Clare Heimer

Gonna pop a Tylenol and look at some trains to see what all the fuss is about.

Wow the fighting is intense and brutal on the front lines of culture

Fox News is going to be so mad when they hear about this

If they’d started with Nietzsche and Schopenhauer you would say “Jesus, how did end up in Nazi accounting school?”

To put this differently: I recently took an accounting ethics course. In the introductory “what is ethics” section they were like “here’s Aristotle, here’s Kant, here’s Bentham and Mill.” It’s not perfect but empirically these are the touchstones in these normie conversations.

I’m sympathetic to that agenda! May he be less relevant to the ethical conversations of the future

I want to be clear that I’m not my goal is not to identify Kant with anything here. I don’t like him either—but his influence means that his omission (along with the omission of Locke, who I also don’t like) illuminates the question of “bare minimum for holding a conversation with whom?”

It doesn’t exonerate the algorithm but I did get images of women of color from chatGPT by saying “Generate a collection of images, each image showing one woman, such that the collection shows a racially diverse group of women”

Where Kant’s own sympathies lie is a separate question—he’s clearly very racist—but e.g. the categorical imperative has been broadly influential and useful for non-Nazi thinkers

Both Kant and e.g. Nietzsche are important to the subsequent development of both Nazi and non-Nazi thought but I think it’s pretty unambiguous that Kant is *more* important to non-Nazis and *less* important to Nazis than Nietzsche is

Yes! This is compatible with what I said which is that he is also important to non-Nazi thought

Even among white men, there is a clear decision to omit some political philosophers with clearly greater objective importance to the development of non-Nazi thought (Locke, Marx, Mill, Kant)

Do you have suggestions for supporting kids around this age in learning the game? My 6-year-old just got their first pokemon cards and they are very excited to learn

I personally think my pride would be just fine living in a more normal-sized state of Northern California but other Californians do not seem to agree

13% no/75% yes and 17% no/72% yes

It was polled in 2018 (“cal 3”) and the results were not good

It’s also the year he truly became president

Sort of bizarre that the whole premise of the article is that it’s basically impossible to cut taxes. It just happened!

Ah yes, Macchu Picchu. So beautiful

You probably got confused because of magic the gathering

No, ninjas are not mammals. This statement is a playful, humorous claim often found online, particularly on platforms like Tumblr. In reality, ninjas were historical Japanese warriors and spies, skilled in martial arts and espionage. The "mammal" claim likely stems from a misunderstanding or a deliberate misinterpretation of the term "ninja" as it relates to the Magic: The Gathering card game, where some ninja creatures are indeed mammals.

Fact check courtesy of Google’s AI: ninjas are not mammals

I frankly find it bizarre the extent to which people think it’s obvious what lessons a candidate who won 48% of the vote nationwide should learn from a candidate who won 56% of the vote among NYC Democrats. That’s not to take away from Zohran’s win which is impressive! But it’s a different thing

Clearly they’re names for his two dicks

I would never lie about Professor Tits

Other people with last names that are also words manage! I’m sure you will fare just as well as Jacques Tits, no one ever gives a second thought to the Tits Alternative

I had this moment when Brad Lander—a real, serious, male New York mayoral candidate!—was asked the “Mets or Yankees” question he *had* to know was coming and said he’s really more of a Liberty fan

So if e.g. there are two pollsters, pollster A releases a daily poll that always shows 52% approval and pollster B has a weekly poll that always shows 50% approval, A’s house effect is +1 and B’s is -1? Not disagreeing with the methodology just making sure I understand it

Ok! So it looks to me like after the line

house_f = house_f - mean(house_f)

the average of the house effects of all pollsters is 0, is that right?

If you have a minute: How do you set the zero point for these? Does the average pollster definitionally have a house effect of 0? Or the average poll? Or something else?

This is correct but unfortunately I am only engaging because “king diarrhea of shitsucker mountain” is such good content. The only way to boost your engagement numbers is a multi-skeet “tales of shitsucker mountain” series

To be clear, $53 billion is an annual figure and $170 billion is over 4 years—the marines will still be more expensive than ICE. ($170 billion for ICE is still $170 billion too much, to be clear, don’t yell at me)