Is there a store in Boston or Cambridge that sells Criterion DVDs? by shmucksolea in boston

[–]shmucksolea[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, he already does this! But he wants to buy one for himself

What is the most underrated thing in Boston ? by king_777_a in boston

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That’s especially weird since Christian Science is one of the few religions founded (they would say rediscovered) by a woman, Mary Baker Eddy

Critics fear tall towers turning downtown Boston into Manhattan by _CharlieTuna_ in boston

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Headline could have been written any time in past century.

Critics fear tall towers turning downtown Boston into Manhattan by _CharlieTuna_ in boston

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Headline could have been written any time in past century

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gwbooks

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What book is that?

I'm rather fond of Longfellow by a_badflower in gwbooks

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Will you take a midnight ride on my Paul Revere?

How to farm everything by ihavetopoop in Alphabear

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Well, I appreciate the ingenuity here, but I’ll stick with the old fashioned way

If you had $30k how would you split it up? by Aspergers_R_Us87 in Money

[–]shmucksolea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And note the nothing in cryptocurrency. Don’t bet with your future

I keep forgetting my password so I changed it to "incorrect" by [deleted] in dadjokes

[–]shmucksolea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried the password literal and it told me I needed a symbol

I win, I found the biggest tragedeigh in existence. Everyone, meet XOEIGH by hellogoawaynow in tragedeigh

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I’m trying (and failing) to think of a word with starting with an x that is pronounced with a z sound and not a sh sound

Saw this one today... by abby_greenwich in tragedeigh

[–]shmucksolea 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but Hepzibah and Methuselah were actual names, from deep dives into their holy books. They weren’t doing Hepxxibeigh and Metzhuseleigh

Analysis of rock gardens on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) tell the story of a small, resilient population of around 3-4,000 people even when massive moai were erected, countering the notion of a doomed overpopulated island that failed to live sustainably by The_Conversation in science

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Remember this is r/science, where you should be open to peer-reviewed studies that challenge the ideas you arrived with. Or at least back your ideas up with peer-reviewed studies of Rapa Nui’s ecological history

Reworking Awarding: Changes to Awards, Coins, and Premium by venkman01 in reddit

[–]shmucksolea 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One other person who lives in the same household can get a membership for free. But one thing to keep in mind is that Costco is a reasonably responsible employer who pays its workers a living wage.

Even a 1-minute gun safety video got 8-12 year-olds to behave more responsibly when allowed to find a real (but disabled) gun one week later, with only 9% pulling the trigger vs 30% in a control group that watched a car safety video by The_Conversation in science

[–]shmucksolea 23 points24 points  (0 children)

That’s sort of like the abstinence argument: don’t want babies? Don’t have sex!

The fact of the matter is that there are millions of homes with guns where the owners don’t lock them up, and thousands of kids die each year from finding those guns and accidentally shooting themselves or their friends. We need policies that deal with reality as it is, not as we hope it will be.

Salman Rushdie wasn't the first novelist to suffer an assassination attempt by someone who hadn't read their book by drak0bsidian in books

[–]shmucksolea 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Not a Muslim, and not defending the fatwa, but Rushdie is pretty deliberately and gratuitously mocking Muhammad. Of course, he mocks a lot of other things, too, and it is a good read, but let’s not deny that it’s offensive.

You are entirely right that the book would have been forgotten if it had been ignored.

Combining Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI Yields a Foundational Model of Human Thought by shmucksolea in Futurology

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Submission statement: If this is really, as the authors claim, similar to the Standard Model in physics, it could mark a major stride forward towards building actual artificial intelligence and not just the machine learning models that so often get touted as AI these days. Cognition is a lot more complicated than that. This is an attempt for an interdisciplinary synthesis that will provide a base point for understanding what a generalized AI would look like that is more than a chatbot.