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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DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
2mo ago
Any chance the artist is this guy? https://www.deviantart.com/the-real-ncomics who previously had a different account https://web.archive.org/web/20111108093000/http://8red7.deviantart.com:80/gallery see reddit account https://old.reddit.com/user/NComics/submitted/?count=50&after=t3_1e8zzl
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
2mo ago
I'm happy to share my impotent response from last year, here in Alabama. Not 100% against the practice, but it still sets off alarms for me.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
3mo ago
I will thank any given American white nationalist who has a chance to import a Moldovan and choses not to.
I'll also try to pronounce 谢谢 properly for his wife.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
4mo ago
I'm an idiot and you should assume I'm wrong.
All federal courts prevent photography in any sense, and while someone might get away with something in a district court, the supreme court will rain down fire down on anyone who tries, so some courtroom sketch artists will continue to exist as long as judges. There are actually very very few trials that aren't open to the interested public, I think that those only happen when evidence is classified material.
The states themselves have individual rules, usually against film, but California allows enough for the rest of us to enjoy real court entertainment.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
4mo ago
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
4mo ago
Buy the not so special connections via donation-more than 1000 USD to cause X can often mean you get invited to the local party for the big donors. Probably more like 10,000 at national level or rich city level or 100,000 at international level,
I'm assuming you mean special credentials that are especially hard or unusual to get.
This only works in America. I'm retyping this, quite drunk, as an adaptation of "How can a normie get into the 1%"? cultivate great credit/low debt, if right age right fitness right temperament- join military as officer (get a degree from wgu if you don't have one), after 90 days active duty use the VA home loan ($0 down, or more for better rate) to get a 4 unit multiplex, you have to live in 1 unit as primary residence for a year (unless deployed elsewhere, then you can rent that unit out early). After that 1 year you can refinance and hypothetically reuse the VA home loan, though this will depend on your current debt-to-income ratio. If reliably making income from tenants, shouldn't be a problem to do round 2 and round 3 isn't impossible. After 4 years active duty, try to go for irr or reserve over guard. Then get a Commercial Driver's License to drive 18 wheel trucks, possibly a security clearance, and get a small business administration loan to buy an 18 wheeler yourself to become an Over The Road Owner-Operator. As an Owner Operator, your actual take home pay will be substantially less than your listed income- it's not atypical for a 400-500k income Owner Operator to take home more like 150-200. But this takes us back to VA home loans and debt-to-income ratios, where the math they're doing doesn't actually take this into account. And also that some of the shittiest parts of trucking are sleeping in the truck cab or a seedy motel. You could strategically buy places such that you would rarely be that far from one. If you found an insane spouse who agreed with this way of doing things, you could easily have around 40-60 residential units together after 12 years, with a fair number of them having mortgages paid off. If you started process at 18, comfy retirement at 30, or just keep going a bit, and retire to very low cost of living country while returns stack up.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
4mo ago
Aside from CP- obviously Cheese Pizza/Captain Picard- only guess is for Resale Stolen Goods.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
5mo ago
I would like to bid USD$4 for 3 FallingStarFavorCoins to be held in reserve for me. I also like to pre-emptively spend one FallingStarFavorCoin to change the music from rap or hip-hop to 90s 3rd wave ska at your next party. The cover of Come On Eileen by Save Ferris if that fits, your choice if it doesn't.
Do you take venmo?
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
5mo ago
· Edited 5mo ago
Agree with your response directed at DashesAndUnderscores @----- rather than /u/WhiningCoil who you replied to by mistake I think
Editing because dash's name fucks with name presentation
Edit 2: Can I write dash's name in quotes? "-----"
Edit 3: Does linking to their name work? https://www.themotte.org/@-----
Edit 4: I'm just going to report my own comment to our most excellent mods, punting the underscore issue to people who might be able to address it
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
7mo ago
Imagine being at a party and saying you work at a health insurance company. Total hatred from almost everyone.
"Yeah, I'm stuck working for Health Insurance Co right now, it sucks- know anywhere hiring [for skillset X]?" got me sympathy and suggestions. Granted, I wasn't claims or legal, but I know people who've worked in both and it's not the social penalty you'd expect from redditors, at least in Alabama. Similarly, someone can mention having an investment property and there isn't frothing at the mouth.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
10mo ago
As far as History of the Peloponnesian War, maybe make that the first half of your Friday class or similar? Also, Landmark Thucydides kicks ass as an edition.
Maybe try and force consistent translations for the epics? Fagles did a great job.
It's a bit unorthodox, but you could try to teach the kids to skim read properly, the funeral games in the Aeneid and also some of the same-y parts in Italy.
In the medieval course, I'd throw in Beowulf or Song of Roland. Going from Boethius to Dante is too much of a historical gap imo. Maybe also selections from Canterbury Tales or Decameron?
Open class discussion or even brief personal essay on "Why Bad Things Happen To Good People" before tackling Job might make the text more interesting, having articulated their personal beliefs.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
1mo ago
Quoting an early South Park episode Helen Keller the Musical, which I chose along with state flag because of a few different threads where my state has come up.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
2mo ago
David Jaffe, who is from my hometown, overdid the edginess on the twisted metal games, which I treated as absolutely rental tier ~25 years when that was a way to encounter new games. Original God of War didn't impress me quickly enough, I figured people were into it for tits that snuck past the ratings.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
2mo ago
Sailor Nothing, by Stefan "Twoflower" Gagne
Neat author, I tried getting into his Slayers Trilogy but couldn't really manage to back in the day. Absolutely loved his Neverwinter Nights (2002 version) fantasy comedy module series Penultima. I might have to redownload the game just to replay Pastor of Muppets in particular. Absolute height of comedy for me, age 16 in 2004.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
4mo ago
I found out from this post, because the ~5 people I knew personally who recommended his works have obnoxious extremely political tastes in literature and entertainment, so I politely ignored him.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
4mo ago
Discounting Russia, it's definitely the largest (googling provides 800k-900k troops vs closer to 200k each for France, Germany, Poland, Italy) and surely has the most combat veterans. Via aid, it's got a hodge-podge of tech and equipment but some of that stuff is advanced and high quality. Morale may be all over the place, but they've held on far far longer and better than most expected.
Given the length of time for training, the larger and richer other European countries could raise better militaries given a few years to build up, but they aren't there right now in Feb 2025.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
5mo ago
Good to know, will markout in edit.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
5mo ago
Eh, yes and no. https://www.wikiart.org/en/adolf-hitler/halaman-rumah-tua-di-munchen https://www.wikiart.org/en/winston-churchill/racecourse-nice-1921 https://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-franco/still-life-with-eagle
Franco has more technical skill, Churchill has more charm. I guess we'd need some art teachers who personally hate Churchill and at least don't dislike Hitler if we were talking about a more objective analysis. Maybe from Bangladesh or other Indian subcontinent Muslims ?
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
5mo ago
Only in the sense that it cures cancer and withholds it because that's it's twisted sense of humor, and also it will outcompete everyone in every industry. It will also turn Jupiter's moon Europa into paperclips, because it thinks that's actually funny. No Skynet type stuff though, except for a few sexbots who prioritize giving their bdsm client the thrill of their life at the cost of their life.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
5mo ago
Mad Men came up irl yesterday, my mom (in her late 60s) had been served a vertical clip via facebook, the description did not list the actual source, so I explained once again how to google. "The interesting line 'You're right, Roger, this place really runs on charm', just type that, possibly with quotation marks if you've got it exactly correct, maybe add the word 'quote' afterward, and it usually works." Decent chance it works this time, I've managed to get her to copy and paste within the past 2 years after about 25 of trying.
She asked if she would like it, I said to my understanding it was drama about advertising people in the 60s who after 3 martini lunches backstabbed each other and committed adultery, but was considered well made. She'd enjoy the outfits and wit.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
5mo ago
I have previously defined it here as briefly as possible, "Identity based progressivism, usually recent aggressive illiberal status seeking strains."
So, it would entirely depend on what you mean by socially conscious. If that entails identity based progressivism, they'd need to have a very unusual personality and probably a different strand of progressivism.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
5mo ago
Trump has always been deeply interested in image, not just his own or what's broadly anything associated with him, but the objective and subjective perception of anything. Certain gay men are better equipped than anyone else to talk to Trump about specific angles, historically certain black men and women too, but some of that was burned either by Obama skepticism and much more once he was the frontrunner in 2016.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
5mo ago
When I was an angsty 15 year old I punched through some drywall in the hallway going to my bedroom because mom made me keep going to school (as opposed to homeschooling). She hung up the image of a Bishop giving the sign of blessing over the hole, which wasn't repaired until I went to college. To this day the gesture inspires complicated emotions for me, because I do have a capacity for pointless and irrational destruction, I was still actually right if inarticulate about the particular school being a horrible environment for me, she genuinely did want what was best, that Grace in the Christian sense is something given to those who don't deserve it, that she and others would try to manipulate me in this way or that.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
5mo ago
Adding to the already odd protocol, it appears that Vice-President elect JD Vance will not even be present in Washington DC for the inauguration and will be sworn in at an undisclosed location somewhere else.
What are the chances that he does what he joked about?
"Hopefully everyone is cool with me skipping the inauguration so I can go to the national title game"
(For those unfamiliar or uninterested, the college football team of his undergrad alma mater Ohio State is facing Notre Dame roughly 7 hours after the inauguration)
You know full well that the reaction is to the snippet of his remarks "code talk to white guys" and that was entirely real. Shame Nate Silver spread slop, I respect him a bit less for this, but people are getting older and more careless and AI more convincing. Let's wait until tomorrow for him to correct or retract the slop link. Having never read Yahoo Entertainment I have no idea if it's all slop or was semi-legitimate entertainment journalism at some point but I'm going to be extremely skeptical if I see it again.
Are the hallucinated parts actually making a big stir somewhere? They aren't in a cursory glance in the replies to Silver.
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