Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Don’t be ridiculous. Every single one of those Disapproves never voted for the guy. Ask any of ‘em! 000
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026But not an irrelevant one. It’s the same phenomenon that overtook bachelor’s and master’s degrees, in the relentless pursuit of those sweet student loan dollars. Soon, people be relentlessly pursuing those postpostpostgraduate degrees. 000
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Well, that’s a touch reductionist. Technically, if a PhD takes a job as a janitor, the market had “absorbed” him. 100
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Synthesis of speech based on machine-created stochastic probabilistic functions developed over several rounds of energy-intensive training, a form of optimization. 020
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Wasn’t there a huge push to achieve this back in the 80’s and 90’s? Abstinence and contraceptives pushed everywhere. 2221
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 28/08/2026When I think clean, farms and ranches are the first things that pop to mind. That’s why they smell so good! 000
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Antagonistic collectivism helps extremists of all stripes, regardless of the source, which is why extremists of all stripes engage, and why moderates avoid it. “They’re all racists/fascists” swells both MAGA and “woke” ranks, as does “they’re all communists/ want to force gender reassignments.” 060
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Dolly Parton single-handedly did more to spread that awful twang to every corner of American music than any other artist alive. Sure, she helped millions, especially in promoting literacy. Great human. Terrible music. Her voice was nails on a chalkboard. The queen of the pit that is Nashville. 000
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Number one has made me very sad for years. “The bedrock of your life is an ongoing process of human action you don’t directly control and not literal rock” is a concept that just isn’t grasped. 000
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Never since Robespierre has the world seen such an orator. 000
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026“The oracle told me that it’s only a matter of time before the war is over!” 000
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Right now, they appear to be making it top priority to defeat anyone to the left of Chuck Schumer, regardless of any other consideration. Which, granted, is no surprise, but still… 000
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Also, never underestimate the ability of Dem leadership to steal defeat from the jaws of victory. 110
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 18/08/2026… if it was Top Secret to prevent people from suing, it was illegally classified, since that’s an illegal use of classification. I know that saying that isn’t going to make me feel better, but darnit, if he’s going to make me sit through days of learning this stuff, I’m going to make this comment. 2764
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 15/08/202699% of all bad takes I see online come from the human inability to intuit scale. If I wanted to start an educational Youtube channel, it would be entirely about explaining scale to people. I’d have material for decades. 000
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Fallout 4. I realize they did some things I’d wanted for decades, like returning to a lot of “silent” quests, but losing skill points and the dialogue truncation hurt harder than I thought they would. The first killed the nostalgia feeling and the second ruined my immersion. 000
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Gonna be perfectly honest, I’d assumed they already did this. Is there any older game (3ds or prior) that can’t do purely local trading, and is ending up isolated by this? I mostly play the DS/3DS games. 000
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 14/08/2026We are the pirates Who don’t do anything. We just stay at home And lie around. And if you ask us to do anything, We’ll just tell you… 000
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 13/08/2026How does it make you feel, Tom? To know there will be no difference between your vote and theirs during the next election, and perhaps even beyond? Does it burn in your throat? Do your eyes water? Does your gorge rise? It’s the dyspepsia that gets me, every time. 020
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Gamergate, I think? Back when they were called SJW’s? 000
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I’ve been stealing the games for decades, AI ain’t gonna change that. 020
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Were it any other administration I’d assume he meant the FDIC. 000
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 13/08/2026You get paddocks??? In my day we had to sleep in desk drawers! Curse this soft and spoilt generation! 010
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Well, and because federally subsidized student loans vastly overvalued the humanities and made Marxist teachers who shouldn’t have been employable after the fall of the Soviet Union easy money for colleges to fleece young radicals with. But sure, bored and racist. 010
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Indie games are easier to develop and market than ever and if you don’t see the game you want, it has literally never been easier to make it yourself. I’m just humming happily to myself and waiting patiently for the AAA bubble to either right itself or burst. Gamers win either way. 130
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I am reminded of the Dave Barry quote: “There is this to be said of the post-Castro Cuba: it will not lack for leadership.” (might not be exact quote) 000
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I wouldn’t advise my 20 year old kid to get a non-STEM degree in college at all in this day and age. Federally subsidized student loans have turned the humanities into a massive scam. 010
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Ah, I equated “not ally” with “enemy.”Categorical confusion on my part. Better luck next time! 100
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I enjoy Harry Potter AND Ender’s Game! Just the first one, though, where Ender’s siblings take over the world through an internet forum, which I’ve always found hilarious. Now, do I only get to be YOUR enemy or is there some sort of Oberlin-centric manifesto I can get blacklisted in to save time? 100
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The fact that the reaction to X was stupid and evil does not preclude X being stupid and evil. Nor, of course, does it prevent TV commentators on both from being stupid and evil. There are copious amounts of stupid and evil to go around. Frankly the market is getting saturated at this point. 000
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Sure, you can do that. But speedrunning is a communal activity, and all communal activities require consensus.. If you play poker but your group decides you’re inventing your own hands, you’re still playing a card game… but you are no longer playing poker. 120
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Speedrunning is about exactly two things: hard numbers and careful rule-following. Any submission that complies with these should be accepted within the relevant category, and any that doesn’t should be rejected within that category. 120
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 12/08/2026LLMs are best when used by someone who already knows the answer, the exact opposite use case people keep trying for. 1387
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Jaywalking is an impeachable offense. Impeachment is when Congress says so. 020
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Is it nonsensical that I honestly think that federally subsidized student loans actually did this? 110
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I’m cold and I am shamed, lying naked on the floor. Illusions never change into something real. 1170
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 08/08/2026“Nazi” was overused long before Trump’s first term. This is why we must be extremely precise in our denunciations. When we rob words of meaning we rob our future selves of expressive power. 010
