BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
The neighborhood of Hampstead is just at present exercised with a series of events which seem to run on lines parallel to those of what was known to the writers of headlines and "The Kensington Horror," or "The Stabbing Woman," or "The Woman in Black." During the past two or three days several cases have occurred of young children straying from home or neglecting to return from their playing on the Heath. In all these cases the children were too young to give any properly intelligible account of themselves, but the consensus of their excuses is that they had been with a "bloofer lady." It has always been late in the evening when they have been missed, and on two occasions the children have not been found until early in the following morning. It is generally supposed in the neighborhood that, as the first child missed gave as his reason for being away that a "bloofer lady" had asked him to come for a walk, the others had picked up the phrase and used it as occasion served. This is the more natural as the favorite game of the little ones at present is luring each other away by wiles. A correspondent writes us that to see some of the tiny tots pretending to be the"bloofer lady" is supremely funny. Some of our caricaturists might, he says, take a lesson in the irony of grotesque by comparing the reality and the picture. It is only in accordance with general principles of human nature that the "bloofer lady" should be the popular role at these al fresco performances.
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BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
6hr ago
Autofiltering people who get downvoted too much is like the antithesis of rDrama.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
6hr ago
Naming your product orfice.ai is almost as bad as calling your new programming language Lolita...
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
10hr ago
It’s not just that horniness is embarrassing. The level of cringe was much greater that, say, merely catching your friend picking someone up at the bar for a one-night stand. The idea that you watch porn instead of actually getting laid makes you - in the eyes of much of society - a loser.
Tangentially related but this paragraph reminded me of a passage from C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity:
If anyone says that sex, in itself, is bad, Christianity contradicts him at once. But, of course, when people say, “Sex is nothing to be ashamed of,” they may mean “the state into which the sexual instinct has now got is nothing to be ashamed of.”
If they mean that, I think they are wrong. I think it is everything to be ashamed of. There is nothing to be ashamed of in enjoying your food: there would be everything to be ashamed of if half the world made food the main interest of their lives and spent their time looking at pictures of food and dribbling and smacking their lips.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
10hr ago
Then there's the risk of exchanges just running off with your money like FTX did.
This risk can be fully mitigated by following the mantra "Not your keys, not your coin".
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
5d ago
The grooming gang predators need to be whipped on a weekly basis followed by a promise upon release that if they ever get caught again it'll be immediate castration plus twice the sentence they just served. It's the only language they understand.
Unfortunately Westerners are too far gone at this point and will not listen to groups that have actual historical experience of properly subjugating the excesses of these people. At this point what can you even do...
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
5d ago
I am pretty sure that the school is for the underclass/lower class.
Yep. It's non selective and draws its pupils from a known poor area full of poor people. It's not somewhere I'd want to send my future children too (it would stifle them) but its policies and ethos are excellent for turning little shits (who have nothing in them to be stifled in the first place) into decent if unremarkable members of society, I want to see 100x of these schools all over the country.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
5d ago
the prayer conflict resulted from aggressive children forcing others to pray or be labelled bad muslims
Interesting. My original assumption was the the headteacher was preventing someone from praying out of her own volition (bad), but in this case I can see why the headteacher wanted such a policy (and would support her in it).
So all meals are vegetarian, to prevent conflict between vegetarians and meat-eaters.
This makes perfect sense. I don't think the fault line in particular the school wished to avoid was meat/no-meat (in that case why not take it further and make everything vegan?) but rather the desire to avoid catering to special religious dietary requirements like halal/kosher which would again give the studnets somethign to tribalize over. Removing meat entirely from the menu is a particularly elegant solution here.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
6d ago
Fair point yes it does.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
7d ago
Nah, I believe I have a duty to let people know there are better alternatives than the current social system state they are stuck in and pointing out situations in which our system would have outperformed your system is a particularly good way to do so. Islam is a proselytising religion after all you know...
contaminating yourself with the filthy Westerner mindset
Oh boy, It's way too late for me on that front, I'm already 80%+ western at this moment in time and I'd expect my future trajectory won't shift me much from here. Plus it's not like the West doesn't have a lot of good things going for it, it's just that Westerners don't need to be told about them because they already follow them to some extent. They need to be told about the good things they don't yet subscribe to.
My preferred system is not the one we have back home, it's a syncretic mix of that and the western system, biased if anything more towards the western way.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
7d ago
Only if more materiel from the west doesn't materielize...
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
7d ago
Or when their political future is now determined by the flood of migrants which repopulates the region, as opposed to their coethnics in Moscow.
Bold of you to assume that the plan isn't to repopulate both Ukraine and Russia once their mutual destruction is complete. Imagine the glory of taking over both the ancient Slavic "center of the world" Kiev as well as the modern one, Moscow. And the best part of it all will be how bloodless and peaceful our conquest will be, nay it will be even better, it will be done with the full consent of the conquered. Much like Rurik's original arrival into Novgorod back in 862, they are going to invite us to come over and rule over them. Could you ask for anything better?
Sometimes I ask myself: "Are we Gog and Magog?"; but nah, that's too farfetched and fantastical...
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
7d ago
Yeah, just the responses under that tweet.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
7d ago
And Trump is ahead on Hispanics right now. Pledge to make immigration easier and he'd be even more ahead than he currently is.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
7d ago
They may not be property of Ukranian men but they very much are property of the Ukrainian state (to the same extent as Ukranian men are right now). In moden armies the tooth to tail ratio is about 1:6, meaning that for every frontline solider there are 6 support/logistics staff keeping him well fed and healthy. Many of these jobs don't require more physical strength than any office job and there is no reason why women can't do them. If the men are going to be conscripted into the military, the women can also be conscripted and made to work these jobs and thereby forbidden from leaving the country. This is not some cosmic injustice inflicted on the fairer sex.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
7d ago
Concern about female fidelity has always been a prominent feature of wartime propaganda. But, this takes it to a new level, since the women are in a different country, making new, better lives for themselves. How many will ever even return to Ukraine?
And then in the very next breath Westerners complain about how the vast majority of refugee migrants initially coming to the west from the middle east etc. tend to be men. They fail to realise that it's not just a way to allow the women to take the easier route via plane once their family members have settled down but also a very good method of ensuring their chastity and honor stay intact and no suspicion can be laid upon their feet.
Everything we say and do makes complete rational sense. We're just starting from a different (and I would argue, better) set of axioms than you.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
7d ago
this is no more complex or innocent than casting white men as dumb losers and creeps who get humbled by Girlbosses and Smart-Dressed Blacks (who have good chemistry with Girlbosses) in commercials.
Well, when we have the western white right wing on a complete hair trigger to the point where using a stock photo of a Muslima is enough to trigger something that wouldn't be out of place at a Klan rally you do start to wonder where else they may be hallucinating about Chinese Robbers in commericals.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
7d ago
it’s the obvious fact that black people have much more dominant genes than everyone else
Yeah, this is obvious BS. There are lots and lots of traits which are dominant and more present in whites compared to Africans, e.g. the gene for Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (this is what causes favism in such people who consume fava beans) which is more prevalent in Africans is recessive X-linked.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
8d ago
Yeah, Henry is about as much of a loser as you can get based on what our society ostensibly says it values. And yet he was able to get plenty of women.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
8d ago
Because I was called out for being too late with my nothingburger prediction before I'll make sure to get it in early this time around.
Nowhere. In. Two. Weeks.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
8d ago
Well then their hand will have to be forced into it and I can't think of a better force at the moment than the threat of annihilation and subjugation by the Russian bear.
Europe took the "peace dividend" at the end of the cold war and spent it on welfare rather than using it to cut taxes to the levels they were at before WWII, now that dividend is going away and the only place to get this money back is to slash welfare to the levels it was at many decades ago.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
8d ago
The future of Ukraine is Somali and Bangladeshi migrants working on farms owned by American financial institutions and managed by HR women educated in the US.
Still beats becoming a vassal state of Russia. Europe really needs to get off its ass and start arming the Ukrainians properly (it's understandable why the US doesn't seem to care, but Europe doesn't have the same luxury of distance). Yes, this will cost lots of money, but Europe can easily raise this money by massively slashing welfare and benefit spending.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
10d ago
Repeat after me: Nowhere. In. Two. Weeks.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
13d ago
The upcoming Rafah offensive has had me seriously reconsider my support for Israel. At the very least Israel, as the overlord and conquerer, has an obligation to resettle and provide new accommodation for the people of Gaza when it destroys their previous homes.
Much like how it supports the Jewish settlers in the West Bank I don't see why Israel can't support a resettlement project of the Gazans into the West Bank too. It'll cost billions sure, but that's still worth it if Israel annexes Gaza once it's done with its operation. Instead we don't really have any good plan for what will happen to the civilian Gazans after Israel razes their entire land to get at Hamas.
Israel has obligations towards the Palestinians, all the more so because it's destroying their lives at the moment. First moving them south so you can destroy North Gaza and then moving them north so you can destroy South Gaza is not meeting them.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
13d ago
The average American is pretty self centered. I'd be surprised if they thought of any nation that is not of immediate concern to them.
Yes, just freshly seen on orange cat site: https://rdrama.net/post/260165/american-forgets-the-rest-of-the
I guess this is a privilege you get from being a citizen of the global hegemon, you end up forgetting even the mother country which birthed you.
I'm suggesting that you use exchanges to convert your coins and then immediately move them to a wallet under your direct control. Coins shouldn't be left on exchanges for extended periods of time.
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