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We interrupt our usual programming to inform you that I was never hired by Facebook to do a hit job on Jonathan Haidt.
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Motherfucker you can go look at the usenet archives and find nerds shittalking episode 1 in 1999.
This idea that disdain for the prequels is some kind of modern revisionist op spearheaded by RLM is conspiratard-tier.
Like half my friends call FDR a wartime dictator and the source of many of the problems in modern American governance
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If you look at the price breakdown between ebook and physical, then it's basically 3-4x the price for physical. This doesn't explain the entire revenue gap but it does explain a big portion of it.
"bookselling was in a panic about the Kindle...Today, the e-reader market has plateaued at some 10% of traditional publishers’ revenue, while about 75% comes from paper books, a technology essentially unchanged since the nineteenth century" newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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The NBA is formally stepping into the prediction markets ecosystem.
The league announced agreements Monday morning with Kalshi and Polymarket that will allow the companies to use official league data and intellectual property and give the league control over what trades the companies are allowed to offer.
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When I was five, I wanted the same thing for dinner every night - mac and cheese with sliced up hot dogs and peas.
Like even if your kids demand variation, they probably can't even remember what they ate last week. You can just trick them.
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People think Y2K was no big deal specifically because we moved mountains to fix it so nothing bad ended up happening. This is illustrative of much of disaster planning.
When you run the numbers, Y2K was about 10 times worse than 9/11.
Solving it cost an absurdly large amount of skilled labor; the equivalent of a single engineer working on it for about 2 million years. The economic cost is about ⅓ of a trillion dollars in today's money. Converted into lives that's about 30,000 lives lost.
It seems like it was a nothingburger, but that's an illusion caused by people's scope insensitivity.
Penalizing people who predicted that Y2K would be a big deal is midwit behavior.
People are mad about this because they see it as the OP being snooty and dismissive of graphic novels. But if you're in the 8th grade and reading at a 5th grade reading level, your ass needs to be reading straight prose until that's fixed.
If you don't see the problem with Anakin having an extremely inappropriate relationship with a politician in spite of the jedi order's institutional commitment to political neutrality, then it's no wonder why every gen Z staffer these days is knee deep in scandal.
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Plato: “heheh I will write two books on politics—one to throw off naive & inexperienced youths and another serious one for the experienced & mature. delightfully devilish, Plato”
Aristotle: “If you’re young and hοrny this book ain’t for you so scram kid. I ain’t playin around”
Ummm, if you can't distinguish between an ordinary personal attack and "haha u got raped" then I don't really know what to say, Zaid
People think this dude is being mean but I think he only wants to go after girls in relationships. A professional homewrecker.
It's Doraemon dude. It's a show about a retarded blue cat from the future made for preschool children.
People in the west literally are incapable of understanding the recurring, central conflict in Doraemon: a kid not doing well in school is something to feel ashamed about.
Because they fundamentally do not value academic success in children, more than half of Doraemon's plot make 0 cultural sense, making it entirely incomprehensible to them.
