they are a perfect size for what he needs to do, skippy
if you weren't so obsessed with how big the bow and arrows are, you might enjoy this a little more!
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
slash it's not small it's just that he just got the bow and arrows out of the pool, you see
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
They added Romaji to the Japanese course and it's the fucking worst. It actively makes it harder to read because it fucks with the spacing, and you have to like, expend effort not to read it? Because it's in a familiar script. but if you do read it then you're not reading the Japanese script! So it actively makes it more difficult to learn and reduces retention. Ugh.
Romanji is a scourge that should never be used for teaching Japanese. Hiragana and katakana are not hard and phonetic anyway.
Hard agree; Romanji = carryover diphthongs from English = bad
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
i used to be pretty okay with responsible gun ownership and stuff but gun people have so eroded any credibility i might have once been willing to extend
ban them all, confiscate them all and melt them down
it's well past time the worst elements have ruined it for everybody
yeah gun dudes have basically made my decision for me at this point
literally no concept of responsibility, stewardship, or even basic safety. it's all about posing in your cement block flag basement like you just did an ISIS
and it is a legitimate #NotAllDudes type of thing but i just am beyond my ability to say we're responsible enough to allow that distinction
just get rid of them
I used to argue it but realistically there is an easy way to "take all the guns"
I mean it's 2017 data but back then there were about 270 million reported guns in the US, and 135 million of them were owned by three percent of the US population (again, legally, but I imagine if you back it out to five percent, you'd get another 50 million.
2/3 of the countries firearms supply could be melted just by stepping on the rights of 5% of the US population.
That 5% could not hold an insurrection, their numbers are too low.
It could very, very easily be done with National Guard backing.
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I'm halfway through listening to this so I figured I'd livetweet you, natch
anyway, I find it very gross; he's in love with having gone to Oxford and his Oxford friend Craig who he looks up to is a grotesque bully
it's comically horrible to invent mean songs where you make fun of someone for being big and awkward as they go by, as he worshipfully reports Craig doing
richard powers is going to come give a talk (he wrote _the overstory_ which I really liked) but you can only buy tix to see it as part of a 5 lecture series with other authors
bundles suck, just let me buy the thing I want and not these other things : (
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Malcolm Gladwell peddles dubious pop science and is a plagiarist
he sucks
tell me more cuz i have one bud that is always quoting revisionist history (his podcast) and im always like ok maybe but i dont know enough to refute or confirm but maybe
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My cousin and uncle-in-law are both obsessed with the 1911. I agree that it's a wonderful handgun but I'd have to go with something automatic or a shotgun; I'm going for shock and awe, I ain't shooting womp rats here, I'm defending me and mine
so anyways blunderbuss
Eddy on
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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the downside of counting calories is that i have no idea how many calories are in <a thing> so idk what to actually make or buy
I'm halfway through listening to this so I figured I'd livetweet you, natch
anyway, I find it very gross; he's in love with having gone to Oxford and his Oxford friend Craig who he looks up to is a grotesque bully
it's comically horrible to invent mean songs where you make fun of someone for being big and awkward as they go by, as he worshipfully reports Craig doing
yikes for sure
Ok I got to the end (of the song, anyway, then I closed it)
He was friends with a cruel bully--who bullied his own wife at their wedding, by making cracks about his conquests!--and then he cruelly bullied both of them, and was shocked when it didn't go over well
everyone in this story is disgusting and I can't handle the fact that it's being told with 0 self-awareness
he's like "if I were smarter, we wouldn't have sung that song..." and it's like, no, this has nothing to do with being smart or stupid. Someone can be dumb as a box of rocks without being an asshole.
Malcolm Gladwell peddles dubious pop science and is a plagiarist
he sucks
tell me more cuz i have one bud that is always quoting revisionist history (his podcast) and im always like ok maybe but i dont know enough to refute or confirm but maybe
The suicide by cop episode of Revisionist History was particularly egregious because his "expert" was none other than Ron Martinelli, whose main claim to fame is writing a book on how Black Lives Matter is ACTUALLY a Marxist conspiracy that enriches itself from charitable donations.
EDIT: This being said, I LIKE a lot of episodes of Revisionist History, but Malcolm Gladwell is WAY up his own ass sometimes. He's, unfortunately, a fantastic communicator, but a lot of his fans mistake his wordsmithing with actual competence. He taps into a very specific kind of mindset of "Oh, the rest of the sheep out there think THIS, but the REALITY is THIS!", which is quite seductive.
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Honestly, lego gun didn't bother me. I think it's an interesting piece of art and if someone out Yale Art did it we'd consider it differently.
It's not any more lethal than a regular gun-- we only let our children play with factory Glocks! -- and every gun should be secured in a locked safe; leaving anything unsecured is a 100% failure state.
I imagine anyone getting this probably has a collection of guns, and the storage solution to match. Not the .38 hidden up in a closet that Johnnie is gonna find.
Swimming pools are the pound-for-pound champ for killing your kids, anyways
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Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
Honestly, lego gun didn't bother me. I think it's an interesting piece of art and if someone out Yale Art did it we'd consider it differently.
It's not any more lethal than a regular gun-- we only let our children play with factory Glocks! -- and every gun should be secured in a locked safe; leaving anything unsecured is a 100% failure state.
I imagine anyone getting this probably has a collection of guns, and the storage solution to match. Not the .38 hidden up in a closet that Johnnie is gonna find.
you seem to assume a lot about people when we've got plenty of examples where people are dumb and negligent
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the downside of counting calories is that i have no idea how many calories are in <a thing> so idk what to actually make or buy
brains are dumb
are you using an app at all? a lot of them will have the calories for a bunch of common food items
i'm using myfitnesspal!
i should probably just google "500cal meals" or whatever to get an idea of things
ah yeah, that's what I used to use.
or do you mean you're trying to get calories for like "chicken tikka masala"? ah, yeah that would be more annoying to calculate
basically before i was like "i wanna eat pizza" and then i'd order a pizza
now i'm like "i should probably have something that's like 500 calories to stick to my goal" but i dunno what that is! A burger? A burrito? Sadly looking at a picture of fries? Who knows!
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Honestly, lego gun didn't bother me. I think it's an interesting piece of art and if someone out Yale Art did it we'd consider it differently.
It's not any more lethal than a regular gun-- we only let our children play with factory Glocks! -- and every gun should be secured in a locked safe; leaving anything unsecured is a 100% failure state.
I imagine anyone getting this probably has a collection of guns, and the storage solution to match. Not the .38 hidden up in a closet that Johnnie is gonna find.
you seem to assume a lot about people when we've got plenty of examples where people are dumb and negligent
right but the gun is not transmogrified into an unsafe thing by virtue of being covered in legos
it was always absolutely unsafe
Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
Malcolm Gladwell peddles dubious pop science and is a plagiarist
he sucks
tell me more cuz i have one bud that is always quoting revisionist history (his podcast) and im always like ok maybe but i dont know enough to refute or confirm but maybe
He lifted passages from other people which doesn't make him wrong, but does suck (easy to google just w malcolm gladwell plagiarism)
re peddling pop science, my understanding is that in his books he does the thing where he cherry-picks a few articles from a wide range of trendy fields, like neuroscience, economics, social psych, etc., presents them as fact (without doing a literature review to see if they are anomalous results or how they cohere with other work in the field) and then constructs super-speculative but intuitively satisfying stories to tie them all together (despite being from radically disparate fields and not clearly relating!) and then presents the result as science (tm), which people eat up because it's more fun than actual science. People want fun stories, not error bars and lit reviews.
But also i am not an expert on his work, this is just what I've absorbed via cultural osmosis
"I've got a sneering contempt for my old college buddy and his new Republican wife!
I'm going to show up to their wedding, mock them in song, call him a whore, and I'm indifferent to the possibility that someone might curb stomp me
Luckily I just drank their booze and escaped with my teeth; anyway here's my new book"
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SummaryJudgment
I'm halfway through listening to this so I figured I'd livetweet you, natch
anyway, I find it very gross; he's in love with having gone to Oxford and his Oxford friend Craig who he looks up to is a grotesque bully
it's comically horrible to invent mean songs where you make fun of someone for being big and awkward as they go by, as he worshipfully reports Craig doing
yikes for sure
Damn, tough crowd.
I thought we were all sick of "I did a great thing and it was great and then everyone clapped stories"
Stories where people are shits, now that's what I need.
and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
but they're listening to every word I say
Malcolm Gladwell peddles dubious pop science and is a plagiarist
he sucks
tell me more cuz i have one bud that is always quoting revisionist history (his podcast) and im always like ok maybe but i dont know enough to refute or confirm but maybe
He lifted passages from other people which doesn't make him wrong, but does suck (easy to google just w malcolm gladwell plagiarism)
re peddling pop science, my understanding is that in his books he does the thing where he cherry-picks a few articles from a wide range of trendy fields, like neuroscience, economics, social psych, etc., presents them as fact (without doing a literature review to see if they are anomalous results or how they cohere with other work in the field) and then constructs super-speculative but intuitively satisfying stories to tie them all together (despite being from radically disparate fields and not clearly relating!) and then presents the result as science (tm), which people eat up because it's more fun than actual science. People want fun stories, not error bars and lit reviews.
But also i am not an expert on his work, this is just what I've absorbed via cultural osmosis
The alt text is particularly hilarious: "I hear Steven Levitt is writing a book analyzing A.J. Jacobs' quest to spend a year reading everything Malcolm Gladwell ever wrote. The audiobook will be narrated by Robert Krulwich of Radiolab."
I like the Michael Lewis approach to things, where he finds interesting PEOPLE and talks to them and tells their story rather than weaving a story around disparate facts to "prove" things via confirmation bias. It's a shame what happened to his daughter, though, this year.
Malcolm Gladwell peddles dubious pop science and is a plagiarist
he sucks
tell me more cuz i have one bud that is always quoting revisionist history (his podcast) and im always like ok maybe but i dont know enough to refute or confirm but maybe
He lifted passages from other people which doesn't make him wrong, but does suck (easy to google just w malcolm gladwell plagiarism)
re peddling pop science, my understanding is that in his books he does the thing where he cherry-picks a few articles from a wide range of trendy fields, like neuroscience, economics, social psych, etc., presents them as fact (without doing a literature review to see if they are anomalous results or how they cohere with other work in the field) and then constructs super-speculative but intuitively satisfying stories to tie them all together (despite being from radically disparate fields and not clearly relating!) and then presents the result as science (tm), which people eat up because it's more fun than actual science. People want fun stories, not error bars and lit reviews.
But also i am not an expert on his work, this is just what I've absorbed via cultural osmosis
His work is infotainment for sure, not serious scholarship.
and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
but they're listening to every word I say
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"I've got a sneering contempt for my old college buddy and his new Republican wife!
I'm going to show up to their wedding, mock them in song, call him a whore, and I'm indifferent to the possibility that someone might curb stomp me
Luckily I just drank their booze and escaped with my teeth; anyway here's my new book"
???
SummaryJudgment
I'm halfway through listening to this so I figured I'd livetweet you, natch
anyway, I find it very gross; he's in love with having gone to Oxford and his Oxford friend Craig who he looks up to is a grotesque bully
it's comically horrible to invent mean songs where you make fun of someone for being big and awkward as they go by, as he worshipfully reports Craig doing
yikes for sure
Damn, tough crowd.
I thought we were all sick of "I did a great thing and it was great and then everyone clapped stories"
Stories where people are shits, now that's what I need.
my read on how he tells the story is that it actually is "I did a great thing and everyone clapped"; he puts on a show of remorse for the fact that his friendship ended, but without seeming to process or regret that he ended it by being a shit; with respect to what he did, still proud to this day of the sick burns
But also I obviously went in predisposed to dislike him, which undoubtedly influenced my reaction
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i don't believe he has the ability to change to normal human size
or maybe he just never wants to
they are a perfect size for what he needs to do, skippy
if you weren't so obsessed with how big the bow and arrows are, you might enjoy this a little more!
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Hard agree; Romanji = carryover diphthongs from English = bad
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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I'm halfway through listening to this so I figured I'd livetweet you, natch
anyway, I find it very gross; he's in love with having gone to Oxford and his Oxford friend Craig who he looks up to is a grotesque bully
it's comically horrible to invent mean songs where you make fun of someone for being big and awkward as they go by, as he worshipfully reports Craig doing
yikes for sure
bundles suck, just let me buy the thing I want and not these other things : (
tell me more cuz i have one bud that is always quoting revisionist history (his podcast) and im always like ok maybe but i dont know enough to refute or confirm but maybe
so anyways blunderbuss
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
brains are dumb
picking a wife based on what kind of gun they chose
having tons of kids to have more guns (that they then inherit when they come of age)
"but daaaaaad, all my friends have glocks."
"you'll take this S&W revolver and LIKE it, young man. If it was good enough for your grandfather, it's good enough for you!"
Texas tho.
Ok I got to the end (of the song, anyway, then I closed it)
He was friends with a cruel bully--who bullied his own wife at their wedding, by making cracks about his conquests!--and then he cruelly bullied both of them, and was shocked when it didn't go over well
everyone in this story is disgusting and I can't handle the fact that it's being told with 0 self-awareness
he's like "if I were smarter, we wouldn't have sung that song..." and it's like, no, this has nothing to do with being smart or stupid. Someone can be dumb as a box of rocks without being an asshole.
Anyway, maybe he made it all up for the laughs.
ok done with my live tweeted hot take
are you using an app at all? a lot of them will have the calories for a bunch of common food items
EDIT: This being said, I LIKE a lot of episodes of Revisionist History, but Malcolm Gladwell is WAY up his own ass sometimes. He's, unfortunately, a fantastic communicator, but a lot of his fans mistake his wordsmithing with actual competence. He taps into a very specific kind of mindset of "Oh, the rest of the sheep out there think THIS, but the REALITY is THIS!", which is quite seductive.
It's not any more lethal than a regular gun-- we only let our children play with factory Glocks! -- and every gun should be secured in a locked safe; leaving anything unsecured is a 100% failure state.
I imagine anyone getting this probably has a collection of guns, and the storage solution to match. Not the .38 hidden up in a closet that Johnnie is gonna find.
Swimming pools are the pound-for-pound champ for killing your kids, anyways
you seem to assume a lot about people when we've got plenty of examples where people are dumb and negligent
i'm using myfitnesspal!
i should probably just google "500cal meals" or whatever to get an idea of things
ah yeah, that's what I used to use.
or do you mean you're trying to get calories for like "chicken tikka masala"? ah, yeah that would be more annoying to calculate
They certainly decompose quickly on a sunny day. Also maggots hatch very quickly
basically before i was like "i wanna eat pizza" and then i'd order a pizza
now i'm like "i should probably have something that's like 500 calories to stick to my goal" but i dunno what that is! A burger? A burrito? Sadly looking at a picture of fries? Who knows!
right but the gun is not transmogrified into an unsafe thing by virtue of being covered in legos
it was always absolutely unsafe
If you did generous tax credits of say 125% MSRP you would kill a huge chunk of that grumbling.
It's that .1% that you've gotta worry about.
Won it in the gunfight you're required to hold when you return to TX from elsewhere. I'm a pretty quick draw round these here parts.
Or a family member didn't want it and they were like here, have this 9mm since you're back in TX.
It was one of those
He lifted passages from other people which doesn't make him wrong, but does suck (easy to google just w malcolm gladwell plagiarism)
re peddling pop science, my understanding is that in his books he does the thing where he cherry-picks a few articles from a wide range of trendy fields, like neuroscience, economics, social psych, etc., presents them as fact (without doing a literature review to see if they are anomalous results or how they cohere with other work in the field) and then constructs super-speculative but intuitively satisfying stories to tie them all together (despite being from radically disparate fields and not clearly relating!) and then presents the result as science (tm), which people eat up because it's more fun than actual science. People want fun stories, not error bars and lit reviews.
But also i am not an expert on his work, this is just what I've absorbed via cultural osmosis
A thing I do is look at the Blue Apron app, and then go buy the foods they're trying to sell to you and just make their recipes.
Damn, tough crowd.
I thought we were all sick of "I did a great thing and it was great and then everyone clapped stories"
Stories where people are shits, now that's what I need.
but they're listening to every word I say
It works really well if you bother to actually enter your meals! Which I only do in bits and spurts but I'm trying to do better.
"Order a Whataburger bacon cheeseburger combo and get a free pistol with purchase!"
The alt text is particularly hilarious: "I hear Steven Levitt is writing a book analyzing A.J. Jacobs' quest to spend a year reading everything Malcolm Gladwell ever wrote. The audiobook will be narrated by Robert Krulwich of Radiolab."
I like the Michael Lewis approach to things, where he finds interesting PEOPLE and talks to them and tells their story rather than weaving a story around disparate facts to "prove" things via confirmation bias. It's a shame what happened to his daughter, though, this year.
the bbq sauce on that thing is really good
His work is infotainment for sure, not serious scholarship.
but they're listening to every word I say
you know how your non texas doctor might have lollipops they hand out?
my read on how he tells the story is that it actually is "I did a great thing and everyone clapped"; he puts on a show of remorse for the fact that his friendship ended, but without seeming to process or regret that he ended it by being a shit; with respect to what he did, still proud to this day of the sick burns
But also I obviously went in predisposed to dislike him, which undoubtedly influenced my reaction