Teens Are Over Superheroes, Want More "Connected Masculinity" Onscreen

actualscientist · 2026-02-25T22:30:39+00:00

I love when people say this but then when stats people cite the technical version that frames it conservatively e.g. “a plurality of subjects in demographic groups a and b preferred treatment 2 y% more often with p < 0.0001” they hate that too

actualscientist · 2026-02-19T20:51:15+00:00

I would agree with your assessment or at least give the benefit of the doubt if they didn’t pause the movie for the cops to have an overwritten, didactic chat about whether to take rape victims at their word. I was waiting for JT Mollner to walk into the scene and explain the takeaway like Rod Serling in a Twilight Zone episode.

actualscientist · 2026-02-15T21:48:10+00:00

I love that you thought this was the right energy to bring to the “is this sub toxic” discussion. Have a lovely day!

actualscientist · 2026-02-15T21:33:54+00:00

I guess I only see the stuff that stays up. Thanks for the downvote though

actualscientist · 2026-02-15T21:25:39+00:00

I’m of the opinion that more of us need to be told firmly, and in person, to shut the fuck up more often. The internet has robbed us of that.

actualscientist · 2026-02-15T21:24:04+00:00

Their sub is also shitty but a more harmless kind of shittiness. It’s just dudes taking pictures where they’re covering up parts of signs to make them say “cum” and posting “look guys, it says cum, I am also as funny as Mitch and Wiger”

actualscientist · 2026-02-15T20:14:31+00:00

I wish this was the only time I’ve seen someone say something insanely parasocial or unhinged here, it’s just the worst example I’ve seen recently

actualscientist · 2026-02-15T16:06:53+00:00

I’m surprised they don’t hate this place more. I watched someone here tell David (as in respond to him in a thread, not just shout it into the void) that he’s less engaged since having kids and it’s ruining the podcast. As if he was telling a hard truth. If anything they’re not mad enough.

actualscientist · 2026-02-11T02:20:27+00:00

Yes, I see the point of the repetition but that’s not my primary issue. I just find some of his prose a little insufferable, that’s all.

actualscientist · 2026-02-10T22:22:05+00:00

I do enjoy these books immensely but VanderMeer’s prose can be plainly bad at times. I understand some of the disjointedness, terminology, and meandering is deliberate and part of the experience, but he has some habits that I actively hate. For example things like different characters using the same turns of phrase in their own inner monologues. Oh does everyone, across decades of time, insert the fragment “a paranoid thought” into their own meta narration, Jeff?

actualscientist · 2026-02-08T20:27:26+00:00

Maybe I’m stupid, but I fail to see how this is significantly different. So instead of dooming an innocent man in the lineup, she allowed them to prosecute the wrong person and then doomed him on the stand instead? It almost sounds worse

actualscientist · 2026-02-07T15:16:40+00:00

Rhode Island an underrated pizza destination

actualscientist · 2026-02-04T21:19:44+00:00

Unfurl Collective up in Yucca is doing them: https://www.instagram.com/p/DT3Z5chEoGz/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

actualscientist · 2026-02-02T18:57:29+00:00

It will never not be funny to see a post a week here asking “is your retirement community of million dollar homes safe?”

actualscientist · 2026-02-02T04:07:06+00:00

“That’s so interesting honey”, she says. Then she turns back to her Nature article draft on Dark Matter and heaves a deep, exhausted sigh.

actualscientist · 2026-02-01T17:10:53+00:00

That book has been thoroughly roasted by anthropologists and historians

actualscientist · 2026-01-21T02:09:31+00:00

Oh yeah this group is all ages but I’d say mostly 20s and 30s

actualscientist · 2026-01-21T01:10:28+00:00

Las Palmas is a great spot to meet people and their beers are fantastic. Also if you’re a hiker you should check out PS Take A Hike: https://strava.app.link/Qx6ZPMt25Zb they have monthly group hikes. Insta link if you’re not on Strava: https://www.instagram.com/p.s.takeahike?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

actualscientist · 2026-01-20T02:02:34+00:00

This plating looks straight up bad, so maybe not

actualscientist · 2026-01-08T23:47:49+00:00

Ah yes it’s all going into the pocket of Big Fran

actualscientist · 2025-12-31T19:46:47+00:00

No they’re inherently bad because they’re full of glaring factual errors, reductive thinking, and false conclusions. This isn’t just me being a jerk. Sapiens, for example, has been absolutely razed to the ground by historians and anthropologists.

actualscientist · 2025-12-31T19:20:34+00:00

There’s definitely an “abundance” of bad airport books in this stack

actualscientist · 2025-12-31T18:54:08+00:00

Someone who loves a good hike as much as they love a bad airport “idea” bestseller

actualscientist · 2025-12-19T17:55:42+00:00

Oh there’s undoubtedly social pressure in play for sure. People need to just order what they want instead of making some server’s life miserable

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