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DoctorMonarch

♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬

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♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬

				
				
				

				

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				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 30, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Not a real programmer but... Aren't your question parameters too wide? If someone has a perfect (presumably zero day) exploit then the link question is just how much can come over bandwidth before user wizens up, and with a modern connection, that's a lot. Granted the only huge hacking op involving zero day exploits I've ever read about was Stuxnet, and that was USB shenanigans not anything protected by https or modern browsers but still.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for May 28, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If you're even remotely possibly an alcoholic (who enjoys cola mixed liquor drinks most of all), it goes down easier and might even taste better once you're used to it. Cherry coke zero and bacardi are cheap, fucking your life up is expensive.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
He's continually trying to bait people who hate him into making themselves look worse, this is possibly based on direct advice from Trump, who has decades of experience inflaming specific enemies. While I've been using reddit less and less over the years, the core site /r/all became entirely worthless for a week due to the latest round of screeching that he passively instigated. My daily time here, on twitter/x and just doing stuff irl has increased by a few hours.


I'm inclined to think he really did mean a nice heart goes out to you gesture, but it was passive instigation insofar as it doesn't take long to type something like "Hitler was a particularly evil mass murderer, in addition to being cruel and stupid. He was not only a bad leader in policy and war, he was a shitty artist and his conduct from 1942 on suggests he was a psychopath who didn't even care about Germany. Fuck that loser, he deserves hell, fuck the rest of the Nazis too, God bless the memory of their millions of innocent victims and the memory of the millions of heroes who fought, bled and died to stop them." This line doesn't contain an apology or even acknowledge the arm issue, but would chill most of the freakout crowd, and wasn't made precisely because he considers the freakout a net positive for him.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Not that weird, though I only keep track of other guys from Alabama.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for October 4, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Second adaptations weren't nearly as common back then, and I think part of the satisfaction with Brotherhood is because the first adaptation didn't land properly at all. It's been ~20 years, but the whole meeting in London, then later Weimer Germany including Hitler struck me as some of the goofiest shit imaginable. To keep with the metaphor, didn't quite stick the landing, looked at the judges, and then decided to make an incredible jump launching themselves headfirst at the ground.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 30, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Well, hope this Jared character has more fun at W&L. When he puts the decal that every alumnus is mandated to put on their car, I sincerely hope people don't confuse it for a swastika, as has happened to guys I know.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 30, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
One of my mom's best friends was a sorority mom at Bama from ~2010-2020. Happy to forward her any questions I can't answer myself. I graduated from Bama around 10 years ago, but like George_E_Hale did not join a frat. He mentions The Machine, which is very interesting if you're into Alabama politics. I haven't seen any comment mentioning test banks of xeroxed/scanned copies of tests, notes, assignments of previous students- this would have actually interested me at the time. Dark grey moral choice in a previous era of education, but probably light grey at this point.


As far as the conservative Christian father's concerns about paying a shitload of money to put his daughter in this environment, being a promiscuous alcoholic drug addict dropout is trivially easy for any American woman over the age of 16 or so. The sorority actively polices both pledges and members so that they do not get a reputation of a bunch of dumb drunk sluts, and in a way that is fanatically more authoritarian than what he could ever hope to get away with.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That's what it looks like I've done to me...


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				Friday Fun Thread for March 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Marked, just because I'd assume it's a lie or demonic scam so I'd walk out on it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 10, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don't believe any of them have joined, but I privately send links to high quality posts (and sometimes rough drafts of my relatively low quality responses for proofing/critique, almost all of which were never posted) to thoughtful friends and family. Usually the links are related their profession/philosophy or a description of a culture war flareup in their area.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 6, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


SENIOR: (long pause and head scratching) The Bible! The Bible forbids it, son!






JUNIOR: Where?






SENIOR: (fast and frantic searching through book) Wait, son! It must be here, somewhere!




Strawman Senior really, really doesn't know his Bible. Sad! It's on page 1 or maybe 2, depending on your copy.


Genesis 1:27




So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.




As far as the text is concerned, there are just sexes, gender as a separate idea doesn't enter into the conversation. Under Levitical Law crossdressing is a capital crime.


There are plenty of infertile women and eunuchs (by birth and those made so by other humans) and men who lay with men (not recorded positively) throughout the Bible.


As far as self-mutilation is concerned, Jesus advises cutting off your own hands or feet or plucking out an eye if it leads you to sin, but this is after talking about tying a millstone to the neck + throwing into the sea to anyone who leads a child into sin. He does talk about making yourself a eunuch for the Kingdom of Heaven, but Origen, who is rumored to have taken it literally, says it would be very foolish to take this mechanically literally.


I'd be fascinated to see a thriving church (Nicene affirming, biologically reproductive, retaining generations, active missions) that is trans-affirming.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for October 6, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's really unfortunate for Michael Lewis that this unforced error of a book was published at the same time as his prior work, The Blind Side, looks really messed up in retrospect because of the conservatorship lawsuit between the black athlete in question and non-adoptive millionaire booster quasi-familial adults covered in that story.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 3, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You can probably assess whether you'd like a band with 1-3 15 second clips of their music.


Start a blog reviewing the music and plays you like and offer better posts as freelancer content to the small remaining local outlets, get press access to events you could possibly be interested in and interview people?


Go to conventions for things that interest you and try to have friendly acquaintances within an hour of a given metro area, treat them to dinner and figure out the local situation from them?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 31, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Very few people are going to have a problem with you having a young Achilles type character who is male but raised as a girl for contrived reasons, but absolutely rejects it at puberty.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Not sufficiently, because working a 48 hour retail cashier shift or 20 hour ditch digging effort is extremely challenging and not at all ambitious in other senses except an extremely limited context of possible overtime pay that does not reach the relative wealth suggested by ambition.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for April 30, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I would strongly discourage people from teaching in general before that additional information- in your case I'd say absolutely not.


As to other career possibilities, what are your current skills and what skills could you cultivate this month to the point you could get a full time job with them next month?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for March 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
What are you typically scoring on practice tests for each subject?


What are your goals in terms of colleges/universities?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for February 10, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
With some texts, you can still just google "$Title $Author pdf" (or epub) and get a clean copy without torrenting. This is the case with what you just mentioned.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 23, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Canadian Anglican is going to largely be gay is A-OK, USA Anglican is going to be overwhelmingly gay is sin, USA Episcopal (rectifying respect to Canterbury but not the crown) is going to be usually gay is A-OK.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Here's James Spann talking with other meteorologists about the Texas floods last night, will take me a few hours to listen to it in full https://youtube.com/live/T-mT7v6tjc0


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 30, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Could you link specific instances or mention the worst users who are regularly doing this?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 19, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You and @FtttG are remembering correctly https://archive.ph/b6SpY




CMV: I am pro-abortion (in favor of aborting fetuses, not pro-choice)
submitted 3 years ago by by AmericanNick7






I think that something as significant as consciousness should not be imposed on matter (the person before they gain consciousness) without consent, and as a non-conscious person cannot give consent, being born is inherently done without consent.
In addition, as a negative utilitarian, I wish for suffering to be reduced as much as possible. If abortion were mandatory for pregnant women, no new people would be born, and thus no new people would experience suffering. If no new people are born, humanity will end and thus human suffering will end. This would require no deaths of people already in existence, it would simply prevent new people from coming into existence. Over time, resources would become more plentiful, another benefit of this method.
I am aware how radical this view is, but I do hold it sincerely.




				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for May 2, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
A petty correction re: "media that eggs on religious beliefs"


To "egg on" is to encourage a person to do something to their detriment. If I said "I think you could beat up that silverback gorilla, jump into the pit, thump your chest and smile to let him know you mean business" that would be me egging you on.


I think you've conflated this with the modern phenomenon of "egging", similar to "TPing"- in which obnoxious adolescents throw locally cheap (to them) material at a house or onto a tree as low effort vandalism.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for May 2, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Believe it or not, but I pretty much learned fluent French by playing fully voice-acted text-heavy games in French, many years ago.




Strongly believe that, and I think back on reddit CWR there was some discussion of individual substantially higher written English fluency as a direct result from getting into 90s unvoiced pokemon (translated into English) with no alternate translation, so just diving into text, sometimes translation dictionary, but lots of grinding, as opposed to classroom or tv/film osmosis


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for May 2, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I was once strongly tempted to go into title insurance because I Fucking Love Maps and History and I'm kinda interested in Laws but I'm not lawyer material. This is one of those moments where I wonder if I could have saved a lot of grief or would have been ignored.