@kodi I'm told I'll seem more like a real person if I put something here And that will make it less likely that I'll get blocked But then I think about how strong the desire not to be perceived is And I wonder why I'd want to avoid being blocked
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that there's no way you can draw the circle so that only the stuff it gets wrong goes on the outside. And anyone who tries to pin you down to one of these bad things and explain why it's your fault for doing it wrong is deliberately ignoring the way these bad things go together.
It's bad that it gets trivial stuff wrong, and it's ALSO bad that the big value add of "sometimes it summarizes information from multiple sources in a useful way" ALSO gets stuff wrong, and the most bad thing of all is..
Just... just checking, but are you endorsing the "talk to the manager and try to get the barista fired" take?
The ultra-pasteurized stuff generally goes bad on day 6 or so after you open it. If I buy milk that's not ultra-pasteurized, anything that's left four days after opening is going down the drain. Also you lose about a day keeping it on the door where it's 5-10⁰F warmer than the rest of the fridge.
it's probably a prequel to Gary/Off
Ruin a movie by making it about Gary Gary-On
We just really want to live in a world where Kelly Clarkson has released exactly one studio album. Can't live without Miss Independent, can't stand Since U Been Gone - got to be 2003.
It is EXTREMELY normal to do that; so normal in fact that OSHA has a whole bucket of regulations telling you that many ways you're not allowed to do it. But if any white house was going to ignore OSHA, it would be this one.
Obviously it's hard to tell through a telephoto lens, but there's definitely evidence that something weird is going; the media silence seems inexcusable.
Just today I realized that when she says she wants to make a deal with god and get him to swap "our" places, she doesn't mean she wants to take over as god for a bit.
I will say, as of 2025 I'm a lot more willing to dismiss Con Law as "nice to know history."
Science fiction is brassicas and fantasy is nightshades.
Back in the day, it was very easy to go to a local comic store with a giant box and say "is there anything good in here?" (In my case, there never was.) I don't know if that's still the case, though.
extremely rare in your collection that you didn't have any interest in, then just putting it out there is a totally fine way to handle it. If that would fill you with regret, then it's worth doing some investigation.
If you're confident that there's nothing earlier than 1970, there's only a very few titles that would be worth more than $100 if they're in that condition. If you're the sort of person that could take joy in the fact that someone ELSE made a thousand dollars finding something...
"I can't find a thimble, and anyway I'm not very good at using them, I'm sure it will be fine" is how I learned that lesson. So painful, I'm sorry.
(We were on the very border of "ARFID has a name" so we didn't get an official ARFID diagnosis, but if it had been a few years later it's pretty clear we would have.)
keep some fluids down, or you're in the hospital for IV hydration. The program also starts with conversations with a psychiatrist, and my impression is that there's a lot more types of therapy they can also use if there's an underlying cause other than "they're never hungry and food is boring."
were on their fourth or fifth stay - things would get better for a while, and then they'd get worse. Another thing we learned is that some kids with ARFID are basically on the verge of dehydration all the time - if they start vomiting you basically have 6 hours to get them to...
a one-way mirror; next week, parents are in the room while therapist does the feeding; third week, parents do the feeding with the therapist in the room; fourth week, parents feed while therapist watches from the observation room. It went really well for us, but some of the families we met...
if they take a bite, they get to do the fun activity for a bit, and if they don't, then everyone just sits there calmly, and if the kid gets out of their chair, you gently return them to it. It was a four-week program; the first week, a therapist is alone in the room, and parents observe through...
The inpatient program that I have experience with - we were basically treating lack-of-interest ARFID - you find something that the kid enjoys (for us, it was watching a DVD of Super Why, but other kids like to play with toys) and for 30 minutes, 3 times a day, they're in a room where...
I know several parents who went with apple watches for young kids - even as young as 1st grade - and they're all SUPER happy with the results. So of course Texas banned smartwatches from schools.
four years ago. I can't tell you what they budget for it per year since it gets rolled into the "instruction" line item which is $7k/year/student, but it's definitely not a huge fraction of that.
Our district makes you pay $20/year for "chromebook insurance" which means if the chromebook just dies for no reason you _don't_ have to pay to repair it, and if it gets damaged or lost you _only_ have to pay $100 to replace it. I think they paid $300 for them new when they first ordered them...
Just to be totally clear, here, you're saying that it IS true that not everyone has the documentation required to get a drivers license, but that anyone CAN "obtain an ID in the form of a drivers license." I'm not sure how these are consistent unless you're advising people to forge an ID.
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
Haha yes EXACTLY. It's so terrifying and there's no way to stop it.
I was so excited when I found out how easy and fast it was in the pressure cooker and then I learned that it's too rich for everyone in my family but me.
I was so confused about the relationship between "infra red," a word that people only ever said out loud, and in-fraird, a word that people only ever wrote down. I knew they were very similar concepts but I just couldn't figure out the difference.
We had a place open up near us named "24 Hour Pizza" and from the day they opened until the day they went out of business their freaking hours were 10a-10p. I'm still salty about it.
If you buy two, you can have a stinky garlic one and a "please don't make my rice pudding smell like garlic" one.
This is a horrible trap because now I have to listen to like five different singles and the entirety of Disintegration to try to decide which is my favorite.
Does it have the juice?
Oh! I meant to tell you - I saw your "have you eaten ice cream today" too late on Wednesday, so on Thursday I went to the gelato shop to get some mascarpone and fig gelato; it was as delicious as I hoped.
I Tried To Google What You Did Last Summer but I Got a VERY Misleading AI Summary and Did Not Click Through Any of the Links To Learn More
Not in any way an endorsement of the dude himself, but my money is on Tim Sheehy.
I do genuinely wonder if it will still be practical to travel from a red state to a blue state by late 2026.
Not counting phys ed coaches, law school.
At a much larger company, one year I got an email from someone saying "Happy Birthday! It's my birthday, too!" but I've never had any interactions with any of the people on that email apart from receiving that email with them.
It has only happened to me once in my life that I found out someone I knew in person had the same birthday as me. I even spent 10 years working at a ~200 person company with regular turnover where they announced birthdays every week, and never had another person with the same birthday as me.
Yes. “Obscene.” That’s exactly it. Not quite the same, but—when a family member used ChatGPT to write a prayer, and then had us pray it together before a holiday meal, it felt like…blasphemy. I couldn’t do it. How could my devout loved one offer this obscene farce to a God they clearly venerate?
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That once is the one thing that just snaps through my suspension of disbelief. The one and only time I saw a show use a defibrillator on a shockable rhythm, I jumped up and cheered, it was such a surprise.
It's two boxes, but yes, precisely. :D
Tom Clancy's Metamorphosis
I think you'll find that MY roundness, while constant, is also sudden. And intimidating.
Back when I worked in an office, I mounted some shelves on the back of my monitor and used them to display a complete collection of LEGO Star Wars Micro Fighters. But now I work from home and my monitor is mounted on the wall and the Micro Fighters are in storage.
Tom Clancy's D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
It warms my heart every single time you post a new comic. Thank you for sharing some fun, silly moments with us.
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Can we please have pictures of the pumpkin hill because I'll bet it's very pretty.
I have forwarded "It’s Migration Season with the Armadillo" to so many people. jfc it's about to hit its second anniversary
Absolutely! But also, you know, if "speaking ill of the dead" is indistinguishable from "saying facts about the dead that they would proudly agree with," I mean, go nuts.
If we're making blanket rules I am willing to throw it out entirely just because of the number of times I've heard people do it who have no idea how to use a microphone and all I can hear are their absurd mouth sounds.
Fuck, I was so worried this was going to be what it was. I'm so sorry.
Oh my god
So, good news, I still have a surprising amount of new-to-me Who to watch! Also The Beast Below definitely made me weepy.
I put in disc 1 of Matt Smith, and I want to see the fish fingers and suddenly I've rewatched The Eleventh Hour, and now it's time to figure out how far I made it into this season before stopping and... I have no recollection of The Beast Below, and it turns out that's because I never watched it...
So I felt like I watched a lot of the Matt Smith era; definitely saw all of Clara, and a good chunk of Amy. So I figured I'd pull up HBOMA and see where I left off. Anyway, now I have a DVD collection of 9-12, since I guess modern Who doesn't have a streaming home right now...
All I can think is that they are seeing criticism that celebrates things they consider inherently unworthy, and assume that if someone is saying positive things about *that* type of thing, they must be afraid to share their real feelings because everyone knows it's not "real" art.
If you're in a car, you're in control, and the only thing that can hurt you is your own weakness; on public transit you've ceded that advantage, and now you might even get outnumbered!
I wonder if it comes from the same place as "if I wear a seatbelt, then I won't be thrown safely clear of the crash" and "motorcycle helmets make me less safe because they obstruct my view" - a fetishistic devotion to maintaining the bare illusion of control, even when it actually reduces safety.
And that's what makes it so terrible - we have done some things that work! And l think most of us have some good idea what those things are - but if we're not allowed to acknowledge that they worked, there's a good chance we stop doing (at least some of) them.
I agree; and then the human also knows that the bot is a bot, and subject to external controls - anything the bot says that doesn't play into the human's assumptions gets dismissed as something the amorphous "they" made the bot do.
The idea that someone could have access to the drug that entirely stopped my suicidal ideation - that they could have that for their whole life? That seems amazing. I want that for everybody who needs it. I just can't fathom a counterargument.
So just to make sure I understand, you see "failing to pursue a prosecution" as a greater crime than "actually doing crimes"?
since she really doesn't get to fun companion things, she has to do a lot of work as a mere McGuffin, and out of 84 minutes, it takes her 30 minutes to meet the Doctor and she spends another 5 possessed. But the most frustrating thing is that the plot is at once absurdly linear AND inscrutable.
Alright, so I've seen the Doctor Who movie. And I mean, it's fine. I'd have been delighted to get an entire season with Paul McGann. Eric Roberts is fine, but The Master can only be good when he's got a good scheme. Ashbrook is most let down by the script...
My favorite part of the responses is that you are talking about a province which quite famously cannot agree on whether it should be legal to use the word "pasta" or whether to be part of Canada, and you've got a half-dozen Loraxes who insist they know what every single person in Quebec wants.
I hope one thing leftists all take away from Mamdani’s campaign though is that it doesn’t matter how chill and wholesome you are, the dinguses are going to smear and trash you in increasingly unhinged ways anyway, so you might as well shoot for the moon and campaign on what makes your heart sing
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because of a few terrible things that were done to someone LIKE me. For three years, I knew that my best hope for avoiding that treatment was to pretend to not be like that person, and to do my best to avoid the attention of the bullies.
When I was in high school, I spent the entire time feeling like I was being bullied. And then at some point I was trying to provide examples of how I was bullied, and I realized that almost nothing happened TO ME. I spent three years of my life feeling like I was bullied every single day...
It was made quite clear to me that, as a person who had no memory of the first three years of my life when I lived in Ohio, I was still and would always be a yankee. The rules seem to have softened over time, though.
Do you feel like that went "well" or "poorly"? Did you try saying it out loud? Do you still feel like "y'all'll" goes just as well as "you'll" and "I'll"?
The only thing not to like about "y'all" is how poorly it forms a contraction with "will". But ANYTHING that stops people from saying "you guys" is frankly a blessing.
His middle tooth is actually really endearing.
Oh my goodness, yes. I get that, too, it feels like the cough is compressing my brain. I hope it gets better for you soon.
She makes me want to give myself a nickname, and then exclaim my own nickname as a synonym for "awesome!" It probably won't work as well when I do it, though. I wish we got more episodes with her, but I really liked season 26, so I at least she went out on a high note.
Ace gets her own post. Ace is amazing, ESPECIALLY when they give her a non-Doctor character to play against. She also gets a genuine character-development arc, and I love that she's very smart but not played as an abrasively smart person..
(I've actually started watching the movie, but he's still technically next in the queue because I'm like twenty minutes in and we're still on Seven.) And then I'll finally feel qualified to have an opinion on all the Doctors, Masters, and Companions!
I have now watched the entire run of Doctor Who from 1963-89. I've also seen MOST of the modern run; I need to watch the Amy / Rory / River episodes to figure out if I just don't remember some of them, or if I missed them the first time through. But the Eighth Doctor is next in the queue!
Oh no! How miserable.
It's so cruel, especially if you're one of those people whose headaches don't go away until they sleep.
I wonder what sort of machine you put a Hitler in to determine the exact level of badness.
You are so awesome for sharing this. Thank you!
where using power to do good or to create is simply less effective than using power to do evil or to destroy, in part because evil can distribute its costs to people who did not consent to absorb them. It sucks, but it doesn't mean no one was listening.
or it might mean that some people who are very powerful and do not share those values have used that power to work terrible evils in the world. The United States's catastrophic plunge into fascism doesn't mean that 1984 was ignored, it means that there is a built-in leverage imbalance...
and have consistently tried to live my life consistently with those values. The fact that we are living in a world largely inconsistent with those values doesn't mean it got ignored; it might mean that a lot of people are willing to sacrifice their values for convenience or profit...
Real Genius is part of the foundation of my character that led to me telling Facebook recruiters to stop contacting me until Facebook had a reputation as a force for good in the world. And obviously Facebook got on just fine without me, but I did absorb the message of Real Genius...
This post really crystallized my feelings on the whole "you all ignored this and now you're paying the price" rhetoric that's been bothering me for a bit. (Obviously this post is not that bad, it just happened to make things clear.) Because specifically Real Genius did NOT get ignored.
My EMT friend told me about the guy who was extremely high and also thought his contacts were in and succeeded in doing serious damage to his cornea and every time I have a contact mishap I'm like "but at least I'm not that guy!"
Yeah, in terms of pure "is the mystery reveal rewarding" Gravity Falls is among the best - although it does roll out the fact that it's a mystery box show pretty slowly at first.
Rewatched this recently and was amazed at how much they seeded in the earliest episodes. What a thoughtfully crafted show.
If you're not mad about the FBI raiding John Bolton's house you're probably in the middle of writing an op-ed about how Dems need to throw trans people under the bus to retake the House.
One of the most fascinating things about Elon's trajectory has been watching him change what types of speech patterns he emulates. For a long time he was obsessed with talking like he thought smart people would talk, but he's totally abandoned that now.
A handful of frozen corn is a magical addition to a pack of instant noodles.