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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆

@chadnotchud.bsky.social
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grad student | G.A. Cohen stan | socialist | vegan

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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
like I get this is basically just people expressing their prejudices towards particular American accents but where people draw the lines on these things is always funny to me. When you pronounce Iran, are you pronouncing the “r” like the “t” in batter? Why not?
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Anyone who doesn’t use MY preferred anglicization of Īrān is not worth taking seriously. I’m always saying this
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Me normally: all sentient life is valuable Me when I have ants:
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Right yes this is the same problem as with ring species (just across time instead of geography)
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I don't know much about chickens but I do know the map is not the terrain. And also as a sociologist I like to say, "reification" a lot.
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
like that hypothetical “first modern chicken” was clearly capable of sexually reproducing with its proto-chicken cohorts. So that notion of species has the problem of trying to define a transitive closure on a non-transitive operation (“can produce fertile offspring with”)
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
lol yeah that’s exactly it. I think the most common colloquial definition of a species (what I learned in high school biology) is like “the largest group of organisms that are capable of producing fertile offspring”) but like that’s clearly problematic here..
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Turns out what constitutes a “species” is notoriously difficult to nail down!
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Not sure what this says about me but at the end of a set of squats when i really start struggling, I think “ur being so cringe right now, just stand up lol” and the sad part is, it always helps
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Heyo
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
They’re slow to access of course, but they’re pretty perfect for long term cold storage. Maybe they were being used inappropriately but cool me… skeptical both of the claimed savings and that the replacement is a good idea.
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I don’t know about this particular use case, but this tweet implies that magnetic tapes are an outdated technology which is not at all true. They’re incredibly cheap, degrade much more slowly than hard drives, use almost no energy, and are basically entirely insulated from cyberattacks
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
*angrily clicking all the flirtatious dialogue options* I can’t BELIEVE Assassins Creed is shoving wokeness down my throat. is nothing sacred???
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
“You claim to want nuclear disarmament and yet you have nukes” YES THATS WHY I WANT DISARMAMENT Some would say that one of the key roles of the state is resolving dilemmas such as this
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Moreover this is a dumb critique from Sinema because there’s nothing contradictory between “given the rules of the game, the optimal strategy is to do this” and “we should change the rules of the game” In fact the former often supports the latter!
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Still thinking about how @hamandcheese.bsky.social wrote “the effective altruist case for Trump” who is now on track to literally kill millions of people If Hammond had any shame he’d give up being a think tank guy forever and take up a more honorable profession like garbage man or barista
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Generally I prefer Thai to Japanese food as well. There’s obviously a lot I haven’t experienced, but broadly speaking my favorite east Asian cuisine is indo-chinese
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Honestly my intent here wasn’t to dunk on Japanese food, I like Japanese food and British food (both the more expansive and more narrow definitions of each). Or at least, there’s stuff from both cuisines I like.
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
If what people mean when they say this refers to salinity, the critique really doesn’t apply to British food either imo
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
You’ve identified another point I find somewhat frustrating with this type of discourse because it’s really not clear to me what people mean when they say this either. As I’m using it I’m really just approximating something like “boldness of flavor”
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
You might point to ramen as a counterexample but I think the same logic that leads people to implicitly exclude British curries from the category of “British food” (which they must do to call British food bland) would also require them to exclude ramen due to its Chinese origins
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Its kinda funny how British food gets clowned on for “lack of seasoning” but Japanese food never catches the same smoke
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Your daily reminder that there is no such thing as a singular “will of the people” much less one that can be invested in a single person
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Oh. Right.
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Hmm where have I heard the idea that some sort of unified national will is embodied within the executive? I just know I’ve heard that somewhere before
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Yes actually my first exposure to this claim was a TikTok that said this. It’s silly for a number of reasons. ISO 8601 has no epoch anyway (rather the 2004 version of the standard had some flavor text about the Meter Convention being a reference date for the Gregorian calendar)
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Thanks for finding this!
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
There does not seem to be a singlular standard across all implementations of COBOL (pre Y2K sometimes used YYMMDD) but e.g. modern IBM documentation details INTEGER-OF-DATE and DATE-OF-INTEGER functions which converts between YYYYMMDD and “days since 12/31/1600”
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
If there’s interest I could do a thread explaining this, but the tl;dr is that there’s certainly no general COBOL feature that would make this true, and I can find no evidence of any implementations that do this.
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Claims like the below are being spread around. As far as I can tell this is totally untrue, and seems to be based on a misleading (now deleted) paragraph in the Wikipedia page ISO 8601 It’s not *impossible* the SS codebase uses a custom epoch of 1875, but there’s no such widespread standard
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Next time you make hummus, add a tsp or two of miso paste. Thank me later.
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
And of course
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Annual valentines vegan charcuterie
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Our payment system is in good hands u guys, never fear
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
“Nothing ever happens” crew stand back and stand by
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Recently saw a post where someone used sour dough starter in a roux for a soup, and now I really want to try that.
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Low key would have been a much easier process if I’d have shredded my passport and reported it lost honestly (not that I would ever purger myself of course)
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Side note: by far the worst post office experience of my life. I think “damaged passport” is a rare case for them and they don’t know about the extra documentation you need to provide in that case. That plus someone who seemed to be having a real bad day is not a good combo
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Just submitted an official document to the United States Government containing the phrase “my dog ate my passport”
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Crazy to see so many cons die on this hill when you can hear the whole stadium sing “A minorrrrr”
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I want the first person to post a recipe for canned chickpeas, mashed, air fried and then coated in buffalo sauce and title it “falafel” and see what the comments would look like
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Spotted in a recipe for “buffalo chickpea nuggets” I swear to god people think “nuggets” are an anatomical feature of a chicken
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
(So you might even fail to Counterspell a first level spell). Probably a significant nerf overall
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Oh I should say it isn’t just they can’t cast the spell full stop. They make a con saving throw against the counterspellers DC
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Also Counterspell itself is different now. There’s no upcasting/ability check. It’s just “you stop them from casting the spell” In exchange though now if you’re counterspelled the slot isn’t expended. Tbh I liked the old gamble of “should I upcast?”, feels less engaging now
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Yeah, and not having e.g. quickened Forcecage be an option lol. But for sure the buffs to martials were a big part too (though tavern brawler + strength elixir availability was truly egregious)
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
You mean like the “counterspell your Counterspell” kind of stuff? Meh I don’t really mind that. Every player only has one reaction and one reaction plus a 3rd+ level spell slot is a hefty cost. I’ve never really seen a chain be longer than 2 before and even that’s somewhat rare
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delaniac 🌹🌱 🔆 @chadnotchud.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
(Though ig it reigns in silvery barbs a bit? You can’t use it on your own spells now, assuming conventional casting, which is probably good teamwork wise)
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