There are so many headscratchers. The conclusion after the bath tub experience was that she … didn’t phone his wife? Made a police report? Fled to her home screaming? But instead googled him (to check his “me too” creds, yeah right…) and stayed the full weekend. And during the bath tub she tries to deflect him by saying that she is gay and never had sex, but after Gaiman’s horrible egotistic male powertrip abuse she forgot she was a lesbian? After the weekend she texted him:
Pavlovich texted Gaiman: “I am consumed by thoughts of you, the things you will do to me. I’m so hungry. What a terrible creature you’ve turned me into.”
Conversion therapy works, it just needs more Dark Triad Stockholm Syndrome.
Blueberry
2hr ago
the kind of novel where the girl's only friend is a horse, and it's not even her own horse.
I had to laugh, that is a good genre description!
Blueberry
23hr ago
The accusation was “You’re saying the average man wants …” to which orthoxerox clarifies now to you, that he never tried to speak for the average man, but only for himself.
Blueberry
23hr ago
Least shocking MeToo reveal.
I read once a short story collection by Gaimann but I don’t remember anything. Did his work alude to his private life?
As she packed for the trip, she asked Palmer over email if she had any advice for pleasing Gaiman in bed. […] Looking back, she feels Palmer gave her to him “like a toy.”
Amazing the passive language. Like she willingly presenting herself as a sex toy, but also had no agency in this decision. Which could well be, there are also comments on Reddit how Palmer used egoistically other people, so it could be she & Gaimann preyed on vulnerable and weak characters.
Blueberry
1d ago
What baffles me is that she is all hating that, and the article all points out the defiant disapproval of our heroine, and then Gaimann just has to snap his fingers and she is on her knees again.
The only explanation given is that sex is confusing “for the brain”. And that she hated herself, so the degradation made him her soulmate?
I am not sure it is possible to condemn him for “rape”, that is sort of difficult if he gets enthusiastic consent love messages per text, but I condemn him morally for abusing a sort of mentally ill woman. Like, you wouldn’t think someone with Down syndrome being able to give consent, because they don’t understand things and make good decisions and a predator is running intellectually circles around them, and this is true for her too.
Blueberry
1d ago
(1) Which makes sense, considering "consent" was manufactured by non-gender-conforming men and women in the late '80s as a reaction to the free '70s, so it's only natural those [in a purely descriptive sense] trans-gender individuals would come up with a system that doesn't match how normal human beings actually function, then get all defensive when it doesn't work.
Can you explain that more?
Blueberry
1d ago
It is noteworthy that many hn comments are not amused:
Blueberry
3d ago
Apple:
https://9to5mac.com/2025/01/10/apple-opposes-investor-calls-to-end-its-dei-efforts/
Investors will vote on four outside proposals at next month’s annual shareholders meeting. Apple is urging shareholders to vote against those proposals, including one that calls on the company to end its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
The shareholder proposal, submitted by the conservative think tank National Center for Public Policy Research, claims that DEI “poses litigation, reputational and financial risks to companies, and therefore financial risks to their shareholders, and therefore further risks to companies for not abiding by their fiduciary duties.”
Though the company doesn't like such external proposals as a matter of principle, and may have adviced shareholders to vote against it regardless how they feel about DEI internally..
Blueberry
3d ago
No, he regularly streams Diablo 4 for hours. This captured video is 3 hours long:
Barack Obama and Donald Trump chatting away before Jimmy Carter's funeral is quite something to see:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5cnfNgvKsoo
Does Barack humor him diplomatically like a crazy MAGA uncle at the Thanksgiving table? Maybe, but Obama coolness breaking into a chuckle is genuine, Donalds joke must have hit. At the same time Obama has literally the ear of the next President, Trump is listening intensely what he has to say. You know deep down Trump thinks Obama is cool.
Blueberry
6d ago
The other thread is mainly focused on Lex's language choice, and Lex's skills as an interviewer.
More interesting for me is Zelenskyys language skill:
https://x.com/RWApodcast/status/1876014982527434842
https://x.com/RWApodcast/status/1876016285550813559
Tweaking Zelensky is a mess. He struggles to speak Ukrainian, stumbles, switches between languages and swears profusely in Russian. Wonder what happened to the lil guy. Lex Fridman fucking DUBBED it in English, so people wouldn't notice how stupid it all sounds.
Imagine Trump sounding like this: "Hola amigos... fuuuuck.. i'm gonna whoop the cholo pendejo ass. mierda motherfucker..." Not exaggerating, not even a little bit. Crazy world we live in!
RWAPodcast are Russian shills, but they have interesting take and provide a window into Russian thinking. If their diss here is accurate (or not!) I could judge how fair they are.
Blueberry
7d ago
I think it is similar to why Napoleon invaded Russia. He had everything, he had won (well, almost but he could have ignored Britain), but he was so driven being Emperor in Paris was boring and he needed the next challenge. So he did go to war until he got into a war he lost.
Leading a car company is a full time job. Building rockets is a full time job. But he finds normal day business boring and delegates so he can solve the next challenge. But you can’t “solve” politics, and sooner or later he will fly like Icarus to close to the sun and fall down.
Blueberry
12d ago
So the Cybertruck explosion before the Trump hotel was done by an active duty green beret and big Trump supporter:
The man suspected of being behind Tesla Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas was a “big” supporter of Donald Trump and voted for him in November, a senior law enforcement official tells the Daily Beast. The revelation tracks with old Facebook comments and what Livelsberger’s uncle, Dean, told The Independent about his nephew’s politics on Thursday. “He loved Trump, and he was always a very, very patriotic soldier, a patriotic American,” Dean said. “It’s one of the reasons he was in Special Forces for so many years.”
I guess he killed himself, and willingly tried to harm others, to show his disapproval of Elon Musk? [In the surveillance video the car before opens the car door moments before the explosion and on the right side you see a man fleeing. They were really lucky the CT with its steel frame is the worst car for a car bomb.]
I wouldn't have expected active duty special forces soldiers being mentally unstable enough to do suicide bombings. I guess it is futile to search for a rational explanation and meaning here, a rational soldier would simply plan to assassinate Elon Musk, but then a rational person wouldn't to something that violent and drastic in the first place.
Blueberry
15d ago
100+ mile weeks
Woot? That is something like 22 km per day or every day a half marathon. :-o
Blueberry
15d ago
Venkataraman also wrote this on his page:
http://www.vivekvenkataraman.com/blog/2023/7/5/debunking-a-debunking
we found that reports of women’s hunting were genuinely rare.
Most reported prey sizes are small- or medium-sized. Of the cases that do involve large-game hunting by women, some pertain to whale hunting; some involve firearms and/or dogs; some occur in the context of husband-wife pairs in which women contribute to hunting success indirectly; some involve cases of women hunting large game alone out after the death of their husbands; other instances of large-game hunting are explicitly stated by the ethnographer to be very rare. This is not to say that these are not cases of large-game hunting, but the broader context of their occurrence casts suspicion on them as cultural regularities. This provides a starkly different picture of women’s hunting in these societies compared to the analysis of Anderson et al (2023).
Blueberry
15d ago
Are you sure the women are doing the nursing? This graphic in the article clearly shows that men have more muscle mass because they habe to carry infants around:
https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/Image/2023/saw1123Ocob32_m.jpg
A recent study of ethnographic data spanning the past 100 years—much of which was ignored by Man the Hunter contributors—found that women from a wide range of cultures hunt animals for food. Abigail Anderson and Cara Wall-Scheffler, both then at Seattle Pacific University, and their colleagues reported that 79 percent of the 63 foraging societies with clear descriptions of their hunting strategies feature women hunters.
An article from 2020 about that:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/early-women-were-hunters-not-just-gatherers-study-suggests-180982459/
Their analysis revealed that regardless of maternal status, women hunted in 50 of these societies—or about 79 percent. And more than 70 percent of female hunting appeared to be intentional—rather than opportunistically killing animals while doing other activities, per the study. In societies where hunting was the most important activity for subsistence, women participated in hunting 100 percent of the time.
“The hunting was purposeful,” Wall-Scheffler tells NPR. “Women had their own tool kit. They had favorite weapons. Grandmas were the best hunters of the village.”
The researchers also found that women played an active role in teaching hunting, and they used a wider variety of weapons and hunting strategies than men did. For example, while men tended to hunt alone or in pairs, women hunted alone, with a man or with groups of women, children or dogs. Women hunted small game in 46 percent of the studied societies and took down medium or large game in 48 percent of them. In 4 percent of societies, they hunted game of all sizes.
I mean, Artemis is after all a female goddess: (2nd century statue copied from a Greek original dating to 330 BCE). And as Thomas Carlyle meant to say, the real use of bow & arrow is to make all humans tall.
https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/10157.jpg
Plus the easiest way of hunting animals is trapping. You don't need to be strong or athletic endurance to catch squirrels and rabbits with snares. Look at this boy trapping birds, which is so stupidly easy probably even a girl could do it as long as she isn't vegan and doesn't mind being cruel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapping#/media/File:34-caccia_tortore,Taccuino_Sanitatis,_Casanatense_4182..jpg
I don't know how to interpret the statement "Grandmas were the best hunters in the village", but I imagine their hunting looks less like battling a grizzly and more like these Aborigines finding a lizard (from 2:50), Also an example for opportunistically killing animals:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=iP7Nn3whUTo&t=160
That said:
I wonder about the math here. If in 46% of foraging societies women hunt small game and in 48% larger game and then 4% all sizes how does that result in 79% of societies with women hunting? And I wonder what the total calories provided are. Was it more a novelty thing women did when they were bored or out of necessity or was hunting their sole profession? I read the book about the Pirahã in the Amazon (who have this strange language without recursion which refutes Noam Chomskys central thesis) and the role of the man was mainly to fish on canoes in the river (protein, every day staple meal) and going into the jungle to hunt was done less often because it was more dangerous and also you could come home empty handed to your disappointed wife and hungry children (but if you brought meat you were the king of the village and shared with everyone) and the women digged for vegetables/tubers (carbohydrates, also everyday staple food).
You Americans have more stories about Native/Indian American tribes, how and what did Native/Indian women hunt?
Blueberry
25d ago
There is (or was in the past) a BetterAI mod who made the AI a bit more capable. In CIV 5 and 6 war is a snorefest, as moving many units with the new one-unit-per-tile is cumbersome, and the AI doesn't understand tactics. Multiplayer is okayish in CIV 6 though.
Blueberry
30d ago
In fact, basically all drones are weak to shotgun, and mounting a radar on a rapid-fire spreader turret is pretty cheap by military standards.
I never saw an automatic or anti drone turret in combat footage, despite a very high incentive for Russia/Ukraineto to have that.
There is tons of footage of shotgun use and this Russian soldier is doing it very non-chalantly:
Fighting against a drone searching for you must be nerve wrecking, you hear the high pitched sound and play hide and seek against the drone operator:
Of course this is the lucky case where the human survived. There is tons of footage of drones hitting their target.
Blueberry
30d ago
Oh god! The comments!
With immense respect, Mr. governor, this is the constellation "Orion." It's made up of stars between 244 and 1,344 light years away. The stars will be in a similar place tomorrow.
So any opinions on the drone sightings in New Jersey? Is it just mass hysteria and people mistake airplanes for drones? Are they aliens? Supernatural phenomenon? Just a distributed prank by drone owners?
So far the confusion and appeal to the government is bipartisan:
Lawmakers from across the political spectrum on Sunday criticized the federal government’s response to mysterious drone sightings in the Northeast, as officials emphasize there is no evidence of a security threat.
Democratic Rep. Jim Himes, a ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, also expressed frustration with the administration’s response to the public. “The government has a real responsibility to put more information out there so people better understand what the real dangers are,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Trump said Friday that the government needs to convey more information and shoot down the drones.
Asked Sunday about the president-elect’s post calling on the government to shoot down the drones, Mayorkas said, “We are limited in our authorities.”
What drives me crazy is that only phone videos seem to exist and phone cameras suck for faraway objects in the night. Is there not one good camera with a zoom in New York/New Jersey?
Edit:
This orb ABC News was puzzled over is really an out of focus Venus:
https://x.com/MatthewCappucci/status/1868052013164134899
Please ignore the context of this tweet (Elon reXt it, so it is CW fire): https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1879273049075458217
What I instead found curious was the usage of "GM (Global Majority) formerly known as BAME (Black, Asian, Middle East)" which I had never read before. But I am not British. Wiki has a short article about the term, maybe it will be longer in future:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_majority&oldid=1257733067
It seems to still be fringe/local use, but I wonder if it will be the new preferred term. Being part of a minority sounds small/miserable, you are an outsider. But being part of the global majority, now that sounds grand and legitimate, you are the demos.
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