Grant_us_eyes
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Grant_us_eyes
3d ago
It's not as if Hebert limits this to fighting, either. One of the consistent themes in Dune is that humans need explicit pressure of one kind or another to excel beyond their limits. 'Do not create a machine in the image of a man's mind' is no different an aphorism than 'God made Arrakis to train the faithful'.
Grant_us_eyes
3d ago
Depends how you define the term 'warrior'.
Wikipedia: 'A warrior is a guardian specializing in combat or warfare, especially within the context of a tribal or clan-based warrior culture society that recognizes a separate warrior aristocracy, class, or caste.'
Okay, fine. When you think of the term 'warrior', one figure that comes to mind is the Samurai; landed lords, skilled in warfare, but also educated in politics as well as more intellectual pursuits. Knights, in the European tradition, were likely similar.
(And, yes, I'm sure there's people more educated in this that could correct me. I'm not going for historical accuracy; I'm going for modern perception.)
So when people say they want a Warrior when it comes to killing, they're saying they want their killers smart, intelligent, with a broad depth of education and eclectic skill.
To use a more immediate, modern example, Mike Vining comes across as pretty smart cookie, and if you called him a warrior, I doubt many would argue.
Grant_us_eyes
5d ago
Drink more water for the first week and beyond. No, more. No, more. Your body is probably going to be purging alot out of you, and it'll need the help.
GLP-1 agonist seem to effect people differently, so even if it doesn't retard your hunger, you do have other options.
Not sure what dosage regime your medical provider will have you on, but my experience with the minimum starting dosage has been consistent despite being on it for almost a year.
Pay attention to your energy levels throughout the day. Note down any side benefits you might be getting out of taking Semaglutide. If you start feeling sleepy or tired despite lacking any hunger, you just might need a small 100 calorie snack. As someone who never snacked, this was very odd when it started popping up.
Start exercising. Less weight means it's easier to get more active. Daily walks are always nice, and an easy way to stay active.
Good luck. Going by personal experience, looking 15 kg should be pretty trivial if it's as effective for you as it was for me.
Grant_us_eyes
6d ago
Hell, I've been the guy who's gotten complemented for his colonge!
I'll be the first person to criticize men and women who go overboard, but that doesn't mean people hate it completely.
Grant_us_eyes
6d ago
Learning that a good chunk of the civil rights movement was basically one big astroturf pushed by New York financiers might have young, impressionable minds seriously questioning things like 'official narrative' or how easy it is to twist history.
Nevermind everything else that was happening around that time period.
And we can't have that, now, can we?
Grant_us_eyes
7d ago
I know it'll never happen, but I'd kill for JMS somehow finishing Crusade.
We got a hint as to where they'd be going past season 1, but I'd love to get the full story.
Grant_us_eyes
7d ago
I would just like to let everyone know that they're now releasing Babylon 5 for free on youtube.
The plan being for one episode to be release each week, to let everyone experience how it was during the first broadcast.
I figure people need the nostalgia bomb, to remember when we actually had good science fiction on television.
Grant_us_eyes
8d ago
I mean, shit, I was watching Star Trek as early as 8 years old on my lonesome. If they're into science fiction and have any sort of attention span, it's going to be hard to keep them away from that stuff.
Cut them loose with some of the more fun stuff in seasons 2 through 7 and see what happens. It'll build some foundations for them to appreciate the deeper stuff when they get older.
Grant_us_eyes
11d ago
Given the composition of Reddit and what's likely the 'official' Exalted discord, I'm somehow not surprised they're glazing 3e.
Then again, the online Exalted fandom has always been a little bit... weird.
But, yes. Amusingly enough, your issue is one of the main reasons I didn't have any interest in 3e.
Grant_us_eyes
11d ago
Wise of them. While I admit to viewing 1e with a sense of affection despite it's clunky-ness, and 2e is not without it's issues, it's probably the more streamlined choice if you're not familiar with White Wolf's RPG mechanics.
And 3e, sadly, seems to have been dead on arrival from the start.
Grant_us_eyes
12d ago
Which edition, if you don't mind me asking?
Grant_us_eyes
12d ago
Quite. To paraphrase a statement that's stuck in my head since the first time I stumbled across it, attempted suicide for a woman is a cry for help. Attempted suicide for a man is calmly taking out a loaded gun, staring at it for an hour, and then quietly putting it away.
Grant_us_eyes
18d ago
You invest in Silver/Gold because you want the physical, hard metal on hand as a way to arbitrage against the dollar collapsing.
Which is probably not what you're talking about. Personally, in terms of speculating/daytrading, going by the past year or so, Silver and Gold are being affected by some seriously whonky market effects and powerful trading groups working in the background. Silver was 30 dollars and ounce a year or so ago, and it peaked around 114 just the other day ago. That's not normal.
God, I wish I was in daytrading. Literally right as I was discussing things with my brother as to how the bubble on silver and gold were going to pop, it was crashing.
...you know, looking at the market for gold right now, I'll go off on a branch and make a prediction - we're going to see the price continue to dip. 4,841.60 as of today, we'll see what happens in the next couple of days.
Grant_us_eyes
18d ago
Challenger had nothing to do with DEI and everything to do with a demented and unholy mix of refusing to listen to Engineers, Victory Disease, and the Space Shuttle being an deformed Rube Goldberg machine to get into orbit.
Funny thing is, had they stripped the Orbiter out of the equation, you'd have a disposable heavy-lift vehicle capable of getting 90 tons into orbit.
Retrospective perspective is a bitch. We should have just continued making Saturn V rockets.
Grant_us_eyes
22d ago
The bitter pill for people to swallow is that if Pretti had been arrested after this and given a week or month to cool down in a jail cell somewhere, he'd still be alive.
It's almost as if enforcing the law... saves lives. Even the ones breaking them.
Yes, I'm well aware that strict interpretation of the law opens up alot of holes to fall down. It's a thorny mine-field, and in my experience good law enforcement is all about adhering to the spirit of the law, as no one is perfect and everyone makes mistakes.
But I don't think it's all that crazy to suggest that maybe we need to be a little more strict about some things, such as what's shown in the video.
Grant_us_eyes
25d ago
They're likely referencing this post and it's subsequents. If not, feel free to ignore me.
Personally, as someone whom has a dim view of employers that hire illegals and a very strict opinion on what needs to be done to them, I've never considered the discrimination angle before. Food for thought.
Grant_us_eyes
27d ago
Grant_us_eyes
27d ago
If that comes to pass, we no longer have a functioning government or country; we just have a tyranny where the left gets everything it wants as long as they scream loud enough.
Grant_us_eyes
27d ago
"Right Wing Goth Girls don't exist, they can't hurt you."
The Right Wing Goth Girls in Question:
More seriously, propaganda matters. Maybe the real secret to Amelia isn't that she isn't real but more that she's a signal to woman that they can be patriotic and nationalistic in an alternative, egirl way.
Grant_us_eyes
28d ago
I have a disturbing and unhealthy obsession with Mint Juleps.
Grant_us_eyes
28d ago
As I understand it, if you find a need to breech a locked door in a rough and messy sort of way, you're going to use a shotgun, fired extremely close up, but also at a downward angle so as to not hit any potential friendlies.
whoever volunteers for that is going to get shot at
Well, yes. That's what they're getting paid for. Slot in the level 4 plates and get to it.
Grant_us_eyes
28d ago
He'd work alot of local festivals/events(cause, y'know, part-time Police Officer) and he'd get alot of women coming up out of the blue to flirt with him. (He already had/has a girlfriend/partner, so it wasn't as if he was actively looking.)
It was just one of the more amusing things I noted.
Grant_us_eyes
29d ago
I imagine it's not a conversation they enjoy, since inevitably it would force them to address the fact that unless we increase the amount of cops by orders of magnitude, they simply cannot be there to protect people in many or most cases.
We've already had cases where police were present and watching things unfold and did not intervene until the civilian in question had subdued the attacker.
So even if you increase the number of law enforcement in the field to a stratospheric number, that still doesn't mean they have to do jack all.
Grant_us_eyes
29d ago
I don't think it is reasonable to expect cops to put their lives on the line in a society that affords them no additional respect.
My former boss was a part-time police officer for the town where he lived.
The amount of stuff people would do for him completely out of the blue when he had to drive the police cruiser was surprising. We're talking 'people paying for his meal in the drive through' level of surprising.
Nevermind the attention from women he'd get when out in uniform.
I've seen a little how the sausage is made, so to speak, so I'm not going to pretend that law enforcement has an easy job, but to say that society affords them no additional respect doesn't line up much with my experience.
Well, yes.
But there's an arguement to be made that even the common grunt wants to be a Warrior, despite not being one. It's an aspirational goal.
A minor example thereof, from what I've heard, is that the special forces operationg during the GWOT had relaxed grooming standards to better fit in with the locals(long beards and whatnot). And the common grunts bitched about it cause they wanted to look like the high speed low drag guys, and people in charge gradually relented.
So, yeah. You're going to have the bulk of your army/military be common grunts. But that doesn't mean they don't want to be a Warrior as opposed to said grunt.
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