*Literally* beclowning themselves
December 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
*Literally* beclowning themselves
Yeah, the live action did it too. Though I do like how, unlike the live action, the Grinch is just a grumpy guy who lives outside town instead of A Figure of Legend
November 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Yeah, the live action did it too. Though I do like how, unlike the live action, the Grinch is just a grumpy guy who lives outside town instead of A Figure of Legend
Cory Doctorow's Martin Hench series is gonna have a WILD finale
November 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Cory Doctorow's Martin Hench series is gonna have a WILD finale
It happened way earlier than that. After Bork failed to get his SCOTUS seat he became a lobbyist and went on a bribery tour to get judges to replace the "abuse of dominance" standard set by statute with the "consumer welfare" standard invented from whole clothe
November 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
It happened way earlier than that. After Bork failed to get his SCOTUS seat he became a lobbyist and went on a bribery tour to get judges to replace the "abuse of dominance" standard set by statute with the "consumer welfare" standard invented from whole clothe
They Protest against the pope on theological matters. It's basically tautological to call them Protestants.
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
They Protest against the pope on theological matters. It's basically tautological to call them Protestants.
No offense but it shows that it's been that long. Harrison's "true self" is literally impossibly beautiful, talented, and athletic. The idea that 'a Harrison Bergeron could exist if not for the perfidious shackles of "equality"' is what's being satirized.
November 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
No offense but it shows that it's been that long. Harrison's "true self" is literally impossibly beautiful, talented, and athletic. The idea that 'a Harrison Bergeron could exist if not for the perfidious shackles of "equality"' is what's being satirized.
The politically correct people were over the top caricatures of how politically correctness is perceived by its critics, thats why theyre bad guys. Harrison himself is a caricature of how those critics see themselves, able to leap 20ft if only they weren't held down by damned political correctness
November 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The politically correct people were over the top caricatures of how politically correctness is perceived by its critics, thats why theyre bad guys. Harrison himself is a caricature of how those critics see themselves, able to leap 20ft if only they weren't held down by damned political correctness
The point of Harrison Bergeron is to satirize the pearl clutching and histrionics over political correctness (under any name), and those who think without its "shackles" they too would be impossibly amazing and super human like Harrison was.
November 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The point of Harrison Bergeron is to satirize the pearl clutching and histrionics over political correctness (under any name), and those who think without its "shackles" they too would be impossibly amazing and super human like Harrison was.
Ah yes, if it weren't for those darn PC police the Good People would be able to leap 20 feet in the air and break chains with their bare hands, you've definitely understood the moral of that story
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Ah yes, if it weren't for those darn PC police the Good People would be able to leap 20 feet in the air and break chains with their bare hands, you've definitely understood the moral of that story
Wait that's fascinating because that's not entirely unique to LLMs
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/stre...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/stre...
People Judge Poetic Language as More Truthful
If our words are a delight, people think we are right. Research shows that rhyming language can influence how people perceive information.
www.psychologytoday.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Wait that's fascinating because that's not entirely unique to LLMs
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/stre...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/stre...
even aside from the incoherence of the words themselves, are we just kind of sliding right past how his voice Sounds Like That now?
November 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
even aside from the incoherence of the words themselves, are we just kind of sliding right past how his voice Sounds Like That now?
Did you know he originally came from this old retro indie game? Little known piece of video game trivia, it's called "link to the past" because it's an old-timey style game
November 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Did you know he originally came from this old retro indie game? Little known piece of video game trivia, it's called "link to the past" because it's an old-timey style game
His base see him as a minstrel show version of a rich coastal elite and love the show
November 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
His base see him as a minstrel show version of a rich coastal elite and love the show
It's the sole saving grace of vapes that they're dorky as hell
November 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
It's the sole saving grace of vapes that they're dorky as hell
"Split the vote"?
Mamdani has more than 50% of the vote...
Mamdani has more than 50% of the vote...
November 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"Split the vote"?
Mamdani has more than 50% of the vote...
Mamdani has more than 50% of the vote...
You're going to say with a straight face that donation almost no one's ever heard of did more than, e.g., the existence of Fox News?
November 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
You're going to say with a straight face that donation almost no one's ever heard of did more than, e.g., the existence of Fox News?
Also the See Something Say Something episode, heck I'd even include the Letters to Santa episode on this list
November 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Also the See Something Say Something episode, heck I'd even include the Letters to Santa episode on this list
She *did* run on kitchen table issues. Are Black women just disqualified from being the Dem candidate because we have to bow to Republicans' obsession with identity politics?
November 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
She *did* run on kitchen table issues. Are Black women just disqualified from being the Dem candidate because we have to bow to Republicans' obsession with identity politics?
and how did this work out for harris?
November 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
and how did this work out for harris?
Oh right, Dave "I Shoot Target Pictures of my Own Children to Eliminate Any Hesitance to Kill Anyone" Grossman
November 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Oh right, Dave "I Shoot Target Pictures of my Own Children to Eliminate Any Hesitance to Kill Anyone" Grossman
Kojima is a French indie dev, it all makes sense now
November 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Kojima is a French indie dev, it all makes sense now
Basically, gaining more money has heavily diminishing returns for their day to day life, but gaining power over "the help" becomes another thing entirely
November 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Basically, gaining more money has heavily diminishing returns for their day to day life, but gaining power over "the help" becomes another thing entirely