spicy ramen hitting area man like a motherfucker

Colorado collapsing to a very mediocre Vegas team is really bumming me out

mountains

I’ve seen people echoing this sentiment re: glp-1s but i think it misdiagnoses where the skepticism is coming from on the left. It’s not fat loss as a moral issue, it’s downstream of people claiming fatness as an *identity* category, which as far as I can tell took off in the 2010s

the two genres of women’s autobiographies: artistic nude and hands on face

I don’t even dislike Scalzi as a writer but the funny thing is I’ve never seen his writing evince any real original thought. He’s excellent at repackaging existing tropes in entertaining, dare I say spicy, ways.

the youngest child is at the developmental stage "demands to be held constantly but also has strong pre-verbal opinions about where to go" which means my job, as a parent, is to be piloted like a mecha

1. Put GLP-1s in the water supply 2. Water supply feeds data centers for AI training 3. AI singularity averted because LLMs cannot process more than 50 tokens at a time

sorry to doom but I just don’t think there will be consequences remotely commensurate with the looting that is happening. I don’t think enough elected democrats have the balls to do what needs to be done and I don’t think enough voters give a shit to elect ones who do

without wading into the particulars of the project being discussed here, this is my “urbanism opinion that will get everybody pointing swords at you.jpg”

downwardly mobile postgrads will really be like “you really believe the supply of scarce goods should be responsive price signals? That pales in comparison to my strategy, only me and my cool friends can have them”

every American city if people who show up to yell about land use got their way

you see this in any discussion about land use, a lot of people clearly believe that city governments select which businesses get to be located on specific parcels

Everybody hates reading the Obviously Written by AI email, buy everybody is using AI to draft their own emails

at an FTA panel presentation and I keep thinking “okay, but what kind of federal administrator are you”

there was a prolonged meet-cute between a young man and woman on the flight near me and at the end they exchanged numbers and you know what, I hope it works out, I’m rooting for you kids

tired: win over swing voters wired: win over Swig voters

"ontologically", it's a smart person word used almost exclusively by dumb people on social media. much to consider

every day on bluesky

local paper wrote an article about the city raising property taxes and parking and the IG comments are full of people demanding we tax a new data center that was just approved in a different county. Look at my progressives dawg, we are never rebuilding the welfare state.

my mom, who has negative tech skills and no particular artistic talent that I’ve ever seen, used ChatGPT to write and illustrate a children’s book about the family dog for the grandkids. (is it good, no it is not, but this is not a thing she’d have ever thought of doing in the old world)

this is mostly another way of saying "I work in media and I'm getting older"

I’m directionally aligned with the “data centers meh” crowd but on the other hand my state is about to build a giant campus powered by natural gas roughly equal to the entire state’s energy usage and I gotta say: don’t love that. Not great, Bob.

An Avalanche of goals as Colorado wins a Wild one in the Mile High City

I mean yeah “trans/leftist/furry” is a Venn at the center of which lies this site’s most viciously malignant community. Wish it were otherwise but ignoring the obvious clearly hasn’t worked.

I should take my own advice and stop picking at this but now I’ve seen a “Platner is going to reinstate death camps” take and I’m begging people to get a grip. No he won’t. That’s not true.

also, like, the general tendency of people to respond to any non-maximalist claim with a flippant “oh so you support [opposite maximalist claim] is just incredibly corrosive.

i don't know what's in the dude's heart (as opposed to, err, what's a couple inches outside it) or whether he's going to be a horrible senator, but the vibe on this site is that he represents one of the great political crises of our times and I think that's just not true. People need to chill out.

my only point of mild boomer disagreement (sidestepping the IPA forever wars) is that we went too far on coffee, I don't like that the default option at so many shops is a cheek-puckering light roast.

pro tip: you can just put gringo taco stuff on a baked potato. They can’t stop you

stop inflicting the opinions of median voters on me. please. I have a family

a very illustrative thread on NIMBY sociopathy and entitlement, even if unwitting

pants are too baggy, we need to reign this shit in. do you realize how many gallons of water are wasted washing all this extra denim? well I have no idea but it’s a lot probably

I don’t *think* AI will take my job but I think it’s going to do weird things to the B2G world which lives on billable hours and doesn’t seem great for mid-career generalists.

ngl “bluesky is a breeding ground for violent liberal extremism” makes this place sound way more badass than it is. Great for the brand.

I personally do not think the people on this site who are angry about our government being taken over by tinpot fascists are comparable to the people egging it on, but I’m not a lecturer in politics at King’s college of London.

the trick is to not know how to read code in the first place

we don't talk enough about how having a banger display name is in some ways a curse. i reached a creative peak five years ago with a silly play on words and now I'll never top it (i've tried), it's all downhill from here.

i will say that doing standard NIMBY stuff like showing up to public meetings... those forums shouldn't exist and being anti-data center is still a waste of time and resources, but insofar as it's within the normal political process then go with god. That's not what I'm talking about here.

the main problem with the data centers discourse is that these idiots are gassing each other up to start shooting politicians or their families; they're already luigiposting about it all over the place and a few of them will, eventually. It's pizzagate for the left.

Anti-Catholicism as a driving popular force in the American Revolution, I doubt it holds up but I got to talk about Pope Day and I still think the Quebec Act is under-discussed.

in terms of hate allocation I think Excel gets too much and Word not enough. Every time I have to do real work in Word (unfortunately, a non-trivial amount of time lately) it feels like it's is fighting me on every step. Profoundly annoying piece of software.

hank green hasn't changed, he's just applying the same essential curiosity he always has and reached tentative and nuanced conclusions which your social circle has deemed verboten to even consider

playoffmaxxing

he can’t press, he can’t play as a fulcrum, he’s easily bullied off the ball, and he can’t head the ball, but he’s okay at scoring when he gets his shots off, which he also can’t do

this is just every spring weekend when you’ve got a kid with asthma and GERD

“affordable mandates increase market rents, rich people can afford higher market rents, ergo affordable mandates soak the rich to benefit the poor” sounds convincing if you don’t think too hard about it

not gonna lie I don’t care for a quarter of the first amendment being a dead letter.

anyway my youngest might have measles so I’m pretty much in the mood to literally murder the next peasant-brained“vaccine hesitant” person I ever meet with my bare fucking hands