It creates a weird roleplaying dissonance too, since the "diplomatic" archetype in these games is typically a polite, sensitive goody two shoes.

So a gang of namesless cutpurses accost you, you passionlessly reduce them to mulch, then go back to helping old ladies cross the street.

Up there with guy who makes a small addition or exaggeration onto your post that was already implied by it and says "FTFY"

"'Chased by pitchfork-and-torch-wielding mobs *and then killed*' ftfy"

SAME! I was also filled with a deep anguish at the treehouse of horror episode where he finds a timeline where nobody knows what a donut is, then flees before he can discover that it rains donuts in this world.

He was so close to everything he ever wanted, and he'll never know...

It's not an easy problem - it takes 1 volt to produce a single electron, hence why they're called "electronvolts."

A lot of power systems only have 120 or 480 volts, whereas you need like 1000 electrons to run a GPU, maybe more

Why is the main email from jeevacation but the quoted one from jccvacation? Does he like rotate personal emails regularly or something?

One of the most interesting tidbits in Bob Altemeyer's "The Authoritarians" is their strong desire to be seen as conventional.

He speculates near the end (and I'm inclined to agree) that simply being confronted with how unpopular their beliefs are could make them more moderate

Wittgen-stans if you will

This idea that most men on the left had a "nazi phase" is weirdly common and honestly I think most of the time it's coming from people who were reactionary shitheads in middle school, grew out of it, and are now misremembering their beliefs as being something much more extreme than they were

It's weird how comfortable we've gotten with stating that abusers or even just folks who kind of annoy us have an essential pathological character. Oh yeah anyone I hate has a diseased brain; they are a fundamentally different type of person to the Normal, Good-Brain-Havers like me and my friends.

A daughter asks her father how old he is. He says “Why, that’s simple. I will always be twice your age.” He is standing on the surface of the earth. She is orbiting 6 AU away from a black hole. What is the mass of the black hole to create relativistic effects to make the father's statement true?

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Why is nobody talking about right on right crime 😔😔

Everyone makes decisions and prioritization about what social harms to grimly accept because the cost of policing them is worse.

Anyone who doesn't already hate Kirk will just read it as a goulish and paper-thin gotcha incapable of convincing anyone who doesn't already agree.

Tbh I think the specific quote people are passing around is pretty weak too.

It's not a self-own anymore than it would be for someone to say "I think it's worth it to have a cost of some medical regret to preserve the right to bodily autonomy" and then get a botched surgery.

They've already released footage from the shooter's POV

Three times this week I've googled something and the top result is a reddit thread of someone asking the same question and being met with a dozen "why didn't you just Google it" replies.

They call it the little death because it kills God's littlest creatures 😔😔

Go fash, lose cash