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y have had was overwhelmed by the onions other greens i ve had such as kale and collards can be quite strong in my opinion unpleasantly so so i don t mind the mildness people claim nettles have all sorts of health benefits but i have my doubts perhaps our ancestors at the end of a long winter eating only what they could store were in genuine need of fresh greens by the time nettles arrived just as sailors at sea were in genuine need of oranges and lemons but it is unusual for someone who shops at a modern grocery store to be deficient in anything but sunlight i conclude that if you re looking for greens and you re okay with picking something that will try to bite you back nettles aren t a bad choice next time i ll try making tea 9 comments bad content vs good february 7 2021 evolutiontheorist uncategorized memes modernity viral memes so i was reading this interesting article on the journalistic tattletale industry by glenn greenwald recommended by a friend and came across this quote the article itself is about how these people have become censorious hall monitors who go crying to the principal if they think you even breathed a bad word and oliver here is one of these whiny hall monitors demanding that big tech change its algorithms to stop bad faith actors that said oliver here has stumbled onto something interesting all systems are vulnerable to gaming by unscrupulous actors let s look at ecosystems for example here you are a nice innocent rabbit eating grass feeding your bunnies when bam a hawk swoops down and just takes advantage of all your hard work and f ing eats you if i were a rabbit i d be royally pissed for those few seconds before the hawk tears my head off or from a different perspective here you are a good hard working hawk bringing food home to your chicks when some sneaky bastard parasite infects you and starts eating your food here you did all the hard work to catch that food and now that tapeworm is just lying there doing nothing and absorbing your nutrients ask anyone who s ever lived in a planned society actually getting societies to work and be good pleasant places to live in is difficult just look at the issues people had in the soviet union the city of brasilia or any cult even if everyone starts off with good intentions which they often don t things have a habit of going wrong in unexpected ways every society involves planning to some extent even in very simple societies some large scale decisions that affect the whole group have to be made like we are going to the watering hole today or we re going to hunt for game over in that valley instead of this one the soviet union stands as an example of an extensively planned society but many ordinary societies struggle with mundane issues like police bribery or the red tape one of the big problems with discussing cheaters parasites and social defectors is that you have to think about the problem on two levels on the ground level ordinary people have to morally disdain cheaters and defectors and parasites and refuse to work with them they need to view them with disgust and react accordingly because this makes it much harder for cheaters to operate on the planning level you have to abandon the notion of parasites as free willed agents who can just be convinced to behave if you just exhort them and ask why the system creates conditions where cheaters and parasites thrive in the first place for example if you make regulations and red tape so onerous that honest businessmen simply can t operate in the market then you get an extensive black market here the ultimate solution isn t encourage black market merchants to be better people nor exhort ordinary people to avoid black markets though these are still good things to do nor execute the black market merchants but take some of the regulatory burden off honest businessmen so they can turn a profit so if you re concluding that bad content thrives on these platforms a take i agree with though i define bad content differently than oliver does then you need to ask why this bad content is so popular no one designed the algorithms with spread bad content in mind after all personally i m inclined to think that bad content is mostly a side effect of these being systems where you talk listen to a bunch of strangers you don t know them and they don t know you the ordinary consequences of lying to or hurting someone in your community are largely non existent on the internet or vastly distorted and the best solution i ve come up with so far ironically since this is a blog is for most people to avoid spending a lot of time interacting with strangers on the internet if you re addicted to twitter just send rude comments to the right people and they ll do you the service of kicking you off the platform for you limit your facebook to actual real life friends and family if you must use the internet to organize real life events like meetups or hikes or parties for your dog especially once this stupid pandemic is over but keep it grounded in the real love your families value your friends and have some children for goodness sakes modernity selects for those who resist it after all 5 comments avoiding hyperstimuli january 30 2021 evolutiontheorist uncategorized hyperstimuli are like regular stimuli but turned up to 11 fruit contains naturally occurring fruit sugars which your body craves because sugar is an important energy source and fruit is full of valuable nutrients fruit is a natural stimulus candy is made from a vegetable sugarcane that has had all of the annoying fibrous vegetable part stripped away and been refined down to a pure sugary chemical substance running is normal riding a rollercoaster is not chatting with your friends is a normal social interaction getting a thousand likes on facebook is not most of us have happiness setpoints that we tend to return to after weathering the slings and arrows of fate and fortune some of us tend to be happy people facing misfortune with confidence that things will turn out some of us tend to be dour facing happiness as a trial to be endured until misery returns of course there are exceptions and things that really do radically alter your life i m not starving anymore yay but for most of us most of the time will trend back to our normal moods this implies that the hyperstimuli in your life are not really making you any happier long term you are no happier eating hamburgers and pizza than you would be eating rice and beans because you adjust to the presence of the hyperstimulus and downgrade to treating it like a normal stimulus pizza once a year is a feast pizza once a month is fun pizza every day is monotonous but once your brain is used to processing hyperstimuli like normal stimuli regular stimuli look pale and boring by comparison if you can have ice cream and cookies and hamburgers and pizza for dinner why would you have rice and beans oh sure you know rice and beans are better for you you have some sense that you d weigh a lot less on rice and beans and that you d spend a lot less on food you might even avoid a heart attack abstractly these are all nice things but rice and beans are boring you don t want rice and beans you want pizza of course maybe if you d never started eating hyperstimulating food every day in the first place you d think a good plate of rice with a side of nicely spiced beans was pretty nice 11 comments everyone s a conspiracy theorist now january 14 2021 evolutiontheorist uncategorized internet meme viruses memes viral memes we live in interesting times the internet was supposed to usher in an era of increased knowledge understanding and maybe even human harmony instead it has turned us all into conspiracy theorists don t get hoity toity and claim that it s only those bad guys over on the other side of the aisle who believe in conspiracies the left believes that the country is run by a secret cabal of heterosexual white men whose tentacles reach into every aspect of life from prenatal care to television to incarceration as conspiracies go this one is well established and believed to some degree by nearly everyone on the left millions of dollars have been funneled into university research departments for the purpose of uncovering more evidence of this secret cabal s universal reach the right s beliefs are far more heterogenous unlike the left they struggle to pick a single enemy to blame and focus all of their attacks on but right now they are united in their belief that democrats cheated and stole the election this right wing conspiracy is nearly identical to the left wing conspiracy of 4 years ago that russia stole the election if any leftists are reading this i hope you realize now just how dumb your putin conspiracies sounded and i hope you sincerely regret the billions of taxpayer dollars you guys spent investigating that nonsense there are people struggling to pay rent and buy food you know ahem to be clear just because something is a conspiracy doesn t make it wrong people have conspired in the past people will conspire in the future sometimes there genuinely is something going on most of the time though people aren t conspiring in the way we typically use the word people look out for themselves they make backroom deals they protect their turf they grift and graft and try to cover up incompetence things aren t done in secret so much as most people don t have time to keep track of all of the boring details unfortunately if you yourself do not know much about a field it is rather difficult to distinguish between someone who actually knows a lot about that field and someone who merely sounds like they know about that field if you have any expertise in any field you have probably noticed both people who think they know a lot about your field when they actually don t and also people who believe these fakers many normal people simply can t distinguish between actual expertise and things that sound like expertise the situation only gets worse when the popular view of a field is already incorrect take for an historical example heliocentrism versus geocentrism if you were an ordinary person in gallileo s age you d know in your bones that geocentrism was obviously correct things don t move unless you push them and what s going around pushing the earth you ve moved you walked and run ridden horses and ridden in carts and you know what movement feels like it feels like an earthquake which clearly doesn t happen every day any idiot can look up at the sky and notice that the clouds sun moon planets and stars all clearly go around the earth this is all common sense the idea that some ivory tower mathematicians have invented a new math lolwut and used it to determine that the earth is secretly moving but you can t feel it because handwaves you only feel acceleration and deceleration not steady movement i have never ridden on a horse is clearly just nerds making stuff up from the inside any particular worldview provides detailed and accurate explanations of the universe around it and from the outside looks silly why did it rain well because we did a rain dance because the crocodile god was angry because energy from the sun sucked water from the ocean into the air as invisible water and then a low pressure zone in canada made the air flow over to your neighborhood and as the air moved uphill it lost the ability to hold up the water and it formed into clouds and rained why didn t it rain again today you did the rain dance wrong your sacrifice to the crocodile god made him happy canada warmed up my mother has recently become very enthusiastic about qanon i don t consider this a problem she s bored because of covid and it gives her something to do but it is fascinating to watch which ideas she finds credible and which ones she doesn t of course most conspiracies contain at their hearts some grain of truth does the vatican have a pedophile problem well yes is the roman catholic church something like a huge international network of powerful pedophiles working together to protect each other from prosecution well that s not exactly the first definition i d give of it but i can see how someone who was abused by a priest as a child might see it that way did the pope hack the us election in order to get trump out of office before he shuts down the vatican s satanic international child trafficking ring i have serious doubts good luck disabusing a qanon fan of their favorite conspiracy theories q is internally consistent enough to provide explanations for all observed phenomena and before you start you ll have to do a bunch of research on your own to figure out which of their claims are actually true and which aren t supported by the evidence then you ll have to come up with a good explanation for why all of these seemingly trustworthy people are lying and a bunch of alternative explanations for all of the pro q evidence at which point you are trying to convince your friend that there exists a secret conspiracy of people on the internet who completely fabricated this entire qanon thing for years and tricked her into believing it for no discernable reason other than the lols or maybe ad revenue at which point you sound like the crazy conspiracy theorist and the exact same is true on the left just try to convince them that there is not actually a great big conspiracy of white men trying to oppress them and you ll get an endless stream of what about this and you re wrong about this minor point and here s a psych study that was conducted by totally unbiased researchers that proves babies are racist bizarre effect of the internet everyone now believes in conspiracies 18 comments new year new president january 7 2021 evolutiontheorist uncategorized election 2020 trump my husband made a good point yesterday that an historian a hundred years from now could reasonably argue that trump was never truly president because he was never allowed by the rest of the system to assume full power for these four years america has been essentially sans president the system has chosen biden never mind whether it reflects the will of the voters if we cared about true democracy we wouldn t have an electoral college either the rule isn t no cheating the rule is only do as much cheating as you can get away with of course it is better if the cheating is done behind closed doors so it doesn t undermine the legitimacy of the system but the system was already having serious legitimacy issues due to the rest of the government having a serious allergic reaction to trump 2 comments the specter of morality january 1 2021 evolutiontheorist uncategorized morality i think one of the problems with the teaching of history our understanding of morality is that we look back on he past and think oh it s so obvious that x was evil only evil people could have supported x if i lived back then i d have been a good person who opposed x for example most people today think the nazis were evil not just run of the mill evil l...
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