anyway the reason the adult has to be the one that draws the boundary is that the kid can’t do it if they don’t believe they’re still a kid. at 16 we are SO desperate to be treated like an adult and we want to believe that’s what we are. we will crash through any boundary that’s not steel-reinforced

tactics so devoid of strategy that the tactics become the strategy

whig measures, tory men

The inability to parse the difference between malice and annoyingness is probably the great deficit of our times.

See also: basically any discourse about "wokeness" and/or campus activism

Grok (R) v. Claude (D)

an almost unthinkable amount of time and effort has been spent speculating about how AVs might be adopted, and how they might shape behavior and society, a lot of it drifting into the realm of outright absurdity... and yet I've never heard of anyone even hinting at this very specific use case