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That hypothetical flood would have probably affected the direct ancestors of the Greeks... strange that Plato would only learn about it from the relatively remote Egyptians.

That fits too, and the article does quote two of that paper’s coauthors... although it doesn’t identify them as coauthors, and it’s common for science journalism to get opinions on a study from scientists who have done similar work.

The article is based on a study in Autism for which it doesn’t give a link, title, date, or authors. After searching that journal, I believe the source study is this: Non-autistic observers both detect and demonstrate the double empathy problem when evaluating interactions between autistic and non-autistic adults (Jones, D. R., Botha, M., Ackerman, R. A., King, K., & Sasson, N. J., Dec 2023).

“The boat suffered a series of indescribable, unreasonable errors, the impossible happened on that boat … but it went down because it took on water.” [...] The CEO ruled out any design or construction errors, which he called unlikely after 16 years of trouble-free navigation.

This sounds like an out-take from the “front fell off” skit.

All of them.

The size of the first run is calibrated to expected sales and production costs. If it sells out, it met whatever expectations led to the decision to print it.

ending his presidential hopes

It’s not like dropping out materially affects his chance of winning.

As an Oakland resident, she’s always been very middle-of-the-road by local Bay Area standards... but I guess that counts as “progressive” nationally.

I assumed this was about sheep at first, and was confused and increasingly concerned.

When you see a guy coming down the street and you can — the police know every one of them. They know their middle name. They know where they live.

Like when we see a convicted felon coming down the street and we know his middle name is “John” and he lives in Palm Beach?

Among other factors, I think humans have a certain instinctive drive: when there’s a broad sense of social malaise—when lots of people feel there’s something wrong with their social institutions, but there’s no consensus on how to remedy it—they gravitate toward whatever thing the social establishment seems most afraid of, because in our deep history that’s been an effective way to break out of dangerous institutional stasis.

Depending on the social establishment at the time, that anti-establishment movement could take many forms—religious, ideological, nationalistic, etc. So I think Trumpism is an inevitable reaction to the rise of the neoliberal establishment under Clinton and the Bushes: the underlying cause of the neoliberal malaise is economic, but the most visible social anxieties are over racism, sexism, and other social factors. So that creates a feedback loop of growing fear that attracts those feeling a general sense of discontent.

Can you trust a ~~AI~~ press release?

Wait, I thought neuroplasticity was supposed to be good! /s