EnsignRedshirt [he/him]

It’s called dialectics (probably, I have never read a book)

It is deeply hilarious to me how much “intelligence” work is just knowing about things that anyone can find on the internet, and how often they can’t even get that right.

Yeah, the easy parenting hack for noisy toys is a piece of tape over the speaker. Doesn’t always work, but it won’t cost you much to find out.

I don’t know if this counts, but I only started listening to the podcast after finding the original CTH subreddit (which quickly became the only tolerable place on reddit from my perspective). Tangentially, the only reason I created a twitter account was to understand the myriad twitter references in both the subreddit and the show. I quit reddit after the purge, quit twitter after Musk bought it, but I do still keep up with the podcast for the most part. Very grateful that this place exists to continue the spirit of the original subreddit, which had long-since outgrown the podcast by the time it got banned.

It’s a shame Sleve Mcdichael retired from politics, he’d have had a shot.

The funny thing is that in many ways, Trump is to the GOP what Bernie was to the Dems. He is the Republican that people want to vote for, and everyone else is a professional politician going along to get along. The difference is that the GOP primary is more democratic than the Dem primary, which will never not be funny.

As things get worse and more chaotic, we might see the rise of this type of system out of necessity. Supply chain issues, genuine shortages, mass migration, etc. are all problems that will need solutions that something like Cybersyn can solve, and that the current roster of institutions can’t or won’t. The infrastructure is all there, as is most of the software required. It’s not really a technical problem, it’s a political one. The people in charge don’t want interconnectivity at a societal level because that would inevitably lead to communism.

This is 80% of the way to an Onion article.

The media so desperately wants this to be a real contest. At least they can feel safe in the knowledge that they won’t affect the outcome.

The prize is real insofar as they award a prize, but it’s a little like if Netflix paid the Motion Picture Academy to award an Oscar for Best Streaming Service.

dumbest Nobel price winner

It bears repeating that there is no Nobel Prize for economics. It’s a fake prize that they added after the fact to add credibility to a fake science.

Yet more evidence that Irish are PoC.

I saw China’s military in the closet making brain weapons and I saw one of the brain weapons and the brain weapon looked at me

I’m going to wait a bit to see how the developers handle early access. I got into Valheim early access after their hugely successful launch and absolutely loved the game, but after three years of painfully slow and meagre updates the game still isn’t properly optimized and is missing about a third of the content that should clearly be there. Those decisions are wholly on the developers, and, while I think the game is great and I got my money’s worth, I get the sense that the devs are being precious about doing the work themselves instead of bringing in the resources to deliver what they promised. As a result, it’s an unfinished product that I probably won’t revisit.

If Palworld has good bones and the developers show they’re committed to delivering then I don’t see why I wouldn’t give it an honest go, but I’m done buying unfinished products that have no guarantee of being delivered on time or in an acceptable state.

I heard about a plantation in Hawaii making sparkling pineapple wine and I really want to try it.

The Democrats could win any race they wanted at any time by simply agreeing to do the things that people want them to do. They would rather lose than let the electorate influence policy, and it’s not even close.

It would almost be forgivable if it didn’t slow everything to a crawl. At this point I’d let them put a tracking chip in my fucking brain if they’d just let websites load properly, but we aren’t even going to get that.

And yet the sun still won’t return my texts

I’d be happy to believe that the sun is conscious, but there’s no way it wants to or is even capable of communicating with an ant living on a pebble a trillion miles away.

“I don’t spend any time on twitter” says man who spent enough time on twitter that he felt the need to delete it for sake of his mental health.