i mean, it is also textually pro-colonialism, while being mainly about pedantry. it’s a “yet you participate in society” sort of sketch. life of brian is like 80% symbolism, 20% biggus dickus.

i’ve never understood how to do calorie counting. like you could never eat at a restaurant. you’d have to weigh everything unless you only eat pacxaged meals. it seems like a massive change to your life.

that’s usually how pop-sci journalism goes, unfortunately.

this is originally from may, and passed review in june. idk how related it is to the current nonsense.

oh the Ahlquist et al population study with 2.5 million participants was marked “low quality” due to “exposure limitations”.

can someone explain to me how you limit exposure in a population study?

the roslagsbanan commuter rail is the only actively used 2 ft 11 ³⁄₃₂ in railway in the world.

…honestly, with a wikipedia article that extensive it hardly qualifies as “obscure”.

yeah i also find him lovable, but the point is it’s the same sort of gag ttat tbbt does. and they’re all over the show. so why do we feel so differently about them?

idk man. s3e2 (the “ludicrous display” ep) has an extended bit about moss being anal about staples. it’s still laughing at him. and there’s no foil for him there, the gag is just that he wants to know how many staples have been used.

the one scene that really got me to pause was when moss laughs at a circuit board. i’ve been that guy. i’ve laughed with colleagues about bad hardware design. but… the audience is not consisting solely of electronics engineers. they’re laughing at him. more exactly, they identify with jen in that scene, and joins her in thinking moss is weird.

i agree, but why?

interestingly it crowd was apparently filmed with an audience.

followup question: what’s your thoughts on The IT Crowd? because i have a friend who insists they are the same show, and i disagree but can’t form a coherent argument as to why.

it’s just going to be israel and sweden left at this rate

it’s also where we (as in sweden) decided to rent prison space because we ran out.

oh don’t worry they’ll probably be sent to estonia

don’t forget that those existing facilites are badly mismanaged, rampant with abuse, and the reason some of these kids are criminals to begin with.

“web3” and “ai” on the front page.

blockchains have some use cases. “web3” is not it.

i honestly thought he was dead

isnt the us currently doing that? no lover of nk but that’s a weak-ass argument

not at all, just as how boston dynamics’ atlas didn’t change how i viewed robocop.

text generators just have very little in common with intelligent, autonomous artificial entities.