Oh Deer there are Christmas lights before Thanksgiving
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Got my first Kalshi ad and wow...
December 20, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Got my first Kalshi ad and wow...
Taking the "is this a trick?" aside, I think a bunch of responses are mistaking "I don't think random stranger expressing desire moves much in me" with "I don't think casual sex happens"
Discussion elsewhere on the internet dot com about male willingness to sleep with attractive strangers and, just, like, speaking as a man - even if I were single, the level of persuading I'd need that a random attractive woman claiming to want to sleep with me wasn't up to something nefarious?...
December 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Taking the "is this a trick?" aside, I think a bunch of responses are mistaking "I don't think random stranger expressing desire moves much in me" with "I don't think casual sex happens"
I know what I mean now
I'm not 100% on exactly what I mean here, but "division of labor is a scam" underlies some of the weirdness going on with people
December 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I know what I mean now
There are days where your imposter syndrome gets a reality check from out of nowhere
December 19, 2025 at 3:25 AM
There are days where your imposter syndrome gets a reality check from out of nowhere
There's a subtler flavor of "no, I'll live forever" that goes on that I'll be interested to see how it plays out in a decade
December 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
There's a subtler flavor of "no, I'll live forever" that goes on that I'll be interested to see how it plays out in a decade
The "At least three, don't play games with me kid" is a pretty decent example of this rhetorically
Voters love when someone identifies as a sensible moderate and it drives me nuts when people on here get spitting mad that a national Democrat is moving away from that label. The key is to embrace progressive policies with the branding of sensible moderation. Politics all sales and sleight of hand.
Emerson poll on presidential matchup 2x2.
Progressive Democrat 43%
MAGA Republican 42%
Moderate Republican 48%
Progressive Democrat 36%
Moderate Democrat 47%
MAGA Republican 38%
Moderate Republican 44%
Moderate Democrat 39%
Progressive Democrat 43%
MAGA Republican 42%
Moderate Republican 48%
Progressive Democrat 36%
Moderate Democrat 47%
MAGA Republican 38%
Moderate Republican 44%
Moderate Democrat 39%
December 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The "At least three, don't play games with me kid" is a pretty decent example of this rhetorically
I'm not 100% on exactly what I mean here, but "division of labor is a scam" underlies some of the weirdness going on with people
December 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I'm not 100% on exactly what I mean here, but "division of labor is a scam" underlies some of the weirdness going on with people
Started Wake Up Dead Man, and at least for 30 minutes in, it's interesting how much of this is Protestant stuff in a Catholic setting
December 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Started Wake Up Dead Man, and at least for 30 minutes in, it's interesting how much of this is Protestant stuff in a Catholic setting
I think that brand recognition is a lot of this (ChatGPT is what most people are going to reach for). But, what's distinct about this vs other validating spaces and violence (forums) is how little utility ChatGPT has for these users outside of validation?
at some point maybe will have to reevaluate but so far every single story like this is with ChatGPT specifically
“Soelberg did not turn violent until ChatGPT became his sole confidant, validating a wide range of wild conspiracies, including a dangerous delusion that his mother was part of a network of conspirators spying on him, tracking him, and making attempts on his life.”
December 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I think that brand recognition is a lot of this (ChatGPT is what most people are going to reach for). But, what's distinct about this vs other validating spaces and violence (forums) is how little utility ChatGPT has for these users outside of validation?
"Look what can happen if there isn't a mother in the home" covers a lot of this
If no one has already someone is going to write a think piece blaming this on true crime and no, that stuff came after the range of children had already dramatically shrunk. It probably is caused by it.
There are many, many ways, economically and socially, that we've moved away from children's independence and it's not just parents being overly precious.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"Look what can happen if there isn't a mother in the home" covers a lot of this
Hitting the missionaries with "Sorry, I'm already planning to got to Mass on Christmas" and seeing the "welp, he's damned" is always so odd
December 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Hitting the missionaries with "Sorry, I'm already planning to got to Mass on Christmas" and seeing the "welp, he's damned" is always so odd
On the dumb Gaston movie, one of the reasons why his character works so well is that he's not played as Bell's foil. Bell doesn't need to overcome him or prove any thing about their character differences, Gaston is just a small town misogynist
December 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
On the dumb Gaston movie, one of the reasons why his character works so well is that he's not played as Bell's foil. Bell doesn't need to overcome him or prove any thing about their character differences, Gaston is just a small town misogynist
I will say, the half/full day/multi-day interviews for entry level positions were always just a dumb and lead to a lot of sunk-cost fallacy in-industry
I think the paradox was "there are a good number of open positions and horizontal movement is easy" and "the interview process is both more difficult and exploitable by personal network than other fields"
December 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I will say, the half/full day/multi-day interviews for entry level positions were always just a dumb and lead to a lot of sunk-cost fallacy in-industry
Why Archers Didn't Volley Fire is a lot of fun, go read it acoup.blog/2025/05/02/c...
December 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Why Archers Didn't Volley Fire is a lot of fun, go read it acoup.blog/2025/05/02/c...
Tolkien/LotR question: is it ever confirm that Denethor is (for a brief period) a peer to the Maiar? I feel like it's implied that he genuinely contends with the Dark Power like his sons.
December 13, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Tolkien/LotR question: is it ever confirm that Denethor is (for a brief period) a peer to the Maiar? I feel like it's implied that he genuinely contends with the Dark Power like his sons.
<Gone fishing> needs to mean an Alan Wake tie in which means there's a chance...
CONTROL Resonant –Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhQm...
"Explore a warped Manhattan on the brink of paranatural annihilation in this thrilling action-adventure RPG. Unleash the extraordinary powers of Dylan Faden as he fights for his humanity and survival against a reality-bending cosmic threat."
"Explore a warped Manhattan on the brink of paranatural annihilation in this thrilling action-adventure RPG. Unleash the extraordinary powers of Dylan Faden as he fights for his humanity and survival against a reality-bending cosmic threat."
December 12, 2025 at 3:42 AM
<Gone fishing> needs to mean an Alan Wake tie in which means there's a chance...
Reposted by Oh Deer there are Christmas lights before Thanksgiving
No mod, you can't make me download Empire: Total War again...
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
No mod, you can't make me download Empire: Total War again...
If you or someone you know is feeling a lot of anxiety re: upcoming kid, I'd really recommend prenatal classes, specifically one's that are just focused on "how to take care of baby" not "how to meet goals, do the best, etc"
Yeah newborns are surprisingly resilient and extremely straightforward needs-wise.
And listening to neurotic parents talk about how miserable they are on Reddit and generalizing that experience is the equivalent of believing the political doomers on Bluesky.
Not Even Once.
And listening to neurotic parents talk about how miserable they are on Reddit and generalizing that experience is the equivalent of believing the political doomers on Bluesky.
Not Even Once.
Every parenting YouTuber wants to tell you how easy it is for your newborn to die and every parenting reddit user wants to tell you how their lives are a living hell since having a child.
You know what, I think we're done with Internet advice on kids. We'll figure shit out our way.
You know what, I think we're done with Internet advice on kids. We'll figure shit out our way.
December 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
If you or someone you know is feeling a lot of anxiety re: upcoming kid, I'd really recommend prenatal classes, specifically one's that are just focused on "how to take care of baby" not "how to meet goals, do the best, etc"
Some people have really internalized their slightly advanced childhood development in limited areas, huh?
December 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Some people have really internalized their slightly advanced childhood development in limited areas, huh?
Reposted by Oh Deer there are Christmas lights before Thanksgiving
people gotta talk about their shingles experiences. no one is going to enjoy this
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 9, 2025 at 3:48 AM
people gotta talk about their shingles experiences. no one is going to enjoy this
Commented something similar, but some of this is a result of people ossifying "meritocracy" in a way they now can't easily change.
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
December 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Commented something similar, but some of this is a result of people ossifying "meritocracy" in a way they now can't easily change.
I feel like AI does have a lot of good use cases for devs, but it's hard not to think that there's a certain kind of "and we've solved a perennial problem for reasons justified by the solution" going on.
December 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I feel like AI does have a lot of good use cases for devs, but it's hard not to think that there's a certain kind of "and we've solved a perennial problem for reasons justified by the solution" going on.
A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!"
"However," replies the universe, "The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation"
"However," replies the universe, "The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation"
December 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!"
"However," replies the universe, "The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation"
"However," replies the universe, "The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation"
Doing Advent of Code has been fun, and I do really appreciate their commitment to not doing annoying "LOL, you didn't handle a malformed input in row 83,456,931, idiot" stuff that a lot of these kinds of tasks usually have
Advent of Code 2025
adventofcode.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Doing Advent of Code has been fun, and I do really appreciate their commitment to not doing annoying "LOL, you didn't handle a malformed input in row 83,456,931, idiot" stuff that a lot of these kinds of tasks usually have
There are so many horrendous types of use cases for this kind of product it should be facially illegal
The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: ‘One girl was so horrified she vomited’ www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: ‘One girl was so horrified she vomited’
The use of ‘nudify’ apps is becoming more and more prevalent, with hundreds of teachers having seen images created by pupils, often of their peers. The fallout is huge – and growing fast
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
There are so many horrendous types of use cases for this kind of product it should be facially illegal