Along with everything else that's wrong here, I'm SUPER upset this is going to be a lot of people's first exposure to Bukharian jomahs. Which are actually pretty fab when they're worn where it's appropriate, and have a cool, but possibly apocryphal, origin.

When you frame it as a 930-to- one gap it actually seems less egregious. That means McDonald's could hire fewer than 1,000 additional full-time employees by cutting CEO pay to zero. McDonald's is almost certainly understaffed by under a thousand nationally, let alone internationally.

Chotiner's newest is a doozy

"That shit must've been laced with Tylenol, because I'm struggling to understand the social cue of giving a single fuck."

Don't make unsubstantiated statements of fact. Don't spread rumors. Don't misrepresent the actions or beliefs of other people. And when you accidentally amplify a lie or misrepresentation - because it "sounded true", or because you don't respect the subject enough to care - retract and apologize.

[new Isaac Chotiner interview]

"Nintendo is going along with fascism!" "Actually, a former lawyer for TPCI said he wouldn't sue the US Government under these circumstances if he was in charge. No one at Nintendo has said anything." "But this is what I would *expect* from Nintendo, which means I'm justified in spreading misinfo"

There are so many people that didn't read the the first sentence, made their post as fast as possible and then replied to their own post with some variation "Ok it says FORMER but i'm totally right and the current one probably wouldn't do anything either!!!"

The other side of this, as we’re seeing with acetaminophen, is that woo also promises that there’s something to blame for anything that makes you or someone else “unwell”. It’s both a way to believe you can be healed by doing the right things, and that other people are to blame for not being healthy

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called? ME: Slay the Spire. CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer? ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours. CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them? ME: Now hold on a second,

Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

Evil intent is a powerful motivator for stupid behavior. If you have good or even "neutral" intentions, you can be persuaded away from stupid courses of action. But belligerent malevolence is much harder to dissuade.

Robot umpires are maximally fair. The debate over robot umpires is "to what degree is the subjectivity of human umpires part of the texture, sensation, and list of challenged skills when playing & spectating baseball?" IE, is "pushing the edge of the strike zone to fool an ump" a skill we value?

cackling

Watched the new King of the Hill and thought of this. If Dale ever "finds out", it should be this.

RFK Jr. has never met my octogenarian dad. Or, based on the story I heard about my grandfather's obsessions with Sherlock Holmes and the civil war, any of my ancestors on that side of the family.

Phase Changes xkcd.com/3144/

Masqueraiders: Test Ride, Case 13: Happy Well-Adjusted People do not Find Themselves in Farcical Sitiations, without context: (1/2)

having a dead wife in your bionic arm would go crazy with the robotfucker cohort in 2025, bionic commando 2009 was ahead of its time

Visiting one of the great props of all times!! The original… Can you name it?

Some trek fans were down on 4 and 1/2 Vulcans because it has some sneaky transphobia and, like...sure, if you read a certain line of dialog in a bioessentialist way, it is kinda transphobic My question is HOW THE FUCK DID YOU NOT NOTICE THE FUCKING RACISM!?

Working on MASQUERAIDERS some more. I've redesigned one of the moves for the Conjurer playbook to have a stronger mechanical identity. Push your illusory powers to their limits and create a distorted world that gives you and your allies more flexibility in saving lives and bringing down Marionettes!

The amount and quality of Gexby ship art that continues to be made is so wild. A joke ship we made for a charity stream reached escape velocity and has a life of its own now.

sex terms that sounds like transformer names: -roadhead -edgeplay -motorboat -bareback -stuntcock

Customer: YOU LOVE THE COOK DMV: YOU LOVE THE COCK Verdict: DENIED

When someone says they want a game to challenge their skill and not waste their time, they reveal an ideology in which patience is not a skill they believe games should test.

good morning everyone

I miss Demi

glitch should offer to pick up the check for a new season of 'the venture bros'

Persuading Trump voters and nonvoters doesn't intrinsically mean "abandon progressive policies & throw everyone under the bus". Persuasion can mean "please believe that I agree with you and will do what you want." But it can also mean "Here is why my ideas are good and you should support them."

"Pogging" is possibly one of my favourite words etymology-wise because it genuinely IS an exception to the rule that acronymic word origins outside of science and technology jargon are almost always false, but people went and made up a different false acronymic origin for it anyway.

“should we reach out to Trump voters” conversations are always a mess because they’re just a bunch of people talking past each other one side is like, why are you trying to reach the hardcore MAGA base and the other side is like, why would you not want to flip the marginal voters both are correct

#KnightsofGuinevere I told you

derek: was that daffy duck who said "sufferin' succotash?" or was that sylvester jake: i think it was sylvester derek: horny sylvester be like "sufferin' suckin' toes"

by the way we are now as far out from this 30 Rock episode as 1997 was when it aired

i think and quote this all the time

I need to know who wrote the Tumblr porn ban joke in the latest episode of Only Murders in the Building

I’m going to repost what I wrote about trust because it doesn’t just apply to things that makes you angry, it applies to anything that flatters you. If it’s too good to be true, it probably is. cooperlund.medium.com/crack-up-05f...

they should invent a potato peeler you can find

It's almost like Democrats shouldn't have spent the last half decade giving the cops infinite money to spite the left

You’ve read your last free article, Mr. Bond.

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

THEY DEFORMED ME, COOP. REDUCED ME DOWN TO ONLY MY MOST RECOGNIZABLE CHARACTERISTICS. I’M A CUTESY SHELL OF MY FORMER SELF. THE BOYS AT QUANTICO ARE CALLING ME A “CHEE-BEE.” I’M SEVEN CENTIMETERS TALL, COOP. 150 GRAMS OF VINYL PLASTIC.

You know if it was any other sport I'd treat this kind of statistical trivia as pretty dubious. But baseball is the home of sabremetrics: If Ball-knowers say a stat is meaningful, I believe them.

Deleting my posts about USB-C headphone dongles because apparently that entire industry is fucking garbage unless you shell out for Apple's model or a audiophile-grade DAC.

USB-C is goddamn magic, it's better than literally every other consumer-grade digital connector in history for almost any daily purpose and it isn't close. Hell, it's better than a lot of analog ones. Some people just like being mad about shit.