We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

Incentive *

Okc a decade ago was pretty good, the problem is creating an incidence to stay pretty good

I think we’re already past peak foliage from the dry weather? But it’s still a nice time for running, 40/4 degrees out, crisp, kind of a foggy start.

Lain is underrated despite being very highly rated

That’s all very cute Ada, but Grace Hopper needs to make vengeance machines for the navy so it’s time to generalize

I think the state level role hurts here, too. Also the fact that there’s, well, not a lot more gerrymandering you could get out of Illinois

Time to grade him up he’s now talked about ICE and DHS officials needing to face and fear legal consequences during the next administration and the next Congress?

i made a UK version of my model & applied to it to 10 politicians, aiming for consistency in grading with the US one

method QTed, results below

very clarifying for this potential primary

Labour would be on the far right in the USA

Not the point but doing statistics in python is strikingly normal

Not a lot of Wittgensteinian “that’s a strange question to ask” extremist cultists out there

the de facto stance of the Republican party in the age of Trump is that a presidential election is a process where the American public decides whether a Republican will be our master or a Democrat will be our servant.

Me in book one: “oh wow learning a lot about transness i guess”
Me in book three: “so this is how you do fiction if you want to have an effect on someone”

Just, kind of stunned by B-plot and montage as psychological tools! God damn.

Like. Fuck, Greaves inflicts Aaron’s internal argument on the reader at a structural level it’s so good

Still writing it up but god damn if chapter 31 isn’t an excellent piece of fiction writing

Not “children: tiny drunk adults”, not “children: locusts”, but some third thing

Why did I see Voldemort flavored soap at Shaw’s in the beer aisle today?
Again, this is a fell portent

I don’t even think this is breaking news, Alastair Campbell has talked about this pretty recently?

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

Ok so let’s say I have an itch to get into 40k but I need methadone to avoid obtaining more physical objects right now. Happy to read battle reports, look at armies etc.
where ought I turn?

The first bit is a little aimless but it starts shining later I think.
Also you could skip it for Silk Song (faster moving, more clearly plotted) but the difficulty curve would be kind of annoying I suspect.