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Last night’s dream: a superpowered vigilante whose power is to know exactly what to say to someone to make them so blindingly furious they want to kill him. He can make people too mad to strategize, too mad to realize they can’t beat him (he’s an incredible martial artist), and too mad to remember they don’t want to kill people. In almost every universe, he screwed up and got himself killed before long (protip: do not piss off Superman.) But in the parallel universe he comes from, he killed Batman (who he sees as a coward unwilling to kill) and replaced him as a lethal protector of Gotham who enrages and then kills criminals. Even people he hasn’t angered think he’s a complete nutjob and a supervillain in his own right.

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People talk about science as objective, but I actually think of science as the embrace of subjectivity. You don’t know this medicine works, but you’re 95% confident. You don’t know you’ve found every organ in mice, but you record the organs you know until you find another one. You’ve found a correlation between television and obesity, but you can’t objectively show that television makes people fat. Objectivity is a goal that can be chased but never reached as you put together subjective perspectives and find more or less evidence (not proof) for them.

I think the unifying anti-science take is “your claim to subjectivity undermines my claim to objectivity, and it’s bad for you to do that, because I’m objectively right about everything.” Like the claim that astrology is true and science is “white” for denying astrology. Science doesn’t have the power to show that astrology is false, because astrology is variable and ambiguous and you can always amend it to explain your newest observations. But science can show astrology is less likely.

Also, I think people act against the ideal of science when they claim science has “proved” black people are dumber than white people. Pull out your correlations, and I’ll pull out variables you didn’t check for.

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Why are there so many accounts on Pixiv posting AI-generated inanimate transformation porn?

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“This was the one thing that almost made me stop playing Star Wars Squadrons immediately, and I wish I had

“The Imperial pilot daydreaming about retiring to a quiet planet with his husband

“In between missions where he helps you commit horrible atrocities against fleeing civilians”

Am I supposed to object to this?