Jonathan Lake

Buy your ass a bidet.

[Jonathan Lake @jlluh]

Not having a #bidet in your bathroom is like having a porta-potty in your backyard. If you want to enter the modern age, click here: https://t.co/m08U752CqU

[Jonathan Lake @jlluh]

@Shane00 @Mattnumberss He would be out of the game after the sixth time he did it, since it would be called an offensive foul every time.

A lot of his modern dribble moves (including a modern hesi) would also be called a carry or travel pretty much every time.

[Jonathan Lake @jlluh]

@unslic3dBr3ad @Noahpinion Many historians argue that the renaissance is mostly PR. There was certainly a change, but it wasn't civilization leaping up out of the ashes.

[Jonathan Lake @jlluh]

@Noahpinion Not as popularly understood. Most popular understanding of that time period on that continent is laughably wrong, even compared to the popular misunderstanding of other time periods/places.

[Jonathan Lake @jlluh]

@PiquantParvenu I can't hand the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to my 7-year-old daughter if the two blatantly sexist paragraphs haven't been modified. I probably have to white them out myself. If she were even 10, it would be a different story.

[Jonathan Lake @jlluh]

Thoughts on the game:
What a beautifully ugly slugfest.
The referees not overturning that call for the Butler free throws is absurd. Those calls prevent fans.
I'm happy for Deandre Jordan. Got in the game for a bit and while his minutes were far from good, he made a couple plays.

[Jonathan Lake @jlluh]

@liz_love_lace I'm having luck with the Huberman morning routine. Wake up early, go for a walk right away, then take a cold shower.

[Jonathan Lake @jlluh]

@IDoTheThinking The Zelda character ends up being the worst thing in the new games. If you're going to have a damsel in distress, that needs to be the situation the damsel is in, not her character type.

[Jonathan Lake @jlluh]

@tothemax2050 More and more, I find new authors by looking at threads on r/fantasy rather than by browsing bookstores. The Raven Tower was a wonderful exception, and yes I read the blurb.

[Jonathan Lake @jlluh]

@jdcmedlock @ASPertierra The problem is basically nimbyism.

People start calling in smoke complaints BEFORE the controlled burn has even started. And then it never happens.

[C Thi Nguyen @add_hawk]

Massive, interesting, worth your time, and not just for Trek-heads. It's is more about cultural memory and masculinity than it is actually about Trek.

https://t.co/jnYjomCGWs

[Jonathan Lake @jlluh]

@TommSciortino I'm not claiming that this is accurate. I have no idea how these AIs work, but this is the best way I can think of to describe the sensation I had in speaking with it.

So maybe that sensation is what people mean.

[Jonathan Lake @jlluh]

@TommSciortino I imagine my mind as an office full of files. It grabs a file, opens it on the desk, & looks at the content.

My impression was it had a much bigger set of files & could very quickly finds the right one, but it didn't have a desk where it opened the files and looked at them.

[Jonathan Lake @jlluh]

@deandraswriting Having a kindle has been a great choice for me and my old-ass eyes.

For a couple years, I thought I didn't like anything but fanfiction anymore. Once I got a kindle, I realized that the print in most physical books had gotten too small for me.

[Jonathan Lake @jlluh]

@Gravantus When I'm playing chess, I'm mostly not thinking in words. I just stare at the board and thinking that isn't in words passes through my brain, seeing pawns and bishops and vulnerable squares.

Some people do most of their thinking like this.

This is fine.

[Jonathan Lake @jlluh]

@RazzberryYams Imo, 'gentle density' suburbs is the winning play. Lots of people genuinely dislike living in a big city kind of environment. As someone who moved from California suburbs to walkable Portland, Oregon, I miss the suburbs!

[Jonathan Lake @jlluh]

And if an adaptation with those exact changes were made, I would probably not watch it because I seldom watch movies and even more seldomly watch TV. The only source of such a changed version in written form would come via fanfic, and I may indeed write that fanfic one day.

[Jonathan Lake @jlluh]

As a die-hard Tolkien fan who appreciates LotR's place as an attempt at Norse-inspired Anglo-Saxon mythmaking, my opinion on the "can Aragorn be black?" thing is "Sure."

[Jonathan Lake @jlluh]

I would also talk to him about some of the uncomfortable race stuff that he kinda tried to fix but not quite well enough, but I wouldn't bother asking him to tone down the monarchist propaganda because I know that wouldn't get anywhere.