Joe Simons

Ah yes, as opposed to the <famously> fun-loving laid back right wing. That's why they've got all the best comedians and festivals.

Yeah, my objection to the above is that the relevant boundaries are more around the mid-10s

Below 5: Very cold
5-15: Cold, likely need a big coat
15-25: Perfect temperature, jacket at most
25-35: Hot, shorts and short sleeves
Above 35: Well now you are just being silly

Language scaffolding judgment right the way down to basic perception

<Wittgenstein-laser-eyes.gif>

Having lived in both, I am in the odd situation that I can judge the UK temperature in Celsius and the US weather in Fahrenheit but am unable to make any conceptual connection between the two

Frege, appearing from a well:
"How strange. You dismiss our approach to philosophy... and yet you use language to do it"

"Cheezburger" is the new "the"

Next breakthrough in analytic philosophy comes from Bright's analysis of the underlying logical structure of cat memes

"This distribution was not censored; the extreme values were merely deplatformed"

All the rest are ghosts, surely?

As elves get older, their amount of family baggage increases, and so the length of their Christmas / Thanksgiving / Saturnalia dinners increases (to accommodate the amount of mutual recrimination). Elven elders spend all their time locked in a continuous, tense, passive-aggressive ritual feast.

Yes one is the US and one is the UK and yes correlation is not causation but there's a pretty clear causal hypothesis raised by these two data points

Chaser
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Shot

Obelix [Human Fighter]

Genial and laid back. Undefeatable in combat, immune to spells. Automatically deals 2d10 temporary damage each round; restores once fighting is concluded. Vulnerable to flirtation, public speaking and food-based bribery. Greatest desire - to taste a Potion of Strength.

#OSR

Some drunk woman in her 60s had wedged herself in the doorway of Tesco in the gay village in Birmingham like a cat refusing to get in a box. All four points locked in to stop her husband removing her. In the end a woman off the street lured her out by going “come on bab, we’ll get you some shots”

Later verses of "Baby It's Cold Outside" got even more weird

Secretary Rockzo

<HP Lovecraft recoils in horror>

Yeah, the summary feels... tangential. I do have some sympathy with the idea that calling all disordered / compulsive / problematic behaviours "addictions" may be counter-productive. However, I don't see how that distinction is relevant to the question of platform culpability in mental health harms.

Yes, it's a card game. No that's not how I first read it.

Excuse me, what?

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Same! My first thought was "is it by the racecar bed?"

Unconfirmed but rumoured: Banksy

I love that this sentence would have made zero sense a decade ago

"He asserts 'nowhere can you draw a distinction', whereas Cohen (1988) clearly shows you can draw not one by <three> of them"

Turns out I was not so much "making a ridiculous joke" as accidentally "asserting a Pearsonian concept of causation"
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Always think back to that when people make out it's beyond the scope of a child's mind

FWIW, as a primary school kid (well before any sense of my own sexuality), I figured out the conceptual possibility of gay people, confirmed their actual existence with an adult, and was quite pleased with the symmetry it gave to the gender dyad