It’s cool that they managed to do this without flattening all of Hungry’s major urban and industrial centers.

I’m really proud of the restraint the rest of the EU/US showed.

A big part of streaming company retention policy is promising things to people who are in the process of cancelling their accounts. So… why not cancel your account every couple of months?

If someone is going to send me a gift card or offer a free month of service every time I call, I’ve got a strong economic incentive to call early and often.

Fordism is dead. Sorry. Try again next Industrial Revolution.

Why bother when you’re using a parent’s credit card? Why bother when you’re flush? $20/mo on a $20k income versus a $200k income creates very different incentives.

Won’t Purchase Full-Price Video Games, New Study Finds

The only game I’ve ever seen sold at full price on a consistent basis was Factorio. Every other publisher seems sold on putting $60-80 on the label and then floating 10-30% discounts as the sales cycle permits.

It’s the Macy’s model for sales. “You’re getting a $20 discount on a $60 game” sells more titles than “Here’s a game for $40”.

Was listening to the BBC brief this morning and they mentioned Conservatives, Labour, and Reform. Absolutely nothing about the Green Party at all.

Love my British political news coverage.

a motion was passed in Canada, 266 to 0, recognizing the CCP’s actions against Uyghurs as genocide.

Were these the same folks that gave Yaroslav Hunka a standing ovation?

The same folks that continue to sell arms to Israel?

And collaborate with US ICE agents on mass deportation?

First time I’ve ever heard of a social media app behaving like this, certainly.

I just have to assume its because Republicans make such good content. How else do you explain Ben Shapiro, Andrew Tate, and Joe Rogan blowing up my YouTube Recommends section? They’re just winning in the marketplace of ideas, clearly.

They do this by not labeling it a murder unless they find the murderer and enough evidence.

They also have a court system comically stacked in favor of the prosecution.

Handwriting analysis

Is a sketchy field on a good day. My handwriting would go to shit if I was banging something out moments before my death, one way or another.

Melania walks free and nobody on the federal bench is showing up in the East River with cement shoes

Love when an article is a paragraph long and the site link immediately blows up my screen with “SUBSCRIBE NOW!” spam.

A certain segment of the Christian Zionist movement believes that Jews need to return to Israel so they can all be annihilated by the Anti-Christ at the End Of Days.

So IDF soldiers smashing crucifixes doesn’t really bother them, because they’re all just congregating under the big bullseye that God plans to bomb into dust any day now.

Christian Zionists are far more obsessed with the breeding of the Perfect Red Heifer to be sacrificed at the consecration of the Third Temple.

Seriously, this shit is wackadoodles.

A Texas businessman believes he was divinely chosen to help usher in the Second Coming of Christ—by finding unblemished red heifers and getting them to Israel.

My computer after uninstalling Windows

Broke: Installing Linux

Woke: Installing an older version of Windows

Bespoke: Installing the Apple II OS

I’m saying it is a science that deserves to actually be taken seriously

If you’re dismissing the scientific method, you’re not taking science seriously.

CBCWatcher

Why are we taking advice from a reactionary billionaire-funded media critic with a vested interest in US economic hegemony?

I don’t bring up hylomorphism when I talk about physics

Psychology isn’t a question of physics. The complex machine that is the human brain isn’t some single-action lever with a discrete well-defined input/output relationship. Neither is the human brain some binary circuit governed by logic gates and trivially deterministic sequences.

At some point, you have to approach psychology experimentally. You can’t just wave your hands and assume you know how the black box of the mind is going to work. And you can’t dismiss the accumulated experimental data because you don’t like the person who spearheaded its compilation.

Freud would give you a long diatribe about the distinction between Id, Ego, and Superego.

You can believe a thing is wrong and still do it. Ask any smoker. You can do a thing and wrestle with the psychological consequences afterwards. Ask anyone who has ever felt guilty. You can plan to behave a certain way and become derailed by impulses or anxiety. Ask anyone who has ever succumbed to fear or pain.

Self-policing is a logical response to an illogical/immoral impulse. Tossing cookies out of the cabinet and ice cream out of the fridge is the first step towards dieting. Cancelling your credit card is a technique to curb impulsive spending. How is this any different?