I agree the episode was uneven, but it was overall much better than it’s been for awhile now (except the John Mulaney episode, which was excellent). Some stuff didn’t really work, but a lot of it did, and they generally need to swing for the fences to get some strong hits - I’d far rather see an episode with this…

I grew up in a small Manitoba Mennonite community pretty close to where she did, and there are a lot of insane stories, mostly about Mennonites who live in Mexico or South America (for 100 years or so they have sporadically moved down there to get away from the “horrible worldliness” of North America, generally to…

Please elucidate on the positive differences that were worth the oppression.

I wonder how much it would cost to put his face on Mt. Rushmore, I bet he’d take that in trade for forgetting about the wall. And it could always be destroyed or turned into Ronald McDonald later.

Pretty sure prison doesn’t help to age well, and your sample size of 1 is very much not indicative of the population. The average 80-year old is probably less mobile than he was portrayed; if anything, they understated physical decrepitude.

There are tests given to children to determine how much they understand agency, such as showing character 1 put an object in box 1, then leave, then character 2 comes and moves the object from box 1 to box 2 (which character 1 does not see), then having character 1 return, and asking the children, where will character…

Oh wow, yeah that’s really thorough, I remember so many of those covers, but had completely forgotten how dark some of those Archie TMNT comics were. And that Raph was ripping off Spider-Man’s black costume for some reason.

Ha yeah, that was such a bizarre end for them. I really wonder what messed-up nonsense convinced the writers that was a good idea for a kids’ comic.

Lots of comments on how angry people are about this, but here’s the thing: there’s pretty much a 0% chance complaining about it will do much of anything outside assuaging your own emotional states. Clearly the only thing management there cares about is $, so affecting that is the only option to change anything. If…

Well she was criticizing Money, which is the true political god, so of course politicians on both sides demand her head.

I’ve also run into the situation where someone says higher taxes hurt growth, and when I question them on it, they have only irrational responses. The people who have amassed their mountains of wealth will do anything to keep it growing - making it slightly harder won’t make them stop, that’s insane. And if you give…

It’s because people are mentally lazy. If you see someone use a word or phrase you’ve associated with a certain archetype (personality, political party, level of intelligence), you’ll classify that person as belonging to that archetype’s group and not bother investigating the content of their communication. It’s…

I remember reading that the South Park guys were able to read the script before it was released and thought it was so terrible, they planned on filming their own version of it, line for line, using puppets, and release it at the same time, but lawyers convinced them they’d be sued to hell and back, so they did Team…

Agreed, but that’s really more a problem with the whole system itself: to get into a position to be electable generally costs a massive amount of money, which means the vast majority of people in those positions will be corporately sponsored and thus controlled. But refraining from voting for someone like him doesn’t…

Yes, thank you! The fascination with the worst people says something about people: how much of that morbid interest is a weak justification of their own mediocrity.

An ANN is trained on a very specific task. For example, one could be trained to determine from pictures if an animal is a dog or not. Typically the ANN’s output is a probability, e.g. “80% likelihood this picture is of a dog”. You give it pictures, then look at the results, and tell it if it’s wrong or right. Inside…

So ~$23 million isn’t enough to pass on?

Just a reminder that Stella Artois is from Belgium, where it is notorious for being the lowest of the low in terms of beer, and the only difference between it there and here is branding, aka tricking you into seeing value that isn’t actually there. So if you like it, you’re both dumb and gross.

Well that’s potentially very problematic, as your examples are entertainment. Having news be dictated by what’s popular is how we got to the severe level of manipulative misinformation that some news outlets have become. For news to be what it should be, the most accurate and relevant news would sell the best. I think…