Was really disappointing when I went on to study formal logic and didn’t hear “turn A” once

How do you do fellow kids, just posting some topical cultural references. Memes, we young people call them. 6 7 my dudes

Will being treated this way is bad

Man, fuck this, there is nothing more American than criticizing America. And to say that people whose Americanness only goes back a few generations (or no further than themselves) have no right to? Adrian, you’re the worst kind of American.

Putting aside that solar farms are rarely (if ever) created by clearcutting forests, Acre of forest sequesters 1-2tCO2 per year Acre of solar produces ~400MWh You come out ahead as long as what ever energy source you're replacing is at least ~5g/kWh Natural gas plants are like 400g equiv/kWh

I'm one of those people who believe LLMs can be a useful programming tool. This is an extremely bad mindset and you should avoid people who think this way.

It’s kind of fucked up that the Pythagoreans (supposedly) lost their shit over square roots when they’re by far the least horrific kind of irrational number Feel like if someone had gave them the concept of algebraic numbers a lot of pain could be avoided, at least until Cantor

from the schengen area, with aloof kindness

that discourse-bait about the person fooling their mother with dementia to a visit from AI Ozzy: it's bad. I understand why someone would do it, but it's bad. Other things I also thing are bad for equivalent reasons: - Hiring an Elvis impersonator for the same reason - telling kids Santa is real

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

that's an interesting rendering error--don't think this is how LtR and RtL writing systems should be mixed?

As a person who pays more attention to video game music than Texas politics, I’m very confused by people saying good things about Talarico

things we will regret: - being so meat dependent (i love it but land use is a nightmare) - emptying the aquifers for alfalfa trade - not putting down more green tech earlier and not removing pretty much every barrier to big batteries

nothing like some sephiroth posting to describe why you won't *checks notes* read a story on the British national broadcaster's website

this guy is funny: all he posts about is how Catholics and Mormons aren't Christian, which is some great "precisely the same kind of communist I am" stuff

SCROOGE: you there! what day is today? BOY: today? it's Christmas Day SCROOGE: the spirits did it all in one night! BOY: NINETEEN SEVENTY THREE [Life on Mars plays, a Ford Cortina suddenly crashes into Scrooge's front room] GENE HUNT: OI, DI Scrooge, get in, we've got a nonce in Didsbury to bust

I highly encourage the right to try and make Ms. Rachel the latest dragon they're telling everyone they're going to slay. Everyone will love that so much

Americans are correct that fluid measurements should be powers of two, but also we never talk about it (correctly: it’s too powerful)

NORAD Santa tracker is bad because it reveals national defense secrets

I am surprised he has dropped completely out of public view in the US as he was regularly referenced in Viz Magazine...what do you mean most Americans don't read Viz

Americans: have you ever heard this Christmas song?

It's December 24th and I'm thinking about quines

It's funny how us parochial Americans generally seem to perceive that the EV revolution is stalling or reversing when in fact it's accelerating rapidly worldwide. 25% of cars sold globally in 2025 were EVs! It's mostly just the US that's being left behind

Seriously, this is one of my greatest dreams in life, tbh I'd do it for free Yo, @criterion.bsky.social — I've got the goods:

Man, Jehovah's Witnesses are great because they don't want money and you can just bullshit about theology with them. "I'm an atheist and you can't save my soul but I would LOVE to talk about the origin of the celebration of Christmas. Do you want any tea/coffee? Sure I'll talk your literature!"

trump is genuinely an aberration. one could not have predicted him winning from the perspective of 2014. it took an incredible chain of contingencies to happen. it almost did not.

Rowan Atkinson is a weird internal-combustion-engine guy, so even if it's for the wrong reasons, I'm glad that the real Mr Bean hates Cybertrucks

Lads do you think someone with one night, after-tax earnings of £36 million is in the 1%? Do you think he uses a tax advisor to minimize what he owes? Hint: ONS put the *wealth* cutoff for being in the top 1% of households at about £3.6 million in 2022

Going over a page in a 1920 Philadelphia census, every adult in every household has Hungary as their place of birth and German as their native language At least in Eastern PA, this probably means they're all from Burgenland, which was in Hungary under the dual monarchy but is now in Austria

lol lmao this government will stop at nothing to fold for people who are never going to vote for them

yeah, this can fuck right off

Paddington Bear becoming the UK's go-to psychopomp is one of the very weirdest things to happen in this very weird decade.

The UK is now facing an emigration crisis and a shrinking population. It must, must, must reverse engines on immigration immediately - throw the doors open and wave people in. Otherwise we are inviting disaster.

My "This is no way affects my position as Governor of Louisiana" tweet is raising a lot of questions already answered by the tweet

in today's "what the fuck are people up to on facebook and twitter": irish nationalists who are explicitly comparing themselves to the nazis, in 2025

Just read the phrase “closet Bourbakiste”, suspect that’s a hapax legomenon in English

in American culture it is actually very frowned upon to frame your best friend for your wife’s murder, we have a term for it called “not nice”

One of the oddest things this year that really challenges my priors is that Israel and the US finally did what the former and bits of the latter have been chomping at the bit to do for over two decades, and bombed Iran and… not much seems to have happened as a consequence.

This is true. And honestly, in 2026, the best reasons to play around with AI will be: 1. To figure out if you can use it to do less of the most tedious and toilsome work 2. To know its limitations so you can push back when someone says you "have" to use it

It’s so weird how the locus of truth is co-moving through the timestream with me. Anyway

The older I get the more I notice people being dead wrong about things onaccounta just not being old enough But people older than me are also dead wrong about everything, I don't know what to make of it

Trying to identify this location from the Epstein file drop.

Since it came up in another convo about Judaism, though I’d ask: - Do most rabbinical Jews consider Karaite Jews as Jews? I think so? But also not something that ever comes up for most people, probably? - What about for Samaritans? Guessing no?

Her writing it on her phone explains a lot

i have been thinking a bit about how any political program that requires the premise of “america bad” is a dead end

our current system has a strong chance of putting a far-right government in complete power with about a quarter of the vote. electoral reform *must* be a Labour priority. FPTP is simply not set up to deal with a system with five competitive parties.

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.