Mister Rogers never misses
Enthusiast, Wisconsinite. 25% games, 25% politics and history, 50% dinosaur shitposts. Occasional cats. Extremely specific opinions.
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Mister Rogers never misses
"Preservatives".
TBH I think a person coming from a place of sincere religious belief is probably going to be inherently more cautious.
Including the horse is diabolical work.
Lol as a math idiot I'd sympathize with the LLM here, but even I can understand why at least one has to be transcendental, since that's fairly basic logic.
Since they're really just mimicry machines, I guess that makes sense? An LLM can't understand the rules of math -- they can't understand anything, computers don't actually reason -- so unless it stumbles upon someone answering the exact question ...
LLMs are infamously bad at math. Obviously you can program a computer to be very very good at math, but my impression as a math idiot is that at the level of professional mathematicians you're back into the areas you need a person for.
He's not up there for the reason we all want him to be up there. But one can dream.
Maybe we should find out if the kid had any benign causes he cared about and donate everything in his honor, since he was the only actual victim.
It's Chicago's time.
I know why, but it still hurts me to know RFK Jr. is popular by political standards.
In my more charitable moments I try to remember this comes from a place of anxiety over their own scientific illiteracy. But on the other hand, I am dogshit at all hard sciences and I get that nature is even more callously disinterested in my survival than a Fortune 500 company.
"I don't eat things with chemicals" and its variations.
If MAGA conspiracy theorists were any good at the job this would be the thing they'd consider ironclad evidence, but those mofos can't even crackpot competently.
I like how his crooked whiskers add the faintest hint of gaiety and mirth to his solemn expression.
Manners maketh man etc. etc. I think a solid 75% of why the modern Right is so crass is because American etiquette now considers open racism unpardonably rude, and so etiquette itself becomes the enemy.
People who fantasize about returning to the land picture picking a basket of strawberries in the cool morning breeze, then retreating to the house when it gets hot. The other berries get picked by mysterious hands.
My childhood bff was a huuuuge horse girl, a thing her broke single mom absolutely couldn't have afforded to indulge. Our troop went riding at least a couple times every summer. I know now that my troop leader mom prioritized that for her specifically, but as a kid we were oblivious.
My own trope had girls from every local economic strata. The fees get waived if the girl's family can't afford them, making it very affordable fun and inclusion for poor kids.
I would wager this person sees the Girl Scouts as, like, the marching dogs of capitalism.
Ridiculous.
The easiest route for a modern Kent family would be to just report Clark as an abandoned baby they found (essentially true), getting him on the books right away. It wouldn't even be unheard of for CPS to decide to let them keep him, especially in a rural community.
Congratulations on living in the Shadowlands.
TBH I'm actually very unsurprised they hate Superman, because even setting aside the immigrant angle Clark at his best is a sterling example of healthy masculinity and they fucking hate that shit.
Honestly amateurs mostly shouldn't be using most pesticides and herbicides. I'll defend their (careful) application in industrial farming, but organic methods work great on a small scale and should be heavily encouraged for hobbyists.
Absolutely! But I bring it up because it's a thought experiment that's only available because of Supes' immigrant-baby origins.
I once read a total banger law review article about whether Clark Kent is technically an American citizen. 'Superman is an immigrant story' is an extremely established take, do these people live under a rock.
Controversial take, I know, but I think it would work if they would just commit to the bit and make the whole room equally bold.
Yeah, I don't think this counterfactual works unless that happens, because European monarchies kind of hinged on royal4royal and that's not happening if you're not certain your grandkid gets to be king.
Christians kind of flirted with that in the early medieval era, see e.g. England's William I, but ultimately agreed to play dynasty nightmare mode where only one woman can have legitimate babies and she's your first cousin.
Have they, though? Because the story is now way less about Mamdani and way more about the NYT's bad journalism.
Basically the Buzzfeed model back in its heyday.
Sometimes I call my cat "rat man" and then it sends me into speculation about whether as a primate I smell noticeably similar to our rodent cousins, so I'm the actual rat, and that's why he doesn't respect me.
I'm so mad that they're trying to pivot to how our racial categories don't reflect diaspora reality, mostly because that's an insanely interesting conversation in the United States of Oops! All Diasporas, but I don't want to have it if it gives them cover.
Sometimes the utility of the thing is the pleasure of its existence.
I'm very critical of organic farming advocates who think we can feed all 8.2 billion of us with locally grown pesticide-free heirloom crops, but this is exactly why I am simultaneously a HUGE fan of hobby farms and community gardens.
I'll retract my criticism because I am willing to acknowledge I'm being an unfair snob. But I still first and foremost think of fucking James Frey.
You know what, that's fair, and I'll acknowledge I'm being a snob.
I guess the urge to sexually harass the robot is gender neutral?
How many of the books were any good, though?
I started falling down that hole until I started seeing science communication in the last few years pushing back on it.
The funny thing is, if you think about it for a second, white America's history is also absolutely a history of diasporas. We just don't ordinarily frame it that way. But yeah, they're obviously lying and no one on their staff wanted to, like, spark a national conversation about diasporas.
I saw that thread, it's so fascinating! I had vaguely been aware of the Indian diaspora community in Africa, mostly from a biography of Gandhi I read in high school, but in my ignorance I'd vaguely thought it was a 19th century phenomenon.
Man, I'd ordinarily love to have a national conversation about diaspora communities, but not like this.
Do they understand they're the villain in this story
I'm still kind of hoping it has My Adventures With Superman vibes, one of my favorite pieces of comics media.
I don't understand how this is confusing to the NYT when the majority of Americans are connected in some way with a diaspora community.
They're trying to take advantage of general American unawareness of how big (and old) the Indian diaspora community is in Africa. It's a bit weird because if there's anything Americans should intuitively understand, it's diaspora communities.
The campaign is made easier because in absence of actual science education, it's very easy to fall prey to the 'natural = good, unnatural = bad' fallacy.
The obvious explanation is that you've stumbled upon a design community populated entirely by Sims and someone is wielding the sledgehammer and wall height changing tools liberally.
Retired prizefighter turned swooning Victorian ingenue.
There is nowhere we can be that is beyond the unfeeling hand of natural forces. OBVIOUSLY we shouldn't do things that make those forces worse, keep that snarky comment in your pocket, but cripes almighty.
Oh god, THANK you for sharing that block list. If I see one more person respond to mourning for dead children by questioning the parents' politics I'm going to scream.
I'm really distracted by this poor horse getting his parents' ship name as his actual legal name.
I'm going to just block people I see doing this hideous shit. I realize it comes from a place of protecting their own feelings as much as anything else, but it's a cruel impulse and they should be ashamed of themselves.
Kids get to vote in Texas? Animals get to vote? C'mon, man. Be decent.
Real 'I would simply choose not to drown' energy. The whole thing about floods is that they tend to happen slowly -- so slowly that a layperson often won't spot the signs -- and then they happen incredibly fast.
Simultaneously a grown man and a baby.
You also need a category for 'Your ancestors would be so mad you exist' for those of us with both British and fucked-over-by-the-British ancestry.
Some friends decorated their nursery with a dinosaur theme, complete with a pterosaur skeleton model hanging from the ceiling. I'm looking forward to how the kid turns out.
You can say a LOT about the limitations placed on women back when floor length skirts were required, but our ancestors could carry entire live chickens in their pockets while I'm clinging to a seven year old phone because I can keep it in my pocket.
I'm too much of a mutt to have any specific cultural foods, but as regional delicacies go: Wisconsin's traditional drink is the brandy old fashioned (disgusting) and our traditional pastry is the Kringle (incredibly mid).
The Abrahamic religions (and I'm sure many others I don't feel I can speak for) also explicitly instruct us to be kind to foreigners, a lesson nevertheless continuously ignored.
Hospitals also need staff, and rural hospitals are being denied the best tools they've had to actually get skilled labor. What doctor wants to go to the sticks if there's no job security and no help with your loans?
There really is something indescribably Slavic about him.
I feel this way about a lot of organic food movement rhetoric tbh. It's not that industrial farming is an uncomplicated good. But food insecurity is an uncomplicated evil.
I find with my cat the trick is to gently stroke the offending paw. I'm not allowed to touch them (he's ticklish) and in his disapproval he automatically flexes his paws and thus works himself free. He does not say thank you.
You forget how to do it, don't you, Jorts? Just admit it, we won't judge!
I offer my cat salmon but he turns his nose up at it. Salmon tube snack, on the other hand ...
The only reason not to call her a bitch is because it's extremely rude to dogs.
I hope he makes a campaign stop at a fish fry and one of his rural constituents drop kicks him into the oil over their hospital closing. (They won't -- they'll convince themselves POC in Milwaukee or Madison did this to them.)
They're everywhere in Wisconsin and we're used to them. There's a road I drive regularly where it's roundabout, roundabout, bridge, roundabout, roundabout in quick succession. People make fun of it but it's been a hugely safety improvement.
There's this undercurrent to a lot of this that it would be wrong for Dems to do this because maybe MAGA voting poor people will be made to feel stupid. But they are stupid and someone should tell them so.
Nut flours are (usually) okay to eat raw, but wheat flour isn't. It can be pretty gross, actually. You should thoroughly wash your hands after working with it.
McBride and Baldwin deserve their flowers for fighting as hard as they have. I don't care if you have other issues with them, you can talk about those another day.
This is true, but what's also true is that they're not going to admit they did it to themselves by consistently voting against their best interests. It will always be someone else's fault.
Milwaukee loved them so much they stayed in power through two separate Red Scares.
That number really contextualizes why agriculture has not, in most parts of the world, produced particularly diverse diets.
Wheat is one of those crops humans only fucked with because it can be rendered to a rot-resistant form after an enormous amount of work.
I realize not everyone has had the experience of watching their neighbor's horses meticulously reduce pasture to dirt in a matter of days, but it's still a bit weird to me that they clearly didn't check how big an acre is.
My favorite memory of my 10th grade literature class was being sworn to secrecy before getting a detailed explanation of all the hints Hamlet and Ophelia slept together.
I only know my cat was born on May 5th because his mother conned some people into providing free childcare. Otherwise a cat's birthday is between them and the universe.
My personal belief is that every cat's last name is Cat, a policy I enforce in the Sims.
Protestants do tend to self-sort by politics, but there are reasons a person might attend a non-denom evangelical church even if their politics would be more welcome in a mainline church.
I don't really wear perfume anymore, but I fondly remember BPAL having a scent that smelled EXACTLY like a wintergreen lifesaver on me for the first fifteen minutes before fading into a pleasant springy scent.
The only good thing about it is that the joke in The Truman Show hits harder if you've actually been there.
I still can't get over the tiny pasture. My childhood neighbors kept a couple of horses on an acre and a half and the only reason you saw grass at all was because they vigorously rotated where the horses were allowed to be.
What a handsome guy!
A vulture would NEVER, put respect on their name.
It's about 375 square feet of wheat per bag of flour. So you're not getting much sourdough out of that dinky little field.
I know 'all men hear is how they have historically done bad things to women' is how feminism gets framed, but it drives me wild. It's a system problem, not a personal guilt problem!
The worst thing about how we treat healthcare is that we treat it as extremely individual when practically everything about it impacts the collective. It'll be harder for me, a city dweller, to get quick care because my local hospitals will need to treat more rural patients.
The problem isn't that it's unfair to blue voters in red states, it's that pointing out cause-effect won't work. Res voters in red states are just going to believe they now have to drive 200 miles for health care because undeserving urban POC are sucking up resources.
It would explain the sartorial nightmare of a wedding dress, tbh.
It's kind of the least of the issues here, but it's baffling to me that the GOP is getting the young male vote when this is how they talk about them. Young men should also get health care!
One of the top ten best things about the feline form is how they mysteriously go from having no ass to speak of when standing to being 50% ass by volume when sitting. 10/10 design, no notes.
I understand your point, but tbh Americans have a history of using the terms pretty interchangeably. E.g. the most successful 'socialists' in American history were Milwaukee's beloved sewer socialists, who by any reasonable definition were social democrats.
It can't be. Surely not. They have TV up there. There's no way.
Chicago shares cracker crust with Milwaukee, and that is the best pizza.