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Also, this is the point everyone will realize all the absurdity and so it will be the end, right? Right?

I'm reminded of an old original Family Feud episode with a question asking contestants to name a spice/seasoning or whatever and garlic was near the bottom of the list. We *knew* about garlic for a very long time before we finally started using it appropriately

It's the hallmark of all of these people, they don't comprehend how things actually work or what words actually mean. They live in a simplistic, rhetorical, cartoonified world where you can just say words, adjust the meaning, and there are no consequences. Because nothing is actually real to them

Hey real quick but as someone who has never had allergies before it appears allergies work way differently now than they did just like two years ago in a region of a state we both occupy. Evidence is anecdotal but there seems to be an effing LOT of it

a man wearing a cowboy hat and an orange shirt is driving a car ALT: a man wearing a cowboy hat and an orange shirt is driving a car

I have a lyrical way of cutting through the bullshit

Economic models probably have the fewest rational actors I can think of

Humans are often unable to articulate their opinions properly in focus groups where they act in good faith and frequently lie in surveys where they fear they may be judged. The logic shown below will basically result in a client getting the output that grey is everyone's favorite color

Humans are notoriously bad at expressing their own actual opinions in those scenarios so I really just see enshittification all the way down

Not recently?

Potato chip ass typo

Back when I used to think debating them was useful I was always so perplexed by their reliance upon vagaries, subjective matters, and hypotheticals.

[Lay's out concrete, accepted facts about their candidate]

"Oh yeah? Just imagine how bad it will be if the other one wins"

How long before there's an app that allows you to finance a tank of fuel, with a gambling tie-in? It will be billed by some as hedging fuel prices at the consumer level, and the entire thing will be a MLM scheme, but it will have a cutesy name

The shortcut I find useful when facing an issue I'm undecided on is to look at who supports it. Tommy Tuberville is in favor of abolishing time change, so...

I don't know the answer to this question?

@ap-cdn.bsky.social I don't remember if you go back and forth converting your hours from freedom to metric twice a year, but by tomorrow sunsets will be much later for quite awhile here

Welp, like I used to tell my therapist, who would visibly wince every time I said it, "it is what it is"

Yeah I mostly gave up on trying to get any nuanced mental health care. You can get a half-assed antidepressant easily enough but anything else is a whole different ballgame. I finally just switched to self-medicating, and suffering

Ok can somebody promise me I can stop trying to have extremely strong opinions about the pros and cons of Crockett vs Talarico now?

It was so bad. It felt forced or contrived or something and for years he'd occasionally smugly bring it up as proof that he is Very Smart and was able to predict Profar would fail due to this sign he felt should be obvious to everyone

It was some weird Junior overreaction when Profar tweeted something in response to some big soccer event while injured, and Junior spent a segment mansplaining that showed he wasn't serious about baseball

His downfall came as a result of watching soccer while injured

@ap-cdn.bsky.social lol 70° at midnight the beginning of March, totally normal. Everything is great

Also that agreement involved a nuclear physicist and in 2018 the person filling that role was Rick Perry

This is the goal

I realize this data can be charted and I'm just going off vibes but the number of times in January and February when it was in the 60s (freedom) at ten or eleven at night seems...significantly different

Sean, I have an opinion I've never shared before but I think Sunday is solidly within the top seven of days for day-drinking

I think Sunday is solidly in the top seven of days for day-drinking. Prove me wrong