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Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
@natecull That's probably why it's hard to find. Perhaps it's not treated in the english-speaking world as a Tolstoy original, but treated as "Tolstoy's translation of a Hugo poem" (and Hugo's original seems to be well described and translated in English, it's part of a decently famous collection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_L%C3%A9gende_des_si%C3%A8cles )
@natecull According to that page, it's a prose retelling of the poem "Les pauvres gens" by Hugo.
@natecull Russian wikipedia's bibliography for Tolstoy (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%9B%D1%8C%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE) references a short story titled "poor people" (1905).
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Avatar: The First Airbender
(blows on hands)
(watches the air bend around the hands)
My secret is: the air's always bendy
(taps forehead, plugs brain into a dinosaur, flies it)
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My Ultimate Sonic the Hedgehog take is that they should have changed the series to "Sonic, A Hedgehog" when they started introducing more of them.
re: USPOL
@natecull I don't think there's any subtle logic there. Politics is IMO too unpredictable for subtle calculus to work. There's two main arguments that I hear:
1) impeachment in 1998 led to losses in 1998, and so impeachment now would likely lead to losses in the next election.
2) Democrats made big gains in 2018 by focusing on health care and not negative campaigning against Trump, and that should be the strategy in 2020; impeachment does not support that.
I think that discussion is unrelated Trump being an existential threat. Trump being an existential threat makes it SUPER IMPORTANT that the Democrats get the strategy right, but it doesn't really inform what the correct strategy is.
I'm all in favor of impeachment because it's the right thing to do, but I'm not going to pretend I know whether it would help or hurt electoral chances...
re: USPOL
@natecull That impeaching Bill Clinton led to the unusual situation where the President's party actually *gained* seats in the midterms. There's usually a backlash, but the midterm elections right after the impeachment pretty much sucked for the Republicans. The impeachment was in october, elections in november. The election that people think about in terms of the effects of that impeachment was 1998, not 2000.
No idea whether either 1998 or 2000 are actually relevant to 2020 in any way, but that's what people are talking about if they talk about Clinton's impeachment.
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If you ever think for an instant that misogyny in gaming is new, remember that there was an uproar when the Queen was added to chess in Europe because she was a "powerful female figure".
My D&D group mets so ararely nowadays
Scheduling: CR20 mob
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Going to try streaming some #DnD on Mixer. Stream is live now, will be starting shortly.
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I have no idea what the context of this quote is but I like it
(presumably from the 5th International Conference on Computational Social Science)
https://twitter.com/g_r_richardson/status/1152197162350067714
<< Duncan Watts - "For 20 years I thought my job was as a basic scientist. Publish papers and throw them over the wall for someone else to apply. I now realise that there's no one on the other side of the wall. Just a huge pile of papers that we've all thrown over." #IC2S2 >>
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and if you ping too long a server, the server also pings back you
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TruckWitches
There are two wolves inside of you. You swallowed the wolves to catch the cats, you swallowed the cats to catch the birds, you swallowed the birds to catch the spiders (Which wriggled and wiggled and jiggled inside you), you swallowed the spiders to catch the flies, and I don't know why you swallowed two flies.
(Redrafted due to autocorrect)
-Alice
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Dear white, male, cis, straight allies in tech: We need you out there de-radicalizing your racist, sexist techbros friends and coworkers (who are much more likely to listen to you than any of us) more than we need your code. Thank you.
re: What do you call a failed octagon?
@aldeka that's actually pretty good
way to go two year old
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
