Stormbern🛡️

@ohiogop He’s a literal goblin

@AHomelyHouse This is the attitude all my children have had up to about 1 1/2. Absolutely precious.

Happy to be here.

@davidpaulregier @ChrchCurmudgeon You gonna share with the rest of the class, or just vaugepost?

I recorded one of my Psalm arrangements into AI to make it sound like it was being played in a church worship service. It was amazingly realistic. The congregation even clapped on 1 and 3.

@woodworker66 @Devon_Eriksen_ You've just restructured every word problem regarding triangles my children will be asked by me.

I'm a semi-retired trim carpenter. I build staircases all the time. Do you know how many times I've thought to myself how awesome it would have been to do all of the pythagorean math to build a staircase in freaking geometey class where you could actually see what the math was for?

We hear a lot of people go on about the difference between "book smart" and "street smart". But psychologists who test and study intelligence know there's no such thing. Smart is smart. So is this all just a way of coping with envy of higher IQs? No. We've all met that guy who is clearly very intelligent, but can't seem to accomplish anything outside a cloistered academic environment. But we always seem to find him in a academic environment, don't we? "Book smart" is an incorrect name for a person who is intelligent, but has been mentally and psychologically harmed by an educational system, to the point where he can't actually use that intelligence properly for tasks outside that environment. Ironically, the more a child is obviously intelligent, the more the education system conspires to destroy him... because everyone with a "degree in education", almost without exception, is either actually stupid, or is himself the end product of this same sort of mental mutilation. Here's how it works. There are two types of intelligence tasks: answer tasks and result tasks. A result task is graded by the reaction of the environment to your work. Either your software runs, or it doesn't. Either your rockets fly, or they don't. Customer buy millions of your product, or none. You have unlimited tries unless you run out of money, but there's no partial credit, and you can't talk the universe into accepting your answer if it doesn't. Result tasks typically require a lot of work, are data-intensive, and have lots of sub-problems, because the ones that didn't are already solved. Result tasks are why we care about smart at all. Because smart people are the ones who can do this. And every human advancement or achievement ever was a result task. Answer tasks are quite different. They are artificial problems created by a human being for another human being, whose goal is to produce the known answer. Tasks like this have useful features. They can be tightly calibrated for appropriate difficulty. They are easy to grade. They can be used to teach particular subjects or skills. But there are certain things they don't teach. How to do the boring parts that don't impress anyone with how talented you are. How to fail and try again. How to change the question instead of answering it, because the question itself was wrong. How to absorb from others what they had to learn the hard way, instead of reinventing the wheel. How to deal with problems that have no solutions, only tradeoffs. How to work with others and pass the ball. How not to adapt instead of freezing when the universe gives the exam before the lesson. How to substitute the adequate you can afford for the ideal you can't. How to prioritize what is needful over what is elegant or cool. Without this learning, and other similar lessons, the talent child turns into an adult with an unbalanced intellectual development, like a bodybuilder who skipped far too many leg days. You'll find a lot of men like this in academia because it provides them with a sheltered, tightly controlled environment, where the problems are abstract if not utterly fake, and the persuasiveness of a solution trumps its workability. They tend to scorn achievers, especially achievers with modest academic credentials or none, and this invites scorn in turn from people with real jobs. But really what they are is victims. Entire campuses and networks full of what was potential greatness, crippled in it youth by bureaucracies that claim to serve it. Homeschool your children. Give them projects, not puzzles. Teach them to build things.

The antediluvian Tin Man. One of the Wizard of Oz’s early prototypes to see how little material was necessary to keep a man alive. With a dash of Robocop homage thrown in for good measure.

@TrevorSAndersen @jimi_okame @4113n5 Man... Bluegrass/shamisen fusion would be amazing

@jimi_okame @4113n5 I wanna hear some bluegrass on that bad boy

調整うまくいきすぎてバチクソ弾きやすくなりましたわ🥰

@jimi_okame @TheGeorgiaWhig Great job man! Sounds like it came from the local bluegrass festival. Now... If you really wanna impress us do "Dixie's Land"

@Walrusaurelius @HariSel57511397 You're gonna love it Walrus

@HariSel57511397 I'm sorry I haven't read any of your books King, where should I start?

That, and the Xurak are my secret love letter to Stargate. Pretty much all my writing is a secret love letter to Stargate.

@harukaze_illust @FuzVery Besides my own folk (Southerners), they're one of my favorite kinds of feral white people.

@FuzVery そういえばオーストラリアの🇦🇺人にあんまりXで会ったことないかも！

最近アメリカの人🇺🇸がタイムラインに出てこなくなってきた アルゴリズムが変わったのかな 少し寂しい

@FenixAmmunition Why did you pick Banner photoeyes for your line? (I do this sort of thing for a living and rarely see their photocells. Love their lights tho)

Slay kween

Dad came back with the milk!!! southernwitness.substack.com/p/rebel-yell-2…

Redesigning characters from The Wizard of Oz in the antediluvian era. Here’s the Scarecrow.

@WarlordTomII @tanpukunokami Man that sounds eerily similar.

@Stormbern @tanpukunokami Yup, like I said, very common family recipe. Ours adds brown sugar (very small amount), smoked paprika, and the vinegar is a blend of apple cider and malt. Sometimes Worcestershire sauce is added, sometimes left out. Gotta wonder if everyone invented it independently or not.

I heard something about American BBQ that I’d love to confirm. Apparently, BBQ sauce varies completely by region — six distinct styles, each tied to a different state: 🍖 North Carolina — vinegar and pepper, no tomato 🍖 South Carolina — mustard-based, bright yellow 🍖 Texas — thin, spicy, with chili 🍖 Kansas City — thick, sweet, molasses-heavy 🍖 Memphis — served on the side rather than on the meat 🍖 Alabama — a white sauce made with mayonnaise (!) Six different BBQ sauces in one country. Is this really the case? Would love to hear from anyone who’s tried them — which one’s your favorite?

@WarlordTomII @tanpukunokami Nobody is really sure where it came from. According to legend he got it from an Irishman, but my father and uncles discovered a restaurant in Dalton, GA that was an exact match. Like it had come out of their grandfather's kitchen.

@Stormbern @tanpukunokami That's actually pretty common for homemade varieties.

@RickJacksonGA Come check out the farmers market on Forest Parkway... Where the DEA found over a ton of meth in 2024.

This isn't Minnesota. Here in Georgia, we're going to respect police and enforce the law.

@asyalap1 Sir... Both of these things are lovely together... And even better with cheese.

Иностранцы, а иностранцы, а у Вас есть пироги с зелёным луком и яйцом 😊❓

@carrol_genie_ We got a zojirushi like a year ago and it's amazing

この半月間のアメリカ人との交流で、アメリカ人が米を炊く時にみんな炊飯器を使っているイメージなんだけど、バスマティライスは鍋を使って湯取り方で炊き上げないのかな？ 硬水だとできないんだろうか。

@OldRowSwig I found a good quality torrent of it years ago. Had never seen it. I had to pause it when that little boy said he was from the "United States of Jawjuh" I was laughing so hard.

It’s actually ridiculous that you can’t easily watch Song of the South. The efforts that went into scrubbing it from existence border on ethnic cleansing of Southern culture and history.

@ArmoredNorman Over the smallest stuff man... Its adorable.

Wait, they really do jump up and down and clap their hands like that? Pragmata is even more realistic than I give it credit for.