INTERVIEWER: what is your greatest weakness

ME: i don’t know the technical term for pee pee

INTERVIEWER: urine

ME: great when do i start

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

Because I can comfortably use the bathroom at home.

The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.

to use any particular way of describing things. And everything resembles everything else in infinitely many ways under various descriptions. Hume just doesn't think about how it is that we have a grasp of an idea in a particular way, since he helps himself to the claim that ideas must be "simple".

Hume thinks we don't find those because of a limitation on our part; Goodman points out that Hume was being dogmatic when making assumptions about what we'd need to be looking for. He smuggles in implicit descriptions of ideas when judging them to resemble each other or not. But we never are forced

patterns in nature, as opposed to our being able to find this or that pattern once we've made other sorts of conceptual decisions. Hume on the other hand never doubts that if there are regularities to he discovered, they would have to be independent of our habits and how we choose to relate ideas.

isn't something that could be found to adhere to some predicates (making them suitable for science) and not others, but we are free to choose between incompatible options without loss of lawlikeness in our attributions. So I think Goodman's riddle does pose a real threat to idea that there "are"

Yes, as Davidson showed with "emarires are grue"; lawlikeness isn't a feature of a predicate (as Goodman had thought) but about relations between predicates ("grue" is lawlike w/r/t "emarire" but not to "emerald", conversely with "green"). So even more depends on us than Goodman thought; lawlikeness

Yeah, it's about the very idea of a regularity, while hume is only concerned with how we can be justified in what we believe about regularities. Hume takes for granted that we understand what we're supposed to look for and what would be relevant to those beliefs. Goodman troubles those sureties.

I think they’re different. God could whisper in your ear that the principle of the uniformity of nature is true, and Goodman shows that you’d *still* have a problem of *which* putative uniformities are the relevant ones. Anyway thats how I think about it

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happy lesbian week

let the bears pay the bear tax. i pay the futa tax!

We need to stop them immediately

A miniature purse attached to a regular sized purse

just bought a purse for my purse

Corrections An earlier version of this story said Bryce P. Tetraeder is the CEO of Global Tetrahedron. In fact, Ben Collins is the CEO, while Bryce P. Tetreader is the name of the fictional owner the company made up, and which it uses in various company communications. Apr 20, 2026 4:34 PM EDT

They made "Community" too

Soujyuro until I had an hour left to grind free quests for missions, at which point it was musashi time. Struggled with the koyanskaya of dark fight, restarted it multiple times and then finished at literally 10:59

Skipped through the plot sections on the last two days of the WotHN event, then finished mission #100 one minute before maintenance hit. Was enjoying the story in this one quite a bit, going to read it in the archives once the game is back up. Did the entire thing with a front line of Aoko/Alice/

it sounds & is bad, but a more accurate heuristic than trusting what elites say about their commitment to trans lives is:

is there a risk that truly defending trans people could inconvenience a cis person or cost anyone money?

if so, they won't do it.

that will be right more often than promises.

they’re gonna run a bunch of candidates who make vague noises about how badly we need ‘change’ that isn’t actually change and all the people who yearn above all else for a return to norms and decorum will be so relieved to vote for them

The Salt Lake Tribune DONATE Some LDS have 'pope envy,' wonder why their leaders aren't speaking out against these wars Latter-day Saint leaders certainly have urged peacemaking, but the sometimes frank directness and blunt rhetoric of the past have softened.

What religion do you think you’re in?

Good mood braids for Frieren 😌

A girl with tired eyes saying "Wow that was pretty traumatic. Guess I'll be puppy about it." In the next panel, she is transformed into a simplified little dog with the same tired eyes.

Probably a mix of "it's cute" and this

I'm fascinated by the hippy dippy PCUSA getting drop-ins who decide to pray out loud for things like "the downfall of Islamists" because their podcasts got them in a lather and they thought they'd find fellow travelers at any old church. And the poor pastor has to be like hey now. Don't be weird.

Legally, no. It cannot be piracy if the action is taken by a government body. It's an "invalid claim of sovereignty"

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Fanart of the characters "Kaname Madoka" and "Akemi Homura" from the "Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica" series.

Sorry, I've been thinking about this anime a lot lately

#fanart

thank god this site is free

I have wondered if as time goes on, the Marvel movies will be one of the most "2010s" coded things ever, the equivalent of like 70s variety shows or 50s cars as a decade signifier

The thing about studying finance from the perspective of econ is that, when done right, you're also studying econ history and the history of risk management. And the thing about the last half century is how much this has devolved to offloading as much risk as possible on to individuals & the public.