I find it funny that this is a NYT article which links to a yahoo news article about a claim made by “a former New York Times journalist”. I was about to ask why they were outsourcing to yahoo news a report on what their former employee experienced while under contract with NYT and not mentioning any of this in their own article, but the answer is in the yahoo article, he was forced to resign after using a racial slur. Quality journalism all around.

You’re not wrong, but I’m pretty sure calling out factually incorrect memes is what the report button is for.

I was born by C-section! I’m glad we finally have an explanation for how I ended up less stupid than Elon Musk, we got to the bottom of it guys.

This doesn’t read like ignorance to me. Like a lawyer prompting a witness, this seems like someone asking the questions that allow the interviewee to give the most effective replies.

I can’t read the “reply was devastating” line as being personally devastating to an ignorant journalist, because someone in that position didn’t need to write that and put it on show. Instead I read it as being devastating to the naive sentiment, perhaps held by the reader, that Vietnam’s only legitimate response was to run to the UN.

Thanks, I got this impression reading it too but I wasn’t going to investigate myself so straight to the comments in hopes that someone has already validated my intuition.

I kind of feel like if my child died as a direct result of my own stupidity and negligence I probably would find a way to remain in denial over that too. Maybe not for forever, but I don’t think I’d be capable of facing that right after.

Not sure if that says something bad about me.

Gonna be honest they did the person woman man camera tv test with me when I was in the hospital with sepsis a couple months ago and I only remembered three of the words at the end, I couldn’t get the last two even with reminder hints. Oh well, we can’t all have the best brain.

I was almost positive op had some form of “he’ll conclude vaccines are the cause” under the spoiler.

Subject to change over time

Source for that claim?

Correct approach, it’s the only way to browse this website. We’re all in this together.

To answer the question on everyone’s minds: No, Joe Biden does not have a doctorate in foreign affairs.

He’s just that fucking good.

My mind went through different aquarium creatures. I only got clued in on re-read when I was wondering if the (20) was meant to indicate the manatee’s age.

It’s terrifying because what if Hamas trains their Israeli manatee hostages? What if they take this war to the bottom of the sea?

Does anyone else remember the pc speaker? I feel like it’s a concept lost to time, I only remember from playing the original Maniac Mansion, which I played by clicking “use” on Weird Ed Edison’s computer in the sequel.

Imagine this music coming from the actual motherboard, rather than from speakers. Like a friendlier version of how a dialup modem would make noises that were not coming out of speakers.

Up over a full day with no comments but this is actually funny.

CW: tiny pair of uncensored boobs

Adding this to the post title is basically turning the drawing into a Where’s Waldo.

To your last point, I have no idea what “basilisk” means in this context, but my basilisk will reward the people who have heard of roko’s but don’t contribute to its existence with joy and good fortune. In addition, my basilisk will reward the people who contribute to its own existence with a free freshly-baked plate of their favorite cookies in their time of greatest need.

We’ll see which one wins out.

Oh my fucking god, even the last one, which I was so confident was the tell.

Can someone please clear up the correct amount of shame I’m supposed to be feeling right now?

Someone please explain Roko’s Basilisk to me. I have a loose understanding of what rationalism is, I’m assuming that should put me on about the same level as a rationalist’s understanding of it.

It seems like it’s trying to say the later ones give you more time awake but I’m closest to everyman with everything scaled up by like 80%.

Okay it’s quite obviously not a real screenshot but it took a moment to fully convince myself. The Trump part is so believable that I overlooked the other ones being more out there.

I hadn’t seen or don’t remember the Colin Powell analogy so I imagined it was basically the RBG one before I got to the quote.