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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • Wow, farriers are going crazy with these modern horseshoe designs!

    Political propaganda graphic, transcription below

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    Above: a single axis scatter plot. The ends of the axis are labeled “Left” and “Right”. Data points are distributed similarly to normal distribution, the center being more concentrated than the extremes. Caption: “What people think the political spectrum is vs What it actually is”.

    Below: A two-dimensional scatter plot. The ends of the horizontal axis are labeled “Left” and “Right” and the vertical axis is labeled “Independent Thought” at the top and “Groupthink” at the bottom. The data points are evenly distributed inside a bell curve shape, with the peak of the hump at Independent Thought and between Left and Right, and the wide bottom of the bell spanning the whole Left-Right axis at maximum Groupthink.

    Data points near the top of the bell (Independent-Center) labeled ‘“Un-intentional moderates” (from Paul Graham’s The Two Kinds of Moderate)’. [Original image uses double quotes around the term Un-intentional moderates and single quotes around the title of Paul Graham’s shitpost.]

    Data points at the bottom center of the bell (Groupthink-Center) labeled “Intentional moderates”.

    In the bottom corner a watermark crediting the image to “@shw1nm”.

    I love the implication that being an independent thinker means agreeing with both the majority and other independent thinkers.