in the voice of George W. Bush
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
reading this in the voice of George W. Bush
it is saved on my computer as honkers_tito.jpg
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
it is saved on my computer as honkers_tito.jpg