Not LIke Monopoly - Integral and Dynamic Component

@neomechanica Otaku no video ♥

@anon_opin Valid but disagree.

The greatest thing that's ever been on television is Rik Mayall reading George's Marvellous Medicine on Jackanory.

@MysterEGemini @romanhelmetguy Wow just listen to the objectivity and #GoodFaith 😒

@romanhelmetguy It became political when idiots like you decided that “western” just meant white, and saw non white people in the U.S and Europe as not real citizens

Studying the Western canon and Western history is innately political now whether you like it or not, because the great political question of our day is whether Westerners are uniquely evil and therefore deserve to have their lands, riches, and power taken from them.

@NickXavierSmith @benryanwriter @JamesWHankins1 Who says you're any more objective than anyone else immersed in their situation? #SelfIndulgent #EraGoggles

@benryanwriter @JamesWHankins1 "What is water?" said the fish.

No. That's the point. Studying the Western canon and Western history should be apolitical. Leftists attacking it is what turned it (in their eyes) into a right-wing project. Nobody thought teaching Western literature, art, music and history was a political act for a thousand years, until the 1990s.

@Jakethecrazy19 @benryanwriter @JamesWHankins1 Not necesssrily for the more objective. #EraGoggles

@benryanwriter @JamesWHankins1 Yes that was 25 years ago Maybe things have changed in the meantime

@sama Be not afraid.

We are hiring a Head of Preparedness. This is a critical role at an important time; models are improving quickly and are now capable of many great things, but they are also starting to present some real challenges. The potential impact of models on mental health was something we saw a preview of in 2025; we are just now seeing models get so good at computer security they are beginning to find critical vulnerabilities. We have a strong foundation of measuring growing capabilities, but we are entering a world where we need more nuanced understanding and measurement of how those capabilities could be abused, and how we can limit those downsides both in our products and in the world, in a way that lets us all enjoy the tremendous benefits. These questions are hard and there is little precedent; a lot of ideas that sound good have some real edge cases. If you want to help the world figure out how to enable cybersecurity defenders with cutting edge capabilities while ensuring attackers can't use them for harm, ideally by making all systems more secure, and similarly for how we release biological capabilities and even gain confidence in the safety of running systems that can self-improve, please consider applying. This will be a stressful job and you'll jump into the deep end pretty much immediately. openai.com/careers/head-o…

@MattBrookes3 Very sorry to hear that 😕

Caught up with my sister. Turns out my brother in law has had a psychotic breakdown and is now a paranoid schizophrenic who thinks Darren Brown is trying to kill him, amongst other things. They’ve got three kids. Happy new year.

@readswithravi Help yourself.

Read books.

@KevinFrench63 @sharrond62 Meaningless #rhetoric 🙁

@sharrond62 Diversity is our strength.

Funny how they know what a female is when it suits them! Aborting baby girls proves Britain’s multiculturalism experiment has failed. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/3…

@BenjaminDEKR @The_PunKing

The dwarfs in the garden have very odd names for everything... It's their Gnomenclature

@jan_murray With all due respect, that doesn't sound like my responsibility.

@NotLikeMonopoly Not really following - sorry …

I spent over a decade mentoring women in business. And I repeatedly saw women’s attempts to earn an honest living - or even just to cover their costs - sabotaged. Often by other women. There was an unspoken belief that women should write, photograph, consult, create art - or otherwise use their skills and talents - for nothing. That charging money somehow tainted the work. A common accusation was that they were “exploiting women” simply by selling to them. Which is, in itself, demeaning - because it implies women lack agency. That they’re incapable of making informed purchasing decisions. So the “grifter” narrative - common in the women’s rights space - feels depressingly familiar to me. Same message. Different label. I’ve never been comfortable with the idea that women should be expected to speak, advocate or create - but only on the condition that they don’t benefit materially from it. And not least because men are rarely (if ever) told they are expected to be visible - without also being financially independent.

@jan_murray No, that's a disappointing #FalseDilemma. You seem to be implying that they've hardly been impacted at all which is blatantly false.

@NotLikeMonopoly So do you feel men are equally impacted? I am of course speaking from my experience - and what I have seen with clients. What’s yours?

@The_PunKing That's retarded.

These are the good magnets. I leave them out when we have company.

@JucikaDaily #irony

@daydreamtiger1 @PalladiumBooks Good shout 👍

@NotLikeMonopoly @PalladiumBooks I told him you can be anything under the sun, including dinosaurs.

TMNT rpg redux from @PalladiumBooks finally arrived! As I was unpacking it, son (20) immediately asked "do you play as the turtles, or are there other mutant animals?"

@shakermanjonas @ClickingSeason #CaseInPoint #MentalGymnastics

@ClickingSeason incredibly wrong. wow. my whole schtick is You Are All Wrong and it has served me so, so well. entire societies are wrong constantly. they just get right enough to scrape by and stay there, it is insane

Here's something unbearable to smart people but accurate nevertheless: almost everything is exactly what it seems. The counterintuitive things you love to learn because they make you feel smarter are in fact making you more foolish.

@ImWatson91 But thanks for the snide recrimination that it's all men's fault. I'd expect nothing less. #BadFaith

@NotLikeMonopoly If you've never met a happily married woman to ask, I have nothing for you 🤷‍♀️ I hold my opinion because I've met many women, happy or not, and actually listened to them and observed their actions.

Discussion: I believe to most women, kindness and supportiveness are the most desired qualities in men - moreso than attractiveness or wealth. The red pill perspective emphasizes women's innate drive for a provider (money/status) and protector (physical strength/capability). 1/2

@ImWatson91 Exactly. Women have stopped having anything to offer.