yeah you can't just handwave away that the teamsters are like a trump +20 constituency. at some point doing and wanting bad things has to matter
November 2, 2026 at 6:26 PM
yeah you can't just handwave away that the teamsters are like a trump +20 constituency. at some point doing and wanting bad things has to matter
The novelty will wear off soon, but it sure is fun watching a bunch of dinosaurs try to handwave away the significance of the Chicxulub inpact.
November 5, 2026 at 1:04 AM
The novelty will wear off soon, but it sure is fun watching a bunch of dinosaurs try to handwave away the significance of the Chicxulub inpact.
I mean, you can handwave *anything* by invoking mantle convection, so sure, why not.
"...mantle convection drove the formation and preservation of the Great Unconformity. Our models predict prolonged continental-scale Neoproterozoic uplift and long-term Phanerozoic subsidence for Laurentia, Baltica and North China."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobiology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobiology
November 5, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I mean, you can handwave *anything* by invoking mantle convection, so sure, why not.
do you happen to handwave through any and all democrats that come callin because this would turn an assumption into a thesis
November 2, 2026 at 5:44 PM
do you happen to handwave through any and all democrats that come callin because this would turn an assumption into a thesis
But if you weren’t around or old enough to be paying attention in the 90s, you need to sit down and shut up instead of trying to handwave the level of misogyny that was just in the water, the air, everything, like lead poisoning.
November 5, 2026 at 7:34 PM
But if you weren’t around or old enough to be paying attention in the 90s, you need to sit down and shut up instead of trying to handwave the level of misogyny that was just in the water, the air, everything, like lead poisoning.
Molly, obviously.
We do not have discussions about whether we should bother enforcing laws on theft and murder. Why would we want to handwave away the laws most fundamental to having a nation?
We do not have discussions about whether we should bother enforcing laws on theft and murder. Why would we want to handwave away the laws most fundamental to having a nation?
November 5, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Molly, obviously.
We do not have discussions about whether we should bother enforcing laws on theft and murder. Why would we want to handwave away the laws most fundamental to having a nation?
We do not have discussions about whether we should bother enforcing laws on theft and murder. Why would we want to handwave away the laws most fundamental to having a nation?
So you can handwave it away like you did everyone else who already explained this to you?
November 3, 2026 at 4:45 PM
So you can handwave it away like you did everyone else who already explained this to you?
Love how they handwave the existence of non-husbanded voting women.
November 4, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Love how they handwave the existence of non-husbanded voting women.
It's almost like that's the goal and the point and this statement exists as a handwave
To his credit this is Chait’s conclusion but he spends more space in this column criticizing El-Sayed than Stevens or Rogers
November 3, 2026 at 1:00 AM
It's almost like that's the goal and the point and this statement exists as a handwave
elections are not the solution and never have been. if we want to see a world where justice prevails and people are actually free of oppression, we have to rely on each other and build horizontally, not relying on a few politicos to handwave concerns away and say the work is done.
we have to fight.
we have to fight.
November 4, 2026 at 5:41 PM
elections are not the solution and never have been. if we want to see a world where justice prevails and people are actually free of oppression, we have to rely on each other and build horizontally, not relying on a few politicos to handwave concerns away and say the work is done.
we have to fight.
we have to fight.
I guess you can handwave it with Mudder pulling the submersible to the surface at the end of 4
November 5, 2026 at 3:13 AM
I guess you can handwave it with Mudder pulling the submersible to the surface at the end of 4
This is the exact same nonsense argument the DSA uses to handwave its IC. If the members had a problem with the leadership doing this, they would remove the leadership.
November 2, 2026 at 5:37 AM
This is the exact same nonsense argument the DSA uses to handwave its IC. If the members had a problem with the leadership doing this, they would remove the leadership.
That's why the Rebellion PAC ad was so telling! He could only handwave at a "disagreement" with the ad, and couldn't actually denounce it because virtually nothing it contained was any different from his own campaign position.
If he wasn't worried about losing MAGA votes, that's an easy move!
If he wasn't worried about losing MAGA votes, that's an easy move!
November 4, 2026 at 9:20 PM
That's why the Rebellion PAC ad was so telling! He could only handwave at a "disagreement" with the ad, and couldn't actually denounce it because virtually nothing it contained was any different from his own campaign position.
If he wasn't worried about losing MAGA votes, that's an easy move!
If he wasn't worried about losing MAGA votes, that's an easy move!
At least with something like sleep darts you can kinda handwave it as magic that doesn’t cause brain damage
November 4, 2026 at 9:08 PM
At least with something like sleep darts you can kinda handwave it as magic that doesn’t cause brain damage
No. We're talking about Dems and their bullshit. Deflecting to Repubs to handwave away Dem malfeasance is pretty Republican of you.
October 31, 2026 at 4:11 PM
No. We're talking about Dems and their bullshit. Deflecting to Repubs to handwave away Dem malfeasance is pretty Republican of you.
look i really want to know how universal translators work in mass effect.
they don't make sense anywhere, but i'm fascinated with how different writers handwave away the problem of language.
they don't make sense anywhere, but i'm fascinated with how different writers handwave away the problem of language.
November 4, 2026 at 2:13 AM
look i really want to know how universal translators work in mass effect.
they don't make sense anywhere, but i'm fascinated with how different writers handwave away the problem of language.
they don't make sense anywhere, but i'm fascinated with how different writers handwave away the problem of language.
Even non-cop case of the week shows like Supernatural often resort to the handwave that the leads are just uncannily good at impersonating cops.
October 31, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Even non-cop case of the week shows like Supernatural often resort to the handwave that the leads are just uncannily good at impersonating cops.
we are way more critical of, because with blitz hurting stolas we just handwave it and say "thats just how he is due to xyz"
Both stolas and blitz are at fault for various complicated reasons but theyre our lovely broken gay demons that need a hug
Both stolas and blitz are at fault for various complicated reasons but theyre our lovely broken gay demons that need a hug
October 31, 2026 at 8:12 PM
we are way more critical of, because with blitz hurting stolas we just handwave it and say "thats just how he is due to xyz"
Both stolas and blitz are at fault for various complicated reasons but theyre our lovely broken gay demons that need a hug
Both stolas and blitz are at fault for various complicated reasons but theyre our lovely broken gay demons that need a hug
If they'd worked that out it might actually be something that would strengthen their argument, but of course they actually WANT to be evil so handwave his complexity away.
November 3, 2026 at 8:19 AM
If they'd worked that out it might actually be something that would strengthen their argument, but of course they actually WANT to be evil so handwave his complexity away.
its not exactly wrong but it does feel cheap to me whenever i just handwave parts as "synthetic muscle". its kind of the unobtanium miracle matter of hard scifi to just say the cyborg has synth muscles.
November 5, 2026 at 1:37 AM
its not exactly wrong but it does feel cheap to me whenever i just handwave parts as "synthetic muscle". its kind of the unobtanium miracle matter of hard scifi to just say the cyborg has synth muscles.
causality is lowkey a omnicause handwave. "causality did it" yeah ok lol just like everything else mhmm. causality of the gaps type shit
October 30, 2026 at 1:43 AM
causality is lowkey a omnicause handwave. "causality did it" yeah ok lol just like everything else mhmm. causality of the gaps type shit
The biggest handwave of the entire story seems to be that, despite the tech to do even half of Satisfy, the real world still looks so very familiar.
November 5, 2026 at 1:18 AM
The biggest handwave of the entire story seems to be that, despite the tech to do even half of Satisfy, the real world still looks so very familiar.
Wait you saying that that. Wait. Wait you have a point . i have a golden opportunity to handwave it in this chapter in a way that exonerates me and you gave me the impetus for it oh my god .
November 4, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Wait you saying that that. Wait. Wait you have a point . i have a golden opportunity to handwave it in this chapter in a way that exonerates me and you gave me the impetus for it oh my god .
settings like this w lil to say abt their own implications are, i think, the main reason the subgenre is so reviled. more than any specific qualities of the idea itself. i know it's why i usually hate them.
i think the instinct to handwave isn't just laziness, it reads as moral cowardice to me lmao
i think the instinct to handwave isn't just laziness, it reads as moral cowardice to me lmao
November 4, 2026 at 6:55 PM
settings like this w lil to say abt their own implications are, i think, the main reason the subgenre is so reviled. more than any specific qualities of the idea itself. i know it's why i usually hate them.
i think the instinct to handwave isn't just laziness, it reads as moral cowardice to me lmao
i think the instinct to handwave isn't just laziness, it reads as moral cowardice to me lmao
Agreed.
Power generation? Show me the numbers, Elon, don't just handwave "Solar"
Shielding? Because cosmic rays hitting processors is a thing.
Transmission Lag? Because you're not going to want it in the orbital path of starlink.
Just getting that much mass to orbit?
Power generation? Show me the numbers, Elon, don't just handwave "Solar"
Shielding? Because cosmic rays hitting processors is a thing.
Transmission Lag? Because you're not going to want it in the orbital path of starlink.
Just getting that much mass to orbit?
November 4, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Agreed.
Power generation? Show me the numbers, Elon, don't just handwave "Solar"
Shielding? Because cosmic rays hitting processors is a thing.
Transmission Lag? Because you're not going to want it in the orbital path of starlink.
Just getting that much mass to orbit?
Power generation? Show me the numbers, Elon, don't just handwave "Solar"
Shielding? Because cosmic rays hitting processors is a thing.
Transmission Lag? Because you're not going to want it in the orbital path of starlink.
Just getting that much mass to orbit?