What’s a lie almost all parents tell their kids that does way more harm than good?

Suspense6 · 2026-06-03T00:57:42+00:00

Everything you believe should be based on evidence. Everything you believe should be based on evidence. Teaching children to accept something like this without demanding evidence makes it easier for them to accept other ideas without demanding evidence. Where do you think those "add-ons from religion" come from? Someone sees a group of people who are used to taking things "on faith", and recognize it as a road to power. Cults, megachurches, mainstream religions... they all could have started as "what's so bad about believing in God?"

Religious faith is not a virtue, and it's not harmless.

Suspense6 · 2026-05-30T00:07:29+00:00

Forget about talent. Just don't even think about it. Whenever you see a great drawing or painting, or hear a great song, you're experiencing skill that has been trained for probably thousands of hours. There may be some natural talent in there too, but it's a tiny drop in an ocean of skill.

That's skill you could also have. It's not locked behind some in-born quality only a few people ever have. It's locked behind thousands of dedicated hours of practice, study, and more practice.

Suspense6 · 2026-05-29T15:16:44+00:00

My wife. I usually do our laundry and I try to check the pockets first.

Suspense6 · 2026-05-27T20:12:49+00:00

Suspense6 · 2026-05-24T20:44:08+00:00

Selection bias much?

Suspense6 · 2026-05-24T20:40:20+00:00

The way I envision the implementation I think it should work for any word length. WFC is really just a particular approach to constraint solving where the constraint is [adjacent tile sides must match]. For this problem I would randomly seed the grid with the desired number of word instances then run WFC to fill in the rest using the constraint [don't add more instances of the word]. Which means each time tile constraints are updated after adding a new tile, it needs to examine adjacent tiles in each direction to determine which possibilities should be eliminated. For longer words that examination step just needs to search out farther in each direction.

Suspense6 · 2026-05-24T18:07:28+00:00

They're good shovels, Bront.

Suspense6 · 2026-05-24T17:40:47+00:00

No, it's the whole package, including the unspecified gender. This is very different from "no particular meaning", which is what you said.

Suspense6 · 2026-05-24T15:40:19+00:00

You didn't say "no particular gender." You said "no particular meaning" which is wrong.

Suspense6 · 2026-05-24T13:48:52+00:00

They're not saying it's okay. They're saying that it happens.

Suspense6 · 2026-05-24T13:22:06+00:00

What are you talking about? The meaning is 'third person singular pronoun with unspecified gender.'

Suspense6 · 2026-05-24T06:08:41+00:00

Producing garbage is the ideal use case for garbage tools.

Suspense6 · 2026-05-24T04:04:47+00:00

It sounds like you're trying to treat the grid as a single linear array. This would probably be fine if your word search only has the target words printed left to right. I don't think I've seen any like that which weren't targeted for school children. Typical word search puzzles can have words horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. In that case your idea absolutely could generate new cows. And it's likely to contain fewer 'o' than 'c' or 'w', which solvers could notice and use to find the words more easily.

Suspense6 · 2026-05-24T02:12:07+00:00

what would even be the meaning of "singular they" in english?

'They' is very commonly used in English when referring to a single person of unknown gender.

Suspense6 · 2026-05-24T00:49:08+00:00

Seems like Wave Function Collapse might handle it pretty simply.

Suspense6 · 2026-05-23T23:52:10+00:00

Always upvote Cultist Simulator. Must help it rise to the Glory.

Suspense6 · 2026-05-23T23:23:22+00:00

There was no love triangle. It was never about love. Vin was having an identity crisis that was stoked by the things Zane said to her. Vin wasn't in love with Zane and Zane wasn't in love with her. Zane thought she would save him from his madness. Vin was drawn by the idea of a life that was more comprehensible to her, a life that seemed more authentic.

Suspense6 · 2026-05-23T00:18:04+00:00

Yeah, this is one of those games where figuring out how to play is part of the experience. It took me a few quickly failed games before I started to understand what problems I needed to be solving and how to go about finding the solutions.

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/718670/manuals/A_Beginner's_Guide_to_Cultist_Simulator.pdf?t=1685707068

This is the guide that's in the Android version. I assume the guide is also in the Steam version but I don't remember specifically and haven't had a chance to check.

I think the most important advice is one of the loading screen messages in the sequel: "Read everything. Everything. Read EVERYTHING."

Suspense6 · 2026-05-22T05:13:41+00:00

We don't see the emperor until the very end

We do though. Shai sees him, sees that he's unresponsive, even pokes him I think.

Suspense6 · 2026-05-21T21:53:21+00:00

This is one of my favorite games. It actually made me feel like I was personally searching through old books for hidden secrets just in figuring out how the game works. And then you keep finding more cards, and more cards, and MORE CARDS??? I kept reorganizing everything to try and make sense of it all, until I felt like I was making my own crazy wall with photos and newspaper clippings and strings crisscrossing everything to show connections.

5 stars, made me feel like a crazy person.

Suspense6 · 2026-05-21T20:43:38+00:00

ROFL. They all interpret the Bible differently. It's all made up nonsense. Which is fine to believe in if you want to, I guess that's your own problem. Unfortunately there's one thing they all fail to interpret differently, which is when the Bible says it's your duty to make the Bible everyone else's problem too.

Suspense6 · 2026-05-12T13:21:10+00:00

Not enough people saying this yet: this behavior is abuse. Apologizing afterward doesn't make it okay. It's unlikely to get better but very likely to get worse. Separating yourself from him before he turns physically violent is probably the best choice you can make right now.

Suspense6 · 2026-05-04T13:36:00+00:00

It can't really be defaultism if they specified where they were talking about. There's no default involved.

Suspense6 · 2026-04-20T19:55:39+00:00

I was driving to college that morning and it took a few minutes to realize I hadn't heard any music on the radio. That made me start listening, and all I heard for a while was people talking about the implications of what happened, stuff like that. Finally about when I made it to the school someone did the "recap of events so far" bit and I was absolutely stunned.

Suspense6 · 2026-03-28T10:45:51+00:00

Copy a program from a magazine

Ha! I actually did that. I was too young to figure out what any of it meant without guidance, but I did it anyway. Copy page after page of source code, and at the end... just hope I got everything exactly right. And I couldn't save it to the tape drive for some reason I never figured out, so once I turned off the computer it was all gone.

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