my most controversial taylor swift opinion is that there are some good songs on the fearless album

(this is also my only taylor swift opinion)

[tails voice] guys this is totally off topic, please stop

also dislike how "obesity" is always the first thing on the list of health stuff they want to solve but eh what can you do

yeah there are some citation problems in this article. the study that they cited for "Studies have also associated rough-and-tumble play with better problem-solving scores in boys" is a... meta-analysis on studies about time spent outdoors and its correlation with myopia. (which is incidentally a bit amusing to me because well we already know that)

it's a bit of a confusing one for me because as far as i could tell it's just an informative (no judgment of quality being implied here) webpage? it's a single-issue webpage reminiscent of old geocities pages, even. i was even successful in building a narrative in my head of some silly jerk genuinely joining a forum (as in, not spamming) and having their first gambit be posting that

oh no :<

i hear you. i have zero friends and i still need to use whatsapp because it's used for everything. if you don't have whatsapp you might as well use a phone without a simcard.

it's a bit ironically funny too because this place's one of the very few countries where you can actually say that the consensus is that israel is bad, i.e., you will never get into any trouble supporting palestine (good) [but also the country as a whole is kinda antisemitic about it (bad) (like, silly shit like, everything modern is "western" and everything western is the jews. your phone? jews. burgers? jews)]

i mirrored it to internet archive

i've also been liking cobalt for downloading stuff off of social media and whatnot (surprisingly not a yt-dl frontend)

you know what, don't apologize. i think i needed those two months to finally try to properly put stuff together.

like i still don't think i necessarily agree but i think i fully get the argument now

wind too big

sleepy eyes read the title as "i defeated duolingo" and.
if you actually succeeded with your phoenix wright method i think you might actually "defeat" duolingo too. so. full support

like, it kinda hurts to be told to have some grace about being misgendered (we're giving concessions for fucking what exactly) but like. for instance, even though i don't actually come across this problem (my native language doesn't have gendered pronouns, and i don't talk to people anyway), it's still really easy for me to put myself in the Struggling Cis Ally spot. genuinely i would write stories plural about trans characters and mess up their pronouns. gender's fucking stupid.

thus, i guess what i would do is to have a boilerplate response for both honest mistake mess-ups and "okay sigh we're indulging in your fantasy but urrgh" kinda mess-ups (doing mental calculus to figure out whether a person is one or the other would just be psychologically unaffordable). about this i'm reminded of sarah z's recent queerbaiting video. about how the ostensibly same kind of anger actually wrongly hurts "easy" targets more severely than the capital that subsumed it. so then, kindness towards people making honest mistakes probably goes a longer way than aggression towards an assumed bad actor.

the enlightened centrist argument would probably be not to assume anything about people. but if you do assume, i guess err towards kindness. unless it's someone you have personal grievances with, in which case they're ontologically evil

virgin hyperloop

heh, clearly should've [coughing so hard nondescript red chunks come out] clearly should've tried to made a chad hyperloop,

In 2020, it conducted its first — and only — test with human passengers. The pod only reached a top speed of 100mph,

fucking typical innit

knifs

"mr. hands" is such an unfortunate album title

mex-mex cuisine

rhyming "pu'er tea" with "poverty" is ad eminem

[pointing at u] this macrocosmic joke

a: you said that it's disingenuous for me to bring up y when talking about x. where's your explanation

b: i ate it

a: you have enacted om nominem

[heavy guitar riff] it's cold

to be fair they didn't say that it had to do real damage. an ineffectual dropkick can still be a valid dropkick

not that this was the only thing that e3 did, but the game awards kinda supplanted it as The Trailers Show, didn't it

AI is replacing programmers way, way before it's replacing artists

aren't large language models messing up codes much in the same way they mess up prose? or do you mean other types of NN.

(did you even mean that sentence to imply imminence in the first place)

nitoriff

i used to play minesweeper a lot (like, "genuinely gave myself rsi" a lot) so picross should be a great shout