DoctorMonarch
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DoctorMonarch
1yr ago
Googling, there are wireless charging compatible phone cases.
DoctorMonarch
1yr ago
Given that the pill shifts what kind of men are found attractive, that feminism and pornography radically shifted expectations for both sexes, that there is a hilarious increase in self-described bi women who have only had men as partners over the past few years, I'd just dismiss any and all notions by default.
DoctorMonarch
1yr ago
Re: Military Service
If you were dealing with a ~115IQ teenager graduating high school at 17, open to a few years of service/misery, would ROTC contract+ College then commission make more sense, or first a 3 year Enlistment (assume desired MOS due to prepped ASVAB, Eagle Scout rank bump) + Guard/Reserves during College paid by GI bill?
Or screw either, not worth time and stress, that answer makes tons of sense too.
A part of the calculus that throws a slight wrench into the decision is that the $0 VA loan can go for a million and can be used on a 4-plex (assume parents of said kid built credit to 725 by making them an authorized user on a credit card that mostly makes utility payments).
Women are primarily attracted to men that other women are attracted to. Your best bet is replicating the record company paying young women screeching in excitement for the Beatles to land in America (before anyone had their records in America, or radio broadcast)***, but on social media, without obvious tells that you're paying for it.
***This account was apparently inaccurate, and exists as only a pop culture legend. Particular other instances of paid or otherwise incentivized enthusiastic 'actors' to appear as fans may be real.
DoctorMonarch
6mo ago
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.
DoctorMonarch
9mo ago
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.
DoctorMonarch
9mo ago
"The share of Belgians with a Belgian background clearly increases with age: it amounts to 52.3% among 0-17-year-olds, 63.2% among 18-64-year-olds and 85.9% among those aged 65 and over." https://statbel.fgov.be/en/themes/population/structure-population/origin
Googling- 113,600 births in 2022.
Kind of a mistake of a country. If I were an ancient Celt getting slaughtered or enslaved by Caesar I'd be embarrassed to have it named after my people in a roundabout way.
DoctorMonarch
9mo ago
Keep an eye on the Enhanced Games, announced last month. Seems like a step toward what you want to see.
DoctorMonarch
1yr ago
Case to be made that needing coal for fuel and having flood-prone coal mines was why Newcomen developed the steam engine and later why Watt improved it- https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-industrial-revolution/
DoctorMonarch
1yr ago
Was gang used in terms of "generic group" or "specific unit"- which these police were as members of a task force or "criminal organization" in which case this is a genuine concern- some police departments can and have been subverted and corrupted by criminal gangs having members with clean enough records join.
DoctorMonarch
1yr ago
I'm currently prepping for Summa Theologica, getting a complete version for Christmas.
DoctorMonarch
1yr ago
While I can't actually speak/read/understand Japanese having only studied for a dozen hours, to make things clear for others, an example that stands out to me (with nearly zero comprehension) is the issue that "Watashi wa [name]" is one of the first sentences most learn in Japanese, it's for introducing yourself, it's "I am [name]", so lot's of guys stick with "Watashi"=Personal pronoun, but it's fairly gendered and situational. Good table just above the linked section as to usage percentage in context, with explanations below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pronouns#List_of_Japanese_personal_pronouns
DoctorMonarch
1yr ago
I decided to hold off on joining until 2 or 3 kinks were worked out, having been annoyed by new sites in the past that necessarily deal with growing pains at launch.
Also, I consume enough nicotine, caffeine and alcohol that you'd have to make me quit all 3 at once for me to deal with withdrawal symptoms from other stuff.
DoctorMonarch
1mo ago
Marked, just because I'd assume it's a lie or demonic scam so I'd walk out on it.
DoctorMonarch
3mo ago
It only takes 25 years to have posted since the 90s.
What's your opinion of the rules on this forum and do you think your quoted remarks are good to go, with no particular citation?
Even though I think the world would be a better place with him dead and he goes against basically everything I value I am begrudgingly astounded and impressed by the sheer volume of vitriol in his heart to be able to keep posting pure hate for 4+ decades.
DoctorMonarch
3mo ago
Testing with link https://twitter.com/caesararum/status/1745808302699635041
DoctorMonarch
10mo ago
I'm pretty sure it's the ~new next to new posts/replies next to timestamp, which makes desktop searching for new content very easy rather than looking for a pale blue highlight.
DoctorMonarch
1yr ago
A part of this is the disintegrating barrier between public and private life due to social media, as well as who gets considered a public figure. A part of this is because of a shift in progressive values over time, where what may be considered racist or sexist has changed generationally to the point that under previous conditions, certain intersectional talking points would have absolutely been considered racist or sexist.
DoctorMonarch
1yr ago
of all film genres
They're really, really cheap to make relatively.
Teenagers trying to make their own campy shoestring parody of Indiana Jones or Lord of the Rings will go over the budget of a slasher film on hats or swords or cost of bandwidth pirating editing software.
DoctorMonarch
1yr ago
You won't see riots because it's still winter. It's marginally too cold to be outside for too long, utilities are prevented from being cut off and evictions happen less.
DoctorMonarch
1yr ago
Even on this forum, I don't often see people mentioning that IQ differences shouldn't imply differences in moral worth -- which suggests to me that many people here do actually have an unarticulated, possibly subconscious, belief that this is the case.
It's a lot easier when you have an aunt with Down Syndrome and an uncle who worked for say... the bad, obviously unethical responsible parts of Enron or Bear Sterns or Lehman Brothers or for Bernie Madoff. (I'm describing my personal situation)
But I can hope that many here encounter the kind, cheerful and helpful mentally retarded at the grocery store or at a paper shredding site and notice that the main FTX individuals who actually fuck them and the rest of society over are 2-3 comments up or down in this or that thread.
DoctorMonarch
1yr ago
Nation of Islam is a Hotep ethno-narcissist thing (you can call it a gang or cult or political movement or Männerbund for all I care), there are a lot genuine black real Sunnis, there are also a lot of prison converts whose adherence once they get on parole is questionable.
DoctorMonarch
1yr ago
Try to get involved on the import/export side of things?
I'd start going to industry conventions like https://west.supplysideshow.com/en/home.html but that one starts tomorrow, so unless already in or near las vegas I'd wait for another one.
DoctorMonarch
1yr ago
Also Mastodon.
To those that didn't watch- the Kansas City Chiefs did in fact come back from being down 14 points to beat the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl- the championship game of the NFL. This means they are the best team in the sport of American gridiron football.
Fans of the sport will argue about two particular calls that the referees made that seem to have strongly changed the game.
I am more interested in the gameclock management that the Chiefs used in the final 2 minutes of the game while things were still tied. It was a very undramatic way of winning at the very end- while quite close to being able to get a touchdown, the Chiefs decided to burn almost all of the time up by kneeling the ball 3 times, then kicking the field goal. There were 11 seconds remaining, and receiving the ball took 3 seconds. This left 8 seconds for Jalen Hurts of the Eagles to throw a single "Hail Mary"- extremely long and accurate pass, which didn't happen.
I wonder if this kind of clock management is defecting in a game theory sense. The Chiefs won the biggest game, but it was in a manner that probably damages interest in the sport and will increase general usage of the tactic.
I could just be salty because I like both Jalen (I'm an Alabama fan) and Mahomes (I have won the past 2 seasons of fantasy football with him as my keeper) and wanted a more dramatic fun end for either.
EDIT: Also the question probably should have been fun thread, but it makes sense you'd put it in daily thread when people might have actually answered before the answer was known.
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