Taking the "is this a trick?" aside, I think a bunch of responses are mistaking "I don't think random stranger expressing desire moves much in me" with "I don't think casual sex happens"

I know what I mean now

There are days where your imposter syndrome gets a reality check from out of nowhere

There's a subtler flavor of "no, I'll live forever" that goes on that I'll be interested to see how it plays out in a decade

The "At least three, don't play games with me kid" is a pretty decent example of this rhetorically

I'm not 100% on exactly what I mean here, but "division of labor is a scam" underlies some of the weirdness going on with people

Started Wake Up Dead Man, and at least for 30 minutes in, it's interesting how much of this is Protestant stuff in a Catholic setting

I think that brand recognition is a lot of this (ChatGPT is what most people are going to reach for). But, what's distinct about this vs other validating spaces and violence (forums) is how little utility ChatGPT has for these users outside of validation?

"Look what can happen if there isn't a mother in the home" covers a lot of this

Hitting the missionaries with "Sorry, I'm already planning to got to Mass on Christmas" and seeing the "welp, he's damned" is always so odd

On the dumb Gaston movie, one of the reasons why his character works so well is that he's not played as Bell's foil. Bell doesn't need to overcome him or prove any thing about their character differences, Gaston is just a small town misogynist

I will say, the half/full day/multi-day interviews for entry level positions were always just a dumb and lead to a lot of sunk-cost fallacy in-industry

Why Archers Didn't Volley Fire is a lot of fun, go read it acoup.blog/2025/05/02/c...

Tolkien/LotR question: is it ever confirm that Denethor is (for a brief period) a peer to the Maiar? I feel like it's implied that he genuinely contends with the Dark Power like his sons.

<Gone fishing> needs to mean an Alan Wake tie in which means there's a chance...

No mod, you can't make me download Empire: Total War again...

If you or someone you know is feeling a lot of anxiety re: upcoming kid, I'd really recommend prenatal classes, specifically one's that are just focused on "how to take care of baby" not "how to meet goals, do the best, etc"

Some people have really internalized their slightly advanced childhood development in limited areas, huh?

people gotta talk about their shingles experiences. no one is going to enjoy this

Commented something similar, but some of this is a result of people ossifying "meritocracy" in a way they now can't easily change.

I feel like AI does have a lot of good use cases for devs, but it's hard not to think that there's a certain kind of "and we've solved a perennial problem for reasons justified by the solution" going on.

A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replies the universe, "The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation"

Doing Advent of Code has been fun, and I do really appreciate their commitment to not doing annoying "LOL, you didn't handle a malformed input in row 83,456,931, idiot" stuff that a lot of these kinds of tasks usually have

There are so many horrendous types of use cases for this kind of product it should be facially illegal

I feel like all the "140k might be poor" nonsense just pretends like taking on debt isn't an option

Where you really see this is when people tap inter-generational wealth. "My parents paying my rent while I pay down X other debt" isn't a sign of wealth, because real wealthy people are individually financially independent

The opposite end of the "is being upper middle class poverty" stuff going on is how different people define "wealth". At a certain point, status signaling plays more into it and that really warps your thinking

Everyone waiting for Empire 2

Credit to post for being an awesome and involved parent, because it seems like "norms-mediated socialization" does really well for kids. Because looking at the "we just got to run for 12 hours" kids of yesteryear and today, it's not a great comparison

What if we just kept rebranding "wring the whales dry?"

I'm pretty sure a recruiter who just emailed me set up their intro email in the same manner as a phishing email...

I really feel this a lot in math, which I've had a lifelong struggle with. Starting to do prep for interview screens is endlessly frustrating because I trip on the math, not the programming.

Idea 2: planes with holes in the in such a way that they won't go down

I really should get into the crab-bucket industry, people seem to love that nonsense

I kind of want to touch in this again, because I think "misread the nature of their support" is really critical to understanding a lot of the seeming dysfunction going on On Here. There's a consistency in not engaging with who and what our fellow travelers are

This is a succinct and correct way of putting it. But to drill down, some of it, at least as a white guy, was downstream of the Nazi bar problem-problem. That is to say: you can't fight or declare your way out of bad actors, the only way to not be a Nazi bar is to not be a Nazi bar.

It's taken a month, but the cat has finally figured out that if she sits 2 inches further from the playpen she can look out the windows without the baby grabbing her

Me: Supply chain attacks are an under discussed vulnerability in the developer tool ecosystem. Also me: Time to download a theme created by "Bob Smith", because Darcula isn't colorful enough

This is where I think primary and secondary educators need to be more in sync. A consistent thing I've heard from primary educators I know is that the massive introduction of technology in the primary education classroom has had a drastic downward effect on students.

The onion tart is complete, resisting urge to eat it

Mediocre turkey is in the oven. Roasted onions and shallots are for a much better tart I'm making later. Happy Thanksgiving everyone, may your turkey benefit from gravy

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Daughter has started to actually play with me (hands me a toy and reaches for me to give it back). 10/10, would recommend. AAA Game of the Year

*let's all go to the movies tune* Cooking Thanksgiving and we're all sick...

This kind of gets to part of some of the AI derp, there's a conflation of replacing the laborer vs replacing the labor.

Another element of "enshittification" (for whatever that term is worth) is less services getting worse and more half-assed features with little chance of remediation on failure. Automated messaging being the most common example.

What's the likelihood that Ted Sandyman becomes a folk hero after the Shire formally abandons the Thane/rule of gentry for a real republic?

About halfway through this and my biggest takeaway is that we need an Total War: Empire 2 that starts in 1600

Tapping the sign re: the SAT

Thinking about this more, and definitely not knowledgeable enough to parse this out, but I do have a sense that this is different than "faith" in a way that's meaningful