shitposting mathematician

The corollary of needing to be willing to frame arguments in terms of moral precepts you don't necessarily share is needing to be aware of subtext. Yes, it's easy to get a certain stripe of hyper-conservative folks to agree with anything you please by framing it in terms of opposition to Big Government, but a large part of that is because when you say "Big Government", what they hear is "Jews". You didn't hack their brain with magic words, you just didn't realise what you were saying!

proposal to replace the common usage of "chud" with "chump" so as to not throw around a word that means facist... it is better to have a chump son than a chud son but it still conveys the fact that he is a loser and you don't like him very much

like if you're looking for a word with a similar mouthfeel and loserly connotations you can slot into place where you or others have been using chud in a playful manner i think chump is just the ticket. fuck my chimp life okay my typo has spawned a beautiful new opportunity what is a chimp life and why wouldn't someone like to have one

Editing an RPG is the kind of thing where you can suddenly realize you have to use "median height" instead of "average height" because of a handful of multi-AU outliers.

my most controversial opinion is that 2010s straight men white knight feminism that veered towards Strong Female Characters in games and shows and discounted girl characters with more traditional girlish cute traits was partially fueled by those men being a little embarrassed by those traits, the same way you'd be called "gay" if you liked pink stuff

I think a lot about this one twitter post where someone, lacking a few crucial pieces of information, says "you know jesus wasn't real" (not really the popular stance among non-religious scholars these days, but fair enough) "and neither was muhammad" (the degree of historical attestation here is a bit different)

the first point's buy-in is that multiple accounts fabricate the presence of a preacher, the second point's buy-in is that the entire arabian peninsula woke up one fine morning and decided it was conquered

The real reason some of y'all have trouble figuring out what a precision puzzle platformer is is that, checklists of tropes notwithstanding, the real definition is "games which are in creative dialogue with Maddy Thorson's Jumper (2004)", and none of you have played Jumper.

watching various attempts at making LLMs secure is cute. it's like we're rediscovering using regex to parse html all over again.

[the most low energy you have ever seen me] we’re about to go crazy mode

Problematic rage gap. The relationship is bad because one of them is prone to flying into a disconsolate fury. (confidently) If they were both prone to flying into a fury it would be okay.

Our age of strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is collapsing

in collapsing age civilization, nobody jumps for the bronze

settings > wound > my wound > reopen

shout out to the customs agent who had to handle my autistic ass. i'm pretty sure the "are you carrying more than $900 AUD in goods" line is about stuff that you're like. importing to sell. but there's nowhere on the form that says that so every single time i've come into the country i've been like "well there's my laptop, and my various consumer electronics, and my suitcase has ~10 shirts and ~4 pairs of pants and that's probably like $450 on its own from how fucking expensive that shit is" and they just look at me the way i imagine an anthropomorphic firewall handles a denial of service attack

i assume "illegal pornography" means stuff like snuff films and child abuse but i'm pretty sure i've got some pre-1981 depictions of homosexuality around somewhere