Sean Barrett

A reminder not to let the National Center On Sexual Exploitation's official-sounding name fool you: they're the rebranded busybody group "Morality In Media", whom you might remember from such hits as "Trying to have Life Of Brian pulled from theatres" and "trying to connect queerness to mass murder"

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

Not fleeing: New report shows more wealthy residents in Mass., 2 years into 'millionaire's tax' Despite previous concerns, Massachusetts' "millionaire's tax" hasn't seemed to deter high-earners from continuing to live here, according to a new study from the Institute for Policy Studies.

MA put in a 4% millionaires tax 2 years ago, & the GOP said we'd miss revenue targets & millionaires would flee. MA collected TWICE the projected revenues, & the number of millionaires went UP 40%.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

Thank you for making me thing you were shitposting and going to look this up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkTR...

An imperfectly scaled map of my apartment showing 9 colored zones that correspond to different electric circuits.

A year ago I posted on Twitter how my apartment's electric circuits were screwed up, with two outlets in the small bedroom incorrectly on the large bedroom circuit.

I knew there was something weird with the kitchen but I hadn't quite got it out. So I figured that out today. (Not perfect scale.)

have you seen Gang Beasts?

I don't say this lightly: The New York Times should fire the reporter and editor who chose to present a leak from the white house as if it was a leak from Harvard.

Don't print lies in the newspaper

The Hobbit: The Tolkien Edit Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy recut into a single 4-hour film

If this is a joke I'm missing something, because one came out ten years ago. tolkieneditor.wordpress.com

YouTube video by StickManga John Zorn You Will Be Shot

it strikes me that this kind of has Naked City energy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLuP...

a classic game development discussion which happens 100s of times per game

designer: Could we change the code to implement X?
programmer: No, that's impossible.
designer: It's just, it would be nice because [blah blah]
programmer: Ok, *possible*, but huge task
programmer: [implements in 10 minutes]

surely you BOUGHT it due to self-loathing and threw the remainder out due to salted-monster loathing?!?

Nope, I know nothing as of yet except they won't let me use more than 4 digits. No idea if smart or centralized or what.

I googled to see re: my opinion about security and yeah, everyone saying it's more secure and more convenient, although it seems like 90% of that is for the LANDLORD.

(meanwhile my mother is a published cryptic crossword author)

This clue is broken, because clearly the first half implies 'freakchip' and the second half implies 'workytone'.

-- me at every cryptic crossword clue, hence why I don't even do REGULAR crosswords

all I know right now is exactly 4 digits only

Just to be clear, this is primarily talking about *movie* studios because there've been several kerfluffles about this in recent years. (Hence "studios" not "publishers".)

So there's always enough revenue to offset.

And quarterly numbers / "my numbers" is far more likely to be the justification.

I'm not Hank Green, so I'm not going to argue this, but I will tell you his argument. There's no magic state of "writing it off". If you release it and it loses money overall, you still get a "tax write-off" on the loss. The reduced tax-write-off is more than compensated by the increased revenue.

I mean, I guess 3 hours is plenty to break into a keyed lock too, but at least it requires "special" tools.

Do these things have a lockout if you try too many times? I don't know how it works in practice, but at 1 guess every two seconds:

5000 guesses = 10,000 seconds = 3 hours, easy to do in the middle of the night when nobody will see the attempting.

please stop making tier list videos where you go through them in ranked order, that defeats the purpose

YouTube video by Complexly Are baths dirty? | Jarvis Johnson Asks Hank Anything

From the latest Ask Hank Anything. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s37I...

I never understood how studios choosing to NOT release a finished work and instead take it as a "tax write off" could actually make financial sense.

Hank Green said his research showed the practice is worse financially long-term, but better short-term. So, just a case of juicing quarterly numbers.

YouTubers: PLEASE stop using AI voiceovers. The most awkward, unprofessional, nasal, echoey human VO in the world is still going to be less grating and distracting than a robot that says every sentence exactly the same way and doesn't know how to pronounce a bunch of words or where to put emphasis.

Me, 10 seconds after waking, after the dream nonsense has been sucked away leaving cold hard rationality: Wow, that was stressful, whatever it was.

A BEST RANTER

Are there Democrats saying they're making a list of all the things they have to roll back when they get power again?

Since you don't seem to be arguing in good faith, with short replies offering 0 evidence and making me do all the work to show why it's wrong, I am done with this thread. Any replies will not be seen.

"It's got bad ideas about what consent is" is literally the only mention in the thread and it's bizarre to call that 'extensive mention'. It is in fact vague to the point of obliqueness compared to, say, "It prominently features rape".

Yes they are. Read the tweet you linked to. Read the following tweets in the thread. Literally no mention of the rape that is apparently present in the game.