"The singer, who keeps his identity secret."

If only we could figure out who this mysterious hoodlum is. Unfortunately, as a newspaper, we are not equipped for this level of investigation.

Whelp, time to read Starfish again!

They're using "sees" in the fairly lexiphanicistic* sense of "causes X to Y".

*Pretentious use of words. Ironic.

You might like the Horror Vanguard podcast. It's a left political look at all kindsa horror films, and it takes an honest joy in analysing them more seriously than most of them were intended to be.

i'm almost completely positive these are supposed to be bounced off the ground before hitting whoever you're aiming at. they're absolutely not supposed to be shot like this.

Oh they absolutely are intended to be fired directly at faces and eyes and all that. There's a few lines of text and some pictures to play pretend that the impact is actually quite pleasant if you just do a trick shot off the ground, but they're designed with, and purchased with, the full knowledge that these are going to be used to pop eyeballs and break bones.

It's just a cheap and safe way - for the cops - to implement a good ol' savage beatdown.

Ah yes, the "researchers think best on no sleep, intense stress, and no life" approach.

Afterall, it's not like they're doing real work - like golf meetings and lazy financial crimes - because that would imply their lives have value and they do something their bosses cannot. They're just mobile tools, and can simply run for longer, so I dunno, set a big bowl of modafinil and protein slurry in the lounge, they like that crap right? I gotta practice my swing.

Big part of liberalism. Create a false division of "political" and "private", where to be political is icky and taboo and has nothing to do with the task of human coexistance, and being a private individual is cool and fun and allows you to be a small god within your dominion.

Garrett Wang (Harry Kim) and Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris) did a podcast called The Delta Flyers where they do a full episode-by-episode rewatch of Voyager and often rant about the many problems of the show (and about the bits they enjoyed, as well). Didn't get through it all, but it was decent travel listening.

Both of them are pretty often annoyed about how their characters (and most of the others) were stuck on a writing treadmill to obey that absurd syndication demand of an eternal moment, such that new viewers can drop in without feeling like they've missed anything.

The entire field of popsci business insight is just a stream of Jabberwocky, in hopes your connections sell a ton of garbage to some of the most credulous and desperate rubes on the planet - mid-level corpos. The place that I work in, uses the Net Promoter Score idiocy, which didn't even work for the niche it was intended for, but they now misapply to customer ratings.

Some of that is possibly from the functional use of invalid metrics - as they invariably produce "underperforming" results which can be used as a whip against stores and store management. A single "detractor" causes a tick up in baseline stress and overwork.

A glimpse under the hood of a large language model trained on 4chan.

That perilous yellow haze in the photo proves it to be the work of that dastardly paragon of scientific cunning - the Fiendish Dr Food Munchu.