Recent content by RCon

Damn. I'd do that tomorrow if I could get that deal.

Got a link?

I don't care for that analogy at all. It might work if we assume that god does, in fact, exist. My dog absolutely knows that I exist. My dog may not understand my motivations, my feelings, my desires, my goals, or my whims, but my dog knows without doubt that I exist. However, the analogy fails...

I have never experienced any of those things. Shouldn't my natural reaction then be to believe that god is not real? In fact, it seems like that is my only reasonable reaction.

You don't know this. For all you know, the writers knew perfectly well they were making something up.

I thought Strays was pretty funny.

My hot take is that this is because most people are stupid or lazy and thus incapable of well thought out, reasonable takes.

This take on ESPN is 100% accurate, IMO. In short, ESPN (along with so many news and other media organizations) has learned that smart reporting and commentary doesn't sell, but outrage and stupid hot takes do. https://slate.com/culture/2025/08/espn-barstool-sports-tiktok-pat-mcafee.html

Wow, this is an enormous development. This will likely push the EU, Canada, and other countries away from Microsoft, Amazon, and other US providers very rapidly. It may also push US companies with global presence away from those same US providers.

I'm not sure if it's state law/policy or just the local high school policy, but last year they started a no phone policy in class. There's a cell phone "locker" on every door where kids put their phones when they walk in and they collect their phones on the way out. Teachers say it worked great.

To address just this one thing, there are also more modern books in the curriculum, at least for my kids. I am not personally familiar with most of those and expect many here also aren't, so I didn't list them.

Pretty much all of this, yeah. I'd like to know whether this time it's real or not, but I don't have a good way to judge. I do look at the list of books my kids are reading in English class and I'm pleased to say it includes the things most of us would likely consider essential (e.g. Of Mice...

I would suggest this isn't exactly a new thing. I remember proofreading some essays for friends at an elite liberal arts college in the late 80s and being surprised at how bad the grammar, spelling, and general writing ability were. Unfortunately, the lesson young me took away from that...

This, especially. We as a society have to stop pretending that all opinions and views should be given equal deference. It's simply not the case. Some opinions need to be called out as blatantly false, outrageous, or otherwise harmful. For example, there are not two valid sides to the Flat...

By this rationale, wouldn't that mean that flu vaccines are never FDA approved? And yet, they are, best I can tell.