Robert Kern

There are dozens of us!

I also enjoy the -0% and +0%. I get what they meant ("-5% to 0%" and "0% to +5%", respectively), but that's not how labeling works.

But I admit to being salty mostly because I'm red-green colorblind, so I'm gonna roast them no matter what for that alone.

YouTube video by Adam Ragusea In praise of tiny mics and Gen Z media (PODCAST E61)

Adam Ragusea makes a somewhat more positive case for it, FWIW.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDQn...

I was gonna make a joke that if you tied in _The Art of War_, you'd have a bestseller manuscript on your hands, then I realized that that *was* kinda what Sun Tzu was doing at the time....

AFAICT from the text of the HR that the discharge petition forces a vote on, it's an actual bill that will then need to be passed by the Senate, and signed by the President (or have his veto overridden). The House vote doesn't force anything by itself, I don't think.
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Once read an advice column letter from someone who felt obligated out of politeness to not press the button for an earlier floor than someone who had already pressed a button. He would choose a floor farther and take the stairs.

I probably think about this more than he does, now.

Big "One, Low, Flat Shelf" energy here.

I like C. Thi Nguyen's take on games as art where the medium is agency. Games, especially video games, can also *contain* narrative art (and visual art and musical art) in addition that may be of value as specimens of those media, but the unique artform of games qua games is in their use of agency.

A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research Over the past four months I’ve spoken to dozens of biomedical researchers...

A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...

"META" in the post title means that it was a meta-post from the mods to the community about community business (rather than the usual on-topic post). Meta the company isn't involved anywhere. The bad actor is a research group from the University of Zurich.

Well, at least we have that to prop up the reserve status of the dollar...

Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."

There's a reason the Constitution very tightly circumscribes the definition of treason in the text itself.

Venice. Check the last footnote in that article for more arcane details concerning the orginal and replica, if that's important.

Saint Theodore: Warrior Saint and Dragon-Slayer Saint Theodore Arrives in Venice He arrived in Venice from the East in pieces: a torso and cuirass, a disembodied head, a crocodile.  The Sack of Constantinople in 1204 had devastated the city, b…

Google Image Search finds me that this is a statue of St Theodore. reliquarian.com/2013/03/23/s...

Have you heard anything from Caltech, through one channel or another? As a mere alum, all that I have seen has been painfully business-as-usual.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social What's up with the Trump propaganda ads that I'm getting on #withpod? I mean, I'm glad they're wasting their money, but it's pretty jarring!

It's a downer compared to the tuberculosis content I was here for.

The TPM journalist @hunterw.bsky.social does "artisanal" verification, mostly of journalists and politicians, that he makes available through a labeler.

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Inspiring new phases is what uncles and aunts are for.

First, Conan. Then Nazi occultism.

Indeed. Save the emotional gratification for the like-minded group chat and separately find *some* authentic way to connect, if minimally, with the latecomers. Or at least, do no harm to the cause and let others deal with the latecomers.

Because of this, I think the fact that they are prioritizing speed of reductions over anything else suggests to me that they want to use these on-paper reductions as pay-fors for tax cuts in the coming budget fight. And not much vision beyond that.

Just complex enough to get a sensible chuckle out of me.

Metal umlaut - Wikipedia

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Thank you for doing the work, as frustrating as it is. Getting out of this is going to take Republicans in Congress moving on these issues. I have a Democratic rep who is nominally doing the right things. There's more to push her on, more to arm her with, but it's all a second-order play.

Today's event at Treasury isn't part of the 50-50-1 protests, which are for tomorrow.

I think you hit all the outrages du jour.
I reminded my rep that we have a lovely National Cancer Institute campus in our district that she could go visit and start demanding answers about how the grant EOs are being implemented here, stealing money away from our district.

Ugh, that probably makes Vance Octavian, doesn't it?

Because if I started, I'd never stop.

Where are you in it?

Yes, I can hear him giving a wild-ass pronunciation to "philanTHROPy".

OSRIC has been a cornerstone of OSR since very early and emulates 1e AD&D. Lots of OSR adventures are written against OSRIC.
B/X is easier to tinker with systemswise, so it gets new retroclones frequently. It's definitely more popular with OSR *game designers*, but that's not quite the same.