RaiderOfALostTusken
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RaiderOfALostTusken
18d ago
Silver did have a fun exchange with Alan Lichtman who predicted a Harris win due to his "Keys of the Presidency" heuristic. Lichtman one of those "correctly predicted the results of last X elections" guys. Silver pointed out that by his own Keys, it predicted a Trump win - and Alan responded something hilariously memeable like "Nate Silver doesn't know how to turn the keys"
So i dunno. I thought it was funny at least
RaiderOfALostTusken
30d ago
I enjoyed BoBS but didn't really care for the final vignette. There's a semi famous meme that you might recognize and point your finger at.
RaiderOfALostTusken
1mo ago
I am lucky to live in a small city with a relatively decent dark sky (can see multiple constellations on a given night), but it's still not ideal for sure
RaiderOfALostTusken
1mo ago
Alright i have an extremely low stakes bone to pick!
So I live in southern Canada, and like many people we got Northern Lights the other night. Except - our northern lights consisted of a greyish haze basically. Yeah you could see something, it was cool! But it wasn't colorful.
Then, when you took a picture with your phone, that monochrome grey turns into a brilliant symphony of color, perfect for social media! But, it's basically a lie - I assume AI upscaling of some kind. And now I'm seeing all these photos from the US/Mexico Border, other southern states, of these brilliant reds and greens and I'm like, is everybody comfortable just lying like this? Surely they didn't actually see any color IRL, right? Did anybody actually see real colors outside of the phone AI upscaling, in any areas of the continental USA?
RaiderOfALostTusken
1mo ago
Oh uh....spoilers, I'm sorry
RaiderOfALostTusken
1mo ago
I watched the movie version of this in high school, and have a scene burned in my brain where a baker (?) Falls off a roof and has his genitals cut off and stuffed in his mouth. Is that in the book?
RaiderOfALostTusken
3mo ago
I read an article a few weeks ago saying they wanted to switch to server side ads maybe? The gist was it was going to break ad block. Unfortunate.
RaiderOfALostTusken
5mo ago
He was hired by SNL and then fired quickly after in 2019 after some impressions of Chinese people and what was called "homophobic" humor surfaced from old podcast episodes. I can't remember the specific jokes.
I see his stuff occasionally and he's definitely not afraid of certain things, mental disability and even talking about different races in positive and negative ways. He's pretty moderate i would say, just wants to make people laugh
RaiderOfALostTusken
5mo ago
I sometimes think that in the vacuum of having any national identity (which is bad, patriotism is generally bad as many here would say), the national identity has just become some kind of "feel superior to the americans". It happens at political levels when Dobbs was passed and Trudeau made a big thing about abortion and contracepton. It happens with healthcare, we accept mediocrity because "at least we aren't the USA" and i think we do it with immigration too.
RaiderOfALostTusken
5mo ago
The saddest thing, is if I took a poll, i would bet that more canadians know that Trump was convicted than know that literal sitting MPs willingly assisted foreign governments.
RaiderOfALostTusken
5mo ago
For what it's worth, this happened to family of mine in Calgary. People would take the C Train, walk around the (very nice) neighborhood at the end of it, check car door handles, and then train back to wherever they were from. Locals got wise and started following/putting in ring cameras and realized they weren't local.
RaiderOfALostTusken
6mo ago
Comes from this peice https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2023/02/what-is-the-longhouse
Coincidentally, the author was just doxxed by The Guardian which has been a bit of a news thing for the past few days.
RaiderOfALostTusken
6mo ago
I know I saw a chart of incident frequency on airlines and it hasn't increased. Boeing planes having problems has become newsworthy, so now everything is being reported on - but this kind of thing has basically always been happening.
RaiderOfALostTusken
6mo ago
I would say I did. I went to public school in Canada in what was considered the sort of "mid-upper class" suburb outside of a more major city. High school had a population of about 400 people, can't really remember what the size of Jr High or Elementary was. I would say that I got along with all of my teachers - there was one teacher who wore her politics on her sleeve and I do remember butting heads against her quite a bit, but there was another one who was a very vocal avowed feminist type but was also really really good, very fond memories. I guess she always kind of had a self deprecating vibe about the whole thing which made it kind of fun.
I would not consider myself as a "popular" kid, but I was definitely "well liked", I could generally be friendly and interact with most if not all of the various cliques without trouble. I do not think that I was ever bullied - despite being by far the shortest person of my age category, I was able to lean into it and have enough confidence that if that was happening, I just didn't register it.
My parents were deeply involved in my schooling, the expectation was 80% minimum grades. If my grades started to slip then it was discussion about what we could do, did I need a tutor? one on one time with the teacher? did I need to remove any extracurriculars? I don't think I would have had the grades I did if they weren't as involved. I also had the opportunity to be in various musical theater productions, including playing the lead in a school musical which played at the local town 500 seat theater, which was a treasured experience I'm glad I got to have.
RaiderOfALostTusken
6mo ago
Put the cans of spray paint away
RaiderOfALostTusken
6mo ago
See, i did actually think this is within the realm of possibility. I don't know enough about DNA to know how far you can go to establish a relationship, but yeah between siblings, cousins, etc. Maybe there's something
RaiderOfALostTusken
6mo ago
Here was a "debunking the debunkers" post on it, i suppose you can use this in your search.
Here's a question, and CSIS this is a joke, how hard would it be to get a bit of Trudeau DNA and Castro DNA to do a comparison?
RaiderOfALostTusken
7mo ago
There's nothing fancy - i looked like one of those kids in those "preteen you're arguing with on the computer" memes. I let my hair just sit flat on my head, across my forehead, 0 effort.
My mom especially begged me to throw some wax or gel, or let it get cut in a more stylish way and I just thought it was dumb, but a good hairstyle can really improve confidence and how people interact with you. Took me too long to figure out.
RaiderOfALostTusken
7mo ago
Spend literally 2 minutes a day on your hair, it's going to make a huge difference and you won't look so stupid in future photos
RaiderOfALostTusken
7mo ago
Huh, well there you go! He must have been somewhat familiar with the literature then
RaiderOfALostTusken
7mo ago
It's funny - I asked my optometrist relative if he had "noticed" anything, like no studies per se, but a gut feeling of something you've realized looking at dozens of eyes a day for years and years. He said he was almost certain that kids not spending enough time outside was linked to why more kids need glasses today. So I'm always trying to do the opposite, get my kids outside for reasonable increments depending on UV index, etc.
Recently some govt org here in Canada made the recommendation that kids be encouraged to participate in lightly risky activities, and that was always a thing I've tried to do. There are some things where I think - as long as the risk of this going bad doesn't result in long term damage, I'm fine with it. My wife stays at home which makes a lot of this much easier, because we know our kids and their limitations really well. It seems to work out well.
RaiderOfALostTusken
7mo ago
As a parent, parents who "gentle parent" almost universally have awful kids to be around. Our kids are generally very well behaved (twins age 5) to the point that it's not uncommon to get complimented at the store about it. We follow the "reprove betimes with sharpness, followed by an increase in love" approach. We like being around our kids.
Whenever my kids have play dates with gentle parented kids, the amount of yelling, mean things, stealing toys, hitting, breaking things (ours or their own) is genuinely shocking. But you know, even our kids sometimes act out, what's annoying is that there is no discipline in the moment. The moms just take the kids and be like "ohhh dear oh no, are you having some big feelings?" And then kid goes right back to it after sitting with his mom for a few seconds. Sadly, these moms also often complain that they can't control their kids! We saw one really awful moment with one of these where a 4 year old smacked his mom at Church (hard enough that people gasped). She got embarassed (understandably) but then kinda just went, "aww, yeah, he just does that haha", again, understandable when tons of people are around but, i know for a fact that it happens at home too.
like, i guess we just have no qualms or even see it as a point of pride to calmly and sternly take our kids out of a situation to correct the behavior. And i think it shows! And we vastly prefer to hang out with kids of parents who are more like us!
RaiderOfALostTusken
7mo ago
I live in Southern AB and had a chance to talk to a border guard recently. He mentioned the process of "flagpoling" - i guess new arrivals (visitor visa, education etc.) Can apply for permanent residency but the process takes a few months. What they do is drive across the border to the USA, get turned back, and then just by pulling up to the canadian border on the way back, it expedites the permanent residency application to be days. The border guard said most of his time now was filling out residency applications. Seems bad imo.
RaiderOfALostTusken
8mo ago
Moviebattles 2: a mod for Star Wars, Jedi Academy.
Finally, someone figured out how to do sabers vs guns in a multiplayer game. It's basically a standard class based deathmatch - various classes with abilities that you spend points to buy. You could be a bounty hunter with snipers and grenades, a sith who can jump and run and blast people with 2 handed lightning, a droideka with powerful shield and quick movement - possibilities are nearly endless. Playing on a series of movie accurate maps (seriously, the Phantom Menace hangar/throne room map...), 2 teams of various units face off to either kill everyone or complete the objective.
The lightsaber isn't a baseball bat. It's a one hit kill (unless the super battle droid opted for Cortosis!), BUT, when not in blocking stance, you are vulnerable to blaster fire. A skilled jedi could wipe out numerous trooper type units, but working together a good soldier could hold their own. The dueling as well, I never could figure out but was pretty high skill ceilinged. Really really fun, hours and hours of my youth on that.
I definitely get more bot friend requests post elon. There was a while that i was getting lots of fake messages right at first, that's about it
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