Seasons 3-8 are generally considered “golden age” simpsons. Theres a lull for a few seasons where it gets very patchy, then it kinda enters a long silver age where episodes are fairly consistently good, with few poor ones and even fewer universally agreed upon greats.

Many fans completely ignore 9+. Others argue where sliver age begins.

The ratings only show the golden age and then slowly declining popularity, because popularity is only ever a loose proxy for quality.

Fraudsters with a bad bear suit and a dream deserve that money so much more than insurance companies.

Tabletop rpg design uses the term “fail gracefully” to describe being able to still function when you forget the rules.

Older games used to regularly stop amd collapse into boring chart-reading and index-looking-up. A lot of modern games are entirely playable if you forget everything except the core mechanic.

Agreed!

Yeah i can understand that others enjoy it, but even a poker night with friends sounds unpleasant to me - like a game night ruined.

This could be a fun riddle:

What’s harder to protect the more protectors it has? A secret.

I always describe gambling as non-alcoholic vodka.

It just does nothing for me and leaves an awful taste in my mouth.

Billy bragg has a great song about the twin cities. It’s a spin on that “first they came for” poem, but instead of the “and i said nothing because…” bit it has “so I got in their face!”

The only thing the trump regime is consistent on is advancing russian foreign policy. Anything else they’ll chicken out, back down, change tack, get bored or give up. But if it furthers the stated goals of the russian federation, republicans will get it done.

Cringe title, reposting untruths, that username and it’s a first post.

once saw her as Bernie Sanders 2.0 but now think she’s more pragmatist than revolutionary

What hot fucking nonsense is this? No shade on bernie but no one left of john mccane thinks sanders is a revolutionary. He’s a pragmatic leftist who joined the dems for pragmatic reasons.

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You are 100% correct and it’s shocking that even this current headline is a massive improvement. It admits that it was israel and says what happened and who died: “Lebanese officials claim 3 dead in strike” is the kind of BS i’m used to seeing.

It’s not real. A delivery person wouldn’t get to the door of the oval office. And almost certainly an aide grabs the bag, though the fast food delivery obsessions is partly about security paranoia, so maybe he is paranoid enough to grab the bag.

Slightly but significantly less bad. For now.

The fact that you can whittle a paintbrush in the wilderness but cant build an LLM in the wilderness really doesn’t mean anything.

A zine-maker can’t make paper and a photocopier in the wilderness but they’re still an artist. A digital artist can’t code photoshop in the woods, but they’re still an artist. And some percentage of prompt fondlers could still draw in the wilderness but that doesn’t make their ai art real art.

This is just a bad argument because the complexity of your tools is not what defines an artist.

Ah yes, legislative reform that emerges from nothing but the powerful suddenly deciding to be nicer.

The rich won’t stop killing us if we ask them nicely. All progress has involved threatening the lives or property of the powerful.

Hate the game, not the players.

“The game” is rich people brutalizing humanity to squeeze an extra dollar. The game wouldn’t exist without the players.

Post-war/crisis baby booms are likely a seperate phenomenon, there’s some archaelogical evidence of them in similar situations - like in athens after the persian war there seems to have been a baby boom that helped fuel their rise to imperial power in the aegean.