please play with this traffic simulator, paying special attention to the “politeness” slider https://traffic-simulation.de
Pete Mandik
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“Philosophy Through Comics,” my guest post (and new comic/essay) at DailyNous https://dailynous.com/2023/07/25/philosophy-through-comics-guest-post/
Philosophy Through Comics (guest post) - Daily Nous
Can you do philosophy with comics? "Yeah, sure, easy." But why do it? That's the subject of this week's guest post by Pete Mandik, professor of philosophy at William Paterson University. Regular readers of Daily Nous will know Mandik not just for his work in philosophy of mind but as the creator, author, and artist of Mind Chunks, one of
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@NoctisEqui colors are immanent; colours are transcendent
my new comic https://dailynous.com/2022/12/27/mind-chunks-50/
I can’t wait to get my brainchip that will prohibit me from even *thinking* about competing social media platforms.
It's once again Antinatalist Grinch season petemandik.net/the-comics/2022/12/14/antinatalist-grinch-the-motion-picture
It’s not intelligent unless it comes from the Intelligence region of France, otherwise it’s just sparkling efficacy.
@joemo @DrYohanJohn @dbarack @marshall_0i @Gualtiero @NicoleCRust If by “well-footnoted” you mean “no footnotes “ then, yes, that allegation is accurate.
@TinCanWin @batkaren the first definition listed here is good https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=reticulating%20splines
Urban Dictionary: reticulating splines
Nonsense technobabble used in a production context. Reticulating splines started off as an in-joke at Maxis and grew to fame with the widespread popularity of The Sims. While it does have a "real" meaning, this definition isn't actually correct in the context of its use. It's really a programming joke. Reticulating splines is essentially filler. Don't want to describe what's holding up the program? It's reticulating splines. Why isn't the Internet working? The splines aren't reticulated. Heck, don't want to explain your calculus assignment? We're reticulating splines this week. See also processor gremlins for the computer hardware equivalent.