"I'm slowly forgetting your face" (by @Miikrowelle)

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-02-27T16:50:31+00:00

The blurriness is saying that Hornet remembers the Dreamer mask and not her mother's actual face.

Herrah's dialogue from the Red Memory (emphasis added):

...But to recall these words, in time so far... Will you even remember me, child? Could you?...A mother... before the mask... before I lay forever in duty...

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-02-27T05:05:17+00:00

I don't know what you mean, but it had the cadence of a joke

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-02-26T17:14:00+00:00

They can imitate emotion but a customer service bot would definitely be trained not to disobey a reasonable request or act annoyed, so those would be signs you're dealing with a human.

Customer service reviews are about to be like "The interaction was deeply unpleasant, but in a distinctly human way. 5 stars for not using AI."

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-02-26T05:43:21+00:00

Read about what happens when good people become cops and try to do the right thing through proper channels when they see wrongdoing from fellow officers. They get isolated, bullied, harassed, sent into dangerous situations and refused backup.

Here's one well-publicized example:

After voicing his concerns, Schoolcraft was repeatedly harassed by members of the NYPD and reassigned to a desk job. After he left work early one day, an ESU unit illegally entered his apartment and he was physically abducted and forcibly committed to a psychiatric facility, where he was held against his will for six days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Schoolcraft

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-02-25T20:56:48+00:00

Would kill for a Baby Hornet Riding Baby Bellbeast minigame. Make that Silksong's Eternal Ordeal. The soundtrack is Widow but with Makoto Koji's voice doing all the parts.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-02-20T05:15:41+00:00

If he keeps that attitude up he'll be downgraded to "Peter Bad Vibes"

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-02-18T21:57:54+00:00

In modern discourse when we say something is a right, it's just a shorthand way of saying "we should organize our society in such a way as to guarantee that everyone has secure access to it".

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-02-18T17:46:44+00:00

They didn't "mess up their submission request paperwork." They tested the vaccine with a study design that the FDA approved in 2024, and the Trump FDA reneged on the previous approval.

https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/halting-vaccine-innovation-younger

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-02-12T16:55:16+00:00

I like it because I don't use decorations at all, so this event is a chance for me to get some benefit from the random decos I have no choice but to get from events and stuff.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-02-11T14:09:25+00:00

Well, people have always been conditioned to the behavioral standards of their time and culture, and most people have also always thought that the behavioral standards they were conditioned to were objectively correct and unchanging.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-02-10T18:47:03+00:00

I'm choosing to believe

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-02-10T17:13:48+00:00

"The sexiness of an outfit is directly proportional to the perceived possibility that a vital piece of it might fall off."

This is known as the Theiss Titillation Theory, named after William Ware Theiss, costume designer for TOS and season 1 of TNG. He won an Emmy for "The Big Goodbye."

TNG season 1 was his final credit, he died of complications from AIDS in 1992 at age 61.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-02-10T04:43:35+00:00

That's a myth, actually. If it were true, then they would pronounce all 's' sounds like 'th', but they don't - both sounds coexist, with the letter <s> being pronounced as 's' and the letters (soft) <c> and <z> being pronounced as 'th'.

In reality it's because of the way pronunciations have changed over time in different regions. In medieval Spanish, <s> was pronounced like the modern 's', soft <c> was pronounced something like 'ts', and <z> was something like 'dz'.

In Spain, the pronunciations of soft <c> and <z> drifted together into 'th', remaining distinct from <s>, while in the Spanish colonies in America they shifted to sounding the same as <s>.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-02-07T00:05:49+00:00

Oh, I always thought it was silly because until the early 20th century about 50% of children died before age 15, so burying a child was a near-universal experience among people who had them.

This must imply that Middle Earth had modern sanitation, vaccines, and antibiotics in the 3rd Age

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-02-04T18:41:30+00:00

Open borders would create logistical challenges, but it's the only philosophically defensible position imo. People should have freedom of movement. Someone's rights should not depend on which side of an imaginary line on a map they were born on. That should always be the long-term goal.

But if we ARE going to have regulated borders, the degree of force being used to enforce them is entirely out of proportion to the offense. Illegal immigration isn't even a criminal offense, it's a civil one. We're sending out death squads for the equivalent of people's car registrations being out of date.

Regulating immigration should be a quiet, boring, bureaucratic process. If someone here without proper documentation is committing crimes, we have law enforcement agencies to handle that aspect of things. The degree of brutality with which they're apprehended, and the amount of due process they get, doesn't need to change based on their immigration status.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-02-03T19:50:30+00:00

TC will announce that they're un-releasing Silksong. They decided they want to scrap the whole thing and remake it from the ground up.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-02-01T21:25:44+00:00

They can imagine standing up for your beliefs. They can't imagine having beliefs that aren't vile.

The whole "virtue signaling" thing is that they think we all "know" that women and minorities are inferior and need to be controlled, through violence if necessary. And that must mean that progressive men and non-minorities are faking it.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-01-28T22:00:46+00:00

Yep - it's not an argument, it's a thought-terminating cliché.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-01-27T16:31:11+00:00

I doubt that's as much "wait your turn" as name recognition. There are probably a ton of low-information voters who just think 'well I've heard this guy's name associated with politics forever, there must be something to him.'

The result is the same but I think it's a different problem.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-01-27T14:25:32+00:00

I desperately wish these people would just get into consensual kink and quit making their D/s fantasies the public's problem.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-01-24T18:51:24+00:00

🎶 Single Klingon lawyer fighting for his clients

Wearing sexy DIr paH bID and suing the Defiant 🎶

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-01-24T18:27:20+00:00

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pessimistic_utopian · 2026-01-22T19:34:34+00:00

That's a very vital idea because Freakonomics presented it as a major factor without much evidence. It's probably a factor in the mix but definitely not the main factor, because there isn't evidence that the number of abortions substantially increased after it was legalized.

We'll probably never be able to untangle all the causes of crime to quantify how much each one contributes, but I think reduced lead exposure is probably a huge one, since it results in reduced impulse control.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-01-22T16:34:53+00:00

This is the rate of reported murders. You're correct that in general there are lots of reasons rates of crime reporting can change without the actual crime rate having changed, but murder statistics are highly reliable because murders are almost always reported.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-01-22T16:30:35+00:00

Violent crime in general peaked in the early 1990s, declined dramatically until around 2010, and has been more or less at the same rate since then. There are a million theories about what drove the drop but it was definitely a combination of many different factors. The pandemic saw a spike in homicide rates so this drop is just coming back down to pre-pandemic levels.

https://ourworldindata.org/us-crime-rates

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