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Speaking of worms eating brains, there was this experiment where scientists trained a worm to find food. Then, they killed the worm, blended its brains or brain equivalent, and fed it to other worms. When those worms were put into the same environment, they already knew how to find the food, apparently having learned it from eating the other worm’s brains.

So, it’s possible that this worm ate some of RFK Jr’s brains and that the worm went insane as a result.

The idea that a worm could eat a small portion of RFK Jr’s brain and cause him significant mental impairment is laughable. He wasn’t using his brain in the first place. Certainly the worm got the worst of the exchange.

Become a crab. Become an anteater.

I would call those normal footprints, not inverse footprints. We call both additive and subtractive marks left by feet “footprints.”

If you were to step in ink, and then step onto paper, that would create a footprint.

If you were to step in drying concrete, that would also create a footprint.

I’m reminded of this possibly apocryphal story about Picasso:

[A woman] approached Picasso in a restaurant, asked him to scribble something on a napkin, and said she would be happy to pay whatever he felt it was worth. Picasso complied and then said, “That will be $10,000.”

“But you did that in thirty seconds,” the astonished woman replied.

“No,” Picasso said. “It has taken me forty years to do that.”

To me, this story is about the paradox of mastering a craft. If a person has spent decades mastering an art or a craft, then when an amateur sees them working, it looks like it’s trivial. The amateur thinks, “Anybody could do that. I could do that, no problem. It’s easy.” Of course, it only looks easy because it’s the master doing it.

You know the paradox of tolerance? The idea that if you believe in tolerance, then you have to be intolerant of intolerance.

I think this general concept is applicable in many areas. Like, it makes sense to be nonviolent except in preventing more violence.

And in this case, we should all make a giant conspiracy to destroy the places where conspiracy theorists talk to each other.

The article says that his condition was stabilized, so he wasn’t murdered.

Also, according to this article, the retirement info you have can’t be right.

Meyer has been judge in Tippecanoe Superior Court 2 for 12 years. He’s in the final year of his second six-year term. Meyer, a Democrat, announced in December that he didn’t plan to run for a third term in 2026.

The election they’re talking about is in 2026, which makes sense, because if his term was up in January, it would be strange for an elected official to announce his retirement in December.

Also, I obviously don’t want to make any conclusions about motives, but I can’t help but see the word “Democrat” in that quote from above.

He seems like the sort whose pee and poo just goes straight into a collection bag of some sort.

I only got four hours of sleep last night, and it’s miserable after only one night.

I have brought great shame upon myself.

Since Jesus doesn’t know how to drive, you’d think he’d take one of the car’s four wheels rather than its steering wheel.

I’ve heard that this type of cicada lives underground for 13 or 17 years, which immediately jumps out as being two different prime numbers.

It seems odd at first that a species seems to know about prime numbers, but there is a natural explanation. If there are ones that emerge in non-prime intervals, they are more likely to emerge at the same time due to their common factors. So those ones would tend to emerge in greater numbers, making them easier for predators to specialize in.

But staying underground for long intervals in prime numbers of years makes it difficult for those predators, so the prime cicadas would have an evolutionary advantage.

Glancing over the rest of the comments, I don’t see somebody explicitly pointing out how we know Trump is full of shit and also dumb as shit in this letter.

First, he campaigned on “America First,” so he never felt an obligation to think “purely” of peace. It’s just a lie.

Second, he’s outright saying that he previously was giving the Nobel Prize committee an insane amount of control over American foreign policy because he wanted to be a Nobel Peace Prize. This is a dumb as shit thing to admit.

Third, is it Russia or China who we’re worried about taking over Greenland? Does Trump not understand that these are two different countries? Surely if he is working on some sort of intel, he’d specifically choose one of them to be worried about. I think this demonstrates that there’s no real intel about this, and he’s simply lying.

Fourth, why isn’t he waiting until Russia or China actually do something? If they actually did something militarily in Greenland, then America could swoop in and save the day. And then, he’d also have some actual reasoning behind statements that he could use to justify taking control of Greenland.

Also, NATO has done tons of stuff for the US. Why does America have the largest military budget in the world? It’s because America has chosen to maintain military presence all over the world. NATO has always supported American foreign policy.

Everything Trump is saying in this letter reeks of bullshit.

Is Hitler the queen of the hive in your eyes or Peter?

The question is whether you can commit genocide/xenocide and still be forgiven, and it’s a theme that the series touches on over and over. The most famous genocide today is the Holocaust, so critics of Card phrase it as whether you can forgive Hitler.

I’m sure that Card has spoken specifically about this subject (whether he thinks people should forgive Hitler), as well, and while I think I remember what he said, I’m not so sure that I would simply say it.

But he’s got a history of making some provocative statements about his beliefs.

Like, he has said that an important part of his books is to spread Mormon beliefs. I remember, after reading the Ender series, I read The Worthing Saga, and midway through, felt it necessary to go look up which religion he belonged to, just because he made it so obvious that he was criticizing Christian religions. (If I remember correctly, I didn’t have to look hard to find his religion, because it was in his biography on the book jacket.)

There are obviously different types of children. When I was in elementary school, I made a really stupid comment about a game my friends and I were playing, and even though my friends didn’t say anything about it, my stupid comment haunted me for years, even though I was the only person who remembered it.

Strangely, I’m old enough now that I don’t remember the comment, and I don’t even remember the game.

Anyways, my memories lingered, even in childhood. But I think I had more fun back then. The highs were definitely higher, but the lows were lower, too.

One reason that people are stupid is because rich people need slave labor, so they set up a system where people don’t learn to think for themselves.

I saw some sort of PSA where they were diagramming how much a criminal could learn from these stickers, and one of the stickers was something like a picture of a gun, with the words, “Come and take them.” And the criminal commentary was, “These people have guns that we can take.”

When I was a teenager, the Ender’s Game series was about exceptionally smart children. As an adult, it’s about eugenics and forgiving Hitler.

Brian Wilson spent a year in bed watching television.

If everyone had save states then it wouldn’t be a superpower.

Man, if I could have save states for my life and be able to reload from like any time in my life… Well, that would be one superpower that I’d like.