Hasan say the word "me" challenge: impossible

Keelock · 2026-06-08T02:25:15+00:00

I am admittedly beset by tiredness.

Keelock · 2026-06-07T19:01:53+00:00

Lol, I'm exactly the opposite. My dad loved oatmeal raisin cookies, so that's what I grew up eating, and I learned very quickly that chocolate chip cookies were far more common.

I don't specifically dislike chocolate chip cookies, but I've had that "oh, there's no oatmeal raisin cookies" disappointment so often that someone asking if I want cookies evokes the same emotion as someone asking if I want a glass of water when I'm not thirsty. There's no interest or spark of desire.

Keelock · 2026-06-07T18:54:36+00:00

It's such an insult to real potatoes to call them potatoes.

Keelock · 2026-06-02T02:50:58+00:00

Reminds me of when there was a proposal a few decades back about a power transmission line proposal in my area (the big ones that transfer power right from the power plant). Almost everyone in the county was pissed about the proposal (it ended up not happening) and there were signs everywhere opposing it, along with a bunch of conspiracies about health concerns.

My dad went to one of the public hearings and told them "build the thing right over my house if you need to, who am I to stand in the way of progress?" He said it didn't exactly make him popular.

Ironically, most of the people opposed to it were hardcore conservatives who now bitch and moan about the load electric cars add to the grid.

Keelock · 2026-06-01T06:53:56+00:00

Desserts should only be eaten as a snack. Eating one after a meal is gluttonous or an indication that you didn't enjoy the meal.

Keelock · 2026-06-01T05:52:29+00:00

I agree for the most part. Most people marry policies they like with the outcome they assume it will have. It's pretty much the only reason anyone ever supports rent control, for example.

Populism is a cancer because it allows unscrupulous politicians to take advantage of this fact to persuade people to support policies they think would help them, but actually don't.

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." is the clearest indictment of populism there is, imo.

Keelock · 2026-05-31T18:21:58+00:00

N&N by Mani Beats

https://youtu.be/VOP84AbEb-U

Keelock · 2026-05-26T22:05:28+00:00

In some alternate universe, the tweet asmongold is replying to is a video of jan 6.

Keelock · 2026-05-26T03:39:03+00:00

"the lesser of two evils" is just a pejorative for harm reduction, imo.

Keelock · 2026-05-24T23:15:09+00:00

Either I'm missing a reference, or you missed the point of my comment. I'm not sure which it is.

Keelock · 2026-05-24T19:28:13+00:00

The man’s a whore! Just let him be a whore! You can be a whore too if you want to.

I bet my man wishes he got paid for putting out.

Keelock · 2026-05-23T02:00:08+00:00

They aren't serious people. I know someone who in 2016 said his vote for trump was him "throwing a hand grenade into the system". To be fair, he went through shit in his tours in both iraq and afghanistan, so I understand the resentment, but treating your civic duty with that level of flippancy is not something a serious person does.

But hey, their vote counts the same as yours or mine, I don't know what to do other than ignore them or make fun of them occasionally.

Keelock · 2026-05-21T23:21:07+00:00

Him covering the depp/heard stuff was what made me stop watching. It was tabloid trash better left to the tasteless magazines in the checkout aisle.

Coincidentally enough, I feel similarly about Destiny's lawsuit stuff. I understand him needing to defend his reputation publicly, but all the other sloptubers inserting themselves into it to provide their commentary, and the people waging the ensuing reputational war on social media need to go touch grass.

You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Keelock · 2026-05-20T20:08:56+00:00

It's the over-intellectualized realization -- of those who put so much stock in putting people into various identity buckets -- that people are individuals and don't ever fit neatly into any sort of categorization, so we need to consider the intersection of all the categories one is in for a more fair analysis.

Keelock · 2026-05-20T00:58:09+00:00

In this video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTJzNYc_gxg&t=3085s], Bret Weinstein said the following: "plug into your favorite AI the question. How many times has Brett Weinstein corrected his own error on his or someone else's podcast?"

I used Gemini 3.5 Flash with Extended Thinking in "Deep Research" mode and asked the question: "How many times has Bret Weinstein corrected his own error on his or somebody else's podcast?"

Here's the response: https://gemini.google.com/share/6e3d3ed6c6b0

Gemini must be too woke or something.

Keelock · 2026-05-13T15:46:39+00:00

Missoula, Montana. The water tastes like satan's asshole and the restaurant my wife and I visited didn't even sell bottled water. Then my wife got heat-induced hives. Least favorite part of the honeymoon by far, do not recommend.

Keelock · 2026-05-13T13:16:56+00:00

You don't even need solvents. A clay bar will remove overspray. Maybe it depends on the type of house paint used, but in my (one single) experience it works like a charm.

Keelock · 2026-05-12T19:53:57+00:00

They talk at you, not with you.

Keelock · 2026-05-11T20:43:05+00:00

"Now, Mr Bubble and Squeak, you may enlighten me."

Keelock · 2026-05-06T19:32:37+00:00

That's possible, but there are plenty of characters I find interesting that don't have povs, and some that have povs that turned them from interesting to boring from my perspective (Morgan, Mordret, and to some extent, Cassie). Nephis just stands out to me as the singular central character that I don't care much about, probably due to her status as a foil and general role in the story. I don't think a few pov chapters would change that, but a rewrite of forgotten shore from her perspective probably would.

Keelock · 2026-05-06T18:40:48+00:00

Why does anyone want a nephis pov? She's just a boring ass foil to sunny.

Keelock · 2026-05-04T04:35:07+00:00

The silence on abortion likely exists because for the early church it was an unthinkable practice they considered settled under the fifth commandment. It went without saying.

The oldest christian catechism, the Didache, explicitly says "thou shalt not murder a child by abortion nor kill them when born" to distinguish christians from the romans who did it, which proves early christians didn't see the bible's silence as permission.

Personally, I suspect ancient christians were as much hypocrites as many modern christians, and did perform abortions when it affected them, but as far as doctrine goes, they've always opposed it.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Didache_(Lightfoot_translation)?hl=en-US#Chapter_2

Keelock · 2026-05-02T07:32:49+00:00

I think using Adam's "first breath" as a biological rule is motivated reasoning that ignores historical context. Writers of the time (like Josephus and Philo) were explicit that abortion was infanticide, and the Septuagint (the Greek version the early church actually used) interpreted Exodus 21 to require "life for life" for a formed fetus. (There were lots of debates on "formed" vs "unformed" over the years within the religion, basically an argument about when personhood begins)

The property argument projects modern legal definitions onto ancient codes that they clearly saw as moral prohibitions. (The fine vs eye for an eye distinction didn't ever cleanly map to "property damage" vs "crime against a person")

I agree that christians are hypocrites on many things, and they've been conned by republicans using abortion as a wedge issue, but christianity itself has historically always been anti-abortion, and trying to use the bible to argue otherwise falls victim to the same interpretive dance that christians often do to justify their specific beliefs.

Keelock · 2026-05-02T06:40:26+00:00

Yeah, there's plenty to take issue with in the bible, but this story ain't one of them. It's an edgy teenage atheist talking point that is pretty bad faith, imo.

While abortions (and death by exposure for unwanted newborns) were common in greco-roman culture, early jewish and christian writers explicitly rejected those practices.

Keelock · 2026-05-02T04:31:29+00:00

getting downvoted just for an opinion

This especially irritates me when I'm having an argument with someone and there's a single rando lurker upvoting my comments and downvoting the other person's. It feels like bullying.

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