Yes, I only respect journalists who never update their opinions or recommendations given new information. Everyone needs to use psychic foresight to determine the best takes and then never ever change them. Meta was always exactly as bad as it is today. /s

Yeah, I edited the post to call that out specifically

I knew someone who didn’t use a blinker and this was their justification, and I’m like my guy you’re in Seattle now; people will drive dangerously in order to let you merge when they really shouldn’t!

The people who are most likely to suffer in the next 4 years are also the people with the fewest resources. If those of us with enough resources to leave do so, who will be left to fight for those who can’t?

Exactly. She’s using straight needles (with a knob on one end) instead of double-pointed needles. DPNs are also straight I guess! But “straight needles” specifically means the ones with one point and a knob.

More info: https://creatingruth.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/do-you-knit-like-miss-marple/

There was a bizarre movement in the Victorian era to get people to knit with their needles held with tips pointed down because it’s “more ladylike” but it’s also very difficult and irritating to knit that way so it didn’t catch on.

I don’t think there’s any way to knit a tubular sock on straight needles; the geometry doesn’t allow it. You can knit a sock flat and then sew it up into a tube, but it would look different from the comic.

Edit: actually now that I’ve thought about it more, I think there is a way but it would be super annoying (slip every other stitch so you’re knitting the back and front of the tube at the same time, that might work…). Basically the equivalent of writing a letter by writing every other word and then going back to fill in the rest. Possible, but no reason to do it.

Artists. I beg you. Do any research into what knitting looks like before drawing someone knitting.

The inciting incident is pretty clearly his daughter coming out as trans.

Here’s a post by one of the coiners of the term: https://xriskology.substack.com/p/tescreal-faq

We cannot know what Musk actually believes, of course. He claims that longtermism is “a close match for my philosophy,” and has made other statements suggesting he’s a longtermist (see question #3). However, it is possible that tech billionaires like Musk came across longtermism and realized that it provides a superficially plausible moral excuse for what they want to do anyways: colonize space, merge our brains with AI, and so on, while ignoring the plight of the global poor.

Longtermism and the other TESCREAL ideologies naturally appeal to tech billionaires because these ideologies tell them exactly what they want to hear: not only are you excused from caring about “non-existential” risks like global poverty, but you are a morally better person for focusing on space colonization, jumpstarting the next stage of human evolution, etc.

😂

Yeah, though clues are few and far between; the

is the biggest clue. From Jordan’s other writings, the

and that led to the Age of Legends.

Losing consciousness for any reason = ER. A friend passed out during dinner and we weren’t sure what to do, so we called the triage nurse and they were like “ER now!” (He was fine, they never figured out what happened and it’s never happened again, but it’s definitely stayed with me.)

Great criteria. Another “straight to the ER” one is loss of consciousness; people get knocked out in movies all the time so it’s easy to assume it’s fine, but it’s not.

Forced labor is still slavery even if you’re paid and not whipped.

Plastics industry: “See?! We told you plastic decomposes and doesn’t just stay in landfills forever. Happy now?”

One out of eight Americans have worked at McDonald’s.

JAKAELA’S FLAXSEED HAIR JUICE

WEIRD SHIT I GOT ON ETSY CALLED “MAMMA JEAN’S HAIR JUICE” OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, I DON’T REMEMBER, LET ME PULL UP THE APP AND CHECK