Walking past immediate direct cost to hypothesize diffuse theoretical future costs is so common. I have begun to think of it as just edgy child stuff

Incredibly underrated bean. Many grocery stores you straight up can't find fava bean but I have shelled, dry, canned and even sometimes tofu *IN WALKING DISTANCE* because Mexican and international markets are goated. Fava bean protein is almost pure protein and tastes good which is wild

Soy is the undisputed champion of lentils, legumes, beans, pulses. But I love some of the humble ones that have this unique flavor. Black eyed peas are common in southern style dishes with unique bitter blends but they really deserve to be tried in sweet and creamy. Think coffee and chocolate!

I am watching a "British high schoolers try thanksgiving dinner" YouTube video. And pecan pie absolutely demolished pumpkin pie. First time British people had Americans beat on food opinions

Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir continues to be fascinating. One of the best episodes ever followed by an absolutely terrible one. Then an episode that is almost great. You cannot get this kind of dopamine from other TV

I am of the same opinion but would be much less polite about it

Martin O'Malley would have won iykyk

I engage with the nuanced ones it’s just over quick. Yes I think direct aid is generally bad campaignong. Yes maybe it works for her. Yes I’m concerned about a return to patronage. Okay done. Meanwhile half the big accounts on this site are workshopping insults about me for something I never said.

For a lot of television you can often tell a show is going to sputter even if the first season is pretty tight. Barry: incredible first season but the final scene i had that "this can't sustain" feeling. The Boys, man you could feel it. Killing Eve I have similar feelings starting season 2 now

I used to be a mainly American healthcare policy poster but honestly at this point I would just rather post See Paul Starr with a few updates since 2016 of what has happened since Remedy and Reaction but every conversation I have heard before and it is just painful

There are *many* American policy failures where this is the case* and one infuriating thing about nationalizing issues is discourse always starts from square one. Like "oh so America is rich but you say this is inefficient" yes, wow, thank you, you are so smart *Not unique to America

I am glad blueSky came to a consensus on the side Sky should take on this

I hate priests. Idk why I try to go to Mass on Christmas. My mom calls multiple parishes, gets a promise that there won't be incense and then right at the beginning there is incense and i walk in already feeling allergies. And i am not remotely surprised.

Terran has extreme white man energy for a few reasons. I can say that because im zerg and my spouse is protoss

welcome to the Second Annual Bluesky Christmas Eve Snowball Fight! please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light

I am ambivalent about this take. I was surprised it went in a Gender direction, I don't think that is where Fuckley was thinking. There were posts a couple weeks ago about how wordcells were better at l prompt engineering and understanding llms and that reminds me of the imagined culture war

Ok bluesky. What should a guy in his 30s that already has a Master's in statistics take at his local community college after being out of the workforce for 2 years taking care of a baby?

Really regretting not putting “prominent Bishop outed as a foot guy” on my 2025 bingo card. Just missed out on Bingo

The statement "I am not the kind of person who says X" is often said by a person just about to say X

What would it cost to end extreme poverty? "We estimate that reducing the poverty rate to 1% ... would cost $170B nominal per year." "The results correspond to a cost of (approximately) ending extreme poverty of roughly 0.3% of global GDP."

Fascinating how people have feelings and respond to stuff they disagree with. Not me, I am a disinterested rational observer that has detached all aspects of my identity and preconceptions so that I can bring only the facts and logic to every situation

"when you're accustomed to privilege, any move toward equality seems like oppression" was so oft repeated in college it eventually felt like banal platitude. But, turns out, it's just incredibly useful at explaining discourse

Tbh, i feel this way about a lot of reality television. Like, the biggest loser was a truly horrifying show. The Mr. Beast behemoth is just gone to the natural conclusion of perfecting the genre (derogatory)

Yes, it’s entirely true that many of the migrants who came under the Biden admin did not have housing arranged for them when they arrived and so ended up in homeless shelters at first, at times for months, while they got on their feet. This is 100% true, not an anti-immigrant gotcha, just the facts.

Matt is good, advocates for more housing, and people are probably willfully misreading this. But it is the case that some claim to advocate "helping" immigrants or homeless people by asking for more police or forced treatment. Bad faith is unfortunately sometimes a decent default

Watch your peers and continually assert a thing, and more importantly, pour abuse on people who do not say the things, and you will probably come to believe that thing is obviously true. If it wasn’t, why do the good people all believe it? Why do the known idiots all reject it?

If hobbes ever does a deep dive into Catholic grifters he won't ever be able to eat Pizza without thinking about natural law again

making this a quote post for the clout

Picked up AC Valhalla on sale. It has swapped over to controller instead of mouse/keyboard in the last hour forcing restart. Super tedious first boss fight. Super tedious first mobs w/no stealth option yet. Resets go soooo far back. What an awful first impression

How come every time i log onto threads i immediately see some sort of rage bait?

It's kind of incredible that indian cuisine is like "let's take all of the strongest flavors we can find and smash them together using oil and high heat, yes ALL of them" and it just...repeatedly works.

They aren't... I am sorry if you are doing one or the other and trying to sell it as soooo different (acu is 4000 years old or dry needle based on western science or w/e) But rcts largely have each working for similar things, physically they are almost indistinguishable, and...

I have a confession. I don't think there is actually a "floor" Pundits and even politico obsesseds like using "trumps floor" as shorthand for the cultish and partisans being hard to knock off. But i do actually think eventually most *can* be persuaded to hate him

It's true for metapolitics but not first order politics, and tbh it wrongly exonerates folks in the center

My favorite inventory is rs3. At 99 agility weight doesn't matter at all, but if you think about the inventory for even a couple seconds it gets funny fast. Like, Cannonballs stack???

The LA jails have just posted their 45th in-custody death for the year, a 22 year old man who died in the hospital. It's LASD's 3rd in-custody death in two days.

my five year old had RSV when he was six months old and when we brought him to the pediatrician they were like yeah go directly to the hospital we’re calling ahead scariest few days of our lives from the bottom of my heart: all these people can go to hell

It's so rare that an ending makes me actually immediately want to watch a movie again

The basic fear is that something about you is so corrupting and wretched that just by existing in the world you're making everything worse for everyone else. But one day you feel some sparks of hope and happiness at the realisation that you can isolate yourself and, sure, it'll be a bit lonely but..

constantine: will you people _please_ just establish a single hermeneutic and stop killing each other over punctuation first council of nicaea:

I actually think this is flawed! We're in dire need of a new founding moment, drawn directly from the raw constituent power of the People TODAY. Failing that, we're gonna keep lurching awkwardly from one crisis to the next for want of a truly legitimate social compact

However bad you think nuclear war would be? It's worse.

I get mildly annoyed with some of the "that's not what *fill in blank* terrible bad state" looks like, like civil war or fascism or w/e. I try not to respond... because it usually is worse than people imagine. But it's also usually more *normal* than people imagine

Every once in a while someone accuses me of posting something they don’t agree with “for the likes” and I assure you it is not for the likes or for any reason other than that I am constitutionally incapable of not posting

Something I rarely see people point out (actually not sure if I've seen anyone point out) is that our progressive income tax code means tax deductions are regressive. A person who makes enough money to be in the highest bracket gets *more* money back than a poor person.

*puts on math nerd voice* this is why I think everyone should take an operations research class But in all seriousness, i do think about this. Pointing out constraints can be unhelpful sometimes though if it isn't the original point of a convo. Every time i mention prop 13 there is whataboutism

I think some of the hangover is denial of the fact that we've pretty conclusively been dragged into a friend-enemy political dynamic. Which sucks, it's a more zero sum and just worse for everyone. It should be mourned, and some in their mourning are hoping to restore it via maintaining old patterns.

Assumption of good faith is a solid heuristic. But also "assumptions" are guesses you make before you have the evidence. You are allowed to retract good faith once more evidence arises. But also, you shouldn't assume good faith from folks who are your avowed enemies.