Maybe heterosexuality is a metastable state while homosexuality is a stable ground state. It’s like sexual vacuum decay.

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Twitter?

You have it set to ‘m’ for “male”, when you should have it set to ‘w’ for “weevil”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuDqNLgVHv8

Wikipedia used to be untrusted. Anyone can put anything there! Now teachers rather see wikipedia than AI bullshit.

As a longtime contributor to Wikipedia, the teachers were categorically correct. 2000s Wikipedia was, broadly, a trashfire where citations were mostly an afterthought and there really weren’t standards. Some of the most bare minimum standards that make Wikipedia actually functional weren’t codified until c. 2006 and took easily over a decade to really take hold culturally. And unfortunately, the popularization of Wikipedia made the late 2000s pretty bad too; whereas the early 2000s were a largely benign wild west, the late ones saw a flood of near-unfiltered garbage that’s still being cleaned up today.

I’d still say not to trust Wikipedia today and use its sources instead for anything even slightly consequential, but back in peak Wikipedia scare days, “use its sources” was very often a nonstarter.

If you actually look at the evidence presented, they cite this 2019 meta-analysis in the Journal of Management: “Making CEO Narcissism Research Great [ew]: A Review and Meta-Analysis of CEO Narcissism”. On signature size, for which it found only two studies by nearly the exact same team, it remarked:

Ham[, Seybert, and Wang] (2018) and Ham, Lang, Seybert, and Wang (2017) employed an alternative unobtrusive measure of CEO narcissism by measuring the size and contents of a CEO’s signature in SEC filings (2 of 42 articles). Their rationale posits that a larger signature represents the grandiose nature of a narcissist. To validate the measure, Ham et al. used student samples in a laboratory setting. While the main advantage of the measure is that it captures a behavior under the direct control of the CEO (i.e., his or her signature), the measure may not fully capture narcissism’s multifaceted nature. Ham et al. also provided external validation by correlating the measure with employee ratings of CEO narcissism, as obtained by O’Reilly et al. (2014). As this is a newer measure, it has seen limited use to date.

I still see this as some absolute TikTok narcissist-whisperer shit and emblematic of the worst of the reproducibility crisis and conclusion-chasing in the social sciences – sincere respect for the social sciences though I may have.

Edit: I will add that not Charles Ham, not Mark Lang, not Nicholas Seybert, and not Sean Wang are psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, or frankly fucking anything; they’re in business studies.

I summon Bronchodia, the Obstructive One!

Could I then use this handwriting phrenology to claim that Jimmy Carter was a bigger narcissist than Barack Obama was a slightly bigger narcissist than Adolf Hitler?

I understand they’re considering other factors, but this is so obviously fucking stupid.

unobtrusive measures of narcissism via photo size, signature size, and relative compensation predicted greater resistance to remote work in public statements early in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dude, come the fuck on. I take psychology as a serious science, so this methodology legitimately offends me: signature size as a metric for narcissism? Get the actual fuck out of here. This reeks of a paper in search of a conclusion.

Yet again proof that inflation as a tracked percentage is BS

Well for starters, $10–$15 “in most places” is completely asinine. 15 cents would’ve been reasonable for an ice cream soda in 1948, so neither that nor the $2.10 figure are disputed, but “$15” is some “I mean it’s one banana, Michael” shit. No ice cream soda dispensed from a machine at a regular-ass diner in 2026 is running $15. I think a reasonably high-quality float with handmade ice cream that I’ve seen runs about $5, which still doesn’t keep pace with $2.10, but then CPI isn’t tracking specifically the cost of an ice cream float.

The fact you don’t understand how CPI works or what ice cream sodas cost doesn’t mean the powers that be are corrupting the calculations to make it look better.

About $2.10 in 2026, so still a pretty good bargain.

No, influencer screenings preempting professional reviewers are what you do when you want to artificially generate hype from undiscriminating fans. The article I don’t think you read even points this out almost immediately:

The move bucks the trend of studios getting ahead of professional reviews by inviting fan-site bloggers and influencers to see major releases in advance and then letting them post (often highly enthusiastic) mini reviews on social media.

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So I will say as a contributor to OSM that your coverage is going to vary unbelievably vastly depending on where you are. There are many areas in the US, for instance (in fact, I’d argue most), where HappyCow has an active community but where OSM will be functionally useless and where you’ll have to bootstrap it yourself. Moreover, OSM even given an “ideal” level of maintenance has extremely poor granularity, very minimal standards for what constitutes a restaurant serving a dietary option, poor accessibility (having to issue a JSON query or use something like JOSM, the latter of which I would recommend as easier than Overpass; OpenVegeMap is dead IIRC), no inherent guardrails against outdated information that HappyCow lacks, no community of vegans maintaining it in most places, no reviews, and crucially no real way to express nuance via text (there’s a “note” param, but nobody in their right mind is regularly using it to explain the intricacies of a restaurant’s vegan options; that isn’t why it exists.)

Your example is in Paris, which is – I cannot emphasize enough – wildly unrepresentative of the map’s progress in most places. At least in the US, the average person is entirely better-served by HappyCow than OSM for this specific problem. Picking out Paris specifically is near-best-case for OSM.

I say all this recognizing that HappyCow for me has always also been a noticeably flawed experience.

Edit: As an example even for this near-best-case for OSM, here’s Mannie’s listing on HappyCow. It has three contemporary reviews, the contact, hours, and location info OSM has (OSM even in such a complete area funnily lacks the website:menu param, which the website definitely has; nice for convenience), images of the vegan dishes, an explanation of the veg options, and is overall just a much better, more thorough experience.

Vegetarian mostly plant-powered street food restaurant. Vegan options are clearly labeled and may include “sweet sweet eggplant” (eggplant cooked in miso, chickpea puree, potatoes, tomatoes and garlic roasted in balsamic, marinated zucchini and hazelnuts), in addition to roasted potatoes with paprika and kimchi.

The OSM item tells me vaguely that vegan option(s) exist(s); HappyCow tells me that they’re clearly labeled (massive), that there are multiple of them and what they are, what a vegan thinks of the quality, that there are gluten-free options (I don’t need this, but OSM allows it, yet it’s not there), and what the meals physically look like.

Edit 2: Accidentally duped my comment.

Not an oops! I just wanted to put it here for anyone else who was interested. Thanks for posting this; it’s really funny. :)

https://reductress.com/post/uh-oh-friend-clearly-not-the-victim-in-drama-being-described/

For context, though, they were trying to sell new toys and give an in-universe explanation. It wasn’t thoughtless, just severely miscalculated.

You could have asked me to fill in the missing steps you’re having trouble filling in…

Dude, come on, you say completely unsubstantiated bullshit on here all the time. It isn’t their job to ask you to explore your stupid, baseless, bullshit claim.

(In fact, you can’t see this right now because you’ve told me you’ve blocked me for calling you on your bullshit in the past. So I for example couldn’t ask if I wanted. lmao)

No, you don’t get it: they’re a Good Person.

Adding OpenRCT2, but I think most anyone who knows of OpenTTD knows of that.