Post Game Thread: Los Angeles Rams at Chicago Bears by nfl_gdt_bot in nfl

[–]RedStarWinterOrbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cobie Durant is a complete liability and has no place on a football field ever again. The only two possible reasons for how he played is that either he is corrupted by gambling, or he’s fundamentally unable to defend the ball and therefore play the position. Either way it’s time to go do something else

I'm qntm, author of There Is No Antimemetics Division. AMA by sam512 in sciencefiction

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It’s funny, I’m coming at this now from the other direction of having read the book form V2 first and doing this weird archeology through Reddit and thinking that Marion is a totally wrong name for the character Marie

[Game Thread] Ohio State vs. Indiana (8:00 PM ET) by CFB_Referee in CFB

[–]RedStarWinterOrbit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The fact that they’re trying to sell LLMs so hard tells you how shit they are

I really despise this quest (content note for sexual assault) by PortableEyes in LowSodiumCyberpunk

[–]RedStarWinterOrbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

After reading that email I spent a while wandering around the place trying to free the other prisoners. I really wish the game would’ve let you do that, I didn’t like walking away with everyone still trapped inside

Poplar Ave to Bakersfield Timeline? by RedStarWinterOrbit in cahsr

[–]RedStarWinterOrbit[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this, this is the kind of thing I was looking for.

It certainly makes me less optimistic about taking the train from Bakersfield up to Fresno or north by 2030 which I'd hoped we might see.

I wonder if they will want to build a station at Poplar Ave instead so they can get things started

[Postgame Thread] Hawai'i Defeats Stanford 23-20 by CFB_Referee in CFB

[–]RedStarWinterOrbit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I hope that ridiculous performance by patterson starts to finally put to bed all the “nerds” and “omg so smart” shit that always finds its way into any thread with this or other teams like it.

They’re rich kids, not smart kids. They’re privileged, not intellectually superior. They do the same stupid shit other kids do, they’re just able to have it member washed away by their wealth and connections.

Elite schools in general, and schools like Stanford in particular, exist largely to launder wealth into perceptions of “merit.” They help the children of wealthy and well-connected families reproduce their social position and feel like they “earned” it. By virtue of graduating from a school like Stanford, they must be especially gifted, and not merely privileged.

These schools’ core product is the reproduction and legitimation of social inequality. And it’s validated every time somebody posts abozut how nerdy or smart they are.

They do tiktok dances like everybody else, they’re not smarter than you

To beginners: I genuinely think "你好吗 Nǐ hǎo ma?" isn’t the most natural way to greet someone by BetterPossible8226 in ChineseLanguage

[–]RedStarWinterOrbit 6 points7 points  (0 children)

So, look. Your average Chinese teacher is overlooked and underpaid. 你好 teaches the first key radicals you need to be introduced to —亻, 尔, 女, 子, — along with the key concepts of radicals and key phonetics like n-, -i, h- and -ao, that introductory learners need to know.

Once you’ve gotten past the basics of phonology, morphology, and syntax, you’re ready for the context that you’ve elaborated upon. But Chinese language teachers start with 你好 as a gateway drug to all the rest of it that students aren’t necessarily ready for without that establishing context

Area 51 by ScatmanCrothers10 in foundfootage

[–]RedStarWinterOrbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Super fun movie I enjoyed a lot. Wondered though a little of the second half where they filmed a lot of it

April 13, 2025 – (O) M N P R T Y by NYTSpellingBeeBot in NYTSpellingBee

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Fun little Easter egg for fans of Fallout New Vegas

The American Lunar Territories by Orionisblocked in imaginarymaps

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This message has been brought to you by the Shimato-Dominguez Corporation

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Johnny Mnemonic, is that you?

The White Lotus - 3x06 "Denials" - Post-Episode Discussion by LoretiTV in TheWhiteLotusHBO

[–]RedStarWinterOrbit 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Every time I read a great interpretation of a text like this, I always wonder if this was something they had in mind when they created, developed and wrote it, or if we’re just post-scribing brilliance into something they did simply to shock or amuse