Lysus

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This is a good thread - some of the people on the other side can be written off, but it is possible to get through to some of them and it's important to try.

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we can be as irony-poisoned as we like but the simple fact is the orange man is bad, and it's good and funny when bad things happen to him.

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Since we're talking about outdoor cats again, here's a story from the old country: the time this (very cute) cat incited a series of wild events, culminating in one of our roommates being kicked out Strap in. It's a thread.

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The economy overall is doing well for most people.

Most Americans say they’re doing OK, but the economy is terrible. So they’re either wrong about their own lives, or misinformed about the overall economy. Which do you think is more likely? www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/o...

Opinion | America Is Still Having a ‘Vibecession’www.nytimes.com Most voters say that they’re doing OK but that the economy is bad.

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every Pacific naval encounter from late 1943 onward is like the IJN Golden Kirin, Glorious Harbinger of Eternal Imperial Dawn versus six identical copies of the USS We Built This Yesterday supplied by a ship that does nothing but make birthday cakes for the other ships

WWII ice cream barge, able to create 10 gallons of ice cream every seven minutes to support morale a chilling display of soft power

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we should unironically invest a lot of money into the policy-making capacity of Congress

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Things about politics I’ve come to believe strongly: 1. Less bad is better than more bad 2. Nostalgia is generally incorrect. Things weren’t better 3. Still, things can get much worse 4. Democracy is an outlier in human political history 5. Optimism is rooted in agency, not positive predictions

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Alright, there's not enough ancient warfare on my feed, so let's fix that. Let's talk about how you raise a 'barbarian' army in places like pre-Roman Gaul and Spain! After all, these non-state societies punched well above their weight in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC! 1/

There is nothing I desire more than a new season of PRETTY GOOD.

1. @secretbase.bsky.social is starting an early-release patreon for special projects 2. i have made a new three-part documentary series that has nothing to do with sports 3. i am bringing back PRETTY GOOD youtu.be/WNTvVg1MoQA?...

We're starting a Patreonyoutu.be https://www.patreon.com/SecretBase All of the information is in the video but if you come to YouTube looking to do a little reading, I guess I can scratch that itch. We're starting a Patreon. We will release one piece of content there every week. This content includes the return of Pretty Good, the first-ever Secret Base podcast, early release content, patron mailbags, longform written Dorktowns, and lots of experimentation or ideas we haven't even come up with yet. We'll want your help there. We also want a place for more interaction, for everyone who knows and enjoys Secret Base to go and know and enjoy each other. Again, the video said things so much better than this so please check that out. Subscribe: http://goo.gl/Nbabae Enter the Secret Base: http://www.sbnation.com/secret-base Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/secretbase Follow us on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/secretbasesbn Follow us on Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@secretbasesbn? Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/9pMHRV Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/NvpZFF Explore SB Nation: http://www.sbnation.com

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“Chaos” is a word that obscures more than it reveals. Newsrooms reach for it when they want to signal import using vibes, and that always — ALWAYS — works against showing the audience what is actually going on.

My most anti-media view (for a guy inside media) is that we too often used terms like "chaos" and "civil war" to describe "people protesting" or "people having argumentative meetings."

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Noticing my adventuring party is weary I reach into my pack and take out the gift the wood elves gave us for just this moment; there wrapped carefully in a thick leaf: an eightball of coke

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The Cairn 2e boxed set Kickstarter is live. Back it if you're into that sort of thing. www.kickstarter.com/projects/155...

Coming soon: Cairn 2e Boxed Setwww.kickstarter.com Explore a dark and mysterious wood filled with strange folk, hidden treasure, and unspeakable monstrosities in this ttrpg boxed set.

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its weird how often i end up in a conversation where i wish PLAYING AT THE WORLD, Jon Peterson's magisterial history of the transition of wargaming into roleplaying games, was still in print

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If you’re interested in #TTRPG stuff — specifically, deep-dive but accessible analysis of “Anything Not D&D” — you might want to check out LUDONARRATIVE DISSIDENTS. The first few seasons are already up at ludonarrativedissidents.com/ and the third season is funding right now at kck.st/434xDWx .

Ludonarrative Dissidents Podcast: Season 3kck.st A tabletop role playing game review podcast. Three RPG designers analyze systems, adventures, and supplements with in-depth critiques.

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This is the best one, thanks to some Reddit nerd

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it has always been interesting to me how “liberal” is a term of abuse on the right and (parts of) the left, and how in both cases it seems to encompass basically anyone who isn’t them.

Theres a certain kind of ideologically-linked illiteracy a lot of folks have Hank's point was not related to "market consequences of housing homeless people" whatsoever, it was a straightforward claim that the statistic is false 9.8k likes

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you simply aren't prepared to understand our silicon valley elites if you don't comprehend that they have talked themselved into being scared to death of a computer god that explicitly does not exist yet

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Just returned from the terminally online doomer leftist convention (on discord). It was so beautiful. Hundreds of group chats joining hands to chant "a better world isn't possible" before dissolving into internecine fights about which better world wasn't possible

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I shared this on The Other Site so I guess I should here: Someone asked me why I think TikTok is a uniquely bad information source in the current environment. I get asked this a fair amount so here's my answer

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people can do whatever they’d like with their vote but it’s worth remembering two things: first, that votes carry essentially no information other than 1 or 0 and are a poor means of communicating intent. and second, that politicians tend not to care about people who don’t vote for them.

and Republican politicians actually have reason to fear, like, religious evangelicals staying home for specific elections specifically *because* they are a significant, reliable and relatively united bloc. The same can't be said about the left in any meaningful way.

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The thing that is particularly frustrating about the loss of the night sky to light pollution is how inexpensive and how few tradeoffs are involved to fix it, and we just don't do it.

Humanity is slowly losing access to the night sky, and astronomers have invented a new term to describe the pain associated with this loss: "noctalgia," meaning "sky grief."

The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for itwww.space.com 'Noctalgia' is a feature of the modern age.

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Young man-- there's no need to feel down I said young man-- Pagliacci's in town You can go there-- see the world's greatest clown Now why do- you- wince- so sadly?

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It’s an unpopular opinion to have on here but I do not think that our dystopian hellscape is uniquely bad compared to past dystopian hellscapes in this country’s history and i do not think there are no prospects of improvement

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