His name is so generic you’d think it was a joke.

It’s an unfair reading of what the post says by reducing it to the first four as a cheap gotcha which is what all the commenters latched on. Lorenz is an actual ally here.

That feels like an unfair reading: Lorenz seems to imply that the empathy in question is a way of finding fellow travelers, ie a form of recruitment. It’s pretty similar to “if a Nazi is nice to you it’s because they think you could turn into one of them.”

You can make a muhammara with most/all of those ingredients but will need to add roasted red peppers or a similar substitute.

Checking in. How did it go?

Is there a recumbent exercise bike next to you? [y/N/recumbent?!]

That adds up to four bullet points, not five, so .. you’re in the 80th percentile? With a lot of non-respondents, probably top 5%, easily.

the decades-later aftershock hadn’t subsided, and (2) the rage-fueled incident was a fight-or-flight defense response to thinking she had been manipulated into sex by a blackmailer.

Probably because the nuance there (that I thought the show did okay to show in subtext but I’m not sure all its fans bring out in their reasoning) is that (1) she thought something was deeply wrong with her husband, meaning he was actually the boyfriend the first human she ate and…

How did they know you’d need urgent treatment for sick burns?

Palmer, will your journal consider a submission along the lines of “Why the Sackville-Bagginses and the Root Causes of the Scouring of the Shire Lie at the Core of Modern Society and the Rise of Trump”? Will work cheap.

Which MUDs were you playing?

1987… go to his job as an astronaut… hmmm