Alternate idea: “I promise this ISNT interesting” and see how many people watch it anyway

My sister's dog is named Comrade but we regularly call him Comrade Strelnikov

I listened to 538s podcast back then and yeah in the time after the election you could hear it happening. He initially reasonably defended their model but as months passed he began doubting every survey and replacing it with his own vibes until all he ever did was pass off hypotheticals as analysis

People act like blocking is some sort of societal judgment as opposed to curation. Back on tumblr I would blacklist tags of media that I had no interest in because.. I had no interest!

Not for nothing but I also feel like “demonstrates good decision making” is not an unreasonable standard to hold someone seeking office to??

I’m in Texas and saw a McD advertising 17!

Darkly funny that a lot of sci-fi has plot points about how the laborers need to be kept in the dark about what they’re actually building or else they’d never go along with it, seems unrealistic now!

What’s this guys obsession with school tracking? polls aside I don’t know I’ve ever seen any pundit even mention it besides him. Are voters really so motivated by it?

It was weird that they wrote this in the rules but who am I to argue

I like how the best they could come up with is an fmv game where you don’t actually do anything but pick a path from giant buttons. I guess they want to be “liberated” from having to play games too.

A common sentiment I’ve seen among (actual) artists in response to all this has been: “wow we’ve been way too worried about people noticing small mistakes huh”

This stuff always comes off as self soothing to me, no different than those statements you get from racists who need to believe that everyone secretly agrees with them.