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I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.

If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.

If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

Oh, and Civ 6. Without a doubt.

Dragon Age Origins for sure (especially if DA:A counts as part of DA:O), probably also Dragon Age 2, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Final Fantasy X and X-2 are also included.

hey @discord.com what the fuck is this? can you please fucking not? remember that time NOT EVEN SIX MONTHS AGO when you had a huge data breach and your users' IDs were leaked? and you think we're all gonna be signing up for more of that shit?

I don’t know about “favorite” but I’ve long had a soft spot for “This Song's Just) Six Words Long”, the Weird Al parody of “Got My Mind Set On You” by George Harrison.

There's a point, well below a billion dollars, where the amount of money you have lets you rid yourself of anyone who can be a check on your worst impulses, and replace them with people who tell you those worst impulses are somehow valorous. Rare is the billionaire with someone to tell them "no."

"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.

"wait now you want to get rid of ALL the abusive & monstrous people???" Yes. Yes we do. There are more good people than bad in every industry, whole scads of people who'd never in their wildest dreams think of being systematically horrible & ask to be rewarded for it. Wild but true!

The people who are saying shit like "well it's either this or the borders are totally open" are doing their best to convince America that we should have completely open borders.

I know respectability politics are bullshit, I know perfect victim narratives are toxic and harmful, but it really is so striking to me that they’re not only murdering white people, THESE are the white people they’re murdering

On film, in the midst of trying to help people

Important.

This! If Musk or Bezos or Altman or Bill Gates truly wanted to make Star Trek real, they could do it right now by spending all their wealth to help dismantle this capitalist colonial system.

Civilization. I’ve clocked way more hours on Civ III and Civ VI, but I still think fondly on the original version.

You can be a punk library or a cop library; you can care about the people or the stuff.

Choose the people.

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I ordered a 2026 and seem to have been shipped a damaged 2003

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I promise you're not.

Whatever will we do if billionaires start trying to figure out ways to avoid paying taxes, we should definitely not anger them so that they will continue their long track record of willingly paying their fair share

Yes hello, former senior dev here:

Every time someone says “AI does [useful thing]” you can place a safe bet that what they actually mean is “a machine learning algorithm trained on very specific high quality data does [useful thing]”

reddit post from a presumably young person who watched sex and the city and couldn’t get over how much people smoked indoors. “wouldn’t everything smell bad?” they asked

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

FWIW I think Kent is a perfectly valid HoF inductee. You could argue for or against him, but I ultimately come down as a yes. There’s just a lot of weird history with him and Bonds that gets stirred up by yesterday’s choice.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Kent, all-time HR leader at 2B, earns Hall election on Contemporary Era ballot Jeff Kent has earned election into the Hall of Fame Class of 2026 per voting by the Contemporary Baseball Era Players Committee announced on Sunday night. Candidates needed to receive 12 votes (75 per...

Jeff Kent is now in the Hall of Fame while Barry Bonds is not. I have complicated feelings about this. www.mlb.com/news/contemp...

To my friends from LiveJournal I still think about you Wonder if you finally quit, Do you still speak to your mom? I remember when you went to Japan How you swore you'd never forgive him. I can't remember to take my meds but I remember you wanted to live on a houseboat. It's a strange intimacy, all of us unspooling across decades of internet space Like balls of yarn leaving a trail behind us of everywhere and everyone we've ever been I hope you got your houseboat. I hope you got everything. -Hayley DeRoche

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Now the bars are back in the pan to chill overnight before we finish prepping them tomorrow. #livebaking

Trimmings of apple crumble bars on a blue plate with two forks

We had some unexpected challenges getting the bars out of the pan—the fruit juice got very sticky, so we had to trim off an edge. Upside is we got a chef’s snack out of it! #livebaking

The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time

I wrote 4000 words about Nuzzi/Lizza/RFK, please read it before it gets taken down by HR

Metal 9x13 pan of apple crumble bars, cooling on a counter

Out of the oven! It smells amazing. But can’t get too excited-it needs to cool for four (4) hours before the next step, and we don’t get to eat any until tomorrow. #livebaking

Sliced apples being spread in a foil-lined rectangular pan with a large wooden spoon

The same pan of apples, now with a crumble topping, in the oven

Time for the oven #livebaking