the neat thing about baseball is that the best games suck the most to watch
the sheer volume of sports betting ads on the postseason broadcast is disheartening
I hate sports pregame analysis, everyone just pointing out that if the good players play well the team will do well. thanks guys. now let me see the dodgers lose
I yearn for the moment when I go to bed and realize that I didn't hear anything at all about AI that day
somehow every yankees fan they zoom in on is worse than the one before
I really wish you could use the word bloviate as a noun like novitiate
can't believe that a consistently incurious poster thinks that philosophical knowledge is exhausted by what people do when high in their dorm rooms
the neat thing about one on one relationships with power differentials is that they are rarely a site for abuse and don't need any external monitoring
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I wonder how often other philosophers tell their friends and family to trust them on an important moral issue because they're a philosopher cause I do it plenty and it's funny every time
it's wild to have watched brexit, thinking "surely no country could possibly own goal itself harder than this" only to watch america, with our typical brash oneupsmanship, show them just how badly one can fuck up their own life
academic freedom is not necessarily a simple thing, but the claim that peer review and social pressures will keep bad research out is false and the claim that there are no ideas that should be excluded from academia depends on the first one being true so idk man maybe we should exclude some ideas
the most important single fact to know about AI is that I think it's wrong to use in like 70% of its most common use cases. the second most important single fact to know about AI is that I'm right.
it's actually pretty messed up that angular momentum is conserved
I clearly need to keep up with the discipline's broadsheets more closely, I didn't realize conference flirting was such a critical topic
this is clearly rigged to make sure people want more 3rd place matches
I know that this puts me in a tricky moral position but personally I feel that it is good when people who almost exclusively enact moral and political wrongdoing on society are no longer in a position to do so ever again
I hated the kalshi ad the most but this claude ad is really offering some competition
VAR is dumb and ABS is good because one eliminates a judgement call and one raises the stakes on judgement calls half the time
england avoids sanction for its illegal play because the refs do not see it you say
as a relatively new soccer watcher I appreciate england quietly demonstrating how to pass for 20 minutes