FD4280
3mo ago
I can’t speak for the Silicon Valley comparison, but you are wrong on the second part. I’d prefer nearly anyone over Dems or neocons, and actual social conservatives of non-Islamic flavor are nowhere near the bottom of these preferences.
FD4280
5mo ago
At the risk of preempting Ilforte, if he's still around:
В Академии наук
Заседает князь Дундук.
Говорят, не подобает
Дундуку такая честь;
Почему ж он заседает?
Потому что жопа есть.
Roughly, in English:
"In the Academy of Sciences
Sits Prince Dunduk.
People say that it's unfitting -
Not a place he should possess;
Why, then, is the fellow sitting?
It's because he has an ass."
IOW, anecdotal evidence of a broader casting couch.
FD4280
4mo ago
Maximally offensive version: StarCraft-style base trade. They capture Mecca and/or Medina.
Slightly less contentious version: they plop down in a no-man’s land somewhere between the Donbas and the Dnieper to act as a buffer between two countries that both hate them less than they do each other.
Maximally lazy version: they capture a chunk of Cyprus. It’s close by, and if Turkey can do it, why not them?
FD4280
4mo ago
Add a rough neighborhood, minimal natural resources, a national language virtually unused outside its borders... I was only addressing the overstatement of its human capital.
FD4280
2mo ago
Do you know a bit of programming and a bit of higher math? Project Euler is not a permanent fix, but it certainly helped me in the depths of depression, and it may well be a step to something good.
FD4280
2mo ago
This is played straight in Joe Abercrombie’s “A Little Hatred,” where one of the MCs, a lady in her late twenties who had trained with the best fighter of the period for many years, asks said fighter to stop restraining himself.
(Abercrombie had screwed up on this front in the past with Ferro, justified by demonic lineage, and Monza, unjustified even without her injuries).
FD4280
2mo ago
I wholly agree, and chose to make a weaker statement because I’m not familiar with the Persian diaspora outside the US.
FD4280
6mo ago
You could get several thousand refugees settled in your neck of the woods.
FD4280
3mo ago
Given that there are unsupervised cattle in (some subset of?) Indian cities, what measures are people allowed to take if such a bovine behaves aggressively?
FD4280
9mo ago
https://jobs.nd.edu/ reads “Celebrate diversity with us. Be inclusive.” It’s certainly still a religious institution - just not for the same religion.
FD4280
1yr ago
Seems more like “I never thought leopards would eat my face, says a face-eating leopard.”
FD4280
2mo ago
They all equivocate on verbs, whereas what I had in mind usually goes noun->adjective.
FD4280
4mo ago
With your preferences, probably Boise or San Antonio. SLC is also plausible and has nicer nature within a couple hours’ drive, but might be a harder cultural fit.
FD4280
4mo ago
I think that in light of the existence of the judiciary branch, which is pretty much exclusively staffed by such, lawyers holding elected office in the other two branches runs contrary to the notion of checks and balances.
FD4280
4mo ago
King Rat is fantastic. Btw, flight lieutenant = captain in the UK, which clarifies some of the dynamics in the story.
FD4280
3mo ago
Romance of the Three Kingdoms in English. Sixty pages in, it’s a royal pain to keep track of the names. I wonder if something like Game of Thrones is equally daunting in Mandarin. Would the names be represented by some approximation of meaning or phonetically?
FD4280
2mo ago
You’re smuggling in the assumption that it’s symmetric in the first place. Model as a directed graph imo.
FD4280
10mo ago
This isn’t just Harvard. It is every American university except the ones that admit anyone with a pulse (and wouldn’t turn down the living dead if someone paid their tuition), and perhaps a smattering of religious schools. Even Caltech debased their admissions not too long ago.
Never was. Bladed weapons only iirc.
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