Joyful
6mo ago
Furries annoying everyone as usual: https://www.loweringthebar.net/2025/04/dragon-lawyer-files-complaint-with-cartoon-dragon.html
Joyful
8mo ago
In library school this topic was taught as "dealing with our homeless patrons" and balancing their right to use the internet freely like the dignified upstanding citizens they are with preventing children from seeing them masturbate in public.
Joyful
8mo ago
Adding that I think its a time thing, any kid that goes on puberty blockers for more than a few months will never proceed through all of the puberty phases (even if you give them cross sex hormones) and they hit their 20s unable to orgasm. Not to mention the nasty damage it does to their brains (possibly an entire standard deviation of IQ).
Joyful
8mo ago
Woman here. I find nothing arousing about men kissing. Women who are into gay anime do exist but this is far from universal.
Joyful
8mo ago
I loved the Shadow series. Much better than the non-ender books in the original series!
Joyful
8mo ago
bloody the nose of one of America's two main rivals
Does anyone think Russia is a rival? For what? Hearts and minds? The world wants to move here. We have multiple states with a bigger GDP. Slavic population is going to keep shrinking.
Not saying they don't matter, nukes and resources matter, but rival is over-egging the pudding.
Joyful
8mo ago
Kindle has a time to finish chapter/book estimate setting that is usually pretty good. Other than that i read about 100 pages an hour fiction.
Joyful
8mo ago
For non-fiction I'm making my way through "Bad Therapy." The gist is that it isn't just awareness, mental health really has been declining since Gen X (as measured by teenage suicides, for example) and that a lot of the treatments and interventions we do to young people are making them more unhappy not fixing things. It is causing me to rethink a lot of my own experiences and theory of mind beliefs.
I finished "How to Invent Everything" and it was a fun rundown of technology, although I'd quibble at a whole chapter on music theory (you don't need music theory to invent music!) but the exclusion of photography was the only gap that bothered me.
For fiction this week I read the Country House Murders anthology in the hopes of discovering a new author to scratch the Agatha Christie / Dorothy Sayers itch, but not really. I'm also rushing through Clytemnestra's Bind, which reminds me of the amazing Circe* and spending time in an ancient world is always great for the brain. Also some random Tom Clancy that isn't that interesting.
*Selfishly, the author of Circe, Madeline Miller, seems to spend most of her time on her day job and not enough time writing fiction.
Joyful
8mo ago
I like stormlight archives but I feel that the writing gets worse as we go along. There must be a line between character development and pop psychology, and it feels like along the way EVERY one of the main characters has to go through multiple rounds of "processing" their "trauma". To the ridiculous extent that Kaladin actually invents group trauma therapy for soldiers with PTSD! I loved book 1 Shallan but she gets worse. Loved early Dalinar, he gets worse.
Sandersons mind is an enjoyable place to hang out but honestly his wheel of time ending was stronger than his own books.
Joyful
9mo ago
Many animations of animal art basically apply dog animations and gesticulation to other animals (not just in a furry context).
This is especially annoying in animated movies where horses act and move like dogs.
Joyful
9mo ago
1-2. 0% 3. 1$ 4-5. 0% 6. 20% 7. 5$
I don't think delivery should be a percentage. If I order from some place expensive or some place cheap, it is the drive where they make the effort, not the price of the food. I also come down to the car and they don't have to park and find me, which is in other locations worth another buck or two.
Joyful
9mo ago
Early twitter speculated it was an incompetent trans "woman" pilot that may have intentionally crashed the chopper. I've seen other sources (I like https://x.com/sentdefender) that says this is nonsense but now two of the pilots names have been released and the third is being withheld "on request of the family." Which does not soothe the twitter beast.
Joyful
10mo ago
I'd love a thread with replies for every EO to discuss, there is just too much here for us for one week.
I think doing the naming thing was stupid and I was thrilled for gender nonsense takedown.
Joyful
10mo ago
I'd consider uneducated to be highschool, normal to be bachelors, educated to mean an advanced degree
Joyful
10mo ago
i think the bigger source was just players who enjoyed grinding up to a high-ish level and then starting over. Which I can understand the appeal of!
Or they enjoyed it more than getting a real job. Definitely lots of people with a lot of free time selling their characters then and pissing off their raid by expecting to be regeared.
Joyful
10mo ago
Healing parses are different from damage though, because you get your best healing parses on the first kill or two, the other players take less damage on later kills and you are also capped by the skill, classes and quantities of the other healers around you.
<-- World top ten Disc priest on one kill one time 15 years ago in "Heroic" SOO (would be called mythic now).
Beyond some necessary amount of time to learn a game well, people just kind of get capped out on their skills and stop improving.
I definitely agree with this. And there are (were) a lot of personality hires in any raid group.
If the point is that they're making incredibly basic mistakes... yeah, the above still applies. You could look at damage logs after and see highly geared players doing things like failing to keep DoTs on targets, letting their own buffs fall off for significant chunks of fights, and other egregiously incompetent play.
This kind of analysis was my favorite thing about raid leading. Making me nostalgic (I haven't played a video game with others in 8 years).
Joyful
10mo ago
I think I first noticed it in Dawnshard, the therapist speak. I think his older work is much more balanced and not as grating in this way. (WOK still rocks, I reread 1-3 and then read Dawnshard and Rhythm of War in Nov/Dec.
Joyful
10mo ago
Wind and truth is a slog, honestly. Sanderson is spending a lot of time on modern mental health issues for every single viewpoint character. There is character building and then there is exhausting navel gazing....
Joyful
1yr ago
You can use any remote storage you want, you only pay obsidian if you use their storage. There are guides to sset it up with dropbox or google drive, for example. I choose to pay them because I want to be divesting from google.
Joyful
1yr ago
Obsidian is the platform I use*. Everything is stored locally (don't have to worry about google scanning your drive for wrongthink) and markdown files so you don't have to worry about proprietary formats. The concept you are looking for is sometimes called building a second brain (book by same name by thiago forte, but the videos should give enough of an idea) or a personal knowledge base. I have an extension that syncs my kindle clippings to my obsidian database, where I can review them, delete them, or otherwise organize them. Otherwise I just make notes for anything that occurs to me and search for it if I need to. A lot of people get more elaborate with their systems.
For quotes I've liked I have kept spreadsheets and in the past made screensavers. Currently I just make an anki flashcard which means I will be exposed to each quote more often and then less often. I haven't brought nearly as many things as I should into anki, however. I downloaded an app that can put a quote on one widget page of your phone, which sounds great but it doesn't have any way to upload new quotes in bulk so I don't actually use it anymore. I'm not going to phone keyboard retype my favorite quotes.
*In the past I used Notion, Evernote, Google Drive.
This is boo outgroup.
I'd say the loudest social media voices right now are Matt Walsh and Ben Shapiro. Who specifically do you mean are hypocrites and grifters?
Hypocrisy has always been a lazy accusation. Better to be a person who believes there should be a standard and personally fails to meet it than someone who rejects all standards.
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