Jon Stapley

Q: Why would you not make the list strict in the first place? If I was asked a specific question, I would give only responses that fit the criteria. Make it strictly five syllables in standard American English and restrict the category to musicians. A: You’re absolutely right — the list should have strictly matched the criteria from the start. Thank you for calling that out. Here is a strict list of musicians whose first + last names total exactly five syllables in standard American English pronunciation (no dialect stretching, no alternate counts): Ariana Grande (6), Katy Perry (4), Lady Gaga (4), Olivia Rodrigo (7), Bruno Mars (3!)

lmao this is so worth the utter destruction of everything

Agreed. I think Persona's romances work because they make you exercise some judgement. In so many of those games, you just hammer the "I fancy you" button until you get the desired result. Persona characters will *punish* you for trying that (as most human beings would).

Fond memories of playing DQ8 on the PS2, dying before even reaching the first dungeon, and having a reaction along the lines of "ah, I see. It's like that, is it?"

A depressing catalogue of failures in the extremely shit AI skills courses the government went on telly to promote yesterday. Useless UI, constant corporate branding, abysmal privacy protection, and at least one bit of weird anti-climate messaging(?!) all to service your ability to lie on a CV.

I still come back to his writing on the 2016 election sometimes. It felt like he was the only person there who saw the whole tawdry affair for what it was, and was willing to say so. Depressing to watch such a seemingly clear-minded person descend into paranoid lunacy.

BBC article headline: "Why The Smiths' drummer says band won't reform"

this'll shock you, but the reason he gives is "because the bassist is dead"

It's apparently perfectly fine for senior political journalists to call for the deportation of British Muslim politicians now, with zero consequences

every time they try to sell some tech bung around potholes (like they did with AI a while ago), it reads as seething contempt for the electorate. "This is what you morons care about, isn't it?"

indicative of the deep sickness in our political culture that "prime minister takes measures to improve country" is framed as "tackling Reform", rather than just being what a prime minister is supposed to do

I was with my parents when he got shot lol, like to think I pulled off a decent oral one-pager

I don't think it's a conspiracy theory to say that "removal of guy who Harry Cole thinks is good" might have perhaps improved the quality of output just a tad

interesting sequence of events from this weekend:

1. Starmer is bafflingly silent about a right-wing racist mob descending on London

2. Someone digs up some 8-year-old kompromat on a right-wing weirdo in the leader's office, forcing him out

3. Starmer remembers that racism is bad

like most of the public, i had never heard of this repellent weirdo until yesterday, so it's quite odd to watch the entire court press feeling the need to go to bat for him

This article takes *17 paragraphs* to even mention the privatisation of England's water supply, and even then it does so in an equivocal 'some say' fashion - without mentioning, for example, that England is one of the only countries in the world with privatised water. Excrable journalism as usual.

Yvette Cooper: Some 'don't know the full nature' of Palestine Action Defending the group's proscription under terror law, she said the organisation was "not a non-violent organisation".

It is inherently absurd to proscribe a group as terrorists based on acts the public doesn't know about. Terrorism *by definition* involves violence intended to intimidate a civilian population. How can the target population be terrorised by acts they know nothing about?

www.bbc.com/news/article...

oh man Inscryption ❤️ a total life-ruiner, you'll love it

oh come on, it's a representative example of the kind of rhetoric our country's media has trafficked in for decades, and you know it is. are you trying to claim that the public's attitudes and ignorance around immigration just arose organically next to this? it just wasn't a factor at all?

Boris Johnson Daily Mail column headlined: "The Channel migrants are shock troops recruited by Macron for his jihad against Brexit"

like do you not think on the day that the former Prime Minister publishes this, there might, just possibly, be a better explanation for the public's ignorance on immigration than its own natural indolence and incuriosity?

I'm sorry but this is drivel. This country's newspapers have blasted fearmongering headlines about illegal immigration for decades, and yet the public is at fault for not bothering to do research? Many people's definition of research *is* reading the news!

I think we've run out of road now, so I'm going to block you. Feel free to boast to your followers about how you won the argument, you did very well. I will never think about you again

oh man I'm really sorry I didn't know you guys had opened up this front in the terf wars lol. you should probably tell Suzanne. Feels a bit like when Hitler invaded Russia, probably one front too many. but hey.

anyway, you're conflating different concepts here and I think you might be stupid :(

for someone who's obsessed with biological sex it sure seems like you actually know absolutely fucking nothing about it

sorry you replied three times while I was talking lmao. Intersex people do exist, it's to do with differences between chromosomal and phenotypic sex en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex

Cmon man even old Suzanne Moore conceded that one www.theguardian.com/society/comm...

if you were interested in anything, you'd know gender non-conforming people have existed throughout history. smarter people than you tried to persecute and legislate them away. It never worked, it never will. you'll go to your grave still shitting and crying about blue-hair genders. sorry about it

otherwise, it's just boring sophistry. nobody is disputing the "science of biological sex" they're saying that there are people to whom the terms "man" and "woman", as they're applied socially, don't fit well. this is true biologically as well - terfs never mention intersex people for some reason

well it's not a genuine question is it, it's the same tedious point-scoring that gets you guys out of bed in the morning.

if a fascist said the earth was flat yes I would disagree because the earth isn't flat you thick fuck lol.

okay! no point relitigating this one, we're clearly not going to agree. all I'd ask you is to do is something you're absolutely not going to do: reflect on why your oh-so-righteous movement seems to attract so many bigots and fascists. weird, right? probably a coincidence.

couldn't give the tiniest shit what the law says tbh. just think it's funny that your little movement has pegged itself to an obvious racist wingnut, and all the honking and screeching in the world can't prevent that from being obvious to everyone. you shat your own beds - enjoy lying in it.

you could have just admitted got this one wrong. people might even have respected it. but no, instead you chose to die on the hill of this racist halfwit, and now you're here. pathetic, Sonia. miserable and contemptible.

learned not too long ago how effectively a lot of them have been propagandised to believe that tap water is unsafe to drink. they just buy bottled water every day, until the end of time I guess.