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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
38m ago
My mum told me she'd heard that, if you end up in the Atlantic, you're pretty much guaranteed to freeze to death in a matter of minutes. Being able to swim would just prolong your agony.
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1hr ago
This seem almost unfalsifiable. I might as well say
No company will ever fire someone for being direct and outspoken, provided he is good enough at his job.
That just seems straightforwardly true to me. If you add enough value to a company, you can get away with being direct and outspoken (and a great deal worse). That's just a true factual statement.
By the same token, you'll sometimes see girls with lines in their Tinder bio like "if you're a Tory, swipe left" or whatever. But in terms of revealed preferences, I think the number of women who would refuse to date a man whom they otherwise found highly attractive solely because he held conservative opinions is vanishingly small.
No woman is going to turn up her nose at a man for having different political opinions from her, provided he ticks enough of her other boxes. If a woman says "I matched with this guy on Tinder, but when I found out he was MAGA I ghosted him" – I mean, yes, that's the sequence in which those events transpired him. But you didn't ghost him because he was MAGA: you ghosted him because you didn't find him attractive enough (not just physically, but also in terms of charm, sense of humour, financial viability etc.). Claiming that she rejected him for his political opinions is just social desirability bias: she would have been more than willing to overlook the exact same opinions if expressed by a more attractive man.
It may sound like I'm calling women shallow, but I'm really not. Men generally don't pretend to put a big premium on political compatibility with their romantic partner: the social desirability bias in men's case comes from attempting to downplay how important youth and physical attractiveness is to them. Plenty of men will claim not to care about looks and to just want to find a nice, normal, down-to-earth girl they can hang out with, but in practice will put up with a great deal of crazy behaviour provided their romantic partner is young and hot enough.
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20hr ago
I will never understand people who say that Nolan is a competent director of action films. Nauseating disorientation =/= excitement. Paul Greengrass has a lot to answer for.
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21hr ago
Some of the filmography on Gilligan's new project Pluribus possibly surpasses the lows of Breaking Bad, this scene in particular where Carol is on the rooftop reminds me of The Room; the green screen is executed so sloppily that Carol outright does not have a shadow. Then there is this, which is somehow even worse.
Jesus Christ, you weren't kidding. I have seen AI slop which looked more convincing than the latter clip.
The other day, I was telling herself about the spree killer who targeted massage therapists in Atlanta. Being that most of the victims were Asian women, initial reports understandably characterised it as a hate crime targeting Asian people. But when the perpetrator was arrested, he went to great pains to explain that he didn't murder those women because they were Asian, but because they were vile whores leading him (and other men like him) into temptation.
There's something darkly amusing about a man who will freely admit to being a sex addict, to deliberately targeting physically and economically vulnerable women for violence, to blaming women for his inability to control his own sexual appetites, to despising prostitutes and sex workers, to being a murderer – but I'm not racist, guys!
As a confirmed Breaking Bad hater, I have read the AV Club's "The case against Breaking Bad" article many times, as it articulated almost everything that I disliked about the show, including its cinematography. Even fans of the show have acknowledged how silly the "Mexico is yellow" thing is, but this was the only source I've seen that criticised the overuse of jitter cam, something I found really annoying and distracting:
But even in the look of the show, clichés abound. In Breaking Bad, the sky over Mexico is always yellow. Much of the show, including its quietest moments, is afflicted with an unmotivated camera shudder that will date the show as badly as the excessive use of zooms dates many films from the early '70s.
Once this was pointed out to me it became hard to unsee. Last October I compiled a list of "classic" horror films I'd never got around to seeing, including Black Christmas. I did enjoy it (if for no other reason than my enormous crush on the young Olivia Hussey – my word, just look at her), but that specific thing where a character delivers a line of dialogue accompanied by an extremely slow zoom-in on their face is such a 70s trope, and almost always comes off as incredibly corny and immersion-breaking. You rarely see it in movies made before or after the 70s.
Yeah, I saw it for the first time a few years ago and felt rather underwhelmed. If compiling a list of my Spielberg films it certainly wouldn't crack the top five. (I did enjoy it more than Close Encounters, though.) Definitely a film which fell victim to the "Seinfeld is Unfunny" effect, where it's hard for modern viewers to appreciate how inventive it must have seemed on release.
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1d ago
I would advise putting criminals who began claiming to be trans-women after being charged in a separate facility from both cis-man and cis-women
Why?
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1d ago
I'll ask again: is it your contention that anyone who visits Israel for any reason thereby becomes fair game for assassination, in perpetuity? Is that what you believe, yes or no?
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1d ago
So in your opinion, anyone who visits Israel for any reason thereby becomes fair game for assassination by terrorists, in perpetuity?
I like Israel
I find that very hard to believe.
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1d ago
It’s a good bet that a lot of the young adults visit Israel and probably did birth right tours.
By this standard, any Muslim who has ever visited Mecca is fair game for assassination at the hands of someone who lost family in 9/11. Is that the standard you endorse?
So what you're really saying is "Alice is entitled to seek revenge on people who actively conspired to murder Alice's family members". That's really not what I'm asking. I'm asking, is an American who lost a family member on 9/11 entitled to shoot up a mosque even if he has no reason to suspect that any of the worshippers in said mosque had even the most tangential role to play in 9/11? Is he entitled to shoot up a mosque purely on the basis that the worshippers in that mosque are part of the same "tribe" (broadly defined) as the people who killed his family?
"You can be as Jewish as you like, just as long as you don't engage in any of the cultural practices associated with Judaism, not even in private."
To answer your final question would an American be justified shooting up a mosque who had losts a family member in 9/11? Potentially yes.
What is the word "potentially" doing there? Would an American who lost a family member in 9/11 be morally justified in shooting up a mosque, yes or no?
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1d ago
Michelle Yeoh (when she was younger)
Honestly: I think I would even today.
So rapists trying to avoid serving their sentences in male prisons are not acting in bad faith when they suddenly "discover" a female gender identity immediately before going into trial, not even if they make zero effort to medically transition and only the most token effort to socially transition.
The only people you see as acting in bad faith when they "identify" as something they aren't are the people doing so ironically in order to expose how nonsensical your worldview is. You are more comfortable admitting rapists, murderers and pederasts than you are admitting infidels and gadflies.
And you wonder why the trans activist movement attracts so many bad actors.
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2d ago
No worries, I won't ping you going forward if you'd rather I didn't.
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2d ago
I got into running at the very start of Covid, and ran my first marathon in May 2021.
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2d ago
Unfortunately not. There's probably one in my gym but I don't fancy going. Tempted to treat myself to a massage this evening.
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2d ago
New year's resolutions check-in:
- Posted my tenth blog post of the year last Thursday, an analysis of Chinatown and Spec Ops: The Line I originally wrote for Scott's everything-except-book review contest.
- Went to the gym three times last week. Have yet to go this week, as yesterday morning I suddenly got a horrible pain between my shoulder blades which has yet to dissipate. Can deadlift 1.84x my bodyweight for 3 reps, squat 1.15x for 7 reps and bench press .87x for 6 reps.
- Have not consumed any pornography since waking up on January 1st.
How goes it, @thejdizzler, @birb_cromble, @falling-star, @Tollund_Man4 and @self_made_human?
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3d ago
(I doubt there are any transwomen fitting those specifications, though.)
Bless your heart.
And note the shifting of the burden of responsibility. It's not that the man made no secret of what kind of man he was, and the woman willingly overlooked this inconvenient fact because she got lost in his eyes. It's that he was actively deceiving her about the kind of man he was, and she had no way of knowing until after it was too late.
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