Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 16/10/2026He puts the most money into buying seats for the politicians who are the most interested in pay-to-play. 010 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Aren't budget negotiations exactly an example of this? 010 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I fancy myself Lord of the Manor, and will not fly any airline which refuses to acknowledge me as such. 000 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It is absolutely that exact same guy. 000 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In the long run, it's the same thing, because start times adjust. It's not some lucky coincidence that school gets out at 3PM instead of 3AM. The choice is whether or not to have people sleep in when the sun comes up later in winter, and wake up earlier when the sun rises earlier in summer. 000 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Penny Hardaway has coached 262 games? Man, time flies... 000 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Sometimes their misanthropy is effective, unfortunately. 040 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 16/09/2026At the federal level, spending is the same no matter which party is in power. The difference is that Republicans spend the extra money on defense, and then also pass tax cuts which lead to exploding deficits. 001 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I definitely see some parents scrolling mindlessly while their kids play, so maybe your experience is more typical. But personally I find that parenting reduces free time reduces internet time. 111 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"Out of touch"? Most people make babies at some point, and I think plenty of parents find that it reduces their phone time. 260 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 06/09/2026At this point, most Americans live in an area where it makes no sense to have range anxiety because there are chargers everywhere. 010 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This is why preppers hoard copies of the 2002 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year issue. Food, shelter, air, water, sleep, discussion of the Tour de France circa 1999-2005. 000 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Is he even capable of fucking his secretary at this point? He is not exactly in good health. 040 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Isn't it just that the local GOP has built the brand that they focus their energies on practical matters (popular) rather than divisive social issues (unpopular)? Same thing that worked for Warner/Kaine in VA, and Cooper/Stein in NC. 000 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 13/08/2026His job is to estimate probabilities of election outcomes. He does a good job of this, and I don't think he has "become" anything. 000 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 13/08/2026He's a poll aggregator. His job is to assign probabilities to election outcomes given polling conducted by other people. He used to be good at this and he still is. 000 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Your post defends Flock cameras more than mine does, by suggesting that there is a huge missing children problem. 100 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 13/08/2026There are just over 70 million kids in the US. Suppose 350,000 kids disappear and aren't found per year. That's 1 in 200 kids. So then total risk ages 0-18 would be about 1 in 10. Every kid would have a bunch of friends who had disappeared without a trace. More: www.reuters.com/article/fact...reuters.comFact Check: Tweet overstates number of children who went missing in the United States in 2020Updated to fix broken Twitter link 100 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 12/08/2026You do realize that almost all of those missing child reports wind up with the kid being found, right? 400,000 is 10% of annual births in the US. There is not some society-wide "millions of kids disappeared and we haven't bothered to look for them." 110 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Dropping glasses is very passive-aggressive. God is allegedly omniscient and omnipotent, He should settle any theological disputes by simply writing messages in the clouds, or talking with a disembodied voice, or something like that. 000 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is the same party whose primary voters just picked a candidate named Tom Smith who had dropped out over a candidate endorsed by Trump but black and named Amir Hassan. 040 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Hamilton is a great communicator whose politics are within the range of what is electable in Kansas. This is the best news of the night. 000 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 31/07/2026That's terrible! Amazing how some people are so full of hate. 000 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The partisan/cohort disagreement about labels is probably larger than the actual disagreement about more clearly defined versions of the concepts. Taxing the rich has solid support among Republican voters, and seizing the means of production is unpopular with everyone. 000 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 29/07/2026To the public, these labels mix (from least popular to most) "the govt should own the means of production" with "the govt should provide more social insurance" and "companies should be motivated by things beyond profit" and "regulations should put companies on even footing". 100 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 27/07/2026The element of historical accuracy which gets me is physiques. Look at old pictures, or simply observe people living in countries like India where malnutrition is closer to historical levels. Average height and body proportions are very different now! 001 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Qualified immunity is qualified, not absolute. Once there are some personal consequences for the people involved in this, the behavior will stop. 000 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Half of the Democratic Party shares his views on the issues he mentioned. Republicans do not at all share his views on the environment, taxes, foreign policy, Trump worship, etc. 000 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Around 2022, I had a conversation with a guy I know who hadn't gotten a covid vaccine because he thought Bill Gates was using it to sterilize black men. It turned out he had never heard of Gates's charitable work and was basing his opinion of Gates on anger at 1990s Microsoft. 000 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 18/07/2026DM me your credit card info and I will donate for you 010 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I enjoy sauce dancing, do you sauce dance? 110 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 16/07/2026That'll buy you a Diet Coca Cola and unlit cigarettes. 110 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I am just generally perplexed by people not liking the existing system. Do we not like not having to wake up in the dark in the winter, yet also not missing daylight hours in the summer? When people say they don't like changing the clocks, I wonder if they have ever traveled to another time zone. 100 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 12/07/2026For crying out loud, this is her colleague. Allow her to consider this person to be a human being. 100 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Live Laugh Love except actually Trump does only one of those things. 000 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I find using GPS while driving to be insufferable. If I'm going somewhere unfamiliar, I simply look up directions on Google Maps beforehand. 010 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Erdogan is six feet tall. Trump must have gotten unsteady enough on his feet that he can no longer wear lifts. 020 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Someone fetch him a blanket, to ease his suffering 000 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Just so long as the patrons don't play Flight of the Bumblebee. 070 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 27/06/2026He's actually pooping in that picture. 000 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Mara and Yaxel now know who the favorite child was 000 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 11/06/2026There is no such thing as too many beans. 020 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Looks like the ones that missed the tourney almost all shoot an extremely large number of threes and often have very high assist rates. Most are running Princeton offenses or similar. So you can either shoot >60% by only shooting on backdoor cuts, or by being insanely talented. 000 0
Gentle Crocodile @gentlecrocodile.bsky.social · 11/06/20262FG% is a weird statistic: Of the 25 teams that have shot >60% on 2s, 15 failed to make the tourney, but six of the ten teams which made the tourney were 1-seeds (counting Dayton in 2020). 100 0
