Michael Ens
@michaelens.bsky.social
I remember being taught to “put it in terms of sounds of pleasure” (skip the s, c, and t to get oh ah oa). Which I don’t think actually helps but was certainly surprising to hear at that age.
December 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I remember being taught to “put it in terms of sounds of pleasure” (skip the s, c, and t to get oh ah oa). Which I don’t think actually helps but was certainly surprising to hear at that age.
That’s literally what it means to be held to a higher standard! When you believe a cop over a prisoner, that’s holding cops to a lower standard than criminals! It’s insane!
Yes, it’s possible for a genuine error to delete evidence. It’s the cops’ job to prevent that. Not prisoners’!
Yes, it’s possible for a genuine error to delete evidence. It’s the cops’ job to prevent that. Not prisoners’!
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
That’s literally what it means to be held to a higher standard! When you believe a cop over a prisoner, that’s holding cops to a lower standard than criminals! It’s insane!
Yes, it’s possible for a genuine error to delete evidence. It’s the cops’ job to prevent that. Not prisoners’!
Yes, it’s possible for a genuine error to delete evidence. It’s the cops’ job to prevent that. Not prisoners’!
I kind of want them to find conclusive evidence that not being vaccinated causes autism. It obviously won’t fix the anti autism nonsense but it would be like uploading a paradox to the borg.
November 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I kind of want them to find conclusive evidence that not being vaccinated causes autism. It obviously won’t fix the anti autism nonsense but it would be like uploading a paradox to the borg.
I was going to say, this feels like how some of my university coursework actually worked (certainly not all). I think pre-Uni there should be minimal homework outside maybe catch up after being sick (no I don’t have citations handy to back that up, it’s just gut instinct).
October 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I was going to say, this feels like how some of my university coursework actually worked (certainly not all). I think pre-Uni there should be minimal homework outside maybe catch up after being sick (no I don’t have citations handy to back that up, it’s just gut instinct).
I regret my choices.
October 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I regret my choices.
I've flipped on this from asking that people use "beg the question" in its original form to just saying burn it down, it's not a good phrase worth defending anyway for *either* side of the argument. Speak like a 21st century human.
October 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I've flipped on this from asking that people use "beg the question" in its original form to just saying burn it down, it's not a good phrase worth defending anyway for *either* side of the argument. Speak like a 21st century human.
Probably doesn’t count, but I liked the Orville especially after season 1 when it leaned less into weak family guy comedy and more into strong tng pastiche. As for this, I can still get my hopes up even if they’ll probably be dashed again.
October 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Probably doesn’t count, but I liked the Orville especially after season 1 when it leaned less into weak family guy comedy and more into strong tng pastiche. As for this, I can still get my hopes up even if they’ll probably be dashed again.
This is only because hippos famously walk even in situations where any other land animal would swim
October 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
This is only because hippos famously walk even in situations where any other land animal would swim
Honestly this analogy did help me understand. Not that I’d spent a lot of time thinking about it but was a bit bewildered “why is everybody acting like the morality is obvious…people perform at the White House correspondents dinner”. But it’s clear when you put it like that. Genuinely, thank you.
October 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Honestly this analogy did help me understand. Not that I’d spent a lot of time thinking about it but was a bit bewildered “why is everybody acting like the morality is obvious…people perform at the White House correspondents dinner”. But it’s clear when you put it like that. Genuinely, thank you.
In perfect fairness, they don’t need your email address to be able to block reuse in the same sense that they don’t need your plaintext password. Still messed up though.
October 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
In perfect fairness, they don’t need your email address to be able to block reuse in the same sense that they don’t need your plaintext password. Still messed up though.
Sooooo we’re going with the idea that the holodeck “romances” before that aren’t an allusion or that it isn’t masturbation?
August 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Sooooo we’re going with the idea that the holodeck “romances” before that aren’t an allusion or that it isn’t masturbation?
You're responsible for creating a ramp that can build up to an adventuring party that can tackle the real kingdom-level problems.
I like the idea of a game that justifies you deliberately creating the bizarre circumstances of CRPG game worlds, including progressively higher risk/reward quests etc.
I like the idea of a game that justifies you deliberately creating the bizarre circumstances of CRPG game worlds, including progressively higher risk/reward quests etc.
August 14, 2025 at 12:20 AM
You're responsible for creating a ramp that can build up to an adventuring party that can tackle the real kingdom-level problems.
I like the idea of a game that justifies you deliberately creating the bizarre circumstances of CRPG game worlds, including progressively higher risk/reward quests etc.
I like the idea of a game that justifies you deliberately creating the bizarre circumstances of CRPG game worlds, including progressively higher risk/reward quests etc.
I hope you don't consider this cheating, but...
Strategy game in the vein of Majesty. You are a noble or administrator in charge of setting Quests and Quest rewards and creating an economy that can absorb magic item sales and produce healing potions etc. and attracts parties at taverns.
Strategy game in the vein of Majesty. You are a noble or administrator in charge of setting Quests and Quest rewards and creating an economy that can absorb magic item sales and produce healing potions etc. and attracts parties at taverns.
August 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I hope you don't consider this cheating, but...
Strategy game in the vein of Majesty. You are a noble or administrator in charge of setting Quests and Quest rewards and creating an economy that can absorb magic item sales and produce healing potions etc. and attracts parties at taverns.
Strategy game in the vein of Majesty. You are a noble or administrator in charge of setting Quests and Quest rewards and creating an economy that can absorb magic item sales and produce healing potions etc. and attracts parties at taverns.
I’ve never really minded this pattern. It’s in the same bucket as all the characters speaking “common” (English) and using Earth units of time and modern weights & measures and using currency like we do today. I’m happy if you worldbuild over some of that and bored if you rewrite all of that.
June 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I’ve never really minded this pattern. It’s in the same bucket as all the characters speaking “common” (English) and using Earth units of time and modern weights & measures and using currency like we do today. I’m happy if you worldbuild over some of that and bored if you rewrite all of that.
If you’re putting in the legwork, fictional sources are easy to disprove. Real sources taken out of context are way worse.
May 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
If you’re putting in the legwork, fictional sources are easy to disprove. Real sources taken out of context are way worse.
I think they can be useful for things where you can verify a correct answer quickly. Like “what’s the name of that actress from the movie with the talking squid” and then you go “right!” or image search their name.
That’s why it works decently for coders, incidentally, under some circumstances.
That’s why it works decently for coders, incidentally, under some circumstances.
April 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I think they can be useful for things where you can verify a correct answer quickly. Like “what’s the name of that actress from the movie with the talking squid” and then you go “right!” or image search their name.
That’s why it works decently for coders, incidentally, under some circumstances.
That’s why it works decently for coders, incidentally, under some circumstances.
I fell off animorphs because I hated reading the same intro every time and it was structured basically unskippably, like if they did the same 3 chapter backstory every time (or one for each viewpoint) I’d have gone all the way. It wasn’t getting boring or anything.
April 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I fell off animorphs because I hated reading the same intro every time and it was structured basically unskippably, like if they did the same 3 chapter backstory every time (or one for each viewpoint) I’d have gone all the way. It wasn’t getting boring or anything.
In this case I think it really is cope. This guy is a bible scholar and is pretty consistently blunt about what is and is not historical and covers it in less than 5 minutes:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bMF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bMF...
What does “spare the rod spoil the child” mean?
YouTube video by Dan McClellan
www.youtube.com
February 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
In this case I think it really is cope. This guy is a bible scholar and is pretty consistently blunt about what is and is not historical and covers it in less than 5 minutes:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bMF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bMF...
No it doesn’t, it means something false that widely circulates as if true.
www.britannica.com/topic/urban-...
www.britannica.com/topic/urban-...
Urban legend | Definition, Meaning, Examples, & Facts | Britannica
Urban legend, in folklore, a story about an unusual or humorous event that many people believe to be true but that is not true. Urban legends typically combine secondhand narratives, such as those hea...
www.britannica.com
January 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
No it doesn’t, it means something false that widely circulates as if true.
www.britannica.com/topic/urban-...
www.britannica.com/topic/urban-...
I think it's useful in a different use-case. I found AI can help me narrowing down "what's that movie, the one with the guy with the thing" or "what's that video game with all the stuff" -- where I can near-instantly verify the answer if it gives it to me, but traditional search takes forever.
December 10, 2024 at 6:00 PM
I think it's useful in a different use-case. I found AI can help me narrowing down "what's that movie, the one with the guy with the thing" or "what's that video game with all the stuff" -- where I can near-instantly verify the answer if it gives it to me, but traditional search takes forever.
Looked it up, it's here: ourworldindata.org/child-mortal...
It's a graphic that clearly demonstrates that for human history up until around 1900 approximately half of all children died before reaching 15. By 1950 it was 27% and by 2022 it's 4.3%. Too many more data points to fit into a tweet.
It's a graphic that clearly demonstrates that for human history up until around 1900 approximately half of all children died before reaching 15. By 1950 it was 27% and by 2022 it's 4.3%. Too many more data points to fit into a tweet.
Mortality in the past: every second child died
The chances that a newborn survives childhood have increased from 50% to 96% globally. This article asks how we know about the mortality of children in the past and what we can learn from it for our f...
ourworldindata.org
November 5, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Looked it up, it's here: ourworldindata.org/child-mortal...
It's a graphic that clearly demonstrates that for human history up until around 1900 approximately half of all children died before reaching 15. By 1950 it was 27% and by 2022 it's 4.3%. Too many more data points to fit into a tweet.
It's a graphic that clearly demonstrates that for human history up until around 1900 approximately half of all children died before reaching 15. By 1950 it was 27% and by 2022 it's 4.3%. Too many more data points to fit into a tweet.
100% true, and he could have fixed that by saying “don’t inject bleach, that’s not what I meant” the next day rather than pretending it was sarcasm two years later.
Would also have solved a lot of problems if grew did that while wearing a mask.
Would also have solved a lot of problems if grew did that while wearing a mask.
August 21, 2024 at 2:29 AM
100% true, and he could have fixed that by saying “don’t inject bleach, that’s not what I meant” the next day rather than pretending it was sarcasm two years later.
Would also have solved a lot of problems if grew did that while wearing a mask.
Would also have solved a lot of problems if grew did that while wearing a mask.
At the risk of pissing you off, I agree, he doesn’t say inject bleach. He rambles incoherently. People assuming he’s making a coherent statement force the “inject bleach” interpretation because those words were present in the ramble (as was UV). The guy does this all the time, it’s infuriating.
August 21, 2024 at 2:20 AM
At the risk of pissing you off, I agree, he doesn’t say inject bleach. He rambles incoherently. People assuming he’s making a coherent statement force the “inject bleach” interpretation because those words were present in the ramble (as was UV). The guy does this all the time, it’s infuriating.
As somebody from rural southern Ontario:
Southern doesn't fit at all. Redneck and Hick feel similar and insulting, but Hick carries more of an "uneducated" vibe, and Redneck more of a "feral and aggressive" vibe, but still self-identifiable. Hillbilly is like Hick but you'd never self-identify.
Southern doesn't fit at all. Redneck and Hick feel similar and insulting, but Hick carries more of an "uneducated" vibe, and Redneck more of a "feral and aggressive" vibe, but still self-identifiable. Hillbilly is like Hick but you'd never self-identify.
July 24, 2024 at 6:48 PM
As somebody from rural southern Ontario:
Southern doesn't fit at all. Redneck and Hick feel similar and insulting, but Hick carries more of an "uneducated" vibe, and Redneck more of a "feral and aggressive" vibe, but still self-identifiable. Hillbilly is like Hick but you'd never self-identify.
Southern doesn't fit at all. Redneck and Hick feel similar and insulting, but Hick carries more of an "uneducated" vibe, and Redneck more of a "feral and aggressive" vibe, but still self-identifiable. Hillbilly is like Hick but you'd never self-identify.