netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
6hr ago
Citation needed?
I don’t think I know anyone who’d be more upset about a Hitler joke than a straight-armed salute.
Nor do I know what you’re talking about for Palestine. 2 million?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7hr ago
I should have known better than to count my gift horses before they hatch!
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8hr ago
Finished Merchanter’s Luck. Excellent, vintage sci-fi. I’d rate it quite highly for elegantly sketched characters, understated but effective worldbuilding, and economy of prose. These are enough to turn a borderline cliche premise into an immersive one. Unabashedly genre fiction without straying into pulp.
Next up is Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith, a period Victorian gay heist novel and/or comedy of manners. While I don’t normally enjoy such a hateful protagonist, I’m quite liking the book so far. Unfortunately, the previous owner of my copy underlined random bits and occasionally added margin notes.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
10hr ago
Eh, it’s possible. People here are unusually likely to pass that sort of Turing test.
And I don’t disagree that the bottom, so to speak, has fallen out. There are a lot of people who are feeling more afraid, alienated, polarized. What they aren’t feeling is vindication. That’s something you get from people who were already thinking about a CW model.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11hr ago
- Only because you included “like this.”
- Both are basically devoid of value. The lower-level politicians are covering their asses against attacks like the one you’re making. Vance is putting his on display to score a couple political points.
- No. There is a vast gulf between speaking and doing, and our violent extremists continue to be uninterested in hiding much of anything.
- Because the (young?) GOP is more receptive to this kind of humor.
Underpinning all of these answers is the obvious point that these people aren’t Nazis by any reasonable definition. Like Key and Peele, they’re putting on a little caricature. You have to be very motivated to find it damning.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
13hr ago
…did you ever?
I’ve found the people most interested in policing comments about Kirk are the ones who were already jumping at the bit.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
I watched this one recently, too. A vibe indeed.
Good: Long, forlorn shots. Set design which may or may not consist of just finding shit lying around. Haunting use of silence and background noise. Getting the viewer to question the reality presented on screen. Surreality. This is a film where almost every frame is mundane, and yet you are certain that something else is at play.
Bad: incredibly long, forlorn shots. I can’t judge how much of each was actually necessary to achieve the good points. But my God, they just keep going. Much like the character monologues, some of which land, some of which don’t. The delivery is great, at least to my English-speaking ears. The actual writing is much less consistent. There are a couple bits of sound design that fall into this category, too, but I’m willing to forgive them.
Ugly: Anything resembling action. There’s not much of it, which is for the best, because it absolutely deflates the tension. The gate guards? The
I don’t know that I can call it good, but I recommend it.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
Bluesky is Twitter for people who hate Elon. I assume it’s a cesspool.
Mastodon is a bit more complicated. It was federated from the start, meaning it was always intended to let groups opt in/out of entire swathes of the broader sphere. This allows blacklisting without leaving the platform. It also supports numerous witch covens. I assume they’re all cesspools.
Truth social is Twitter for people who think Fox News is captured by anti-Trump wreckers. I don’t actually know how it differs in features, and I am okay with that. I assume it’s a cesspool.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
I never heard of her before today. But I had elementary school in one of the older states, not Texas. Maybe they were too busy.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
The point of paying astronomical sums for a few Eurofighters
A quibble: the importance of ramping up is overstated. Operating costs are much higher in the modern age than they were in WW2, and there are real diminishing returns from additional planes in the air. One modern strike fighter—with the proper logistical tail—can provide more value than a wing of heavy bombers. At less human cost, too, which is much more important than it used to be.
These constraints relax in a high-intensity, high-intel conflict, but they don’t go away. You’ve still got to fuel and arm and dispatch your planes. You still need confidence that they won’t die to cheaper SAMs or get blown up on the ground. In that scenario, 6000 Eurofighters aren’t worth 10x as much as 600.
Neither the U.S. nor Europe has faced a serious threat to air superiority since the mid-century. I hope we never do.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
When was the last time Trump “backed down” on his pet policy? On anything, really? At best, he’ll quietly drop a losing issue. Doesn’t help in this case.
I’ve gotten the impression that he really doesn’t care for defense spending and only really tolerates it as part of the Reagan package. Golden Dome is a prestige project. If he does spring for some sort of deal, it’s not going to be on behalf of the MIC.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
Wait, which country are you talking about? There are too many options.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
Absolutely.
I used to get real close to passing out even from the briefest of blood samples. Turns out the secret was just not looking at the needle. Doesn’t matter if I’m otherwise distracted, if the nurse has a hard time finding the vein, whatever. As long as I don’t see the needle in my arm I’m fine now. Magic.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
If I’m going to use hard cash to buy smut, it’s going to be in singles.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
I read the first half of this thinking it was about the Judge Goodstein fire mentioned downthread. I was like “of course they went to a lot of trouble! It’s too close to home!” Whoops.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
I’m not sure it qualifies as concept creep, but you can get countless examples if you search “wolf inflation.”
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
…and some, I assume, are good posters.
I’ve been annoyed, on this site, by people complaining that the left calls everyone fascists. I figured it was hyperbole, maybe a bit of a persecution complex. After reading this blogpost, I recognize my mistake.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
I don’t think that checks out.
The death penalty is extremely right-coded. Even back when opposition came from Christians it was considered progressive.
Instead, I would say conservatives are more comfortable with solutions that require any sort of violence. Domestically, that means “tough-on-crime” policy, low tolerance for riots, and at least lip service given to the Second Amendment. It might also apply to the neocon style of foreign interventionism.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
No, I’m pretty sure they just had a disjoint set of witches.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
Based.
I don’t think any of this will actually make currency more useful than ubiquitous payment processors, so I don’t see the need for #3. But Ayn Rand would be funny enough that I’m on board with it.
Begging the question does not violate our rule on consensus-building.
Users are allowed to make controversial assumptions! Then they’re liable to get grilled on those assumptions, as is the case here.
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