Grant_us_eyes
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Grant_us_eyes
5mo ago
Equating abuse of power to Shakespeare's criticism of idiotic teenage romance is not a comparison I would make.
Grant_us_eyes
10mo ago
How is it antagonistic to describe the activity I've seen with my own two eyes?
If you have better terms to describe it, I'm all ears.
Grant_us_eyes
11mo ago
There's been a recent push to change a whole plethora of state flags to look more akin to Microsoft Office clipart just because some rando with delusions of competency put out a pamphlet of what he thinks state flags should look like.
There are some people who really should have been bullied more in high school.
Grant_us_eyes
3mo ago
My immediate question would be 'Why do you need to spend half-a-million on a house?'
If someone handed me half a million dollars, I'd put 400k of that into investment and use the remaining 100k to start building a small home. (I'm already ahead of the curve as I have property to put said house on, but still.)
Besides, even if you did get the money, you're paying property tax, maintenance, insurance, upkeep on a house that costs half a million dollars. Talk about a bad investment.
Grant_us_eyes
29d ago
Why not? They've done it before. They explicitly went out of their way to hide the Nashville Shooter's manifesto, who was a self-claimed FtM tranny that shot up a Christian school, if you've forgotten.
Grant_us_eyes
4mo ago
No.
BLM land can already be utilized by the public in a myriad of fashions, and I am content with this.
I am also biased, as I wish I lived in a state with more BLM and National Forest land to take advantage of. Sadly, I do not.
This is one of the few instances where I feel governmental intervention is beneficial, as the land in question would not be able to be developed well. Best to leave it as-is.
Grant_us_eyes
3mo ago
...because that's what houses cost???
Not where I'm at. I'm seeing houses in subdivisions for as low as 175,000, and that would still be stupidly over-sized for what I'd need.
Grant_us_eyes
7mo ago
Life insurance stops being a thing (in almost all cases) when people retire
Minor note - not a nitpick, more of a clarification for people who want to prepare for such things.
The majority of life insurance that gets sold is what is referred to as term life insurance - this is typically what you see advertised where they name a stupidly high number for a very small payment amount, and salesmen play this out as a lie of omission and make people assume that the stated amount is what they'll get when they die(spoilers: they won't.)
That isn't to say there aren't times when term life insurance isn't an applicable economic tool, but it's rarely sold as such.
If you want guaranteed life insurance, you want whole life insurance. This will pay out, regardless of circumstances, will often be much cheaper the earlier you get it, and often can be setup to be payed into over a certain period of time, like a mortgage. Some of them even allow for early withdrawal of the life insurance amount.
If you want to setup any type of additional economic protection for the long run, get one of these, and get them early.
Grant_us_eyes
8mo ago
I did add alot of prefaces and assumptions to my argument, yes. I personally doubt we'll be seeing functioning, self-driving cars any time soon.
Grant_us_eyes
2d ago
If you're exercising/working out while taking it, you should be fine. I'm on 21 weeks of semaglutide and haven't noticed any lack of physical capability while training martial arts. If anything, I seem more capable, and I'm beginning to wonder if semaglutide has a side-effect of blocking soreness, but this might just be psychosomatic on my part.
Grant_us_eyes
23d ago
I mean, is this a peptide? Do you have a name?
Grant_us_eyes
4mo ago
direct nose cleaning with spray every evening before going to sleep, mostly salt water based but also tried some essential oil based ones. Seems to work well, but also some noticeable irritation up to minor bleeding if I overdo it so I've gotten a bit more careful.
Hold up, what sprays exactly are you using? I have a bad history of sinus infection and headaches(and large sinuses), and once I discovered saline sprays, it was as if I stumbled across a magical elixir that cured all my ills.
I can't imagine such things ever causing irritation or minor bleeding. If anything, they're rather soothing. Maybe I'm just being a bit paranoid, but if I had minor bleeding from using a saline spray I'd be consulting a doctor to make sure there isn't something very wrong with me.
Edit before posting: Ah, re-reading had me stumble across you noting a nose malformation birth defect. Sorry boss, that's probably what's causing it.
Grant_us_eyes
5mo ago
You could try an old hatchback. The Ford Fiesta I have doesn't even have cruise control or electric windows.
Grant_us_eyes
8mo ago
I try to limit my intake of olive oil simply due to how calorie dense it is, though I've been going back and forth over finding a good pre-made vinaigrette to go on my salad and just throwing my hands up and making my own from scratch.
You'd be surprised how many of said pre-made vinaigrettes use soybean oil, hence my annoyance.
When it comes to cooking, I typically prefer lard or butter.
Grant_us_eyes
10mo ago
Grant_us_eyes
2mo ago
The issue with rationalist communities is that they arose at the point in time where there still existed a remnant of Gatekeeping for the internet at large, even as the midwit hordes were beginning to clamor over the gate.
As such, everyone who got into said movement existed in an environment where most of their peers - the remnant of the old guard - were still very much on the far end of the bellcurve, if not in intelligence, then in terms of habit, mannerism, or philosophy. Things such as the (comparatively)early gay rights movement, aethism, polyamory, ect, ect - factions that were far from mainstream yet still had an active, often intelligent voice on the internet, because the people speaking about such things were often very intelligent and/or industrious, creative, and self-motivating. They had to be. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been there.
The rationalists did not - could not - understand that they were the johnny-come-lately to the various alt/punk/counterculture movements of the time, or that they were(imo) ultimately a transitory movement as a whole. They sought to mimic their betters in alot of ways, striding through open fields where chesterton fences once lay, not questioning where the rocks under their feet came from. The constant flow of individuals taking up the shield of rationalism continued to be watered down from the first moment it was established, as each successful wave of people brought an overall shift in the environment, both internet and IRL.
And so here we are. We've seen the alchemical crucible at work, we've seen the results. People have wandered the field until it's barren and the only thing left to do is dig, only to stumble across the base of all those fences and realize they were present for a very good reason. That while certain and single individuals might be able to hop across said fence and even deal with the consequences thereof, that despite looking up and admiring those people for various reasons, the horde wandering said field now has to contend with the revelation that they are not those people. They are not their heros, they are not special, and those rules existed not as a way to restrict or punish them but to tell them what to have for breakfast tomorrow.
Or, even worse, they have to come face to face with the revelation that despite them handling the trials and tribulations of no fence to be seen, that other people cannot.
So, now we've seen the end-game - a group of people with a very tenuous relationship on sanity whom carry the shield of rationalism by murdering their enemies, and the same people whom have considered themselves rationalists are now stuck in a very uncomfortable position with some very awkward questions to answer. This was an end-game that no one could have foreseen - had someone wrote a book about this, said plot-arc would likely have been received as 'cute, but unbeleivable'. Or, if you like, 'boo outgroup'.
As for where we'll go from here? Well. I don't know. I guess we'll see.
Grant_us_eyes
5mo ago
hurt them hurts yourself just as much
...no? No, it doesn't.
(I'm dimly reminded of a lynch mob trying to fall upon someone, only to have them pull out a gun and have said lynch mob descend into a horde of individuals. When was that...)
Again, we've tried the entire 'be a bigger man' tactics of politics. The past two to three decades have been a demonstration of the GOP 'taking the higher road' or 'loosing gracefully'.
While we're not out of those woods yet, there seems to be some light coming from behind the trees. And thank goodness for that.
Grant_us_eyes
10mo ago
Most people here just hate Trump. 'The adults are back in charge' was the common phrase uttered when Biden was elected, which aged like sour milk. 'It's just a stutter', which also aged like sour milk, was the common reply when others pointed out Biden's declining mental capabilities.
For all the claims that this place is very much right-wing/alt-right coded, it's still very much a liberal-leaning bubble that tries to hide alot of it's biases behind a layer of claimed neutral observations.
Grant_us_eyes
6mo ago
I think plenty of people from all over the world can assimilate and become culturally Southern
The word 'can' is doing alot of heavy lifting in your argument.
One of the elements that cemented my current opinion on such matters - among many - was talking with a friend of mine. Ethnically Italian, his family has been here for over a century.
And yet, despite this, there's parts of his family the rest know damn well to stay away from. Why? Because they're the ones connected to organized crime. The mafia.
A century of assimilation, and they're still culturally and ethnically distinct, with problems from the 'old world' still present. Hell, there's a sizable minority that have dual citizenship!
And this is with Italians. I grew up around alot of them. Hell, my father's godparents were damn near pure-blooded Italian!
And you're going to sit here, and suggest, straight to my face, that other ethnic groups are going to be better than them?
No. You import the people, you import the culture, for good and for ill. So stop importing them.
Grant_us_eyes
11mo ago
To paraphrase a video essay I'm becoming more and more fond of, 'These people don't realize they're one bad week way from being dragged out into the street and burned at the stake.'
Grant_us_eyes
1mo ago
Whenever I see this argument, I just helplessly gesture in the general direction of Joshua Graham from Fallout: New Vegas, how much the character is beloved in the community despite being extremely religious, before throwing my hands in the air and giving up, knowing I'll never be able to communicate the entire point without a multi-paragraph effort post.
To try and summarize the matter, actual redemption always comes with a cost. If you're not willing to pay the cost, you're not actually redeemed. You're just doing such to excuse your own guilt. Aella seems to just want things delivered to her on a platter, and is complaining her decisions have lead her to this point without any reflection.
You can't force redemption on someone who doesn't want to pay the price.
Grant_us_eyes
1mo ago
It's sad that this appears to be common behavior. As I've seen all of which you've mentioned, multiple times, and every time I'm astounded by it.
People try to claim that this experience was just 'one time'. If only.
Grant_us_eyes
3mo ago
I'm not a boomer, if that's what you're asking.
Doing a casual perusal of online available real estate shows prices comfortably in the 150,000 range where I'm at.
Not everyone on the Motte lives in a trendy international cosmopolitan area, you know.
Grant_us_eyes
4mo ago
Is this where we ignore how Urban areas tend to have a great amount of political control over a state as a whole? Not exactly something I'd describe as 'vibrancy and threat of a museum'.
I don't really care how you think those rural enclaves act. It was my experience with them combined with looking at history over the past hundred years or so that shifted me more toward an immigration hardliner - you import the culture, you get the problems, regardless of what environment they're in. Import good culture, you get good outcome. Import bad culture, you get bad outcomes. That simple.
No.
The point is that he lies, and will make up information, and physical artefacts, to drive the story he wants to tell.
He has done this once. Has he done it again? I don't know. But I have to take everything he says through that lens, wether the story benefits 'my side' or not. There is no trust, no faith there - he can put on the Centrist or Conservative mask as much as he wants, but I know it's a mask, I know that he's lied before, and there is no way I can celebrate or advocate for the stories he writes because there is now a non-zero chance he's lying about something explicitly to look good for whatever side he's wearing as a skin suit.
Personally, I'd prefer that he'd give up the 'both sides' grift and just write whatever benefits his side and philosophy, whatever that may be.
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