There’s a TikTok sound/song about capybaras, and videos of them are fairly popular.

It’s kinda the least “Radiohead” Radiohead song.

Not an actual quote but:

Thom Yorke (vocals): Right before we started working on OK, I was doing a solo tour where I would walk out onstage and say, “‘Creep’ is a bad song,” and that would be the whole show. I did that in hundreds of sold-out shows all around the world, because I wanted people to understand that “Creep” is a bad and not a good song.

Funnily enough, I’ve seen some compelling criticism of good old D & K.

The original paper by Dunning and Kruger starts with the quote: “It is one of the essential features of incompetence that the person so inflicted is incapable of knowing that they are incompetent.” This idea has spread far and wide through both scientific literature and pop culture alike. But according to the work of my colleagues and me, the reality is that very few people are truly unskilled and unaware. The Dunning and Kruger experiment did find a real effect – most people think they are better than average. But according to my team’s work, that is all Dunning and Kruger showed. The reality is that people have an innate ability to gauge their competence and knowledge. To claim otherwise suggests, incorrectly, that much of the population is hopelessly ignorant.

Yes - the oak trees were a big deal. Touring the gardens was part of the house tour.

They really try to make one of the daughters of the house a sort of princess/Southern Belle. The woman at the gift shop really encouraged me to pick this up, when we started talking about Gone With the Wind.

I’ll have to flip through the ephemera collection to find some of the other “fun” things. Also got a coffee table book somewhere.

That plantation, Nottoway, explicitly presented itself as romantic. When I visited, they had an exhibit about how kindly the old master was, because he gave the slave children candy at Christmas.

It’s a place for rich white people to have weddings at, while being served by underpaid black people who are probably descendants of the people held there. They sold cotton in the gift shop - it was a sugarcane plantation. That’s something you do on fucking purpose.

If you want a place that understands that it is Americans Auschwitz - Whitney Plantation. Amazing place that everyone in the American south should visit.

I named myself after two scientists, whose work I share with the world regularly 😉

christian conservatives: we need to stack the Supreme Court to punish sluts and homos

also christian conservatives: Epstein’s buddy, the rapist who couldn’t name his favorite Bible verse, is gods chosen instrument

The solution is to put all of the uniqueness in the middle name. Then you still get to feel “special” while not forcing your kid to go by “tragedeigh” or whatever.

When I chose my name - I made my first as milquetoast and appropriate to my age as possible. My middle I went balls out - I guarantee I have a cooler middle name than you do.

With EA and Spore - SecuROM was a straight up root kit. Basically malware. Pretty sure on the Sims 2 forums there were people who had their computers bricked. (Sims 2 was already messy enough to reinstall sometimes, EA did lots of weirdness with the registry.)

Sony did something similar with music CD’s. Their elaborate scheme to prevent you from ripping your CD’s more than three times or whatever created a vulnerability that was actively exploited by malware developers.

The free market is when the president tells companies what prices they should set.

That sounds like a criminal confession. You’ll need to show up to court this Sunday for arraignment.

The fact that the other singer on the soundtrack sounds like a teenage boy doesn’t help.

Why the fuck was this on the Osmosis Jones album.

🎶Tastes good, like a cigarette should🎵

It’s sorta like how many states had abortion laws on the books ready to return to enforcement the second Dobbs happened.

It’s not as if a sitting Supreme Court Justice has speculated on getting rid of Lawrence v Texas - oh wait:

[W]e should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. Because any substantive due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous’ … we have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents.”

Clarence Thomas. Shithead would give up Loving v Virginia as long as he keeps getting to be a sex pest and enjoy fun yacht trips.

Now, some people say my mind’s blown, I’m coolin’ like a snow cone

On my cell phone I’m paid, G, can’t call me, just page me

Young ladies, young ladies, I like 'em underage see

Some say that’s statutory (But I say it’s mandatory)

My story ain’t that complex, two forties and a rolex

Fred and his best friend, Barney Rubble, participated in the Bedrock Wars, where they and other soldiers were deceived by the conqueror, Mordok the Destroyer, into committing genocide against the Tree People and burning down their home to establish Bedrock. Barney and his wife Betty raised the infant sole survivor of the Tree People as their son, Bamm-Bamm. The “Loyal Order of Water Buffalos Lodge” from the original show is instead depicted as a veterans group the two attend to help them deal with the trauma of the ordeal.

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Babylonians had it figured it somewhat out for astronomy purposes about a thousand years before the weird bean hater.

No see - it’s all about who’s doing the thing. Words are all made up anyway, there are just good guys and bad guys.

Remember how “precedent” stopped them from allowing Obama to appoint a new Supreme Court judge as a lame duck, but the same logic didn’t apply to Trump?

The best part of BlackkKlansman was that I watched it with two literal billionaires who most assuredly voted for Trump 3 times. I got to feel their reaction to that ending montage. Thank you for the reminder.