DoctorMonarch
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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!♬
9mo ago
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.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
2yr ago
It's 0.5-1% of males per generation.
Western Europe, State Formation, and Genetic Pacification
Harpending
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/147470491501300114
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
1mo ago
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.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
6mo ago
"49%- speak a language other than English at home or as a first language"
Given an 11% international share that's genuinely pretty fucking weird.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
11mo ago
· Edited 11mo ago
So, there's Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People and then there's my question of what if it's not really an "online" problem- maybe in the old USSR insane believers were writing for Pravda in offices and insane nonbelievers were writing samizdat on smuggled typewriters in various dachas and basements.
So how should we react if political enthusiasm in years past was pretty much "astroturf" as well? 1776 was kinda a masonic plot, was a bad mood in Boston about stupid bullshit taxes by foreign assholes and their quartered thuggish troops carefully managed lest it turn against a local landlord or obnoxious priest or any other problem or cool over time?
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
5mo ago
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.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
1yr ago
School districts as a group resist adopting the best pedagogical practices to prevent enough improvement in student outcomes for the public/lawmakers to conclude they don't need more money.
They resist Direct Instruction at lower levels because it's very happy-clappy/scripted and the teachers hate it.
They avoid hardcore tracking and generalized testing out of subjects because of ideological reasons. This is despicable.
They do not contemplate individual full tutorial because of budget, but would admit from their classroom size model that it's probably better, just not contemplating that it's hypothetically two standard deviations better.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
1yr ago
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.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
1yr ago
One thing I'd add is that past examples like good advice or straight up having the cash to assist with certain major purchases, parents can further advantage their kids. They add their underage children (or of age, but that's less relevant) as an authorized user to a specific credit card. Paid in full, on time, utilizing ~7-15% of limit, and increasing limit every 6 months-year... kid could reach adulthood with a perfect score and many years of reliable history.
This knowledge is becoming more common in various different populations- my upper middle class friends' parents who worked in accounting/finance did this for their kids about 20 years ago (mine did not), but I recently had an uber driver who had been doing this for his teenagers.
I expect as underage credit building becomes more common, young adult scores will become less indicative of ability to pay, though I imagine fuckups will ruin their own scores quickly enough for the system to correct things. I expect said fuckups will be a central example of how credit is a privilege based system, though it's more of a loophole exploit that didn't substantially exist for most of the system's history.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
2yr ago
Having delivered Amazon Flex throughout greater Birmingham for a few years(never as far as college town proper, but Brookwood/Vance one unlucky game day night), I'd say even the sketchiest areas are "merely uncomfortable" during daytime, but I hated taking runs to particular neighborhoods after dark. If I had a 4 hour run with 1 hour going after dark, I could adjust schedule to be less efficient but finish those areas early. My dad worked the 2010 census around here and hated the idea of going to some of those places at night. Only time I had a gun directly pointed at me was in Remlap, older guy thought only a meth-head would be driving to his trailer at night while raining, a not especially wrong belief. I just wish he had held it, safety off at his side and not stood in position with it levelled at me.
The few times people people aggressively approached me when outside my car and I just said "I don't carry cash and don't get tips. I'm pretty sure what's in my car is mostly books, dog food, and diapers." and they'd laugh or mutter and do something else.
Najeh getting murdered still pisses me off because I grew up within walking distance of that Domino's and Summit apartments.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
5mo 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!♬
5mo 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!♬
1yr ago
how does one successfully integrate the digital world into the classic murder mystery or thriller structure?
The answer is that for whatever reason, the digital world is a mountain of red herrings distorting and disrupting informed observation. The laziest way to do it would be that an influencer who has faked their death multiple times for clicks is murdered for real, and their dipshit following is muddying all possible genuine search ability with "We did it Reddit!" mass broadcasted armchair investigation. Even better if there is an "influencer detective" condensing the phenomenon.
For very tangential reasons, this question reminds me of the how to show texting/internet in film addressed by Every Frame a Painting https://youtube.com/watch?v=uFfq2zblGXw
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
4mo ago
The novelization of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith recommended in last week's fun thread lol. I'm enjoying it. Anakin does want the prestige of being on the Jedi Council, but he's genuinely pissed that he is not granted the rank of Master, which he desperately wants because that would give him restricted library access that he thinks could help him figure out his premonitions.
I'll probably read Storm of Steel later this week, unless I need levity, in which case I'll re-read the fanfic Seventh Horcrux by EmeraldAshes, in which Harry Potter has all the memories, power, paranoia, bigotry, arrogance and other personality of Voldemort but it's very much a comedy.
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)
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
2yr ago
A person experimenting with recipes might have invested dozens or hundreds of hours in it and wants the prestige.
Alternatively, it might be something like it being the literal recipe on the box or in an ad works and there is modest shame in just using Betty Crocker or whatever (Always loved this on reddit- https://old.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/so19qf/cake_maker_doesnt_make_hers_from_scratch_but_lies/ )
Mostly I think of this as a thing grandmothers do because their own memories of childhood are somewhat faded, but their (reconstructed?) memory of their own grandmother telling them a secret recipe at age 9 is sharp, happy and resulted in bonding moment. It's a nonconsequential responsibility you can give to a child.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
2yr ago
It's on their website https://www.foxnews.com/world/dozens-south-korea-cardiac-arrest-seoul-crowd-surge-halloween-festivities-officials-say
Fox News just has a weird relationship with youtube in terms of their clips being uploaded by random people more often than others. Their actual youtube channel isn't meant to convey news, but is more spicy 2-5 minute clips that are uploaded every few hours for virality potential.
They also try a bit harder to promote their app to audience, and it doesn't seem to have failed like CNN's did 6 month ago.
They have news shows which are more general, but with unsubtle conservative slant (and most conservative Americans would say the other cable news channels are unsubtle about liberal/progressive slant), but there are also opinion shows which get the most ratings and are more focused on US politics.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
2mo ago
For what it's worth, I thought phrasing was slightly rude but not out of bounds, hence I went with a confrontational "You know full well", but reflecting on it you probably were focusing on the growing slop issue- between your post, the replies and the edit timing it really does look like people talking past each other. Sorry for adding heat when none was necessary.
Tim Walz says his thing, talking heads start new round of talking shit about him, Nate Silver links slop including fake stuff, online people continue shit talking Walz online, you post here that Silver linked slop but people on this forum were ready to criticize Walz here and there wasn't another top level comment for it, you angrily edit that they're ignoring that Silver linked slop which was your point, but mottizens really want to criticize the real things Walz has said and done (or been chosen for).
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
2mo ago
· Edited 2mo ago
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.
So again the AI put totally false words into somebody's mouth and you apologists are defending it.
Are the hallucinated parts actually making a big stir somewhere? They aren't in a cursory glance in the replies to Silver.
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!♬
2yr ago
Confidence will make you more attractive. I'd suggest diet, sleep schedule, a bodybuilding routine, dance and improv classes, getting your clothes altered to fit, talking with career consultant and possibly a stylist, joining a religious community or volunteer organization before extreme hobbies.
I too want to do really intense shit in Alaska, but more Alone in the Wilderness style cabin build, hunting and gardening.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
2yr ago
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?
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
2yr ago
Going from a dead wiki reference to Calley https://archive.is/ecrlE , he does come across as somewhat stupid in terms of being a community college dropout and screwing up a few jobs, but Project 100k was strictly about getting more enlisted- Calley caused as much harm as he did because he was an officer in charge of others. He was able to go to Officer Candidate School based on his ASVAB [standardized test score].
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
2yr ago
I feel embarrassed to say this but honestly the character design hair has been holding back my purchase. It's just so fucking dumb looking.
When there are available other ways to provide resources and methods to keep the baby alive, and the court and hospital refuse and actively fight against it, that is exactly the same as killing the baby.
It would be more honest if the court and hospital directly argued in your manner that the parents are torturing the baby in keeping the baby alive. The have chosen instead to argue that more treatment is not in the baby's best interest, and just leave conclusions obvious but nebulous.
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