We need to get away from anecdotes as a way to describe this problem. There’s dozens of reasons a city can hit a record high or low. It’s like saying Wilt Chamberlain is the greatest basketball player of all time because nobody else has scored 100 points in a single game, or Bill Russell because he won the most titles. Those stats are based on key games or favorable conditions and not really an overall, day-in-day-out performance. The same goes with climate. The year you have a “100 year snow storm” could be the same year you have a record number of days above 90°.

Science isn’t about focusing on outliers, it’s about focusing on trends and what the majority of the data is telling you. Unfortunately we can’t always comprehend slow moving data points, which is why we capture data and view it as a whole.

These things can get pricey so I think it’s reasonable to say something like “pizza and drinks for the kids”.

Also this goalpost will move almost immediately. What if the parent doesn’t understand why the OS is asking for a DOB and they type whatever? What if the parent doesn’t log out and the kids use the adult account? What if the kid is really smart and bypasses the check (I think this could actually get bypassed easily)?

Rather than rolling back this rule they’ll just go even further and say the OS must analyze every action and utilize every input (e.g. microphone, camera) to determine the age of the current user and that controls need to be at the hardware level and OSes need to get state certified, etc. Before long only Windows, Apple, Google, and maybe RedHat can comply. An entire community of Linux enthusiasts destroyed. And as some bills have stated, rather vaguely, this can apply to something as simple as a calculator!

If you want millennials to go to the theater you need to figure out what we can do with our kids for 2 damn hours.

Doesn’t look like him in the slightest but the only husband and wife comedians I remember on aftermidnight were Moshe Kasher and Natasha Leggero.

I actually prefer potato vodka over grain-based.

Fully caught up on Severance and very excited for next season.

19, when 9-11 occurred. I was a truther for a while, not anymore, but ever since then it’s been year after year of disappointment. Obama almost got us back on track but didn’t have the guts to do things like completely close Gitmo or put an end to mass surveillance.

It’s not all garbage but man I wish they still had the block channel feature.

I was thinking of the letter T but that works also.

What’s that thing when people are killed for no real strategic purpose? 🤔

So the missiles Bibi has been talking about for over a decade finally came?

We’ve killed over 600k people since Trump took office. Where’s our regime change huh?

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/

Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.

- Trump (June 22, 2025)

Didn’t think I’d be telling my kids the TV is rotting their brains. Yeah, Looney Tunes wasn’t educational in the least but at least the shorts had plotlines. Stuff my kids watch (mostly on YouTube) will transition between scenes within seconds and there’s no point or resolution to any of it!

They get their Russian payments.

A single nation veto isn’t necessarily a bad idea but I agree they should’ve been booted long ago for undemocratic policies and clear corruption from outside nations.

https://u24.gov.ua/

Online dating when sites didn’t conspire to keep you single.

Minidiscs. More durable than CDs. They just looked cool. Sounded way better than cassettes and easier to record and modify tracks. If the data drives were easier to acquire (i.e. like a CD drive) I think they could’ve taken off.