Jealousy
Turning saints into the sea
Swimming through sick lullabies
Choking on your alibis
Wireless telegraphy
Lets us cross the Russians’ T
As I raise my Z-flag high
I’m mister broadside
I know that language changes but I’m going to have to draw the line at legitimizing people talking like Tommy Pickles. Call me a fascist I literally don’t care.
obviously it’s not perfect but wikipedia might genuinely be one of the top ten best ideas of my lifetime. a free, ad-less encyclopedia with millions of articles available in hundreds of languages that the majority of humans can access from anywhere. what a gift
many of u appear to be trying to play a sophisticated game of chess while your opponent is pointing a gun at you and also pulling the trigger on the gun pretty frequently and you're being shot by the gun a lot
@tinselgaiety@fibsitonlaer tl;dr there's a mathematical model that estimates the student's ability based on the difficulty of the questions they got right/wrong (not just on the % of questions they got right). this means that you can estimate ability scores for students who answered different question sets
@tinselgaiety@fibsitonlaer it's psychometrics! basically, you get more information about a person's ability level from questions that are roughly matched with their ability (vs. way too hard or way too easy), so having an adaptive test lets you present more questions that are in that sweet spot
@tinselgaiety@fibsitonlaer so if someone performs really well on the first module, their ability is above average, and the second module is made up of harder questions that will hone in on *how* above average they are (and vice verse if they do poorly on the first module)
@dccommonsense the presidential pardon is one step above droit du seigneur... it's vaguely justifiable if you think the executive is a living manifestation of God's will, but the president is just a guy!
I’m not “dependent” on the amulet I just refuse to take it off and it’s honestly really telling that you won’t take no for an answer, like idk maybe you should take a step back and really consider which one of us is under the foul influence of the Accursed Amulet of Carthus here
(incredibly drunk at 2pm trying to hook up my laptop to the TV so I can play a 45gb BD rip of toy story 2 which I had a thought about five beers ago) itd time to kick back with buddy and wuzz
@JohnSeperj0b4@MoiraDonegan 50-shades-esque ravishment fantasies among women are like war fantasies and violent vidya/movies among men... engaging because of their transgression AND because they are removed from lived experience, not b/c they're secret desires. FPS players don't actually want to get shot!