Blueberry
2d ago
It is easy to find counter the argument. You can eat a Big Mac in Jakarta, but that doesn't mean there are a lot of US-American migrants in Indonesia. Most places who make Lasagna are not operated by Italians. There are good sushi places in Budapest, even though there is no big japanese diaspora in Hungary. It just means Sushi is delicious.
Blueberry
6d ago
But regarding Kirk:
[x] Shooter hits their target
[ ] coherent manifesto
[ ] unadorned weaponry (the ammo counts too?)
[x] captured alive
Blueberry
9d ago
There is kind of annoying stuff in them, but I liked both books in the trilogy.
There is an internet theory that Patrick Rothfuss "father was his shadow writer. It’s Pats idea and world building, but his dad was the one who actually wrote it. After TNOTW and TWMF, Pat wanted to prove to himself that he could continue to write the books from now on. So he wrote TSROST all by himself. But he knew it wasn’t written the same and as the others. That’s why he says people won’t like the book because he knows it didn’t have the same feel as before."
Blueberry
12d ago
I don't know why he didn't take the name of his spouse. Though maybe Glezman is not the best political name too.
Blueberry
14d ago
I know the partner is apparently an AnCap follower of Jordan Peterson
Wait, what?
Blueberry
19d ago
On X they post pictures from him as a kid with lots of guns and his conservative mormon family. The internet fried his brain but I can't say if in the antifa or far-right direction....
Blueberry
19d ago
There is this famous graph of consumer price changes in the last 20 years:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/price-changes-goods-services.jpg
Massively cheaper: Technology like software, computers, big hd televisions.
More or less same: Material consumer products like furniture or clothing
More expensive: Food and Housing
Massively more expensive: Services like childcare, college, hospital services
that new iPhone will cost more regardless
That is extreme nitpicking, but this is not true. iPhones do cost basically the same over decades for the the base model, and the pro models even got cheaper:
https://i.redd.it/fo16m7rgh4nb1.png
The launch price of the iPhone 6S in 2015 was $650. Inflation-adjusted that had the buying power of $885.01 today. And 10 years later now the new iPhone 17 costs only $799 (exactly the same price price as the iPhone 12 five years ago).
Blueberry
20d ago
There was also this from the author:
kept seeing people tw RED HOOD #1 for suicide, and for the life of me I could not figure out why until I remembered it opens with a bunch of cops shooting themselves. i just don't really consider them people.
Blueberry
21d ago
There's some funny nutpicking
Jezebel at monday: "We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk"
https://www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some-etsy-witches-to-curse-charlie-kirk#
For the “POWERFUL HEX SPELL,” I had to provide Kirk’s date of birth for “accuracy.” The witch performed the hex, but her response was unsettling: “I just completed your spell, and it was successful. You will see the first results within 2–3 weeks. However, I did notice disturbances… negative energy not only from you, but projected at you. Likely from toxic family members, co-workers, or new acquaintances.”
Blueberry
21d ago
The last question he ever got was:
"Do you know how many mass shootings in the last 10 years there have been in America?"
“Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk asked back.
Then he was shot.
I bet the assassin waited for a question about gun control/gun violence.
Blueberry
26d ago
Where is the muslim info coming from? In the first picture here he has a big cross as a tattoo. Gangster or not, a muslim wouldn’t have that:
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/15276040/man-behind-dundee-knife-video-gypsy-gangster/
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