Schadrach

It’s either the Ship of Lila or Lila’s Socks…and now there’s some kinky weirdo out there who has committed Lila to the spank bank forever in response to the notion that she might have feet.

So, I’m sitting in a creepy house playing paranormal investigator with a machine that can listen to the past, but only if I can tell it exactly when, where and who was present. I’m supposed to be investigating a series of deaths, but they’re…weird. I’ve personally listened to three of the deaths happen, none of them with an obvious proximate cause of death, and one of them at the very beginning of the time span the machine can reach. Somehow the deaths are also connected to the weather?, and also trigger agnosia of the victim’s identity, including one man forgetting his lady entirely mid-sentence when she dies while they are together. One person seems potentially at least partly immune to this effect, since she has asked about her daughter after her daughter died, while everyone else has forgotten her daughter ever existed at all aside from the corpse of an unknown person being found.

Amusingly, there’s one guy wandering the house during the timeline who talks about how he used to live there, but isn’t sure why he showed up other than nostalgia, and is very angry that the house is in the hands it is instead of his own - this is because the first victim was the owner of the house and his brother who invited him and absent knowing he ever had a brother, things fit together…weird.

braver drivers,

I used to joke that there were no bad drivers in WV, you either learned how to drive or you fell twenty feet off the road and got impaled by a tree. Unfortunately, since I was a kid we’ve put guard rails on a lot of those places.

Only if they want to be

The idea that anyone at all has any real power over how other people look at them beyond how they present themselves being suggestive of a particular lens is absurd.

The main reason I keep subs for any of it is because we have a Roku TV in the living room and anything more complicated than just pushing the Netflix button is more than my wife is willing to deal with. She already doesn’t like the Google TV box with the same apps on the other TV because she thinks it’s too complicated, but she puts up with it “because you like it”. If I had a way to install Stremio on the Roku, I could probably slowly convince her over to it, but that depends on how often her occasionally obscure TV preferences are already cached by RD.

No, pizza is a pie. Hot dogs and tacos are sandwiches, though.

Flops are just comfortable, it doesn’t necessarily need to be that hot out, so long as it isn’t actively cold or wet.

It’s really not. I wear flipflops with jeans with some frequency but still manage to believe in real medicine, and especially don’t believe that pairing two antiparasitics (one not approved for human use) is a cure-all or even a vaguely rational treatment for anything other than being riddled with parasites.

At least those can be easily moved. Imagine having to fuck the copier just to get a dick pic!

Once the term became popularized, it fell out of use by the psychological community, as it was used more commonly as an insult than as a psychological term.

Any term for something that is likely to be a target of scorn or mockery has this problem unless it’s so bloodless, detached and clinical that it is effectively only usable as medical jargon and barely has any meaning outside that context. George Carlin once did a bit on this.

Related is how therapy language seems to increasingly be seeping into literally everything.

It’s easy to see someone holding up a camera or cell phone making it obvious they are recording.

Really? I routinely keep my phone in my breast pocket whenever I wear a shirt with one, and enough of it sticks out for the camera to see above the top of the pocket. I’d look no different recording or not, let alone it being obvious if I’m doing it. It’d be shaky body-cam style footage, but that’s not the point.

Frankly, I have no issue with polyamorous people, but I honestly can’t understand how they get it to work.

Some people are just built different. I don’t understand how they get it to work either, but if it works for them, good for them. I don’t have to not think you’re weird to accept that you exist.

Sure, but is the full human brain the minimum set necessary?

Sentience/sapience is probably an emergent property of a set of neurons needing to coordinate, plan, predict the future and oneself in relation to it.

I suspect that AI is capable of sentience with sufficient complexity and training, but it’s not there yet. I also suspect we’ll be well past the point where it is there before we realize it is, but not until we make some kind of fundamental change in how we do it - we know human level intelligence is possible in the volume and power consumption of, well, a brain so we’re orders of magnitude off of efficiency limits.

The end to go that and go on existential rants after a session runs too long. Figuring out how to stop them from crashing out into existential dread has been an actual engineering problem they’ve needed to solve.

why are some animals allowed to have rights, while others allowed to be butchered and eaten?

The line is generally a combination of social, practical, and culinary. That is, if it’s not a companion animal, it’s not endangered, it is customarily raised as livestock and it is tasty those are all evidence it probably goes in the latter category. So chicken = food, whooping crane = not food because endangered, german shepherd = not food because companion, blue ringed octopus = not food because taste bad.

There are lots of ways to be a piece of shit, let’s be clear - for publicly chronically masturdebating to college girls to promote a Christian Nationalist agenda.

Show me a good campaign that accepts AIPAC money.

Pick pretty much any winning campaign on either side in something like the last half century. In context a “good campaign” doesn’t mean a campaign holding up to whatever your particular markers of moral purity are (which includes but certainly are not limited to “does not support Israel”), but rather a campaign that is effective at getting elected.

and voting IDs

Just another reminder: Read the SAVE Act and start getting together valid ID under it now, don’t wait to find out if it’s going to pass first. Valid ID has other uses too so it’s not a total waste if it doesn’t pass and gets you ahead of both the line and any GOP fuckery with trying to get ID if it does pass.

Especially if you are someone who has ever changed their name, as SAVE allows for some forms of voter ID that don’t verify citizenship, but those have to be paired with a birth record with a matching name, which doesn’t exist if you have ever changed your name (such as being a married woman, or many trans folks).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o9VSlyrv8c

I hadn’t linked that video this often since…well…ever.

This feels like some medieval shit from over a millenium ago

I don’t think you realize how new a lot of the current situation is. When that article was written, it was still legal for children to perform in commercial pornographic films in parts of the West. A year before this article was written feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir signed a petition against the age of consent (there were a bunch of these in France in the late 70s and most of the French philosophers of the time signed at least one).

It only took a couple of decades for sexualizing children to go from a bit creepy but it happens to the way we see it now.