You know from an evo psych perspective it's more likely that men seek to be dominated rather than dominate themselves.

The responses to this make me feel vaguely like a space alien for the things I consider when moving (job, family and friends)

I ran across some redditors complaining about an isekai-style manga because someone other than the protagonist got a romantic interest that would otherwise be in the harem. This is why we can't have nice things.

A video game is an intrinsically bad medium for romance because romance is about people choosing to be together and video games are about player agency.

Bluesky is the new place to go for high-level political discussions because half of the pundits, for lack of a better word, have credentials like "Guy who plays in a Portland post-punk band". "Professional video editor in San Diego". "Commodities trader in Nova Scotia". "Person named Sharon"

they simply don't. they want people who will reinforce their sense of learned helplessness

A lot of this is really a fight about definitions. Not only what counts as "bailing out" but who counts as "Silicon Valley Bank". The people who were made whole through FDIC intervention were the bank depositors. Normally, the public likes depositors. But SVB's depositors included David Sacks.

Remember, good service at fast food and diners is a bad sign for the economy!

Causal arrow points the other way and of all the proposed AI regulations this is the most likely to violate 1A.

Knight Squad 2 is an excellent family experience if you want to hear your wife try to get one of your children to stop trying to win on grounds she gave birth to him

Shout out to the Canadian who came to the party yesterday bearing a tray of nanaimo bars. These were amazing. Canada has been holding out on us, but I can't really blame them en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanaimo...

So you established that ChatGPT 5.1 reliably returns accurate and consistent results when asked the question right? Right?

It’s just funny that people want to maximize intelligence, like funny on a cosmic level. All evidence suggests if you want a happy person who feels ahead of the game of life, you put them one standard dev above the median, maybe a little more. 88th percentile is great!

Honestly it may not even be that sophisticated. It may just be an atavistic superstition where naming the bear will summon the bear.

except for certain very very very specific crimes, ignorance of the law is not an excuse, so informing someone doesn't put them in additional danger. and I'm not snitching on people to the govt, the govt is more than capable of finding you if you skeet it out on a public feed anyways.

this keeps on happening to various lawsky posters, where a statement of the legal consequences of action X gets taken as a justification of the fact that X is illegal, or that we want to see people jailed, and the intention is the *opposite* of that omfg

the extent to which people will waffles here "I want people to know that what they're considering doing is a felony" somehow gets taken as an endorsement of fact that the act is legally a felony, or a statement that I want the people in question jailed, rather than trying to keep them OUT of jail

Bsky can get very angry at the idea that maybe people should be careful about committing crimes, it's true.

I don't even think we're talking about the same incident but yeah, this.

The Bluesky Discover tab: not even once

I understand that people hate Merrick Garland and institutionalism and all but does no one remember Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024) I did the full citation because there's more than one Trump v US case where the courts fucked things up!

Elkus’s Law: There is no surer way to attract someone saying a thing on the internet than to claim nobody is saying it.

I have little care for the Papacy or sports rivalries, but

A pope that will cheerfully talk shit about the Cubs is a rich bounty in a season of famine

The dark flipside of this is why some people can't enjoy AI porn.

I think the way to abstract this is how many work-hours does it take to support (via taxation) a retirement-hour. You then need to compare it to the supply of workers and the demand of retirees and that second ratio is getting uglier.

"look, I have grandmommy issues, an inferiority complex toward England, and am going to spend one trillion marks to build a navy which could seriously contest control of the North Sea with the RN, thereby making Germany the unquestioned hegemon of Europe. there is no way this could end poorly."

Something about this phrasing is very bluesky

While it would be extremely funny if the name change vote somehow actually dissolved the the Kennedy Center somehow, I think it's going to end up that the name change is ultra vires.

PM: the one with painting of the white house on fire Archivist: yessss with the paintingsss with the firesss PM: wait why are you talking like gollum Archivist: nasty minister asks vicious questions he does PM: I am so confused right now

My wife got some money and searched everywhere* in the car and her purse for it. And by everywhere I don't mean her wallet inside her purse.

I realized recently we have AFAICT skipped two very annoying seasonal discourses I dare not name lest I tempt the wrath from high a top the thing.

My daughter is laying on her back on the floor eating a pizza crust. She is perfectly capable of sitting up.

This is the sort of thing that makes me very sure evolution is a thing and also a bit more sure that God is doing an extended bit

My wife decided the boys would learn Catan and I have regrets

ICE, as an organization needs to go for a lot of reasons palatable across the coalition and the general public, and we may also even have enough energy to shrink or eliminate the portfolio as well

As a result, people can wind up with political beliefs that don't really match their identity. When this happens, you can shift your identity, shift your beliefs, just kinda accept the mismatch, or try to force the two to fit (or some combination of these).

Are we really doing mutual aid discourse again?

I have once again accidentally learned about the political alignment of a tradesman and it's Not Great

You'd be hardpressed to find a single store at the mall that sells stuff primarily to American teen girls that DOESN'T include something Hello Kitty. You probably can't find ANYTHING at the mall right now that has savior of Pandora Jack Scully on it even though it's in the theaters right now!

Really annoying disclaimers are also important! It's easy to speak to generalities on social media and get whomped by specifics you didn't see coming. A lot of lawyers see being on social media at all as an unnecessary risk.

This is a very real concern. It’s likely the reason why other campaigns don’t try things like this, not because other candidates are less community-minded or altruistic. Furthermore, it creates opportunities to skirt disclosure requirements that I’m certain someone would pounce on.

I would also be pretty worried about running afoul of campaign finance rules especially if the trend catches on.

I would like this snide observation to stop being relevant to the discourse thanks

Something I want to try with AI is treating it like I'm its sous chef. How most people seem to be using it is by giving it directions, and either taking the final output, or iterating with it it until we can take the parts and bash them together ourselves. What I'm proposing is the opposite.

This, too, is because of pornography

You people are truly a deeply weird about siblings showing any amount of affection for each other.

This is fascinating, especially because in Chinese, any gender associated with a pronoun is exclusively in the written form - all pronunciations are identical.

Land use is inherently rivalrous, claiming a place as a spiritual home however is not.