Heh logs.

You fixed my crappy morning, much appreciated.

Yeah, for real. Let’s hope the Majestic Imperious High Court deigns to grace us with any explanation. They love their emergency docket…

Murdering a murderer for committing murder will never make sense to me.

Good on her for standing her ground. I’m a huge fan of her work and loved seeing her in Star Wars, but nobody should work for less than their worth. She’s not an A-list star, and actors like her may have a huge following, but that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily rich beyond measure. This actually exposes a pretty serious problem in entertainment. People have families and bills, and even being a famous actor doesn’t mean you’re dripping in diamonds—despite most of the general public assuming that’s the case.

I don’t know what to tell you. Your experiences are your own, and I’m glad your lab takes care of you.

Archaeology. But it was in the UK and I’m American so everything was a bit tougher than it should have been. My advisor for sure should have paid, and could have, but he was an asshole who didn’t bother to understand my situation.

It’s a feedback loop. In order to raise your academic profile and potentially get a job, you need a solid CV full of peer reviewed publications. In order to get published in the first place, you often need money and institutional backing.

If you circumvent that cycle by self-publishing (a solidly logical idea btw), then you’ll have an even harder job getting people to take you seriously and will alienate yourself from “mainstream” academia. It’s messed up. Some open access journals have tried to solve this, with some success, but it’s a systemic problem.

In grad school I remember being encouraged to submit a paper to a journal that would have charged me a few hundred dollars to put it in for peer review, and I told my advisor no, I needed to buy groceries, I would not throw my money away for an extra line on my CV. He got all flustered and it was a great example of why higher education is so fucked. My advisor, who ostensibly understood my background and means, could not understand how such a relatively small fee would be so prohibitive. He was incapable of understanding that I was essentially unemployed while enrolled as his grad student, and every dollar of funding went to bare essentials so I could continue breathing. He had access to discretionary funds for this exact kind of issue (I found out later), and didn’t think to offer.

Without independent wealth and deep personal connections it’s incredibly difficult to succeed in academia, regardless of the quality of your research.

Fuck off, war criminal.

He has spent decades deliberately undermining—through murder, rape, and starvation—the possibility of a Palestinian state, and says there can’t be a Palestinian state. Sure, makes sense.

He has also spent decades propping up Hamas so he has a hateable enemy to fight, and says his one goal of this genocide is to eliminate Hamas. Sure, makes sense.

Same. The cat’s cute, but I hope no pregnant people like to buy juice in that neighborhood…

For those who don’t know, toxoplasmosis (a parasite commonly found in cat feces) usually isn’t serious for healthy adults, but for people with weak immune systems it’s no joke, and it can cause miscarriages and birth defects during pregnancy, which is serious as hell.

Yeah the studio that made it, Adhoc, was founded by Telltale people. I’m glad they’re still making this type of game in an industry that’s weirdly resistant to this kind of storytelling, despite its popularity.

Yeah she’s my favorite, I love her comedy style. But in general, Roy, Amber, and Michael have excellent chemistry. Highly recommend people check it out if they haven’t seen it.

It’s not a news show, it’s a comedy show on a news network, so this impartiality discussion is just silly.

Sure, it’s a time management sim insofar as there are time limits on the “daily” minigame, but I’d characterize it more as team/skills coordination and management. And it’s really just a telltale narrative with consequential decision making, broken up by the minigame. I hadn’t ever played a game with those particular minigame mechanics, so maybe I’m missing something.

Is there trepidation with critical role? How so? I only recently got into watching their tabletop dnd, so I’m a pretty new fan. It’s actually one of those things I’m shocked stayed under my radar for so long…

I don’t think it has anything to do with the weekly release schedule, or that was my least favorite thing about it. Maybe that helped sell a few more, but it’s a polished game made from unique IP with a strong story that knows what it is, and an incredible cast of famous voice actors.

I’m not sure if people realize how huge of a following Critical Role has. They collaborated on the game and did most of the voice acting. I found out about it through them, and I had a blast playing it. It’s short, but packs a punch.

Notably, there is no guarantee that the Obamacare subsidies will be extended — and no commitment from Republican House leaders to even hold a vote at all on the subsidies.

Then what the fuck was the point? That was Democrats one demand. Either finish what you start or don’t start at all, you cowards.

That’s not how slurs work. That word is a slur, even if your intention isn’t explicitly bigoted. But in the content of your comment, you’re still using it exactly the way a bigot would use it as a slur.

That’s a wild take.

I think you have it the wrong way around: the movies are for everyone, the comics are for the super fans. Not much more to it than that, but getting this worked up about a fictional universe is not healthy.

Also, watch your slurs, most people don’t like ableism around these parts.

I really appreciate it when colleagues check in right before a meeting via chat just to make sure at least one person has something they actually need to talk about. If not, we skip it and go back to our work. Some teams do this as a habit, others meet anyway just to shoot the shit if there’s nothing work-related to discuss. My team is the former, thankfully.

Bringing AI into redistricting would be a nightmare. AI is not objective, it’s trained on biased datasets and that bias is reinforced by the bias of whomever created it or wants to shape it to their will.

We already know how to do nonpartisan redistricting, and many states (including CA) already have a nonpartisan committee in charge of it. But since elections are managed by state and local governments, and explicitly not the federal government, it would take something like a constitutional amendment to make it required nationwide. That’s also why states like CA will temporarily use different maps this cycle (if all goes well tomorrow), because CA being fair and TX cheating doesn’t help the nation as a whole reflect its actual population. Might as well force the fairness by cheating like them. It’s a shitty stopgap, but they’ve left us no choice.

I really wanted him to show up to add another absurdity to his legacy, but mostly to see how KBJ would write about the hilariously unsubtle intimidation tactic in her dissent.