I guess the synthesis could also be that you start the transformation as a calculated move where you just bite the bullet and think about what you'll gain but after years of committing, you have a sunk costs dealy where to keep sane you have to delude yourself this looks good and you like it now
Banging Corey Lewandowski is a sensational but not really helpful data point here because it could be equally used to back the "unresolved mental health issues" theory and the "cynically trying to gain influence in Trump circles" theory. So that's a wash
It's fine to be clever and subvert expectations or whatever but like if you really have confidence in the long term staying power of your little twist then just keep going and build on it, act like you've been here before, don't pause for applause oh my god
I didn't watch enough Firefly or remember what it's about so that's not why I don't like it, it's because I don't like shows where you can see the writer keep turning to look at the camera and going "pretty clever huh, I bet you didn't expect that. really blew your mind huh"
I wish things worked like in the Phoenix Wright universe where if you have enough evidence you can end up convicting someone at someone else's trial, so like during Markwayne Mullin's confirmation hearing you could end up voting to put Stephen Miller in jail
Brown?
I think it's kind of body horror vibes to do extreme surgeries on yourself (she even did her teeth I think) so that the king might give you a job. And I mean sure actors do but they go for a look with broad appeal whereas Trump suckups pick a look he specifically likes which isn't reusable elsewhere
A lot of people say it's dysmorphia and maybe, you can never read a person's mind. But even if you can't be sure of any individual, it happens so often that statistically some of the transformations must be to conform to the preferences of Republican men for career reasons which is somehow creepier
Huh, so after years of hearing people pronounce Target like Tar-jey as an ironic joke to make the store sound fancy, I guess that was actually a real French name. Despite his name he safely survived being a public figure during the French Revolution en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gui-Jea...
get the high speed cameras out, we're going to want this in slow motion like Ralph Wiggum's heart breaking
I feel like a lot of people pride themselves in being "skeptical" but it only about things they disagree with, like "oh the LLM lies about everything" but then once they "trick" it into saying "I'm programmed to support the tech bros and destroy democracy" they're like "AHA it's revealed everything"
I think in one sense this was a way to get people motivated and excited about praying which is usually a pretty boring chore. But then it has the side effect of making people kind of disconnected from reality when thinking about or interacting with other people with possible extreme results
I guess basically like Jojo stands
In the books the angel and demon would actually fight if the Christian and liberal college professor or whatever were having a debate and if people prayed it would boost the angel and weaken the demon. Again this was presented as kind of figurative but also basically what was really happening
When I was a teen a really popular Christian fiction series (This Present Darkness) was based on the premise every Christian has an invisible angel and every non Christian has a demon following them around prompting them to do things that was presented as kind of exaggerated but also kind of real
If you're in the game industry and use LinkedIn, please do me a favor and share my post about Sentona Games screwing me out of money I'm owed. Thank you
Oh thanks for this, I feel better about my gut hunch that "wait there's two separate types of engine in this car? that feels like it will be inefficient" (ended up with an ioniq 5)
people keep reposting this screenshot which you can see is also from Claude which is like what's the point what are you trying to do here
Anyway which of the other candidates should I pick. At this point I'm only familiar with Aisha Wahab who I think I like
I think I would get in trouble if I said
I think a lot of people that belittle people having meltdowns after being yelled at en masse online overestimate their ability to not do the same in the exact same circumstances. Like I also belittle meltdowners but my smugness comes from knowing I won't get famous enough to be in that situation
Oh hmm an election where it does matter what I personally think
I would say that not only is the cybertruck not really in the spirit of electric cars but it's actively antagonistic to other electric cars
He didn't scam me, he fully paid the company I was there on behalf of. He was clearly scamming whichever relative he had inherited the money from or was getting an allowance from (he had a Hummer, gold plated furniture, personal chef, etc)
I had a gig to fly to Washington DC to teach a Nigerian prince (no they don't have a monarchy, it's not a political position it's some kind of local title) how to use a VFX software but he tapped out after 5 minutes of intro to Linux command line basics (cd, ls, etc) before opening the program
Anyway looking at it from the perspective of people with a lot of chest hair, I would imagine that modern aesthetic standards of the past few decades have been pretty rough on them, for no really good reason
Oh, I have been hearing about this guy for years and this is the first time I've seen him. No comment on his campaign but art lessons always teach you to start drawing a face by drawing a line halfway between the top and bottom of the head and they say that's where you put the eyes. Not always huh
Just to be transparent about my stance, I guess, just as a personal preference, and nothing against the fine people of much chest hair, I am in the quadrant of no steroids, minimal chest hair
People keep posting the Hugh Jackman old/new Wolverine picture about how movie standards have changed for how much muscle definition a guy has to have, and how most people find the old one more attractive, but I don't see much discourse about how much chest hair it used to be cool to have
Just one of those days when you get really frustrated and even though you know it's not everybody you just want to say, can't anybody ever just talk without arguing
