Indignity Vol. 6, No. 23, THE STAIRS, Chapter 18: A serialized novel by Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social www.indignity.net/the-stairs-chapter-18/ ALSO: WEATHER
Oh, fantastic!
That is the correct answer
rio grande for that generic spanish flair
Meanwhile, also, anyone ever feeling stuck on worldbuilding needs to just remember that this country features "the Rocky Mountains," "the Great Plains," "the Great Lakes" (of which the largest and northmost is "Lake Superior"), "the Great Salt Lake," and "the Grand Canyon"
Driving across the heart of our nation's capital on "Dissolution-of-Ties-With-Monarchial-Britain Avenue" or "Charter-of-Self-Government Avenue"
“Gender essentialism drawn from evolutionary psychology” is a neatly backwards way of putting it
The argument is that nobody but Wilt Chamberlain ever reached a spot further out in the top right quadrant of the Talent x Opportunity matrix than Bam Adebayo occupied last night? Come on, now.
"Look at all the free throws!" "The Wizards were tanking!" Do you understand that the relevant points of comparison are everyone who ever played in the NBA except Wilt Chamberlain and every NBA game ever played except that one game in Hershey, Pennsylvania?
They are trying to do to "slop" what they did to "woke"
The "slopslop" movement has to be an op by the actual AI sloppers to try to confuse the meaning of the word that nails the industry for what it's doing
the logic of kobe's 81 point game being represented as a career-capping accomplishment itself demands that someone scoring more points than him is ipso facto legitimate. the feat is impressive because the number is high. someone else has higher number? strictly better, sorry.
Although it's really more like demanding Ripken have stopped when he was tied with Everett Scott
"Bam Adebayo should have stopped at 81 points" is the silliest cope since the people who wanted Cal Ripken Jr. to sit out and let Lou Gehrig share the consecutive-games record
Saw someone attempting to salvage the notorious stat-padding fraud Kobe Bryant compared to Bam Adebayo and the thing is, Bam Adebayo did it the only time he ever tried to do it
Does the curiosity-gapped "world's most contagious disease" headline really get better results than a "measles" one would have?
I'm not sure there's a lot of evidence to support the choice of Reihan Salam as an expert voice on what Zohran Mamdani's best political interests are
The people who have firsthand knowledge of exactly which weapons were shot at which targets would report directly to the president
Now I want to know if they are familiar with the image of guys who dress up in high-collared rhinestone jumpsuits and wear long sideburns and big shades
It's a great weekend to run down THE STAIRS, now at chapter 17! www.indignity.net/tag/the-stai...
Sun sets at 6:54 EDT tomorrow
Salute to the person who brought their Christmas tree down to the curb today, you got this, spring IS gonna get here and you ARE gonna be part of it
Pretty sure there's a connection between that poll where the majority of Americans say most people around them are bad people and the fact that nine out of 10 phone calls in this country are from predatory scammers
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Jackpot as a cautionary tale
As an ‘80s teen I swear it wasn’t till the 21st century that the smell started making me literally think I was catching a whiff of roadkilled skunk
The solution for some reason is to select reply all instead, but that’s a dangerous muscle memory to develop!
Would love to hear a Microsoft designer explain how they decided that if you try to follow up on your own email in an email thread in Outlook, it should have you just send that email to yourself
You're absolutely right—that was not a command post, that was an elementary school. Those were not military leaders—they were schoolchildren. I said the opposite, and that's on me.
Nothing easier than making online software not exist, it's not like when they had to get all the lawn darts off the store shelves
All these companies are like "We can't just turn these chatbot services off," really, I'm old enough to remember Vine
