Andrew S.
I write boring things for big companies that don't use my name. I write other things here and use my first name. I have two sweet dogs that wish the UPS man wouldn't ring the doorbell.
(Same handle on Dead Bird site--account now dormant--and on Threads.)
- i'm not really a "blame the voters" person on main very often because i don't think it's helpful or productive at all, but, like, blaming the voters for [waves hands wildly] *all of this* is entirely correct. "how do we avoid that in the future?" is a totally separate question.
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View full threadEvery argument about “what should we have done different” needs to be clear about the context. The context: In January 2024 it was clear that half of America was at least open to restoring Donald Trump, a deranged, idiotic rapist who had tried to stage a coup, to power.
- So it’s legit to say “some people weren’t responding properly to the emergency”. It’s fine and good to argue about the lessons we should learn from that. But the emergency we’re talking about is HALF OF AMERICA.
- Thinking this through now, here’s how I think I would want to do this: Each player will create an independent/Rebel protagonist and also an Imperial aligned character who will be in the ISB and/or Imperial Navy.
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View full threadSidethought, but one thing I liked in HERO WARS was: You could pay points to get advantages (“rich uncle”, etc.) You could take disadvantages too—“terrified of dwarves”, etc.—for free. You didn’t get a bonus for doing it. Why? Because those penalties don’t actually make it harder for you…
- The GM was going to give you tough fights no matter what, that’s the point! But when you pick a disadvantage, you’re giving the GM story ideas. Throw in “wanted for murder in Heortland” and if things get dull, whoops, a bounty hunter showed up! So it makes picking disadvantages a fun thing to do.
- He thinks every thought that goes through his head is completely original, never been thought before by anyone else. I cannot fathom being that self-centered.
- “groceries” was all him tho
- when we remind everything they’re weird little freaks it works!!!!
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View full threadworth noting, by the way, that the Dem pundit and consultant class who objected to “weird” did so in part because it was roasting Trumpists for things those old white Dem power brokers also do and they also cannot handle being made fun of
- (like having sex with sofas)
- Eliezer wrote Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality in 2010, spurring the forum LessWrong, where Roko proposed a dumb thought experiment called Roko’s Basilisk, and Grimes tweeted about “Rococo Basilisk” which was SO FUNNY Elon fell in love, got dumped, and is destroying the world as revenge
- What I’m says is, the downfall of American democracy is ultimately J.K. Rowling’s fault
- where does the shiba inu come into it
- people have been trying to find an explanation for 'a camel through the eye of a needle' that lets rich people off the hook since at least the early 5th century, probably earlier
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View full threadNeed to get the Vatican to issue some errata to clear these up!
- A [Greek Orthodox] Priest I had talked about the challenge of getting people to distinguish theology from “yiayialogy” [yiayia = grandma]. No matter what’s written down, there’s always going to be a whole lot more people vaguely remember learning from grandma or from the nuns or…
- January: "We are punching the American economy hard in the dick. Over and over." April: "We are setting the economy's dick on fire." May: "We are putting out the fire, and continuing to punch the economy hard in the dick over and over. Also, it's still kind of on fire."
