Game designer turned lawyer-investigator turned work-in-progress. Fair-to-middling dad. I am a font of annoying knowledge.
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The basic thing about this is that if you are cooking for a family, for almost anything you might decide to cook, someone is going to be a dick about it. If you don't care about that, it's not a problem. If you do care about it, it wears after the first few hundred nights.
I, unfortunately, still care about it, and so there has been much blood, sweat, and tears spilt in quest for the Food No One Is Going To Be A Dick About. It is, I fear, a quixotic enterprise.
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the thing about going on "vacation" with children is they don't understand the concept of relaxing
A thread of assorted thoughts about the masculine experience:
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Ok, not trying to yell at Teno is particular here but this drives me up the wall.
Thought experiments (and polls) like this are *bad*.
They confuse more than they elucidate anything and they get people talking at cross purposes. I hate them.
The problem is that everyone's answers hinge on underspecified assumptions that sneak in when trying to parse an *incoherent* situation. This isn't a breakfast problem objection. I'm not refusing the hypothetical for reasons of mon comprehension or for failure to understand what a hypothetical is. The problem is that these Omega or Oracle-relative hypotheticals *are worse than nonsense*.
Oracle-relative proofs work in computational complexity because it is formalized math. Oracle-relative questions about moral intuitions or anything else are guaranteed to smugle extra assumptions in each readers mind, and so are actively detrimental to thought and discourse.
The problem is there is no universe that is exactly like this one except that it contains a limited-scope Omega that just tells you this one bit of extra information. No such coherent construct exists. Other changes *must* come along for the ride, but they are not specified.
Stop it. Stop it. Stop it.
someone commits a genuinely harmful but minor crime, usually punished by 5 years in prison, and u solely are responsible for their sentencing. omega floats down from the sky and tells u with perfect certainty that they will never reoffend. you sentence them to:
33%five years
38%less than five years
24%zero years
4%more than five years (??)
5,614 votes • Final resultsYou know, it's interesting that I have almost no mental image of what the late 40s were like. Probably I just have everything I know filed under the 50s, but in a lot of ways we just don't talk much about the immediate post-WWII period.
I just had an insight about what the fuck is up with SF lately that had not occurred to me previously precisely because I have lived in the Bay all my life, and it's this: I think people are getting messed up because they are coming to the area wanting to be *part* of SF.
This is not a gatekeeping thing, you just need to maintain a respectful distance from the indigenous egregores or they will kill your soul.
An important lesson for men that can be learned from studying criminal law is "never take a third party's word in matters of consent"
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Honestly if you could find a place with a compelling vision of the status quo, that would genuinely be something pretty special
I keep some threads to track my tweets that I think were amusing, or might want to return to, and my thread on tech writ large has gotten unwieldy, so I'm starting a new one.
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