Ice cubes. From a cup. That they are shaking periodically between sips/bites.

Do you condemn KHHAAMAS?

Questioned religion from a very young age. Went hard into the “New Atheism” movement as a teen. Figured physicalism was a necessary consequence of atheism.

In March, I binged several episodes of Walden Pod.

Now I’m open to the idea of a soul and an afterlife. (Not convinced, but open.)

I’m still an atheist, just not a physicalist. It seems childish to me now, in the same way that religion seemed childish all along.

She had a brown-sounding name, dual citizenship, and attended a protest. “Unamerican” on three counts.

I was a little older, like 3rd grade, but same. Nightmares about being overrun by bug hordes for months and months.

I learned to open bottles using a lighter, and then taught my friends. After a while, we just started referring to lighters as “bottle openers”.

As it was with standardized testing, so shall it be with personal behavior: the goal is not to inform the student why, but to enforce compliance.

Some seemingly-innocuous channels just happen to appeal to fascists and become arbitrary entrances to the right wing YT pipeline.

I’ve noticed Big Think, Sabine Hossenfelder, lots of economics videos, and lots of less-reputable science channels tend to spur a rash of neocon content.

More horrific algorithmically-controlled jobs.

✅ “What it looks like”

✅ “How it looks”

🚫 “How it looks like”

The specific question was “I support equal rights for the LGBTQ community”

• 2021: 79% said yes
• 2022: 81%
• 2023: 84%
• 2024: 80%

Seems early to assume an actual decline. 2023 might have been weird. Election years might be weird. Who knows? But it is worth keeping an eye on.

Side note: If your chart has two years, and an assigned color for each year… Don’t use both colors for both bars.

If not for this specific case being tied to some text about going down from 84 to 80, I would not have been able to understand the rest of the charts.

Crash reporting, probably.

Wealth tax when?

Some of my favorites that have a higher frequency of “major upset” events. It really depends on your group, and how they like to play.

I stick with pretty quick and accessible games, because we frequently have to teach new people and I hate spending 3 hours on one playthrough of a huge game and then the newbie never gets a chance to try again with their new understanding.

Favorites:

• Wizard reliably makes our whole table lose their minds
• Love Letter takes sudden drastic turns and is so quick to play
• Bang! (the dice version) has as much treachery as it does chaos
• No Thanks! is an exercise in collective sadism
• Nanuk has perhaps the best “oh shiiiiiiiiiiiii-” moments with a combination of hidden information, bluffing, push-your-luck, pleading for help, backstabbing, and high-stakes card flips

Bluffing games:

• Coup
• Skull
• Cockroach Poker

Card games with sudden win conditions:

• Five Crowns
• Mahjong
• LLAMA

Asymmetric information games:

• Secret Hitler
• Codenames
• Mysterium Park

Not as frequent, but sometimes perfect for the right crowd:

• Three Dragon Ante
• Get Bit!
• GUBS
• Ca$h n Guns has foam guns that the whole table points at each other at once, Mexican Stand-off style

Board games have been a pretty effective way to recapture that feeling for me. When a single dice roll or card flip wrecks everyone’s plans and the whole table erupts at once, that’s a good time.

Video games, especially online, feel a little too disjointed these days – like our consciousness isn’t synced up the same way as it is when we all know we’re looking at the same thing at the same time and holding our breath.

At the risk of playing into the stereotype: But what about Ut Gravida?

Not gold. Australium.

I haven’t seen any of his work, but reportedly he’s a mega grifter. Not out to make creative stuff for its own sake, but just maximizing clicks. Giving away money, but only because he’s done the math to see that the revenue eclipses the cost. Helping people with sad life stories, but only if he can get it on video and publish it.

And yet he’s like the number one channel or something?

I guess there’s always gonna be something to fill that particular role. But I don’t think it’s worth paying any attention to him as a specific case, more just as a general trend. Like the fact that you gotta clean the grime off the side of your fish tank every now and then.