“Be sure to drink your Ovaltine”

I remember when Musk bought Twitter and then immediately started trying to save money by literally just turning off services to see what breaks.

That actually wouldn’t have been the stupidest idea if he had done it in a test environment rather than production, or even if Twitter was a small website that didn’t mind downtime. But he did it in production on a huge site that people relied on being up, so it actually was the stupidest idea.

And now he’s bringing the same stupidest energy to government. No investigation. No calculation. Just a toddler who has been put in front of a lot of switches.

It’s not just sports. It can also be intellectual pursuits.

Look at the kids who are in the top tier spelling bee competitions, and then look at their parents, and tell me whose dreams are coming true.

Same thing for a lot of child prodigies. A lot of child prodigies suddenly become less “prodigious” the moment they move away from their parents.

Same goes for so many different things. Child beauty pageants are another famous example.

Obviously this doesn’t mean all of the kids who do these activities are being pushed by their parents. Some of them are self motivated. Some are not.

I personally suspect that the belief that money is real is problematic, psychologically.

There are all sorts of experiments that show we treat money in our minds differently from most other things.

A famous example is that many people would think nothing of taking a ten cent pen from work, but would be abhorred at the idea of taking money, even ten cents, from petty cash and just keeping it.

An experiment has shown that, if you give people the chance to cheat for money, or to cheat for tokens that can be immediately exchanged for money after the experiment, they will cheat more for tokens, despite the fact that at that point, the tokens are technically a type of money.

So, this sort of thing makes me suspect that beliefs about money also influence our ethics and our mental proclivities. So maybe people who believe money is more real are more likely to hoard it or to have gambling problems.

“Like a printer, but for yarn”

For people who don’t think printer ink is expensive enough, yarn!

The hero of the song bets his soul against a golden fiddle that he can beat the devil in a fiddling contest because of his pride. People wouldn’t agree that this is a good thing. For example, most people wouldn’t teach their children this story as if Johnny was a hero, but that’s how he’s portrayed in the song.

This is the best I can explain it. If you keep asking the same questions past this point, I’m going to assume you’re just trolling me.

the same part that OP is complaining about

I’m guessing you’re basing it off of this official legal correspondence, which I am including below for people who haven’t seen it:

Dear Mr. Cox:

Attached is a letter that we received on November 19, 1974. I feel that you should be aware that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters.

Very truly yours,

CLEVELAND STADIUM CORP.

James N. Bailey, General Counsel

cc: Arthur B. Modell

If you read into the article, it states

The annual CPJ report, which represents a snapshot of journalists jailed for their work as of Dec. 1, 2024, found 361 journalists behind bars around the world. That’s the second-highest number that CPJ has documented since it started keeping track in 1992.

So, in case anybody was wondering, yes, this is referring to journalists who were “jailed for their work,” and not just journalists who are in jail for whatever reason. I know you might have thought that was obvious, but I think it’s important to point these things out for other cases where the reporting might be more misleading.

I think the underlying realization for The Devil Went Down to Georgia is more that Americans will listen to good music even if they don’t agree with the lyrics.

The same goes for Imagine by John Lennon, for example.

And it won’t even work if you sit on the edge of your seat.

Even if you’re careful when writing your comment, it makes no difference if the admin reading your comment is not careful or has poor reading comprehension.

This is what happens when you have no rights and another person is given power over you. Even if they think they’re not being abusive, any small misunderstanding always ends in you being abused.

It says they use publicly exposed or leaked IAM keys with RW permission to do this, in case anybody is interested in how they get in.

I don’t know too much about HV, but I thought that even the crazy path shown in the picture was still the path of least resistance. Is that wrong?

Some monks train their bodies either as part of their prayer or meditation, or train in order to be able to pray or meditate longer. They don’t usually end up with arms that look like that, though.

True enough for urban areas.

There’s also a lot of more rural areas in Japan where the only thing in walking distance from a house is a bus stop, and it might be a bit of a long walk.

I’m sure there are more remote places, but I haven’t been to those places.

Booth was a pretty famous actor in his day, and was regarded as handsome. He had very dark eyes which was unusual.

His plan to kill Lincoln was sort of spur of the moment. He had actually planned to kidnap him, but decided to assassinate him when the opportunity arose. After killing Lincoln, Booth went on stage (I think this was the point where he injured his foot) and said that he did it because Lincoln was a tyrant. So he essentially confessed on the spot.

His escape plan was similarly poorly thought out and executed.

He’s basically the Civil War era’s version of an influencer who has bought into conservative propaganda out of sheer stupidity. Were he alive today, no doubt he’d have been one of those insurrectionists on Jan 6 2021.

Elon Cuckerberg

That guy Newton didn’t even know that inertial frames of reference weren’t absolute.

An AI that can suck the joy and humanity out of everything? Up until now, that was something only humans could do.