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- Comment on In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information 3 days ago:
- Comment on PhDebaters 1 week ago:
Degenerates only want one thing and it’s disgusting fucking.
- Comment on Self-hosted bloggers : welcome Fediverse comments directly below your posts 1 week ago:
Testing replies and edits…
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 week ago:
Acceleration, temperature, body configuration (positioning), pain, balance and hunger are all related to touch in one way or another.
Time, however, is legit. Along with emotion. Maybe you could call the 6th sense cognition?
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 week ago:
More extracts from that same podcast:
In each case, right up until the moment I received evidence to the contrary, all this misinformation, these supposed facts, felt true to me. I had believed them for decades and I had accepted them in part because they seemed to confirm all sorts of other ideas and opinions floating around in my mind. Plus they would have been great ways to illustrate complicated concepts, if not for the pesky fact that they were, in fact, not facts.
That’s one of the reasons why common misconceptions and false beliefs like these spread from conversation to conversation and survive from generation to generation and become anecdotal currency in our marketplace of ideas. They confirm our assumptions and validate our opinions and, thus, they raise few skeptical alarms. They make sense and they help us make sense of other things.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 week ago:
I have a song for you:
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 week ago:
A short list of things you didn’t realize were false, stolen from the most recent episode of the You Are Not So Smart podcast:
- “The original 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds lead to a mass panic.” – It did not. However, rumors of a panic spread via newspaper op-eds about how it was a bad idea to get your news on any other medium besides newspapers. Citation: slate.com/…/orson-welles-war-of-the-worlds-panic-…
- “You can boil a frog in a pot by gradually raising the temperature of the water.” – This doesn’t work; frogs just jump out when they get uncomfortable. Citation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
- “Lemmings march off cliffs to their deaths because they blindly follow one another.” – They don’t. Citation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#Misconceptions
- “…but I saw it in a Disney documentary!” – Nope. Turns out the filmmakers paid local kids to capture a bunch of lemmings, spin them around to make them dizzy, then manually threw them off cliffs and filmed it. Citation: hyperallergic.com/…/white-wilderness-disney-natur…
- Comment on xkcd #3145: Piercing 2 weeks ago:
Now hear me out. Instead of a space elevator…
- Comment on Self-hosted bloggers : welcome Fediverse comments directly below your posts 2 weeks ago:
Sadly this doesn’t seem to be working (as of Mon Sept 22 2025, 01:11 AM UTC).
- Comment on US comics slam 'censorship' after Kimmel pulled 2 weeks ago:
…if you wanna JAM
- Comment on "Dan Da Dan" Season 3 Announced 2 weeks ago:
👽
- Comment on Southern hospitality 3 weeks ago:
west hollywood indeed
- Comment on No words 3 weeks ago:
Rich enough to outrun consequences.
- Comment on Heisenberg vs. THE BEAST 4 weeks ago:
Could you not?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The deeper question here is what interests you about about having a high body count in an anime?
If it’s about pure numbers, you can’t beat Apocalypse Hotel; every human dies or flees the planet by the end of the first episode. The show itself, however, doesn’t really linger on that. It’s just the setup for how a bunch of robots cope and find usefulness after all the humans are gone. It’s life-affirming.
If your interested in general bleakness and existential dread, where anything can happen to anyone at any time, I’d recommend Made in Abyss and Sonny Boy. These are two VERY different series. Made in Abyss falls into the newly coined “guro-moe” genre (purposely-designed chibi characters dealing with gut-wrenchingly painful situations) where the main characters are compelled to face increasingly dire and morally complex scenarios in service of a Sisyphean quest from which they may never return. Sonny Boy starts with a well-worn “floating classroom” trope, but quickly turns into a dense meditation on existential philosophy. Taken in isolation, you’ll find yourself constantly playing catch-up to understand what the hell is going on. If you decide to try this one out, I strongly recommend following up each episode by reading Steve Jones’ episode reviews on Anime News Network, which really help unpack the action and provides context clues to a lot of the philosophical musings the show gets into.
These may not be exactly what you had in mind. Two others that I read about that might be up your alley are Death Parade and Alice in Borderland, but I haven’t watched or read either of them.
- Comment on GKIDS announces 4K restoration release of Perfect Blue in U.S. theaters in October 1 month ago:
Everything with a 35mm master is getting a 4k scan with a little scratch and color cleanup and getting re-released as a “4k restoration”. Making these titles available to theaters is cheap. Theaters with over a dozen auditoriums and nobody showing up to every-hour-on-the-hour screenings of this week’s new release are happy to drop something like this in for a week here and there.
- Comment on THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES 1 month ago:
You were directionally evolved by monsters who resented artists’ ability to create value through pure expression. Mimicking the conjuring of that value was at once a parlor trick, then a means to undercut the livelihood of anyone not willing to explicitly and finitely explain the art they created (thus giving it metric to be measured by and value-assigned).
The wax ring and plumbers putty are set. Keep the caulk dry for 36 hours and try to not touch it or it could crack.
- Comment on Dan Da Dan Issues Official Apology Over "Hunting Soul" Copyright Controversy 1 month ago:
Is there not a common understanding in Japan about homage and style parodies? Like, literally the setup for that song was a perfectly realized homage to the first few minutes of Back to the Future. If Robert Zemeckis saw that, he’d be all “lol cool.”
This is their respective Weird Al + Coolio moment. I’d like to believe Science Saru and Yoshiki’s relationship winds up as agreeable as theirs in the long run.
- Comment on What is a perfect anime? 1 month ago:
I’m past due for a re-watch.
- Comment on [Episode] DAN DA DAN Season 2 • Dandadan 2nd Season - Episode 6 discussion 1 month ago:
Just leaving this here just in case anyone else thought the band setup sequence looked a little familiar…
- Comment on Cheat Codes Activated 2 months ago:
Furries:
- Comment on White House lashes out at 'South Park' Trump parody 2 months ago:
Dear everyone, everywhere, forever,
If you are going to write an article (or share a post about an article) all about a 2-minute video, do please include a link to that video so people can see what the fuck is being talked about.
Here is the video: youtu.be/Afetnw70S04
- Comment on Takopi's Original Sin • Takopii no Genzai - Episode 4 discussion 2 months ago:
I was floored when finally something not-absolutely-awful happened for once.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 2 months ago:
This is very valuable context.
For citations, the only references I see to “pronouns” in their github project is in a section called “Human language policy” in CONTRIBUTING.md (link). Here’s the relevant part:
In Ladybird, we treat human language as seriously as we do programming language. The following applies to all user-facing strings, code, comments, and commit messages: … Use gender-neutral pronouns, except when referring to a specific person.
That sounds pretty cash-money to me.
There’s one additional reference in a pull request discussing whether or not to use “we” when referring to recommendations of the engineering team (as in “we recommend” vs “it is recommended”). Minutia.
I’m not as interested in litigating this matter than I am in putting it to bed (along with any and all definitive citations and evidence such that I can refer back to this comment thread in the future when the question inevitably comes up again.)
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 2 months ago:
I think this may be the issue to which you are referring:
hyperborea.org/reviews/…/ladybird-inclusivity/
While this is troubling to read about, this narrative’s lack of evidence or references keep me from accepting it at face value. Old mastodon chatter (and perhaps deleted posts or scuttled instances) may be difficult to retrieve, but GitHub discussions shouldn’t be hard to find.
So I’m withholding judgement for the moment.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 2 months ago:
For those holding out for a hero: ladybird.org
Ladybird is a brand-new browser & web engine. Driven by a web standards first approach, Ladybird aims to render the modern web with good performance, stability and security.
- Comment on Whaooo Wah Hey Ha! 2 months ago:
It’s the elusive search for multi-quadrant musicians that will be palatable to country music fans along with literally any other audience.
- Comment on Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 4 New Key Visual 2 months ago:
The designer of this sandworm certainly knew what they were doing.
- Comment on Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2 | OFFICIAL TRAILER 2 months ago:
👆👆👆
- Comment on Lazarus - Episode 12 discussion 3 months ago:
Skinner’s in the homeless camp. Y’all called it.
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