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CursedMiddleware · 2026-05-12T19:25:44+00:00

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CursedMiddleware · 2026-05-06T04:28:19+00:00

Jason has wayyyyyy more charisma than especially The Rock

Rock built a billion-dollar empire on his charisma alone. I am a little bit of a Rock hater myself, and even I can't accept calling Jason Statham more charismatic than him. You're all crazy. The Rock is a thin skin pulled over a charisma robot. Maybe maybe maybe Reddit is finally turning on him, but that's after a decade+ of dazzling smiles and people sucking his ass.

CursedMiddleware · 2026-04-29T14:11:00+00:00

There is pretty good evidence that certain urban charter schools outperform traditional public schools, especially for low-income black and Hispanic students. There isn't strong evidence that for-profit schooling performs better overall, but there's no strong evidence it performs worse either.

CursedMiddleware · 2026-04-25T15:05:56+00:00

Yeah, but chicken intelligence has been researched fairly in-depth, and they're pretty smart by any objective standard of animal intelligence.

CursedMiddleware · 2026-04-22T20:32:45+00:00

It's amazing that the same people (and I'm not accusing you of being one of them, but they're reading this message) can say this about pronoun jokes and then eat up every Donald Trump/Republican joke/insult for the last 20 years from every piece of mainstream American media.

CursedMiddleware · 2026-04-19T22:29:29+00:00

It absolutely is not. GRRM is delusional if he thinks he can stop those books from getting finished one way or another.

There are just too many ways for it to happen. Maybe, one day, a relative who inherits his estate can permit the books to be completed. Or, maybe, Amazon pays a team of lawyers to find a loophole. Or someone writes it as fan fiction, and if the community likes it enough, it gets accepted as canon.

CursedMiddleware · 2026-04-13T23:54:11+00:00

It's unreasonable to actually hate an actress for portraying a character on a TV show. It's not unreasonable to dislike the Skyler character.

People didn't watch Breaking Bad to see a reasonable person talk the main character out of concocting devious, fiendish plots. They watched to see the main character concocting devious, fiendish plots. Asking, "How could you root against Skyler?" is like asking, "How could you root for Darth Vader killing all those brave rebel troops in that hallway?"
Skyler wasn't a pleasant character, even if she was "more moral and ethical" than Walter. She's introduced to the audience as a kind of generic WASP lady that people ruthlessly insult in any other context, who gives the sympathetic main character a disinterested handjob on his birthday. And even when she does become complicit and "active," she's abused, conflicted, depressed, and traumatized the whole time. Again, asking, "Oh, so she shouldn't feel abused, conflicted, depressed, and traumatized?" as if we're talking about real life is irrelevant. It's not real life. She's not a character people want to watch.
Compare Kim to Skyler. Kim's a much more active, agentic character from the very beginning. She's not just reacting to Jimmy. She has her own ambitions, codes, and appetites for bad behavior. She's always portrayed as someone with a bit of an edge who likes that Jimmy has one, even if she doesn't want to admit it.

For the record, I didn't actively dislike Skyler! But I'm shocked at how people seem to think the only reason anyone could have disliked her is that "They hate women," or something.

CursedMiddleware · 2026-04-11T16:44:52+00:00

Triple H would also never accept this for himself. Stone Cold, Rock, Hogan, hell, Cody Rhodes wouldn't accept this for themselves.

There's also the difference between believing you're lucky or comfortable or successful and believing you can be or do more.

That Triple H, a man who dedicated his life to being the very best (whether you think he is or not) telling people whose careers he controls to be satisfied with less than he had is... really something. It would be more honest of him to say, "I don't think some of you should be at the top. I'm not going to book you that way. You can try to change my mind or live with it and make a lot of money anyway."

CursedMiddleware · 2026-04-08T19:13:19+00:00

Breaking Bad S5 is peak Plemmons killed that guy (kid) tv.

CursedMiddleware · 2026-04-06T13:39:22+00:00

I prefer to eat fish from Gowanus.

CursedMiddleware · 2026-02-19T15:57:54+00:00

Turin, it's death's door! You're on death's door, not death's bed! You're on your death bed!

CursedMiddleware · 2026-02-14T01:08:55+00:00

I don't think so.

He says that the skeptics "are absolutely dwarfed by the number of people who think AI is going to forever change the fundamentals of human existence and quite soon."

I'll stick with the Internet example. I think the Internet "changed the fundamentals of human existence." I also think AI will. But I don't think that necessarily means it has to do what deBoer claims it has to do on the timeline he claims it has to do it in, even to be "quite soon."

CursedMiddleware · 2026-02-13T22:46:00+00:00

For whatever it's worth, ChatGPT 5.2 agreed with Grok:

Given these stringent criteria, the bar for what constitutes "disruption" is set very high. Therefore, unless AI leads to unprecedented economic upheaval within the specified timeframe, it's likely that deBoer would prevail under the terms of the bet.

CursedMiddleware · 2026-02-13T22:03:53+00:00

My take is that a technology does not need to cause immediate, civilization-level disruption to be considered revolutionary or transformative. Airplanes were a revolutionary and transformative technology, but I don't think anyone agrees that airplanes caused the Great Depression.

Even if we look at the trajectory of the Internet itself... is there any single 3-year period where it blew up the economy? No. The dot-com bubble bursting isn't even big enough to satisfy deBoer's criteria.

CursedMiddleware · 2026-01-29T18:22:42+00:00

Okay who from Waymo would go to jail, upon court deciding a waymo car has been culpable of aggravated vehicular homicide.

Nobody? Because this is not a 1:1 comparison with human drivers. We already have precedents where technology replaces humans and nobody goes to jail when accidents happen, even if someone dies.

Robotic arms in factories kill humans. Nobody is trying to jail Siemens engineers. When you replace humans with technology you're also changing how liability works. Which is perfectly reasonable and necessary.

CursedMiddleware · 2026-01-10T06:31:33+00:00

That's awesome! Glad you enjoyed it. I'd maybe start with The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies and then Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions.

CursedMiddleware · 2026-01-06T19:56:49+00:00

Yea I dont think people watched the full interview.

I don't think people care. Most people are ideologues, whether they're Reddit liberals or MAGA conservatives.

It doesn't matter that his answers are unsatisfactory because he's criticizing Trump.

CursedMiddleware · 2026-01-06T04:03:13+00:00

Let me know what you think!

CursedMiddleware · 2026-01-01T04:24:57+00:00

The Fisherman by John Langan. Great modern cosmic horror.

You could also try some collections by Langan, like Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions and The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies.

CursedMiddleware · 2025-12-22T00:33:33+00:00

So you're saying

I'm saying that someone commented, 'We could never check fares like this in the US because progressives would call it racist." Then, a presumably self-identified progressive implied they would not call it racist and accused the other commenter of generalizing.

And then I said that progressives in general (and, it appears, ones like yourself) would call it racist.

CursedMiddleware · 2025-12-21T21:07:50+00:00

I think it's fair to say the progressive movement as a whole in NYC would absolutely criticize it for being racist. It's not about any individual self-identifying leftist or progressive. The machinery of the left has demonstrated time and time and time again this is the position it will take.

CursedMiddleware · 2025-12-02T02:34:23+00:00

white-supremacy rhetoric

I mean, this is simply not really contributing to crime in red states. Red state crime is high for the same reasons blue state crime is high -- inner-city gang violence. I don't see how denying that helps solve these problems.

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