I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself

And in the end, the GOP got its wish. The Satanic panic around daycare led to a rapid and lasting reduction in Americans' trust in childcare providers, which helped prevent the US from ever building a national childcare system, and helped flatten the growth in maternal employment. 7/

oh my god, tenno, you can't just ASK people why they're blue

it's a terrible restoration but monkey christ honestly speaks to me on its own merits

Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience. Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense. They admitted it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

A note on what's written above: my high school gaming group, playing combat centered games, is very big on the GM holding narrative reigns—but that's exactly why a they are also very fixated on encounter balance and very picky on rulesets. Because they get the importance of solid mediation tools.

Corvus Corax: u want sum fuk

abolish yale. the law professor quoted is probably just evil and corrupt and nervous but on the off chance he's being completely honest here he's too fucking stupid to be trusted with tying his own shoelaces, let alone teaching anyone

this is a very good thread that if anything is way too kind to a design "philosophy" that really just amounts to a rejection of design as a concept

My new novella isn't even out yet and it's already aging in a weird way.

FASCISTS: lol chomsky is in the epstein files the libs are sooo mad about their hero LIBERALS: the commies are sooo mad about their hero COMMUNISTS: the anarchists are sooo mad about their hero ANARCHISTS: we're sooo mad anyone thinks we like chomsky. sucks for the linguists though LINGUISTS: lmao

one of my great fears is that shared culpability is simply a more effective and enduring form of political association than shared ideals or even (more broadly) shared interests; visible, public conflict in a culture of blackmail is not only distasteful, but a personal threat, a personal betrayal.

This reminds me of a study I read about that found what people who hid Jews from the Nazis in WWII had in common, across diff't countries, was that most were people whose neighbors found them disagreeable & mildly unpleasant. Moral courage seems to negatively correlate with likeability.

YouTube has started recommending channels full of videos that are like 40-60 minutes and named something that kind of looks like a music album title at first glance, but the actual words are nonsense, the band doesn't exist, and it was all uploaded 2 hours ago makes me want to stab someone

i am actually EXTREMELY skeptical of and hostile towards anti-democratic politics (not to be confused with illiberal politics) but a vital step in that direction is understanding that our current system isn't even remotely democratic and is in fact designed to capture and dissipate the popular will

I regret to inform you that basically all games have incentive structures. Generally, if an object of play doesn't have incentive structures, it's a toy.

i'm going to hell

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Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

American Canto paperback cover

just finished episode 2 of Pluribus; at this point the show would have to pull a M. Night Shyalaman level twist to pull me away from "Carol Did Nothing Wrong"

i have never played the board game Innovation but i just read a couple negative reviews and now i really want to try it because everyone whining about it sounds like they house rule Monopoly

old and busted: bicameral mind new hotness: bicameral dames

They gave Balatro an 18+ only rating because it had poker cards in it. Disney Solitaire has literal actual real money gambling with dark pattern lootbox microtransactions and is for ages 3 and above.

i am insanely tempted to respond with a deliberately-wrong joke response and will instead settle for "wait does he mean it or not"

*This Is What You Are intensifies*

To me a sentimentalist is someone who's unquestioningly working within a received idea of "the good," which is why I find a lot of "dark"/"transgressive"/"bleak" etc works to be basically sentimental in the negative space of what they depict as "bad"

i got hit in the eye with a fleck of cat litter the other day, and it's either bruised and physically irritated (hopefully), i caught an infection from the litter, or possibly it's completely unrelated and i caught pinkeye from a client/their kid or something

caves of qud

the confederacy had ONE good idea, and it was that dueling your political rivals in Congress was an appropriate way to express displeasure

raise the million pylons... high

caves of qud

i would simply Read the Rules Myself

Finally...the good part of youtube

modding and sharding and arcaned my pants

this is also the fate of every wannabe Hollow Knight

look say what you want about parasociality and the commercial crassness of it but this is EXACTLY the kind of headline you'd see in, like, a Star Trek time travel episode about Earth's future history

Treat a published work that was later divulged to be AI-generated the same way you would if you found out it was manually plagiarized from a different book. Same situation, just the plagiarism has been automated and averaged out a bit, and the plagiarist is also a scab and a cultural arsonist.

KOYAANISGOATSE

BRB, becoming a Blowing Bubba Truther and going all in on the conspiracy theory that the reason they haven't released all photos of Bill Clinton in the Epstein files is because one of them includes photographic evidence that Donald Trump did, in fact, blow Bill.

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

look up how angler fish reproduce

imo this kind of points back to Paulo Freire, and his idea of a "banking" (sometimes translated as "deposit" or "narrative") model of education where you're just filling someone up with Correct ideas vs. a problem-solving, method-focused mode of education, which is actually liberatory

lmao

none of the nasty things i've ever said about liberalism, not in my most exaggerated shitposting to a small and familiar audience, compare to the shit liberals happily say about themselves