Jeff Pack
@jfpbookworm.bsky.social
He/him. I make sure a bank plays by the rules. JD, MLS, and a mountain of student loan debt.
Can't speak for OP, but I think the difference is that it isn't a goal so much a barometer.
Like, when I was growing up the local film critic had very different taste than me. I knew if he gave certain types of movies a bad grade, I'd probably like them. This feels like the political version.
Like, when I was growing up the local film critic had very different taste than me. I knew if he gave certain types of movies a bad grade, I'd probably like them. This feels like the political version.
June 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Can't speak for OP, but I think the difference is that it isn't a goal so much a barometer.
Like, when I was growing up the local film critic had very different taste than me. I knew if he gave certain types of movies a bad grade, I'd probably like them. This feels like the political version.
Like, when I was growing up the local film critic had very different taste than me. I knew if he gave certain types of movies a bad grade, I'd probably like them. This feels like the political version.
If I set the temperature to 72°F, it gets converted to 23°C for some reason.
And because the AC only kicks in at 2°C over the set temp, setting it for 72°F effectively keeps the room at 77°F.
I can compensate for this but shouldn't have to.
And because the AC only kicks in at 2°C over the set temp, setting it for 72°F effectively keeps the room at 77°F.
I can compensate for this but shouldn't have to.
June 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM
If I set the temperature to 72°F, it gets converted to 23°C for some reason.
And because the AC only kicks in at 2°C over the set temp, setting it for 72°F effectively keeps the room at 77°F.
I can compensate for this but shouldn't have to.
And because the AC only kicks in at 2°C over the set temp, setting it for 72°F effectively keeps the room at 77°F.
I can compensate for this but shouldn't have to.
My bought-in-the-US air conditioner works this way. Fahrenheit temperatures are displayed but behind the scenes everything is Celsius, only with a lot of rounding errors.
June 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM
My bought-in-the-US air conditioner works this way. Fahrenheit temperatures are displayed but behind the scenes everything is Celsius, only with a lot of rounding errors.
I can't get past "Zeus, god of war." But then, they ares cientists, not mythologists.
May 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I can't get past "Zeus, god of war." But then, they ares cientists, not mythologists.
There really aren't prizes involved in club swimming.
As for "unfairness"... Our rival school's swim team had an exchange student who was competing in the Olympics for his country in my best event. But go on, tell me how the real unfairness is a trans girl wanting to be on a team with her friends.
As for "unfairness"... Our rival school's swim team had an exchange student who was competing in the Olympics for his country in my best event. But go on, tell me how the real unfairness is a trans girl wanting to be on a team with her friends.
May 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
There really aren't prizes involved in club swimming.
As for "unfairness"... Our rival school's swim team had an exchange student who was competing in the Olympics for his country in my best event. But go on, tell me how the real unfairness is a trans girl wanting to be on a team with her friends.
As for "unfairness"... Our rival school's swim team had an exchange student who was competing in the Olympics for his country in my best event. But go on, tell me how the real unfairness is a trans girl wanting to be on a team with her friends.
i suspect the folks raising a stink about "coming in second" have never participated in a sport like this, or parented someone who does.
My sport was swimming rather than cross country, but I don't know of any athlete who would prefer finishing first to beating their personal best.
My sport was swimming rather than cross country, but I don't know of any athlete who would prefer finishing first to beating their personal best.
May 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
i suspect the folks raising a stink about "coming in second" have never participated in a sport like this, or parented someone who does.
My sport was swimming rather than cross country, but I don't know of any athlete who would prefer finishing first to beating their personal best.
My sport was swimming rather than cross country, but I don't know of any athlete who would prefer finishing first to beating their personal best.
Cindy, but her conviction was overturned because the prosecutor didn't turn over all the evidence to the defense.
May 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Cindy, but her conviction was overturned because the prosecutor didn't turn over all the evidence to the defense.
It's funny that so many folks on the hellsite seem to have taken the opposite message and assumed that the Christians living in "practical atheism" he was referring to must be the ones who aren't loudly intolerant.
May 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
It's funny that so many folks on the hellsite seem to have taken the opposite message and assumed that the Christians living in "practical atheism" he was referring to must be the ones who aren't loudly intolerant.
I had the shitty judgment to write this joke reply just a few days after she issued a warning that she'd block people scolding her for engaging with bad-faith users. Didn't realize I'd been (understandably) blocked for this until Bluesky melted down this week.
For what it's worth, sorry.
For what it's worth, sorry.
May 9, 2025 at 5:44 AM
I had the shitty judgment to write this joke reply just a few days after she issued a warning that she'd block people scolding her for engaging with bad-faith users. Didn't realize I'd been (understandably) blocked for this until Bluesky melted down this week.
For what it's worth, sorry.
For what it's worth, sorry.
So in 11 years we went from Richard Cordray turning down his Jeopardy! winnings to... this.
May 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
So in 11 years we went from Richard Cordray turning down his Jeopardy! winnings to... this.
It never occurs to them that the reason they observe assholes have a tendency to be more successful is because successful people tend to be shielded from the consequences of being an asshole.
May 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
It never occurs to them that the reason they observe assholes have a tendency to be more successful is because successful people tend to be shielded from the consequences of being an asshole.
Who's telling them that?
I think there's a common fallacy, not specific to dating, that goes something like this:
1. This person is successful.
2. This person is an asshole.
Therefore:
3. If I act like an asshole, I too will be successful.
I think there's a common fallacy, not specific to dating, that goes something like this:
1. This person is successful.
2. This person is an asshole.
Therefore:
3. If I act like an asshole, I too will be successful.
May 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Who's telling them that?
I think there's a common fallacy, not specific to dating, that goes something like this:
1. This person is successful.
2. This person is an asshole.
Therefore:
3. If I act like an asshole, I too will be successful.
I think there's a common fallacy, not specific to dating, that goes something like this:
1. This person is successful.
2. This person is an asshole.
Therefore:
3. If I act like an asshole, I too will be successful.
Yep.
30 years ago I was seeing these guys (billing themselves as "Pick Up Artistry" and "Speed Seduction") spamming their bile into every possible newsgroup. It was obvious that their primary seduction targets were gullible men who would pay to have their "masculinity" validated.
30 years ago I was seeing these guys (billing themselves as "Pick Up Artistry" and "Speed Seduction") spamming their bile into every possible newsgroup. It was obvious that their primary seduction targets were gullible men who would pay to have their "masculinity" validated.
May 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Yep.
30 years ago I was seeing these guys (billing themselves as "Pick Up Artistry" and "Speed Seduction") spamming their bile into every possible newsgroup. It was obvious that their primary seduction targets were gullible men who would pay to have their "masculinity" validated.
30 years ago I was seeing these guys (billing themselves as "Pick Up Artistry" and "Speed Seduction") spamming their bile into every possible newsgroup. It was obvious that their primary seduction targets were gullible men who would pay to have their "masculinity" validated.
Men and boys aren't being told they're bad... they're being told that other people are saying they're bad. Important distinction.
May 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Men and boys aren't being told they're bad... they're being told that other people are saying they're bad. Important distinction.
It's supposedly not punishment but one can be sentenced to "time served." I don't know how to reconcile that.
May 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
It's supposedly not punishment but one can be sentenced to "time served." I don't know how to reconcile that.
So that's what CASE NIGHTMARE ORANGE is...
April 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
So that's what CASE NIGHTMARE ORANGE is...
That website is obviously a scam site... for starters, their whole "team" is taken from a template called "Untitled UI Webflow Library."
I just can't tell if that site is actually associated with the rest of the "project" or not; it seems like the work of a less sophisticated scammer.
I just can't tell if that site is actually associated with the rest of the "project" or not; it seems like the work of a less sophisticated scammer.
April 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
That website is obviously a scam site... for starters, their whole "team" is taken from a template called "Untitled UI Webflow Library."
I just can't tell if that site is actually associated with the rest of the "project" or not; it seems like the work of a less sophisticated scammer.
I just can't tell if that site is actually associated with the rest of the "project" or not; it seems like the work of a less sophisticated scammer.
Wasn't a restaurant-based AI already used as the central twist of a dystopian miniseries?
March 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Wasn't a restaurant-based AI already used as the central twist of a dystopian miniseries?
But she *is* the Gail Clown Pagliacci...
March 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
But she *is* the Gail Clown Pagliacci...
It's "Elbereth," right?
March 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
It's "Elbereth," right?
Forget it, Kathryn, it's ReplyBotTown.
March 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Forget it, Kathryn, it's ReplyBotTown.
Hey, it's that Alfred Bester story that starts with a cool concept and ends with the protagonist's subjective world shattered.
March 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Hey, it's that Alfred Bester story that starts with a cool concept and ends with the protagonist's subjective world shattered.
They're too busy creating the Torment Nexus to look up the etymology of "robot."
March 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
They're too busy creating the Torment Nexus to look up the etymology of "robot."
In which model are Democratic Party politicians actually responsive and accountable to their constituents?
What is the remedy for ineffective leadership? Primaries? Ask India Walton how well that works.
What is the remedy for ineffective leadership? Primaries? Ask India Walton how well that works.
March 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
In which model are Democratic Party politicians actually responsive and accountable to their constituents?
What is the remedy for ineffective leadership? Primaries? Ask India Walton how well that works.
What is the remedy for ineffective leadership? Primaries? Ask India Walton how well that works.
So $0, rounded to the nearest million?
March 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
So $0, rounded to the nearest million?