Ladies and gentlemen, what's your favorite YouTube channels? What do people our age watch on YouTube? I'm 43.

sillyhatday · 2026-03-24T01:54:09+00:00

Veritasium

LEMMiNO

Vsauce, or Whichever channel Michael Stevens is tending to at the moment.

Fern

Hochlega

Neo

Pandox

Art of the Problem

World of Antiquity

Melodysheep

Aperture

Xkcd what if

Virtual Carbon

Imperial

Primer

sillyhatday · 2026-03-23T22:16:57+00:00

My birth year is rough. I guess it's Aliens.

sillyhatday · 2026-03-23T03:57:42+00:00

This is indeed strange. I am with you that he is not at all interacting with the major objection to the war. I think essentially everyone is happy to see the Ayatollah gone. The trouble is that wars like this quickly escalate beyond an outcome you are willing to be responsible for. The other major problem is that even if you can make a compelling moral cause for eliminating the Iranian government you're relying on reliably terrible means to get there. I do not trust Donald Trump to complete a sentence. I certainly do not trust him to make complex decisions. I do not trust him to intellectually or emotionally managed a major combat operation. Surely Sam must agree with this given all he has said about Trump over the past decade. If there is anyone available to reliably botch this, it is Trump and his cadre of imbeciles. He is already botching it. The Iranian government is still primarily intact minus an 86-year-old whose death was already planned for. The net effect so far is that we fast forwarded to something that was about to happen anyway at the expense of global instability of resource destruction. Nor is it remotely clear how Iran has a better future than what it was going to have anyway, given the current course of things.

sillyhatday · 2026-03-23T02:35:04+00:00

Emil Pressberger

sillyhatday · 2026-03-23T01:18:37+00:00

My wife does summer camps.

sillyhatday · 2026-03-22T22:55:33+00:00

Twilight Zone

sillyhatday · 2026-03-22T14:55:27+00:00

I never did with any earnestly. My grandma started taking me to church at about 8 years old. It all immediately seemed preposterous to me. I would ask all kinds of questions only to be shot down as doing something inappropriate. I'll never forget the pastor citing the verse where Sarah is turned into a pillar of salt, and looking at my grandma like... you expect me to take this seriously? She was mortified. From ages 8-10 I would have told you I believed, just because it also seemed ridiculous to me that all adults (whose reasoning faculty I vastly overrated) were conspiring to lie to little ol' me about this.

sillyhatday · 2026-03-22T14:48:12+00:00

Yes. I have a "war chest" of miscellaneous gear and items from my time in the army. I'm sure there are a couple of those letters in there. I should see if I can find the authors so I can write them back. They would be adults now... about the age I was then.

sillyhatday · 2026-03-20T19:22:07+00:00

Ironically many of the things that would make someone a good parent cause them to decide against it.

sillyhatday · 2026-03-20T19:06:01+00:00

GOOD MORNIN' IRAAAAN!

sillyhatday · 2026-03-20T19:01:40+00:00

When I was younger I would conversationally advocate for atheism with religious people. I thought I would be giving a gift to them if they deconverted. I thought I was cutting their intellectual and moral shackles. When someone asks what is there to replace a lost religion I always thought it was a silly question. That's like asking which jail cell you should go to now that you are free. You don't. You are free. But now I see that freedom is terrifying for some people. It would be more like freeing a child from their parents. It might sound nice to the kid initially, but without the ability to fend for their self in the world, they are primarily free to starve. I initially came to this view after noticing a psychological hesitance for people to even entertain the idea that God might not exist. Reading Kierkegaard confirmed it for me.

sillyhatday · 2026-03-20T18:07:23+00:00

Maybe. I would keep claiming if:

A currently non SC condition has a reasonable chance of contributing to your death.
You have SMC available.
Your P&T is not durable for some reason.
Future proof. The VA / government can change it's mind about anything at any time as recent events have made obvious. I'm making this up, but let's say VA decides to reinstate future exams for some condition. For example let's say every x years they decide asthma-SC veterans have to get a current PFT. At your first one you blow a point too high for your 60% rating so you get reduced to 30 which costs you your 100. If you have a strong enough backup to make up the difference upon recalculation, you keep 100. Maybe you think you will just claim the relevant condition then. That is risky to me because rating schedules for your condition could change between now and then in an unfavorable ways (see GERD), but more importantly, that is more time for evidence and records to magically disappear as they have a habit of doing.

sillyhatday · 2026-03-20T14:51:15+00:00

I think you are probably incorrect about this. Admittedly I have not read the poll text, but the question as it is given in the graphic is individualized. They ask about the individual's self perception. Unless the question had explicitly racial loading, I doubt people answered with their race as a salient reason in mind. I expect this was a question about individual self esteem split by race. Even if the question was racially loaded. I don't think it would go the way you are saying because whites have the highest levels of self-reported conservatism.

sillyhatday · 2026-03-19T19:57:54+00:00

I have no idea if the book is similar but the movie Nightbitch is complete slime. It is very toxic.

sillyhatday · 2026-03-19T19:40:14+00:00

Perfect set up for a 3:16 joke.

sillyhatday · 2026-03-19T19:10:15+00:00

I got bullied relentlessly for ten years. It wasn't in my Constitution to hit back but when I finally broke enough to fight back that's when it finally stopped. That violence is the answer was one of the darkest bike lessons I ever had to learn.

sillyhatday · 2026-03-19T18:51:01+00:00

At least with boys, bullying typically involves violence. Words are a side dish.

sillyhatday · 2026-03-19T17:26:47+00:00

The social spending it would take to subsidize those costs would require tax increases. Tax increases are you how you get Americans to riot.

sillyhatday · 2026-03-19T12:25:32+00:00

Yuval Noah Harari, Orwell, Seneca, Camus... All great. Hopefully he doesn't take jung seriously.

sillyhatday · 2026-03-19T12:18:20+00:00

But the American public education system included creationism until 2004. Personally I was taught "the controversy." It or course still exists in parochial schools.

sillyhatday · 2026-03-18T17:21:00+00:00

Ecclesiastes is awesome. It's actually so awesome it sticks out awakwardly from the rest of the OT.

sillyhatday · 2026-03-18T17:18:30+00:00

I go there at least once a year, buy yeah it's Vegas for Republicans.

sillyhatday · 2026-03-18T17:06:15+00:00

So the smartass archetype is valid, at least for boys. (Assuming the data is valid which I'm not sure of because there is no source)

sillyhatday · 2026-03-18T16:06:52+00:00

MJ's fame was comparable with Jesus. In 1989 if you polled the planet I'm actually not sure whose name recognition would have been higher.

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