I might just start blocking any psychologists and neuroscientists who follow me.
Posts by Not the Brain Guy
This place has a lot of guy-who-won’t-stop-talking-about-his-ex vibes.
Important reminder:
A lot of the regional chains are just Kroger or Albertsons subsidiaries.
You did a twitter brain. You did a Mastodon. You did White Fragility. This makes it abundantly clear you don't understand the intersectional nature of the multiplicity of your offenses.
The family whose story was chronicled in the Netflix documentary “Take Care of Maya” was awarded $261 million in damages from a hospital after a jury found it liable for charges including medical negligence and false imprisonment. nyti.ms/46aYEro
If only Israel didn’t have a government comprised of right wing nuts, this would have been great news.
They will not win but god they’re gonna make OSU suffer
Hello, the twitter with 3 people on it, all with the same politics, but no ads or bots.
Semi-related: I’m loving the new podcast. Even the episodes I wasn’t expecting to be into I have found very enjoyable.
Happy 30th birthday, broccolini
The assumption that a person who is turned off by whatever college activist they nutpick would want to listen to people who talk like this seems generous
I call bullshit
I love for my entire Facebook feed to be not friends but suggested pages called Intelligent Persons Memes
Bluesky has crossed the critical growth threshold where there’s always someone getting yelled at on here
Sometimes a stuffed octopus is just a stuffed octopus.
In retrospect, Tom Cotton got off easy.
Opening an American-style Tex-Mex restaurant in a European city with lots of American expats is basically a license to print money. Europeans are incapable of reproducing American food on their own.
A burrito stand in Frankfurt, Germany.
A belief I hold, influenced by Iris Murdoch, is that when we make emotional or ethical mistakes we know exactly what we’re doing. We just distract or lie to ourselves as we do it.
That can be true of dining mistakes as well. I couldn’t resist a German burrito. It was even more horrid than expected.
In the 15+ years I've been shipping stuff for my job, USPS has improved a lot. UPS is easier to deal with on the shipper’s end, though, and I trust them more to get things delivered on time, but they’ve gotten pricey. USPS is great if you need to ship something affordably and don't care about speed.
So much of the discourse yesterday was based on the equivalent of thinking Dan Pfieffer is a Department of Defense spokesman.
It's the procrastinator’s April 16th.
The critical thing to remember is we have no idea what anyone is actually saying to each other. Public statements in diplomacy are only tangentially related to reality. They're targeted at everyone but the ostensible target.
The Discover tab on here is 85% accounts I’d muted or blocked on Twitter. “Hey it's that guy! And that guy! And that guy! Yep, all still dipshits.”
Follow-up: I'm still not the neuroscientist.
A Detective Sabotaged His Own Cases Because He Didn’t Like the Prosecutor. The Police Dept Did Nothing to Stop Him.
To protest a prosecutor, one detective was willing to let murder suspects walk free, even if he’d arrested them and believed that they should be behind bars.