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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Yeah, I can't speak to the behind-the-scenes drama, but I agree that Pierce was at his best in Season One, where he was a little bit grandiose and a little bit of a jerk but still had moments of wisdom and humanity. I always liked the talk he gave Jeff in the boating episode.

Turning him into a total buffoon villain from season 2 onwards was a change for the worse.

 

I just kind of wonder with how casually people express these thoughts. It's a little disturbing how normalized it is to entertain such notions, given how other types of fantasies are very stigmatized.

Like when discussing char.ai, acting out sexual or romantic fantasies is something a lot of people do, but it's considered embarrassing. While people freely discuss violent roleplays without any shame.

And then there's the cliche of fantasizing about killing one's boss or coworkers.

Are these really common thoughts for mentally sound people to have?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Like the Klingon dish gagh?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Taiwan had the same concern. What they did is make it so that receipts also work as lottery tickets, to encourage people to ask for them and hold on to them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah. I mean I agree that focusing on change at the systemic level is more effective than changing individual habits, but what people don't realize is that the systemic change we need is the kind that will force those individual changes.

Taxing or regulating the oil companies will help, but it will help by making energy more expensive so people are forced to make do with less.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That was my first thought too. What's this orb pondering business everyone's on about?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

What I usually love about musicals is the variety of songs and subject matters, and with the exception of the Klingon song, the songs all felt the same.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

True, the complexity argument is usually given in bad faith. But I've seen even people who advocate RCV get confused about how the rounds work and how this affects the voting strategy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Looks too big to be an aphid. Most aphid species are tiny. Ladybugs eat them whole. The largest aphid species would be barely noticeable on casual observation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Getting rid of FPTP is a priority, and I'll support just about any reasonable alternative. But I never understood why Ranked Choice was pushed over Approval.

Approval is easier to understand, which fixes the main criticism of Ranked Choice. It's also more immune to the spoiler effect.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

In addition to being in her personal space, he's also blocking her exit, which could make her feel trapped or threatened.

It's good to discuss these things openly. I sympathize with people who don't intuitively understand them, as I'm one of them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Forget Sandy Loam. I want to know more about this "silly clay."

 

I've never heard of these candidates, they have no party affiliation, and there's almost no information about them online that I can find.

Are those positions just for people who work closely with those departments to vote on?

 

A lot of times, when people discuss the phenomenon of employers ending work-from-home and try to make their employees come back to the office, people say that the motivation is to raise real estate prices.

I don't follow the logic at all. How would doing this benefit an employer in any way?

 

I'm not a parent, but going by pop culture, it seems like literally every child has the same fears.

In pre-modern times, I imagine that they'd be sleeping in the same room as the parents, but if modern notions of privacy don't permit that, seems we could at least design an enclosed capsule or something.

 

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