The valley of diminishing returns for restaurant food is both wide and deep but if you ever shell out for the real fine dining experience it’ll change your relationship with food as artistic expression

I think I have been to one of these

Everything is this argument now btw.

Can’t build housing because homeowners will lose wealth.

Can’t raise the minimum wage because prices will increase.

Can’t tax billionaires because they’ll leave.

Can’t regulate AI because it will hurt innovation.

Failure of a system.

As a civil (and not religious) holiday, Thanksgiving opens the door to a lot of new Americans to be able to participate in a broader America in their own way. No other public holiday comes close to the assimilating force of Thanksgiving

You can do it in game or in the meta or however you like, but once you do it, you’re going to discover a really neat behavior shift.

“Survival” is such an overwhelming goal that it overshadows everything else. Once it’s out of play, everyone starts thinking a lot more about stakes and motives.

oh yes, this is why I have proposed "My Dinner With Andre, but with superheroes"

As much as we rag on these games for having horrible models of history/politics/military theory and the fanbases they attract, there isn't anything inherently wrong with enjoying them because if you look hard enough *everything* is problematic

I mean the big reason to want a public opinion is that it serves as a rate setting mechanism for the insurance market & also as a backstop for Medicaid in states that opted out of the expansion. It is in fact good public policy.