AnonymousActuary
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AnonymousActuary
9hr ago
2021 was a very weird year that became a referendum on Democratic insanity around COVID and schools and sexual abuse therein
AnonymousActuary
6d ago
wasn't it an important point that the shooter had been yelling at the pushers GF over something minor? If you are going to shoot someone it better not be because of an escalated situation that you started.
AnonymousActuary
8d ago
The art definitely improves, but something goes down - perhaps the winsomeness? The first ones have a bit of melancholy to them, these are stories about a elderly man and his old cat, no wife or grandkids in the picture, and his friendship with his elderly neighbor and her dog. So there is some inherent melancholy to that which I think the early ones convey in the midst of these stories that have their funny and positive elements as well.
AnonymousActuary
9d ago
been reading the Mr. Putter and Tabby books at bedtime. Just a wonderful set of kids books. Interestingly enough the author published 25 of them from 1994-2016, but I would say the first 5 are a class above most of the rest, and none of the ones after 13 are really anything special. i'll happily reread those first 5 and even 6-13 a pretty decent amount, but 14-25 get old.
You wouldn't think the author of a short kids series could rest on their laurels but they seem to be doing so.
Maybe next week I'll create my full ranked list for all the other young dads out there haha.
AnonymousActuary
9d ago
is this really an escalation over like, DACA?
AnonymousActuary
28d ago
Are you under the impression that I disagree with John Brown's actions?
to be honest I was, though perhaps influenced by that substack article. I guess I see how you could read it as acceptable under the circumstances, and then we are just arguing about circumstances.
I have definitely gained some respect for eg the Shane Claiborne's of the world he maintain a strict non-violence standard and just subjecting everything to that.
AnonymousActuary
28d ago
...are you on substack? I feel like a just read an article laying out this same point about John Brown.
One could point out that one way to avoid worries of a slave revolt would be to simply not build your economy on the backs of forced labor from an imported underclass that continues to grow...
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
See I think words of radiance might be my favorite but the end of way if kings is wonderful.
I do love the see with Adolin in the Sadeas camp... And Adolin in general. What a baller.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
the amount of people over the last 24 hours who had no idea this existed is...I mean it's not surprising at all but it has been amusing.
someone on the other site was like "When the government suggests to private industry to do something and then actors in private industry do it, that's government overreach and anti-free speech"
and I was like have I got a SCOTUS case for you!
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
you can't forget the "in the middle of a pandemic" part. For two months everyone had been told the most important thing to do was slow the spread of the virus. People sacrificed immensely in those two months to do so. And then, suddenly, no, the most important thing is for people to protest, and riot, and loot.
Fauci at least was consistent in saying they were a bad idea. I won't give him much, but I will give him that.
There's been a myth that there was not a rise in COVID afterwards that was pretty easily debunked by looking at city by city data - a lot of cities had spikes a few weeks after protests started. SpottedToad (may he RIP) had some great threads on it back in the day...
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
There also is just a difference between someone being randomly murdered (or dying of natural causes) and politically assassinated - people spitting on Rush Limbaugh's grave did not have the same connotations as people spitting on Kirk's do.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
related to this, can anyone actually find the whole MLK episode they did? I found an 8 minute preview beforehand, but nothing other than like a 1 paragraph excerpt
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
Underrated little piece - both the Kirk killer, the Trump shooter, and the Ascension school shooter were/are all 22/23
Why does that matter? They would have all been finishing high school/starting college when COVID insanity was going on, ie at one of the most formative periods of their lives.
Is it any surprise they ended up radicalized online?
I don't think this will be the end of the COVID-impacted youth backlash
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
this always present a funny dichotomy to me, where the left focuses on Jan 6 when certifying an alternate slate of electors was much more concerning
And the right focused on weird conspiracies around voting machines instead of the actual confessed conspiracy to delay vaccine trial results to prevent Trump from winning, at the cost of a 9/11 or 3 of elderly Americans come the next COVID wave.
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
there's an interesting parallel between the logic you are going with here (which I don't even disagree with) and the same arguments I see on gun control (ie extremely low percentage of guns ever used in crime)
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
Some what shocked there has not been a top level post about the Annunciation School Shooting yet given the obvious culture war angles and parallels to the Covenant School shooting of a few years back (religious school, trans shooter - though FtM vs MtF).
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/annunciation-catholic-school-minneapolis-shooting-08-27-25
I had missed that the Covenant shooter was determined to have not acted out due to any real culture war stuff, but just due to your generic mass shooter mental illness + desire to be remembered cocktail.
I would guess that throwing in the Culture War angle makes it a lot more likely that the shooter's name and face get passed around, though in this case seems like he was just crazy more so than any particular niche of the political compass.
Presumably gun control will be in the news again a bit.
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
wait, explain Shiloh Hendrix to me?
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
Encanto was...2/3rds of an interesting story with some great music that suffered from the same problem as a lot of recent Disney - no actual antagonist.
AnonymousActuary
3mo ago
Rittenhouse was such a perfect little scissor...not shocking that was the first step in driving people apart
AnonymousActuary
3mo ago
Yeah this is what I've emphasized - you will improve at this if you work at it, but doing so will result in a lot of losing along the way. We went to a chess club event recently and I prefaced it with "everyone here is going to be much better than you, but you will learn some things". She had a very good attitude, and I thought played some very solid moves that even I hadn't seen. She said she wanted to go again, so I think for now I keep nurturing it. Hopefully can find some people more her level for her to play soon.
AnonymousActuary
3mo ago
What do we think about chess? My 5 year old daughter has become enamored with it lately, wants to play multiple times a day, doing some puzzles, all that good stuff. She's definitely improving fast - she impresses adults she plays who know how to play but aren't good haha - I'd benchmark at her at like a Class G player (ELO in the 600-700 range). I'm probably around an 1100 ELO, maybe a bit higher when I'm really focused.
Basically, trying to decide how much to encourage improvement in this vs other skills she enjoys (soccer, reading, etc) given Chess is a bit of a dead end? But if she enjoys it then it is a fun hobby and I like playing her...thinking we might try out a local scholastic club and see what we think.
AnonymousActuary
3mo ago
interesting - We've enjoyed our guardian bikes a decent amount - what's the pitch with priority and woom?
EDIT: lighter weight? More expensive so just generally better? Our 5 year old is struggling a bit on hills though is very good at pedaling. 3 year old still working on balance with pedals.
AnonymousActuary
3mo ago
just noticed this too - went to check the subreddit and it has 19k readers?? Since when? Is it just a bot paradise haha
AnonymousActuary
3mo ago
Disclaimer: I am not a Medicaid expert Medicaid reimbursement is generally a lot lower than commercial - though maybe there is enough direct and supplemental payment shenanigans that it is worth it? I just know every time I have touched it it seems like a mess of different categories and paperwork
Why did Youngkin not run again?
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