The older I get the more I appreciate how literacy is a spectrum, not just being able/unable to read. There are a lot of people who mainly just get vibes from what they read, and fill in the spaces with their own imaginations, but would be deeply insulted if they were rated as low in literacy.

My college built a dining hall when I was a sophomore, but couldn't find someone to put up cash to have their name on it so they left a space next to "Dining Hall" to put it in later. During finals, a senior took some styrofoam letters and a step ladder, and named it after themselves.

The level of redactions the Epstein files released so far reminds me of when I was a kid and the police would censor news about people they were holding. One newspaper wrote a list of each person in custody, submitted it to the censor, and printed the full list with each name blacked out.

It's only breaking the law if the law requires you to do it. And the law only requires you do something if there's a punishment when you don't. Otherwise it's just a legal polite request.

After decades of being told that something can't happen due to obscure legal niceties, a lot of people are discovering that the penalty wildly illegal stuff is that two years from now a judge says "ok but don't do it again," so I think it's a fair reaction to people who are still saying this stuff.

I refuse to believe these two upstanding citizens would ever do anything illegal like underage drinking.

"Well I see your "lock all your products up and take 10 minutes to open it for people when they want to buy things", and raise you..."

The Elkhart Bears has a ring to it. Could be great.

Starting to think we should view the Turing test as a test of the person rather than the computer.

Oh my god imagine a world where a machine could do your chores, like washing clothes, doing the dishes, vacuuming the carpet...

The number of cop cars that go zooming by, completely failing to notice the car they were chasing sitting there upside down says a lot about how normalized cars driving into things has become.

OFFICER('s feelings) DOWN! OFFICER('s feelings) DOWN!

One thing I think the next Democratic Party president needs to do is declare that for the next month anyone who wants to can just sign up to be an American citizen online, resident or not.

In the last year Walz has picked up a big liability (the fraud issue, fair or not), and alienated a big block of supporters. He's popular outside of Minnesota, but not a strong candidate for governor right now, not at all. In a wave election he could still pull it off, but so could anyone else.

Americans are fundamentally unable to understand society, or institutions, as a thing, and when they hear "speed limit" they imagine it being limited exclusively to them personlly having to go slower while everyone else drives like they do right now.

It's easy to see how poorly they've assimilated by looking at how all of their neighbors in Minnesota are ok with having ICE roaming around assaulting them, and how no one is getting really, really, really mad about it.

This makes me feel sad. I just wish George Orwell could have survived to see this movie, with me there to watch him do it.

With reaction time like that it's easy to see how she ran someone over.

I've seen people argue that Governors and Mayors are reluctant to tell the police to enforce laws of this because they believe the police will just refuse, and reveal that they're a lawless gang outside of public control. If so I think it's time to pull off that bandaid and make it clear everyone.

I'm sure it was all just some kind of misunderstanding, and everyone was acting in good faith. Talking it out should fix the problem.

Very on brand that they're rappelling in from a helicopter and scampering around like operators to seize a civilian freighter from a country we are not at war with, as if they could not just pull up next to it in a boat and tell them they've seized it.

LLMs are the Segway of the 2020s. It's a Segway because it's massively over hyped as the way of the future, and likely to fade out into an expensive novelty with some limited applications. It's of the 2020s because it's unbearably dumb and also a catastrophe for everyone.

Roar 2 coming up soon it looks like.

I have stopped wondering if she had an editor at all, and started wondering why her editor was actively suggesting things to her to make her book worse.

I'm sure the shift to the E line will be good, but man. I rode the 6 to the University when I moved here, and then I shifted straight to riding the 6 further to work. It's like losing a room in my apartment.

I love this. More organizations should do this kind of thing, and do it this blatantly. Eventually it's not even flattery it's just insulting him to his face in a way he's psychologically incapable of recognizing.

So many people hate this plan because it is "monstrous", "tacky", and "a relentless public humiliation for the entire country", but personally I love it (same reasons).

It's very frustrating to see people give Tim Walz credit for all of the amazing things the Somali community has done for Minnesota.

So this will probably just be funny, but let's all remember that this is the bad place and Minnesota has a history of occasionally just electing utter weirdos for no apparent reason.

Go lower the flag some more why don't you.

The main thing to take away from this is that Georgia State College of Law is the world's easiest law school, and that no one graduating from can be safely assumed to have minimal literacy.

After years of this kind of article I think they're just lying about it. This is just a thing Republican legislators tell Democrats in order to convince them that their horrifying votes reflect a response to death threats, rather than monstrous things they wanted to do.

I support this so much, but deep down I know they'll probably just wimp out eventually and add something in there about "if they're committing crimes."

Eventually Garcia is going to end up naturalized by sheer force of adverse inference.

It seems like they'd be operating a motor vehicle without a license, right from the start.

It's very funny that the bill ordering Trump to release the Epstein files allows an exemption for active investigations, given that he just very publicly ordered the justice department to open investigations into his political opponents.

I believe under federal law "was not actually indicted" is an affirmative defense against charges you haven't actually been indicted for, and this could substantially strengthen Comey's legal defense against ok hold on here

"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny

It's baffling to me that someone would watch black mirror and come away with the idea that this is a good idea as opposed to, like, the one with the Prime Minister and the pig.

I love this every time it comes up, and it makes me sad that Minneapolis - St Paul will never have the opportunity to do something similar.

One thing that's fascinating to me is which Republicans, long after it's clear that this will be far more damaging to the Republican party than the Democrats, are still pushing to release the Epstein information. I don't know if it's from principle, or a principle I would respect, but it's wild.

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A genuinely impressive amount of my job is dealing with people who got a (very clear) letter and don't know understand what it says, but who would be shocked if someone described them as having low literacy.

Junji Ito warned us about this.