Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
4hr ago
I voted for both; never voted for Trump.
Mantergeistmann
6hr ago
US military hardware is what stands between the Palestinians and an Israel that doesn't have Patriot missiles, but can build their own artillery. Not sure that's better for anyone.
I think a lot of people don't realize (or don't want to acknowledge) that if Israel were to be unable to effectively defend its population from terrorist rockets and mortars and missles, their reponse wouldn't be capitulation or negotiation. It would be annihilation. As it would be for pretty much any polity in existence whose civilians are being relentlessly targeted and killed by a militarily inferior opponent.
As it stands, Israel has the breathing room to be more judicious in their attacks, even if it really doesn't look that way to the uninformed, who call use of more than one JDAM "indiscriminate and unproportional carpet bombing". But without the Iron Dome, I think we'd be reminded what carpet bombing really looks like, and I wouldn't blame them (or anyone else) in their operational situation.
Mantergeistmann
6hr ago
The leftists don't passionately oppose pedophilia because doing so is low-class and right-wing coded
Which leftists do you know? The ones I'm in circles with love talking about "the Epstein class".
Mantergeistmann
6hr ago
Did she? Or was it just a group she founded, after she had left?
Mantergeistmann
6hr ago
My father mostly made "set-up" offers/deals: "Get a full ride to college? We'll buy you a car since we're not helping with student loans." "Ready to move out with a full-time job? Security deposit and your first month's rent is on me."
Other than that, it was mostly just advice. My father wasn't the most knowledgeable of planning for retirement (he never really needed to early on, having had an excellent pension), so his only advice in that regard was "get the company match. Prioritize that over anything else you plan to do, it's free money."
it's been more that she uses my CC to handle gas, etc
One thing to consider is having her open her own credit card, possibly secured, with you contributing payments/reimbursement for certain expenses. Get that credit score building up early.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Sounds right. I believe France is one of the few that respects Roth and HSA tax-advantaged status.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
as well as those who work "made-up services" that the party deems serve no societal function, such as bureaucrats, consultants, public sector communications specialists, strategists and HR-specialists.
Will these also be deported?
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Religion is such an important part of history and many modern cultures; we're absolutely doing kids a disservice by not teaching it.
Of course, the problem is, how much does one trust teachers to teach this properly, from one angle or another?
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
the retirement math in the US is much different than that in Italy/France, let alone somewhere like Brazil/Paraguay
It's interesting you mention France, since I think tax treaties with the US make them a pretty good option.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
Sometimes things aren't the right fit for everyone?
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
My issues with RDR2 were: I didn't feel like slogging through the tutorial, I just wanted to do the open world stuff, and: I honestly didn't really care about any of the characters, so there was no emotional feeling to the story missions.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
How accurate is that guide? I'm surprised that the author doesn't try to build up their own cred in the foreword, unless I missed it, although she does seem to cite her sources in the comments.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
That's one of the weird things, right? As a 15 year old boy, if you find an anime girl age 17 to he attractive, that's fine! But the character stays the same age, as you get older, but that doesn’t mean your tastes automatically change with it.
I used "boy" and "girl" but I'm pretty sure this is fairly gender neutral; there's no shortage of adult women writing fanfic about teen boys, to my understanding. Although I suppose that also gets to the visual vs literary debate: is hentai worse than explicit fanfic in this regard?
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
Welp, time to reset the sign: "It has been zero days since I last regretted being literate".
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
So if we really want to argue that we should return to the founders' intent, no automatic guns, but Amazon can mount weaponry on its delivery vehicles?
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
Female flintlock wielding revolutionary.
At first glance I thought they're trying to go for WWII Italian Partisan (often portrayed as female, fair enough in my mind) by the outfit, but the badge on the hat is French colours, so I suppose it's the French Revolution?
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
Personally, I will never morally be against a player betting on his own team to win outright. That's why they're on the field, after all. But as soon as the spread/prop bets come into play, yeah, hell no.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
I'm reminded of the ending to Heinlein's speech to Naval Acadamey graduates:
In my home town sixty years ago when I was a child, my mother and father used to take me and my brothers and sisters out to Swope Park on Sunday afternoons. It was a wonderful place for kids, with picnic grounds and lakes and a zoo. But a railroad line cut straight through it.
One Sunday afternoon a young married couple were crossing these tracks. She apparently did not watch her step, for she managed to catch her foot in the frog of a switch to a siding and could not pull it free. Her husband stopped to help her.
But try as they might they could not get her foot loose. While they were working at it, a tramp showed up, walking the ties. He joined the husband in trying to pull the young woman's foot loose. No luck --
Out of sight around the curve a train whistled. Perhaps there would have been time to run and flag it down, perhaps not. In any case both men went right ahead trying to pull her free... and the train hit them.
The wife was killed, the husband was mortally injured and died later, the tramp was killed -- and testimony showed that neither man made the slightest effort to save himself.
The husband's behavior was heroic... but what we expect of a husband toward his wife: his right, and his proud privilege, to die for his woman. But what of this nameless stranger? Up to the very last second he could have jumped clear. He did not. He was still trying to save this woman he had never seen before in his life, right up to the very instant the train killed him. And that's all we'll ever know about him.
THIS is how a man dies.
This is how a MAN... lives!
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
... I think you and I have very different definitions of "common knowledge".
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
some sexualities are more productive than others' has had serious issues lately
I feel like I've missed something here.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
It'd be fair use regardless of the status of the original meme, as it's for academic purposes, though, right?
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
They'll just slip their opinion pieces into their news stories, partially just via editorializing, partially via which interviewees/quotes they choose to include (with or without pushback/context, as desired).
So basically, what's being done now, but without the pressure relief valve of being able to have op-eds.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
Even while feminists also say that men are - correctly - the dominant major suppliers of violence.
Ah, but that's easy enough to blame on society and culture.
You can't deny that men are stronger (well, mostly not; the trans stuff has been sidling up to that position and suffering predictable consequences) or some people are better at sprinting
I've seen it claimed -- in complete seriousness -- that men are only stronger/better at sports due to training and nutrition from an early age.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
I suppose it depends on your definition of "superstar" and "white".
That was kind of the point of my post: that they have been keeping the gloves on thanks to having the Iron Dome to allow them to be moderate, rather than full "ignore civilian casualties & make it a parking lot" war, let alone actively targeting civilians and intending genocide.
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