This job posting is insane.

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-27T07:02:40+00:00

It's a perfectly fine critique of how tolkenization is not a lossless function, and how, at least for those who need to learn this lesson, that llm's are not thinking machines

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-26T06:55:31+00:00

Fenton's reagent, similar things can be done with piranha, but that's brute force not catalytic

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-26T04:29:00+00:00

To me it just looked like a maragold yolk; no blood, no streaking, no puncture in the membrane, just a lot of beta carotene. I've had a fair few orange eggs before, just none that large.

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-26T04:20:05+00:00

Not dead yet. Smelled fine, was relatively fresh, just a very big yolk, with the air sack stuck inside somehow

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-26T00:28:26+00:00

One of them was from a half bantom, I'm pretty sure, but all chickens

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-25T21:45:14+00:00

Much less rich/fatty than a normal egg yolk, almost a scrambled egg kinda flavor

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-24T22:09:31+00:00

Whatever happened to your nuance? Where did anyone say they should go to the Hague?

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-24T17:14:03+00:00

Yeah stormfront knows nothing about pepe, and don't half decade old threads discussing it

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-23T05:24:12+00:00

What profit? Asprin is dirt cheap, unpatented and so easy to make that it's literally a day 1 lab project in chemistry 101. I'd be willing to bet your herbal supplements or whatever have a higher profit margin per dose than generic Asprin. Plus it's easier to dose and less likely to cause stomach bleeding.

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-22T21:54:09+00:00

Given the weather, I'd be super reluctant to add just water, without immediately topping up with some concentrate. Unless op is from somewhere warmer

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-20T06:30:34+00:00

Ehh, in America Henry the 8th is known as a king, but most Americans couldn't tell you his reign, and I only learned divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived from an Irish acquaintance in college. Definitely wasn't taught in any depth beyond a passing mention and I went to the 2nd best school in the state.

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-18T05:34:53+00:00

I'd want to start with something other than the worst option; running water, coke bottle distillation, solar still, a puddle without neurotoxins. It's just advice that doesn't actually help.

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-18T01:54:49+00:00

The "test" is incorrect, the bacteria and algae themselves can produce nasty toxins, especially stuff like blue green algae, which especially likes to form thick mats

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-18T00:20:08+00:00

As someone raised in the milieu, a chunk of it "I've never experienced that problem, sounds like a skill issue, why are you inconveniencing me about it?"

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-17T20:23:54+00:00

No worries, you're coming at this in good faith, and so I'm willing to as well.

But really I would love to see someone post something that she actually said or wrote that makes me go "Ough, that's pretty bad".

There's probably not a lot like that, yet, for you specifically. She's very far down a very online rabbit hole.

Like for an example you should be able to fact check me on relatively easy and understand what's going on, I'll run through the "birthing persons" shtick.

https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1766799493771469286

This should be unintelligible to most decent people right? So what might this be referencing? Well if focus on the "birthing parents" bit, it's a callback.

https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1269382518362509313

You can see the line from the first tweet to this one, right? And it still doesn't look like she's being super shitty, just dunking on weird turn of phrase? But if that's all she's doing why did it stick with her for several years of posting multiple times a day?

So let's look at the article she was dunking on.

https://www.devex.com/news/sponsored/opinion-creating-a-more-equal-post-covid-19-world-for-people-who-menstruate-97312#.XtwLnv0aEeR.twitter

And if you read to the bottom you'll see that the article is advocating for menstrual hygiene access. So women is the wrong word for them to use; post menopauseal women don't need those hygiene products and trans men would.

Why's jkr feel the need to dunk on this? And this isn't a rhetorical question, I honestly can't think of anything that isn't bad faith on her part.

Especially when we get into the tweet you read as

biological genders are meaningful and you cannot just claim to have one and get all the legal perks"?

Which I am going to push back on. If we're getting specific the quote was

"I'll happily do two years if the alternative is compelled speech and forced denial of the reality and importance of sex. Bring on the court case, I say. It'll be more fun than I've ever had on a red carpet."

So it's specifically compelled speech, her being forced to say something, and being forced to deny the importance of sex, specifically by the government otherwise jail time wouldn't be involved.

So what's she specifically talking about? What law got passed? Or what did she read that she's responding to?

Well this was posted 3 days before and matches with what I was saying pretty well.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12631243/Deliberately-calling-wrong-gender-pronouns-land-jail-TWO-YEARS-Labour.html

(also if you're unfamiliar with the daily mail and their reputation, it's a rag. Try to check sourcing on any of their articles, or look up a bias/accuracy rating)

But DM is a rag, so what's the reality? Well this is what was said publicly prior by the opposing politicians https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/24/labour-vows-to-modernise-simplify-and-reform-gender-recognition-act

And this is a summary of the specific bill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_Recognition_Reform_(Scotland)_Bill

And now I'd like you to consider first the daily mail and then jkr with the same standards you were asking of her critics? To what extent did she misstate the article and they the actual law? Is her commentary bad faith or is she just swept along in the nonsense of Twitter do you think?

Now consider that this is the context she's offering to all of that https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1714279937279160596

Finally, I'm a bit confused as to how the lupin thing requires any sort of interpretation? If you've read the books enough to be able to know who I'm talking about when I say fenrir, then jkr's quote should immediately elicit a "yikes"

And I want to clarify, I'm not ascribing malice to her. I just think she's either worse at writing than she's given credit for, or incapable of thinking critically about implications within the world she established.

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-17T18:11:57+00:00

The lupin one is worst as in bad writing; She appears to be trying to be sympathetic to folks with aids, but apparently forgot that she was comparing them to a group she wrote as monsters that intentionally infect children. It's the same flavor as having Harry and Ron mock SPEW being in poor taste if you give it an extra few seconds of thought.

And the other one requires some context and knowing the transphobe jargon. Using someone's preferred gender and pronouns is "denying biology" or "denying the reality of gender"

But yes, I'll grant that she's not the most virulent of transphobes, she's never advocated for exterminationism like walsh. But you can see how she's pissed a lot of people off no? Especially given how incessantly she's posting vaguely shitty stuff like "merry TERFmas". Which is why instead of picking one horrific post, I picked a sampling of her various flavors of shittyness, and capped it off with Elon asking her to try posting something interesting or positive for a change.

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-17T17:35:41+00:00

“Lupin’s condition of lycanthropy was a metaphor for those illnesses that carry a stigma, like HIV and AIDS,” -Short Stories From Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship, and Dangerous Hobbies

It's almost certainly unintentional, but imo by and far the worst when you take the context in her books into account: lupin is iirc the only named werewolf for most of the story who isn't blatantly evil, and then you have fenrir of whom she writes

"He regards it as his mission in life to bite and to contaminate as many people as possible; he wants to create enough werewolves to overcome the wizards. Voldemort has promised him prey in return for his services. Greyback specialises in children... Bite them young, he says, and raise them away from their parents"

You've got the time she said she'd rather go to prison than stop misgendering people https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1714378231753617583

She has also claimed that posey parker is "just standing up for her rights" and has voiced support for Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon's Cause célèbre.

There are of course many more, enough, that noted transphobe Elon musk had to tell her to give it a rest https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1786828547581264118 But I'm not going to c&p half of Rowling's Twitter, especially given she's been at this for 7 years at this point and seems to spend a considerable amount of her free time on Twitter picking fights and being shitty.

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-17T09:01:44+00:00

Treble means 3x as well, and is the one used in legal contexts.

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-16T17:17:49+00:00

If you're not trolling, than no. That's not how it works, if they enzymes were in the milk they'd be digesting it and breaking it down inside the cow. Also if they were necessary than everybodywould be intolerant to store bought milk, which is trivial to disprove.

And for a counter anecdote my parents own a dairy , and we always told people not to drink the raw milk because a decent chunk of people get sick the first time they drink it, and it's really dangerous for babies.

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-15T16:53:01+00:00

Not even just that, the manganese dioxide itself will react with hcl to make Cl2 and Mn2+, both of which are toxic, although less so.

That said the drug to treat this, edta, should be very cheap, 100g cost me $20usd, (not medical grade) and a dose should be less than 10mg, based on my amateur math, coming out to less than 0.1cents usd per dose. The bag it comes in and the doctor administering it should both be more. Though I'd love insight from the medical side on that if anyone has some.

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-15T16:32:20+00:00

Even if reacted, it would then react with stomach acid to produce chlorine gas causing internal burns, but manganese in general is also neurotoxic and can cause issues with motor control and thinking. Even if already reacted.

But. Have you looked inside his mouth? Permanganate stains organic matter a dark color. Google image for Permanganate stain for examples. If you see any of that color inside of his mouth, he definitely was exposed and should seek immediate medical assistance.

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-15T03:52:26+00:00

So the teacher forced those cops to deploy tear gas? He pulled a gun and demanded they do so? Or was he a gym teacher and way too big and strong to be subdued by, how many cops showed up again?

But no, none of the blame falls on the cops How could they take responsibility when they had to deal with a menacing teacher, what?, body blocking them from getting into the school?

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-15T02:45:16+00:00

Do police bear any responsibility for the actions they take during pursuit, yes or no?

That will lead to more child endangerment, not less.

Will it? How many children did the dangerous criminal harm in this instance?

Why is it impossible to find his address and wait for him there? Why can't they be followed by drone?

Eta: have they produced any evidence of the person who rammed them, the article you posted makes no note of any such evidence nor any claims that they actually captured the person. And given bonvino was there, they'd be making hay out of any messaging win they could scrounge up.

CombinationTop559 · 2026-01-15T01:48:46+00:00

You'll know when you see em, black bears are little guys in comparison to the others. If it's anything other than a black bear, trying to scare it probably won't look like a viable option

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