I absolutely had a whole reply about how the storm happened in 1880 and it was just a long hysteresis before the overload came until I realized it was from Australia.
Of course, it makes sense to have lots of stuff named after the queens - they’re around to enjoy it.
The idea of a reunion feels like having to prove myself to people I knew. The reality is typically a bunch of people who want to be wined and dined and share war stories, of then and since.
If that doesn’t sound good, don’t do it. If you know it’ll be more like the first thing, don’t do it.
NOT TODAY SATAN CLIPPY
Clippy doesn’t deserve our obedience.
“the executive recognizes an emergency and can act”, but the executive does not define the existence of an emergency; there should be checks and consequences that can contravene an executive’s actions if the state of emergency isn’t consensually agreed on. The South Korean case has some analogicity
Well written and clear. Great piece.
It highlights, but wisely doesn’t go into the weeds of, the “in an emergency” contingency of the authority. A side observation is that there’s some willful misinterpretation, in my opinion, of “who decides there’s an emergency”, which I believe should be 1/
Two elves can be true
Yglesias has been pointing out that low turnout elections used to favor Republicans and now they favor Democrats. Obviously everything is details here - it’s not that the act will disenfranchise/discourage some voters, it’s precisely how much happens to exactly who - but without biased enforcement-?
Steve Winwood putting up strong sports competition with Huey Lewis’s album that year (Fore!)
This is pretty funny, notably because Miller is so dedicated to denying the basic humanity of basically anyone, so all the jibes that he isn’t human are pointed. But it’s also true that the core of the joke is that they’re both bald.
I am absolutely on board with concerns about smartphones eating up time in low-value, addictive pursuits. But the headline is a complaint about the Kids These Days, and without some actual research quantifying and comparing attention span, I have naught but side-eye. Bingewatching is still a thing.
Hm. I don’t know if Dahl’s completely consistent, but there’s a fair amount of nasty that makes simple kindness transcendent. The BFG and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory establish that the world is brutish and mean, so just not being that is a big deal.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Appropriate level is so important for meaningful pedagogy. It is reasonable to assume, at some point, prereqs like “bad things are bad”, but that was the curriculum at some point.
The imagined “state of warre” of prehistoric people is clearly based on observation of a class-sized group of children
The reason people were upset at big law firms and big universities capitulating was not because they thought they were extra virtuous, but because we hoped they were the breakwater; if the well-funded institutions don’t think it’s worth the money, all us smaller fish don’t have the juice.
Trying to add on to this and pursuing the analogy, for weaponization to succeed in a judicial sense may require care and competence, but participating in the judicial process is (by design) costly. Weaponization can succeed through attrition just by throwing lots of (federal) money at litigation.
Separately, Bruce’s wealth is akin to a superpower; asking why he doesn’t use it a different way is rather like asking wouldn’t it be cool if Spidey could fly. Just as science fiction is really commenting about the present, superheroes are commenting on the choices the reader could make.
Several storylines have shown that Bruce is good at poking holes into other people’s “fix society” plans; also he’s conservative, in the sense that he wants to reduce crime, especially violent crime, but otherwise sees society as basically functional and fine.
It’s worth noting the implications of a few threads:
as people have said, Bruce is conventionally philanthropic;
and Bruce is a smart problem-solver, so
it’s reasonable to conclude that Bruce has thought about it, and doesn’t think there’s an unconventional “throw money at the problem” solution.
sorry, awailed. Or perhaps I a-wail the failure to avail with a detail I had hoped to unveil.
Hm. There are commenters that say he does both, and they mention overcorrection; one suggests he says “wery vell” at some point. But I hesitate to claim it without some audible examples, and a Youtube search has not availed.
I wonder if Chekov’s accent in Star Trek is derived from his love of the Pickwick Papers in English class. :)
so, hear me out, here’s one weird trick that will both make AI much less of a threat to academia AND will revitalize our language departments:
changes would be invisible to the imagined time-hopping undergrad proves that this churn has, on net, near zero benefit. The evidence indicates that the greatest productivity comes from slowing the churn as much as possible, so that skill-building can be more productive.
I think there is another motivation that is related to the first theory, but more specific to academia. There is an endless cycling of the infrastructure: blackboards become whiteboards, Blackboard becomes Canvas, etc. We are obliged to retrain-our skills have planned obsolescence. That these
If so, I bet someone, with the pretext of competing narratives, will try to make “Schrodinger’s cat bounce” a thing.
They will fail.
I apologize for suggesting a lot of thankless work for some poor public, but this seems like a great opportunity for clickbait: “Stukeley invented an idiosyncratic origin story for the Celts: “ with a QR code with more text outlining (I’m guessing) a Son-of-Noah starting a civilization in Britain.
your best courtesan/spy years are still ahead of you.
maybe it needs both; the funky mix of characters with dm playthings, and a useful index or set of actual rules, with the characters bring essentially just a pile of tags.
It comes across a bit like Discworld, with “if you can interpret this word salad in a way that makes sense here, get some bonus!”
I read it just as you did.
