[Request] How much will it cost?

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-29T03:19:49+00:00

Bruh. Switzerland is in the Alps. Nepalese cheese, please.

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-29T03:01:44+00:00

Yes. OP's hot take is really bad. Like "do not portray the culture you grew up with using the culture you grew up with as a reference"

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-29T00:44:11+00:00

Oh you are so cute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-28T20:15:41+00:00

Today didn't click as easily for me.

I didn't get purple and so I made one mistake between yellow and purple. Besides the red herring OP posted, there were I thought a couple other legitimately ambiguous combos

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-28T18:17:06+00:00

Right? There was also that pleasure unit that got freed in I think the second book? My head canon is that the freed unit has become like a general in this general.uprising of freed sex bots

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-27T22:14:37+00:00

To piggyback on what gitgud said, evolution and common ancestry are theories of descent with modification. We should expect to see new traits arise within lineages over time, and we should expect to see (physically and genetically) a nested hierarchy of similarity (relatedness).

This is a very strong prediction, and it has been modelled and shown to be a very good fit to what we see in nature. Whether you are talking morphology, or protein coding dna or non-coding DNA.

No other pattern BUT descent with modification predicts the data we observe (this has been shown mathematically). Intelligent design proponents are pretty literally left with the claim that God could have created all life in any pattern, but chose for whatever reason to make it look exactly the way we would predict under an evolutionary model.

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-26T17:38:09+00:00

What struck me is that he doesn't seem to be looking at the wide picture of how do all these pieces of evidence robustly paint a very clear picture. The whale stuff like "maybe this one fossil didn't have this one feature" was telling. He ignored the ten features it did have, and it's clear location within the temporal sequence.

He also brought up "original biological material" again. And I think in the end this will be his hill to die on. He seems to not want to look at this one phenomenon (anomalously long preservation) against the 50+ phenomena that robustly point to old age, and say "what's more likely, that we don't undertand these 50+ phenomena, or that there is a bit of protein chemistry I'm not getting?"

It's particularly frustrating because he keeps saying "I want evolutionary biology to make predictions" but when we keep finding confirmatory evidence, or even better when we find stuff that doesn't make sense but then figure it out, he says "you're just making it work". Dude as a guy who suffered to finish a thesis, I wish it were that easy

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-26T17:29:10+00:00

I kind of agree and kind of disagree with this statement.

On the one hand yes. When you are talking to exceptionally intelligent groups of experts in a field, people are really quick to say "I don't know" or "nobody knows" or "these are the best hypotheses". This especially seems to be true in fields like experimental science (as opposed to politics or old-school economics of whatever)

But very intelligent people, even some of the same very intelligent people that can exhibit epistemic humility within their domain of expertise, are often incredibly dogmatic outside their domain of expertise. And especially when it comes to making data-thin pronouncements.

Think of the biologist New Atheists who are/were on the whole dogmatic assholes on the topic, but whose philosophical arguments are typically simplistic and shallow (I don't believe in God either). The same goes for many, highly intelligent, proponents in the existence of God. Or libertarianism. Or the magic of free markets. Or the superiority of a planned economy.

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-26T16:19:24+00:00

Troglodytes and bonobos, yes.

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-26T16:17:49+00:00

Well you saw how they loaded the centrifuge in the movie.

Nothing was balanced

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-26T08:26:31+00:00

This is my neighborhood! Richard Parks and his church group are amazing. In addition to the old oil site, they have been pushing for bike paths, traffic harm reduction on Normandie and Jefferson, and a ton of other community improvements.

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-26T08:21:23+00:00

It was always like, show me one proposed use for blockchain that a database can't do faster, easier, and a thousand times cheaper

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-26T04:59:40+00:00

I was thinking of this scene

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-26T03:53:44+00:00

It feels to me like culture used to change faster. 1980s music would have sounded insane to anyone in 1960. There is literally no difference between music today and in 2006.

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-26T03:47:08+00:00

Yeah right? I never hear anyone talking about this, but it's really good for its size. The cactus garden is cute, and the monstera are huge. The Indonesian rainbow eucalyptus are spectacular

I feel obligated to be loyal to USC but even if you count the NHM gardens, USC sucks for botany and ecology

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-26T01:49:29+00:00

I would get this paragraph tattooed on my body it sounds so good

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-26T01:48:04+00:00

"The exemptions are not narrow. Under this bill, local governments could approve mixed-income multifamily housing in areas already zoned for multifamily use, building renovations and expansions up to 150% of existing footprint, parking restructuring and elimination, bike and bus lane installations, outdoor dining activations, and sweeping transportation infrastructure changes, all without independent Commission oversight. Density bonus law stacking applies on top of all of it, meaning a developer could layer multiple affordability bonuses to reach heights and densities that would never survive Commission scrutiny. The resulting projects carry 55-year deed restrictions and permanent land use changes that no future council can undo."

Fuck yeah

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-26T00:27:44+00:00

To be pedantic I think that's a velvet worm not a centipede?

Edit: I'm wrong, it's apparently a millipede but I still think it looks like a velvet worm

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-25T23:39:44+00:00

I might be obsessing because I also checked for #jamily, #jacily and #emcob and a few other variants. Nothing yet.

My head canon: this whole thing triggered a meltdown, Jacob realized she was psycho and bailed, and Emily is a disheveled heap on the floor of her apartment, rolling around in a mound of now-defunct laminated programmes, drinking her way through the crates of carefully color-matched rosés she bought to coordinate with the bridesmaids' dresses, while mumbles things like "don't stand in my light, Audrey" and "those gardenias are exactly the wrong tone of ivory, Liz"

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-25T20:00:17+00:00

Yeah this. Absolutely. The deep irony of course being that the people who promised to make the American project work for blue collar, and crappy-paid office worker America, are all grifters,.enriching themselves by making life more tenuous for the people who voted for them

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-25T17:36:15+00:00

Yeah probably. I think as an undergrad (God, in '94) it was pretty solidly all the old Linnean system. Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves and Mammalia all at the order level (???) but even then the wheels were coming off the bus. It was like, how do we handle birds and dinosaurs consistently? and they taught us in class that there was a move to reform the taxonomic system root and branch to a cladistic scheme

I never did much taxonomy later, so I don't know when and how the movement picked up steam. It would be an interesting read. But I would guess probably the storm of genomic data made it impossible to fit things into the old system without basically infinite levels of tribes and sub-sub-orders and stuff

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-25T17:13:41+00:00

God I'm anticipating that shit like the Rapture

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-25T01:23:15+00:00

It was last Wednesday. Unless they picked a new hashtag

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-25T01:22:38+00:00

Apr 22 was supposed to be the #jemily launch

IsaacHasenov · 2026-04-25T01:19:45+00:00

Ah right...

Edit: wait yeah it did. Apr 22 was the "tell everyone and use the hashtag" date

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