julietOscarEcho @ julietOscarEcho @sh.itjust.works

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That doesn't fit with anything I know about Weinersmith. You got any source?

This is a story about the UK...

Your point makes slightly more sense if you're talking about the US instead. I still think it's silly to ascribe equal blame to the instigators of the idea and a party that fails to push the tide the other way because of inertia and political expediency.

I mean the centre ground if fucked over there, so you have my sympathy.

And wasn't that mention itself a joke about the obsession among the player base with the romances I the game?

Yeah you said that a few times on this thread. I think it's a weird view in the case of people who are likely to continue to harm people (if like SBF they show no empathy or contrition) but sure.

Why are you so motivated to comment on the case if you haven't followed it? Maybe just read and learn something.

Oh come on. It's very clear who the champions and vanguard of trickle down economics are. It's fatuous to "both sides" this issue.

You think a guy who graduated from MIT and got a job at fucking Jane Street is "stupid". No. His problem is the missing moral compass, he's got the smarts all day.

The irony of complaining about lack of fast travel on patient gamers is great.

RDR2 is pretty much my all time fave because of story/character but I never liked hunting and never felt the need to do any of the myriad achievements. I really enjoyed the slow pace of the game, so often the main story feels so urgent it is totally immersion breaking to do anything other than immediately pursue your next quest objective. By contrast RDR2 there were breaks in the story that felt natural to chill in camp or explore randomly or side quest or whatever.

if human-made bread becomes a luxury

"artisan" is definitely a thing already. But yeah, not everyone is paying £5 a loaf.

Have you tasted 99% though. Bleurgh

This is the real unpopular opinion. 99% is like eating coffee grounds. I assume it only exists so people can feign sophistication.

I can't tell the pretentious assholes apart from the people jokily pretending to be pretentious assholes. Great stuff.

Or like both but prefer sugar (and fat carefully tempered to a delecate snap). But seriously if you don't like sugar I don't understand why you would be messing with chocolate anyway.

Incidentally try caramelising white chocolate. fucking great. Which I think supports the white choc ~= sugar hypothesis.

Euchre can be gambled on right? So at least there is some angle where it's "undesirable".

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The huge difference with the professions you mention is that in all of them successful participants don't wed themselves to any premise. They can allow for the possibility of two competing premises, or even usefully imagine a world with a counterfactual premise, and accurately communicate the uncertainty or incongruence of their views (it is technically possible for political science to work this way too, but rare to find someone who hasn't picked a "team" outside of academia).

The irrationality and intellectual danger lies not in adopting hypothesis but in granting them the status of dogma.

I would also argue that the potential for real world harm of adopting a wrong premise is way less for a cosmologist or mathematician than for a religious leader or politician. Relevant SMBC: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/purity-3

They were wrong about that too

Do we have selfawarewolves yet?

What?