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280 characters was a mistake.

140 was small enough that you had to make your post a poem.

280 is long enough that you can end your mostly good point with a garbage slam against your outgroup.

I don't know what "mass formation psychosis" is, or was, but I bet that the google results for it today are all worthless, where last month you might have found something valuable.

Any American who's not an athlete or model is probably "overweight". The fat person you're thinking of is "obese".

Can't believe I somehow never saw _Aliens_ before today.

Do any teenagers read "young adult" novels, or are they now entirety reserved for college-educated women?

The best way to play the Cylon in the _Battlestar Galactica_ board game is to encourage overspending.

<We can't afford to lose this one> never sounds like a betrayal, but it guarantees future failures.

Has anyone ever done a Bayesian analysis/decision procedure for a real decision and written it out so that others can see it?

(My suspicion, here, is that what we call "Bayesian" is actually a heuristic for justifying decisions made under uncertainty, and no one calculates.)

The only valuable NFT is the house NFT, and all of the heavy lifting there is done on the conventional law side.

Normally, when I see someone with a Genshin Impact character as their avi, I know they're a certain kind of poster.

But now I'm getting ads for Genshin Impact, and it keeps confusing me.

Got a booster shot yesterday.

Feel shitty today.

Sucks.

Or is it? Once the past becomes foreign enough it becomes less politically salient, so study of it becomes more truthful again. We find it far easier to be dispassionate about Alexander's empire than Victoria's empire, to name but one of many examples.

#history #scholarship #thoughts #media #journalism

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People want to blame Pandemic problems on US politics, but most countries did comparably badly.

Unless they're an island, NPIs are garbage.

No one had general availability of vaccines early.

Who was notably better then average? How did they accomplish that?

_Avengers: Endgame_ was supposed to be the mega-crossover, but didn't include anyone from _The Defenders_.

_Spider-man: No Way Home_ had Matt Murdoch (Daredevil) cameo as Peter Parker's lawyer.

(Technically a spoiler, but very minor.)

"According to fact-checkers and legal experts, undercover agents cannot be named as unindicted coconspirators."

That is a narrowly targeted fact if I ever saw one, damn.

Tell me that without telling me that masterclass here.

Well, No. But actually Yes. But actually Go Fuck Yourself.

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