BreakerofHorsesandMen
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BreakerofHorsesandMen
6d ago
On the topic of grip strength, as an aging judoka, I picked up one of those rock climbing finger boards and a peg board. Those are really handy for working the same tendons and joints in a slightly different way, and I think they’ve helped protect me from sport-specific overuse injuries.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
6d ago
Sure you can!
Voters elected George W. Bush, in part, to defend a traditional concept of marriage that had existed for well over 2000 years and had never been questioned by the men who wrote the Constitution.
Turns out that was unconstitutional!
BreakerofHorsesandMen
6d ago
I am happy to defend the idea that drawn erotica is inappropriate material for a public library to carry. Tom of Finland may have made many gays very happy, but if they want his material they are free to pay for it themselves.
I stand on the null hypothesis that public libraries, until very recently, also agreed with me.
Would you like to defend or justify some sort of reasoning for the change?
BreakerofHorsesandMen
8d ago
Schoenfeld: .....The school the express directive from the school is you don't need to understand your peers, you don't need to agree with them, you don't need to affirm with them, but you do need to treat them with respect.
The problem with this kind of rhetoric is that it has become transparently false. I have social circles I move in that range from boomer shitlib to woker than woke, and they all agree and affirm that the only way to treat someone with respect is to agree with them and to affirm them. Anything less makes you a monster.
Some white evangelical 14 year old politely saying they disagree that there is such a thing as trans people is not going to be treated with respect.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
10d ago
I think you might be typical minding the Japanese people and the kinds of social structures they view as immoral enough to be criminal.
…you're allowed to abuse your social lessers according to a nebulous and ever-shifting social pecking order…
This sounds like the mythological version of American high school in the 80’s, also like a surprising number of Asian high school dramas (also possibly mythological), and if you narrow down to one social lesser, it sounds like any number of sketchy but not criminal friend groups, where one guy is usually the butt of the jokes.
Parks and Rec, peak liberal slop, even did an episode on the topic of the office buttmonkey and played it for laughs.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
10d ago
Ancient Law, by Henry Sumner Maine.
Surprisingly readable for a legal history book last updated in 1906.
Also, while I am reading the Imperium Press edition, nominally intended to re-expose people to classics of rightist thought, it is amusing to read Sir Maine extolling the virtues of the progressive society of the late 19th-century vs. the Roman law.
He seems to have a particular disdain for the Canon Law and the (his words!) retrogressive concepts of coverture and marital power. It’s interesting, because he seems to be on board with the man leading the marriage, however you choose to define leading, but not with the legal doctrines that mandate such a situation. In this regard, he strikes me as a very modernistic, even borderline woke, thinker. It makes me wonder if Imperium Press just pulled the oldest law book they could find that mentions Rome and uses the word Aryan.
I’m only halfway through though, so maybe he takes a 180 and retvrns later in the book.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
10d ago
Full Scale: 123
Memory: 111 (VM: 51 / 85, EM: 20 / 26)
Verbal: 142 ( V: 33 / 34, A: 17 / 27)
Spatial: 121 (MR: 15 / 17, CP: 8 / 18)
Not surprised that memory was bad, I’ve never been good at it. The whole thing is 10 points lower than last time I took a likely equally inaccurate test 10 years ago, which seems like it probably lines up with age, impact, and the kind of people I usually hang out with.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
13d ago
I think the usual solution among actual prisoners is referred to as a shanking.
So, you say you didn’t roll it back because it was just one day, which sounds like there was, at a minimum, no mod consensus that the ban was justified.
In the absence of such a consensus, why is there no wrist slap of the original mod for overstepping his bounds?
If there was a wrist-slap, why is the broader user-base not aware? Justice has to be seen in order to be seen to be done.
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