The Snark Urge

I left that joke out, hat on a hat; but yes

It’s weird to think that there are people who feel there is any distance left to go beyond the way Trump talks. Suppose there’s always a bigger fash

Can you smell it?

Can you smell the fascists who finally are beginning to feel safe turning against Trump?

One time I exposed deep cracks in my calculator’s ability to write words with upside down numbers. I only ever managed to write BOOBS and hELLhOLE.

LLMs aren’t reasoning. They can do some stuff okay, but they aren’t thinking. Maybe if you had hundreds of them with unique training data all voting on proposals you could get something along the lines of a kind of recognition, but at that point you might as well just simulate cortical columns and try to do Jeff Hawkins’ idea.

Not enough of us

They won’t get a clue

Exactly, exactly. I’ve said it before, nine years ago I fancied myself a Cassandra, and now I just feel like Ren Hoek.

Unhung traitors kill republics

The electoral college was a compromise with slavers. Since 1800, more than 700 proposals to change or get rid of it have been introduced, and we’re the only constitutional republic in the 21st century that still uses one. Direct democracy works fine.

RCV would be an improvement, but with FPTP the bar is a tripping hazard in hell. I’d prefer something like STAR voting or some implementation of Condorcet, with mandatory voting and a day off to do it.

The American system is not designed to be kind to those who want to change the American system. It’s cool that he even said it, even though it was just an off the cuff sound bite

Theoretically yes, but you should probably consult your local tarsier monkey for specific guidance

It’s because fingers are really good. Legs don’t have fingers, it’s basically the only difference if you think about it. Fingers make everything better. Find someone with really long toes and ask how their leg day goes, see if I’m wrong

I tend to be pretty sensitive about that kind of thing, and it doesn’t get my hackles up at all. Not familiar with the character though either. If there are people who you can trust, do a test run of the cosplay and show them pictures, see how they feel. It’s going to depend on the exact vibes, yanno?

He likes oatmeal and fresh fruit. I once showed him a 70s slinky commercial, after he’d just gotten an original quality steel one, and it blew his mind. He’s a Gorrilaz fan, and knows all their MVs. He reads for pleasure, including Calvin & Hobbes. His childhood is a complete contrivance of my own devising, a hothouse flower cultivated purely for the beauty of the thing that could not possibly survive in natural conditions.

So no, I feel no allegiance to the original experience as it was lived. The 90s had its charms, but it was largely a cultural wasteland.

Hope so. I was showing Reading Rainbow every week for a good while, but he turned against it. Breaks my heart, but I guess there’s no accounting for taste. At least he loves to read, for which I hope Levar would pardon us.

For the last several months I’ve been creating Saturday morning playlists of cartoons for my kid to recreate the phenomenon for him. It’s a fun little hobby and I’ve learned a little video editing along the way. I even have a spreadsheet where I track everything so we have a good amount of variety and consistently progress so there’s no repeats and it’s always fresh. I even mix in “commercials” in between, in the form of random video memes and short indie animations, as well as appropriate music videos. Wish I could make it available to other parents, but I can be a lot more dialed in with an audience of one.

Well that’s hardly fair, we’ve only got volunteers we could send there.

Yeah well, they need to vote too. Hope it went well

Do kids still do WoW? I assumed it’d be all parent aged folks by now