In 2008, Nolan imagines Batman turning NYC's cellphones into a city-wide echolocation device. This is considered such a horrific invasion of privacy that the person tasked with managing it only agrees to it on the condition that it be destroyed after dealing with the joker 1/2
today I cast what I expect was the most useless ballot of my life
Feel like I've had this argument many times but risk aversion is not irrational, to the point that mainstream econ has a definition of "rationalizable preferences" that absolutely includes risk-aversion
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2w agoYou’re agreeing with me, buddy. The risk-averse answer is produced by well-known cognitive biases but is irrational; frame the question differently and most people will answer differently. Because their answer isn’t rational.
I'd never considered that there'd also be more electoral votes, this is great!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump: "The Democrats are gonna terminate the filibuster as soon as they have a chance and then they're gonna approve DC and Puerto Rico as states. They get 4 more senators, 12 more congressmen, like 40 electoral votes ... you don't want to see me cry."
Just finished reading the last of the papers in that annotated bibliography someone gave council at the last meeting and lemme tell you, if I'm an English teacher grading this, it's an F-
guy who has bad intuition for how many times to repeat the chant
Trying to decide if it makes sense to strategically vote in the republican primary but I'm not actually sure whether Lucero or McGuire is a worse candidate lol
Hard to overstate how dominated DC is by military planes rn, there’s a flyover happening at least once every 5 minutes
The newest in national humiliation: our trains are so bad that when it gets to a temperature it does *every year* we have to slow them down, making a two hour ride to DC a 7+ hour ride chugging along at 25 mph
I know it’s my fault for being on their newsletter but I just got this email from the New Liberals and it’s just so embarrassing. Like man if you really think your main enemy right now is to your left you’re just deeply unserious
If the US coach ruins this bit for me because he won’t sub on the A team I’m gonna freak
amicus@moxievoxy.bsky.social · 2mo ago????
For half the annual wage of a Mall Ambassador, the city of Charlottesville can pay me to go around town stomping on lantern flies 18 hours a day, as opposed to the mere 3 that I'm offering them now for free
God gave lantern flies a 1 second cooldown on their evasive jump move because he wanted them to be low-level fodder for new players
If your two bathroom signs say “either” and “or” it means the “or” one is reserved for nonbinary people and all the cis have to go to “either”
Petition to commission whoever made this cool tape art to replace the music box on main banner
What is happening in NY is extremely abnormal. How did the Spurs go from a 95% chance of winning to now a 0% chance? NBA is now blocking the government of Texas from auditing the results. ...
onion person@junlper.beer · 2mo agoprediction markets doing press and paying people to make society trust they’re accurate, then giving someone the trump admin has hailed as a “journalist” a paid sponsorship post to cast doubt on elections is horrifying. prediction markets need to be made illegal immediately
Hey cville people, my friend recently had her bike stolen in Southwood, if you see this orange e-cells bike around please let me know!
It is *insane* that they haven't pulled this yet, it is so embarrassing
this r/cville post really sets itself up to sound so much cooler than it is (just some construction)
University president that sanitizes his hands after each person at graduation
I feel like northernlion has this insane level of influence on people specifically in my demographic and interests. Almost no one I know has heard of the guy but every time someone is similar to me it’s like 100%
leon@leyawn.bsky.social · 3mo agoit's not just hasan piker. the media is going after other streamers now
