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Fox vocalizations, or, "why does it sound like there's a demon baby in the woods??"

Dear rental car places: please install cell phone dash mounts.

Signed, me, in an unfamiliar part of town and missing every turn while juggling my phone in my lap.

Full moon being scudding clouds. Beautiful.

Aiaiaiaiai!
(how fox awoo.)

Programming note 2: Initially it kinda sounds like one of the players is doing a gay stereotype for his character voice. He later clarified that the voice is based on that of am actual (straight) friend of his.

Earlyish the show makes a couple of minor mis-steps with regards to queer representation, but actually *listened to feedback* and ends up having some great queer characters.

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Programming notes: the show is absolutely finding it's feet for the first couple of arcs. You should know whether it's your jam or not by, I'd say, the end of episode 8. Yeah I know that's a fairly big time ask but it's worth it.

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I didn't expect that a podcast where three professional comedians and their dad play D&D would end up having a plot that's leaving me on the edge of my seat, but now I'm 49 episodes in and absolutely loving it.

The Adventure Zone is good and you should listen to it.

First episode re-edited to cut a lot of extraneous character creation junk: adventurezone.libsyn.com/ep-15

Show archive: maximumfun.org/shows/adventure

kinks question 

Okay y'all an offhand comment has me curious about something, for any of you who are okay sharing:

What's your biggest kink that's difficult or impossible to fully implement in meatspace? Is this also you biggest kink overall?

My Little Community®: Vulnerability is Magic™

Yes, it's subtle, but it gets ingrained. Child 1 is trained to believe "whether or not I accomplish something is because of something innate in me", and Child 2 is trained to believe "whether or not I accomplish something is a function of the work I put in".

Child 2 sees failure as an obstacle to be overcome and redoubles their effort.

Child 1 sees failure as a /personal/ failure and seeks something else that they know they'll succeed at.

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Two children have just completed a task. Both are praised for completing it.

Child 1 hears: "You're so smart, good job!"

Child 2 hears: "You did such good work, good job!"

They feel roughly the same, but there's a substantial difference. Consider the implications:

Child 1 hears: "You have an innate ability that allowed you to complete this task."

Child 2 hears: "You did a lot of work that allowed you to complete this task."

Now do you see the difference?

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I fucking just can't with this paper right now 😂

"Methanolysis of the Cyclic Acetal Function of NanoKid Catalyzed by NanoGoblin, the Pyridinium Salt of Tetracyanocyclopentadienide"

pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/a

#science #silly

glitch.social/media/bhoC1g35gk

Opinion: Ethics is the most approachable branch of philosophy, but also by far the most difficult.

how long until nintendo accidentally makes furniture behavior in acpc turing-complete and then someone exploits a buffer overflow to use their campsite layout to mine bitcoin on your phone when you visit them

Also Lucy Liu is a stunningly talented actor. She does the thing where you can just look at her face and tell exactly what her character is thinking.

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I am Andrew Ryan! And I propose a question... 

is a girl not entitled to the but of we're both girls?

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The show Elementary isn't ostentatious about it, but secretly has some absolutely brilliant cinematography.

as best I can tell the reason for that much emphasis placed on polynomial equations in algebra class is that a while ago mathematicians realized you could treat them as numbers in their own right (as vectors) & proofs about them were very much in vogue in the 16th and 17th centuries, the mathematical era before calculus became fashionable

& we don't really revisit our math curriculums, we just put new stuff on the end. So polynomials come before calculus comes before topological set theory &c

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