Corvos
1d ago
Don’t be ridiculous, they need to be white or shiny to reflect heat. Otherwise the seats will get uncomfortably hot. Pay attention to the details, people!
Corvos
1d ago
They do seem to vary. My friend was given painkillers in hospital and had exactly the same 'all the time, when nice things happen, I think to myself that heroin was nicer' reaction that was reported above; others have said otherwise. It would be pretty neat if we could find a genetic basis for this and know who it was safe to give painkillers to.
Corvos
1d ago
Which IMO leads to anarchy, semi-organised militia, and national / international terrorism. ISIS was 'the people sorting it out themselves'. So was the Taliban and so is al-Queda.
Corvos
1d ago
I think the darker fantasy in both cases, which you see less often now for political reasons, is they’ll give it up for me.
E.g. James Bond and Pussy Galore. The old, anti-gay attitude is, ‘I’ll show you a real man’. Even the threesome fantasy is not about being used as a temporary novelty by a couple who are devoted to each other but not to you, but requires they be at least somewhat interested in the male partner.
Corvos
2d ago
Hmm, fair point. Though I doubt those people have a good diet and other routines for maintaining personal health, which might cause them to smell worse than they would otherwise.
Halitosis is also a problem for some people.
Corvos
2d ago
She had that one story about having a breakdown as a child because too many people were looking at her.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if she’d grown up pretty and ’got over’ the shyness by becoming an exhibitionist and basking in the positive male attention. Discovering later on that a majority of that attention (beyond what she could see in direct interactions and on her cams) was actually negative might be quite difficult to bear.
Corvos
2d ago
Essentially you're saying we should shame because she's an effective promoter of her ideas through her niceness?
Artistic merit used to be considered an aggravating factor under 19th Century censorship law for precisely this reason.
(I don’t necessarily endorse this position but I think it’s an interesting and relatable historical fact.)
Corvos
2d ago
You will be pleased to know that I haven’t experimented with it but I’m open to believing that modern people wash far too much.
Depending on their genes, many people don’t actually seem to produce much body odour and most animals don’t AFAIK smell foul if they aren’t washed daily.
The historical standard was regular dry wipe-downs with a linen cloth and baths maybe once a month; the theories I’ve heard that our oil glands are in constant overdrive from all the hot water seem plausible to me, although that doesn’t mean they’re true.
The right used to feel this way too, didn’t they? Until wokeness got really going.
There was the attitude of, “look, I’m being very polite and reasonable as I make my argument for why Thatcher was right / why it makes me uncomfortable that my home town is being taken over by foreigners. Can’t we just have a civilised conversation about this?”
I suppose that’s not quite the same, as there isn’t the presumption of agreement.
I think the pro-Capitalism and pro-liberal-democracy portions are more prone to thinking that their positions are obviously correct and that if someone doesn’t agree with them then it must be because they didn’t understand the arguments.
Corvos
2d ago
Her analysis seems reasonable to me. We had a poster a little while ago who wished it was socially acceptable to join a monastery because he was tired of being jerked around (unintentionally) by pretty girls who would never have anything to do with him.
Corvos
2d ago
I’m not sure this is true - nuns have been the subject of male desire for ever, as have Catholic girls and lesbians. And simultaneously the subject of mild resentment - general rejection is still rejection.
Corvos
3d ago
I think he had a very legal way of thinking and the Motte's general move towards 'fuck the legal argy-bargy, this is bollocks and you know it' style argumentation didn't sit well with him. Couple that with repeatedly trying to litigate J6 & Trump's prosecution and he started getting dogpiled a lot. Not entirely without reason IMO but it can't have been much fun.
Corvos
3d ago
Yes, of course. I’m a granny-bike person not a road warrior; I like having a basket and being able to get off easily just by swinging my legs, so I eschew high speeds by default.
Corvos
3d ago
I hate that AI version modelling is a brand thing. Just call it 2.6 and let me decide if I want it.
Corvos
3d ago
He hated them :P
But no, it’s a phrase about using weapons for their intended purpose (“he owned an antique blunderbuss but had never fired it in anger”).
The phrase is often extended to non-combat items. In this case, what I mean is that he used for its intended purpose in its intended context (making light in a place without electricity) rather than as a LARP.
Apparently it’s a British English phrase: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/30939/is-used-in-anger-a-britishism-for-something
Re: acceleration I’d heard the theory but wondered if the rise of e-bikes had made acceleration less of a faff.
I'm not going to zoom through a public park if I can use a nearby road without feeling like I'm going to die.
The park in a question has exits on Road A and Road B. There’s a road that connects the two but it’s further down and has traffic lights, so the park path has become a highway for delivery people on bikes who act like the pizza drivers in Snow Crash. It’s not a safety issue per se.
Corvos
4d ago
Right, and I assume that the price of Chinese goods will rise on a lag, as did the goods of Germany*, Japan and Taiwan.
*”Jerry-rigged” used to have the same valence as “Chinesium” if I remember correctly.
Corvos
4d ago
Isn’t this largely purchasing power? Stuff in China is cheap, so you don’t have to pay workers very much, so stuff in China is cheap.
#NotAllCyclists but I will say that as a non-driver I find the worst cyclists far more aggressive than the worst of anything else, both in terms of how they move and what they say (shout). And especially doing it in places that aren’t meant to be used as highways, like public parks.
I think it’s the combination of speed and vulnerability as people have suggested. Cars who act like that get a call from the Transport Authority, and pedestrians move slowly.
To put it another way, I get why non-car Americans are impatient at car-Americans but bicycles also seem to have inherent issues that cause aggressive behaviour regardless of how else the space is being used.
Personally I’m holding out for the return of the Segway. They look ridiculous but they’re wonderful to drive.
Corvos
4d ago
Quite possibly - this was in a remote area in the 60s.
Thanks for doing the hands-on research, I’ll give it another go when I can.
Corvos
4d ago
Its also good at reading my many, many emails and flagging ones where people are asking me to do something specific, or touch on a number of topics I've flagged at important.
Do you use a specific service for this, or something custom?
In no way is an overstatement, although in many ways I agree. To take the obvious one, sexual freedoms have clearly increased, not entirely to society’s benefit.
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