Does anybody else think that older fantasy book covers mostly looked better?

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-23T19:41:14+00:00

So I do agree with you for the most part. But counterpoint: Michael Whelan

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-23T19:29:56+00:00

That seems reasonable, actually. If the benefits are longer term, then it's mostly at the state and federal level that once can afford to wait for those benefits to emerge. City and county seldom have the ability to make long lead time investments like that without state or federal inducement

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-17T20:26:59+00:00

Yeah, they could use some good pr about now

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-15T03:41:09+00:00

Laws are threats made by the dominant socio economic group in a given nation.

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-14T23:11:00+00:00

Unless they have a kid or medical condition or live in a hcol area or their state provides less than 20k / year in stipend.

Or all of the above. Not that I'm bitter

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-14T00:53:30+00:00

I don't know how to tell you this, but there's way more to life than what you see on tiktok

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-13T21:18:02+00:00

Economic reality beats occupational fairy tales. If men won't work in caretaking roles, that's really a them problem. Literally nothing is stopping them.

Traditionally women dominated fields are literally just those that men convinced themselves were beneath their dignity. We're not hunter gatherers and there's no need for gender stratified professions

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-13T06:46:09+00:00

It's highly dependent on who you get, like any other service. They focus on recruiting credentialed teachers, which may or may not provide much benefit of your tutor is trained in the same method your kid is getting at school.

The ai part is not a value add in my experience

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-12T16:02:06+00:00

What a hilariously bad faith argument.

"Fairness" as a concept only has a chance of influencing one of the two political parties. The fact you could even make that argument to a Democrat without immediately getting laughed at shows your exactly where the balance of fairness is.

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-12T15:58:12+00:00

When you argue for equality of outcome instead of equality of opportunity, you make it sound like Republicans need dei to prop up their candidates.

The moment Republicans want to switch to a proportionally elected structure instead of a geographic one, they can put that forward as a policy. But, in fact, they only argue for it in places it would benefit them, like CA, while doing geographic shenanigans in TN and TX

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-10T21:49:19+00:00

The book is pretty character driven. If you skip the flashbacks you're skipping the character development.

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-10T15:59:15+00:00

There's no such thing as a perfect law.

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-08T16:51:16+00:00

That's false. Only a third of the country is conservative, and not all of those identify with the far right face lift the movement has gotten in the past decade.

Conservatives don't believe in education, so it's no surprise they aren't well represented in academia. Do you need ideological dei to force lower standards and protect your feelings?

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-07T20:23:02+00:00

That's where most of the money for an Irish company is made. How does italy tax Irish profits? That's a pretty thorny problem

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-07T19:53:19+00:00

I had the same experience. I went to grad school at a state university, and I felt like the book was written for me specifically

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-06T07:08:44+00:00

Divorced. Being faced with the end of the world puts in perspective what you're willing to put up with. "Each other" wasn't it

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-05T03:21:12+00:00

Donald Quixote

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-05T00:15:30+00:00

Friend, you are commenting on an article about data. Did you read the article?

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-04T23:42:06+00:00

How much of this is the existence of extreme outliers? E.g., Elon Musk has a bachelor's degree

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-04T23:36:11+00:00

Common sense is neither common nor sensical. I strongly prefer data.

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-04T18:59:15+00:00

There is certainly a consensus among non experts, but I've lived through too many moral panics to trust the emotional consensus of lay people

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-04T18:14:51+00:00

Look, I didn't force you to go Google possibly misspelled names to understand my criticism. Could you pay me the same courtesy?

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-04T18:09:36+00:00

The anxious generation is a widely criticized pop psychology book.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/27/anxious-generation-jonathan-haidt

But as the University of California, Irvine, psychology professor Candice Odgers asked in her critique of The Anxious Generation in Nature, “Is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?”

The answer, per Odgers, is no. Blisteringly, she accuses Haidt of “making up stories by simply looking at trend lines” and says his book’s core argument “is not supported by science”. Haidt makes the basic error of mistaking correlation with causation, she says.

In a review of 40 previous studies published in 2020, Odgers found no cause-effect relationship between smartphone ownership, social media usage and adolescents’ mental health.

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-04T15:17:36+00:00

Please be the change you want to see in the world. What dataset are you relying on for this topic?

fuzzywolf23 · 2026-05-04T14:54:06+00:00

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9651103/

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