I mentioned Zohran to my aging mother (who lives in a suburb, and cannot vote in NYC elections). She was like, "You didn't vote for him did you? He's a communist"
We decided not to go into details right then, but it's wild what a deep, emotional, response the idea of "communism" evokes. I don't know what she even thinks it is.
He's spiteful and stupid.
At family gatherings for holidays and birthdays inevitably someone would bop a balloon around, and this game would naturally emerge. Perhaps my family were secretly scientists.
If republicans were smart or had a working soul, they wouldn't be republicans.
Well, yeah. YouTube is a trash platform and pre-recorded video is a dubious medium for teaching.
The platform is trash because the incentives are not aligned with noble goals like "teach people things" or "spread the truth". It's "Get engagement" and "get ad impressions". They also don't moderate it much, so there's a ton of slop and lies.
Video is passive. it's easy to space out or just let it go in one ear and out the other. Most people learn in other ways. An actual lecture can have some back and forth, and a good teacher can engage a class. Books require more concentration. Doing exercises of some sort also force you to practice, and retain it. You could maybe do okay with video if you took notes (by hand I'm told is better), or otherwise engaged with the material in an active manner.
Also, dozens of videos a day? Go do something else. Read a book. Exercise. Play chess. Write something. Sign up for a class and attend. That's so much passive intake you're going to turn into a potato.
Well, technically there's Vampire: The Requiem. It's very similar, but not in the exact same universe. Some of the names are reused, but there's no canon metaplot, and many details are changed. I personally liked it a lot, but I think it's less popular than Masquerade.
If you want to roll your own setting, I bet there are generic systems that would work. Fate is my go-to, and I can see how it would work. (Probably a stress track for hunger, some consequence boxes for becoming a monster)
try to talk them out of the idea of “Leveling” they get scared and run back to the system they’re familiar with.
I still think about the time in college I tried to get a D&D friend to consider Mage. I was telling him about how you can just do magic, and the real limitation is paradox and hubris. Like, it's often not about 'can you?' but rather "should you?"
He couldn't get over "you can just cast whatever you want? Fireballs every turn?"
"Yes, but that's probably going to make a lot of paradox, and probably isn't the best way to solve your problem"
"Sounds broken," he said, and lost interest.
I wish they continued to follow them in a different show
"Middle Decks" ?
I think it's kind of a cold start, bootstrap, problem. I don't want to pay for journalism when I don't have faith it'll be good, but since no one's paying for it it's not good
I started using recently. No complaints.
Does anyone know what you can put for the "suggestions API url" in Firefox? It's optional so I left it blank.
Well, for one, they know they're lying but they don't care. It's a tactical advantage for them to lie because a lot of people aren't going to know.
If you're pretty smart, imagine being drunk. All the time. Just moderately sloshed. That's what I think it's like for an average , kind of stupid , person. Poor memory, surges of emotions, incoherent thought. And they can't ever sober up.
If they were smart, they would realize conservatism's solutions (eg: hurt the queers, blacks, etc) won't actually solve their problems.