The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is in Amherst, MA and quite excellent.

> For a really good sinister conspiracy theory is counterintuitively cozy, what with the way it collapses the amorphous mass of real history, where cause and effect are as muddled as are heroes and villains, into a comforting clockwork mechanism of cogs in cogs. Small wonder that pseudo-history tends to thrive best when real life seems most vexed and confusing.

I really liked how this was written.

How was he ripping families apart?

Asking you to explain your position more thoroughly is making discourse impossible? Your dedication to communication is laudable.

> Out of everything in the adult industry, to me, OnlyFans is one of the most sane. That is encouraging independent performers to get payed directly by their fans, taking only a reasonable commission.

I kinda agree, but the prevalence of fake chatting soured me on the company as a bastion of sane sex work. Without it, it seems legit: fans pay for content, they get content. But add the layer of fans pay for chatting with the models, and get something else.

> What interests me is not the statistical rarity, but that 81% of elements are in one orbit — this means the reordering is highly coupled, not a bunch of small local swaps.

But what is the significance of the reordering being highly coupled?

The observation itself is the value — it tells you the King Wen sequence is not a bunch of small local adjustments, but a holistic rearrangement. But it cannot tell you why King Wen arranged it this way.

You didn't explain or prove there is a reason for it.

> Basically, if Trump does a thing, they are against it, independent of the thing.

Because on top of doing terrible things, the non-terrible things he does, he does incredibly badly.

> There is no principle, just reactionary hatred.

No, we’re all good little Bayesians around here.

> If Biden had launched this war, none of these people would have had a problem with it.

You’re really missing what’s going on here. The reason that people liked Biden is that he would not have launched this war.

> The reason that people liked Biden is that he would not have launched this war.

No, they liked him because he wasn’t Trump. And then they liked Trump more after having him.

I liked Biden because he's a genuinely good statesman, with decades of experience building bipartisan relationships (some admittedly bad, most good) both domestically and internationally. I didn't vote against Trump in 2020, I voted for Biden. And you can bet your sweet bippy that I'd do it again.

> The LEGO Education version of MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor, SPIKE Prime, is still available

Well, the Spike line is being discontinued also: https://education.lego.com/en-us/spike-update-2026/

But you’re right in that they’ll have another new line—“Lego Education Computer Science & AI”, which is different in a way I don’t really understand and doesn’t fill me with a ton of confidence.

> How quickly we forget how censored twitter was before he bought it

About as quickly as he forgot “comedy is legal again” when people started criticizing him.

> The knowledge to build nuclear at that scale isn't in the coutry/continent anymore. You'd have to reteach an entire generation of engineers.

Well you better get on that, then. It’s going to a lot worse in 5 years.