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Yeah, those sandwiches you can get at 7-11 or Lawson probably are just literally built different compared to how it'd be done here in the US.

Presumably, it would have a chilling effect on no-knock raids as police chiefs and federal authorities get more antsy about using something that is only a few steps removed from the same lethal actions that lead to de facto race riots in 21st-Century America.

We're calling them "YouTube edits" now? My aging Millennial heart hangs heavy on this day.

"law makers trying to make it legal for you to sell your grandpa's private collection when he dies probably weren't trying to make it legal to buy and sell 150 guns, with no extenuating circumstances, in two years".

And yet, we are going to have more cases like this in time, I imagine, if they're not already happening, purely because the former will be indistinguishable from the latter, given the habits of gun owners (to speak more plainly: older people probably buy a lot of guns, thus, it is quite conceivable that a family that needs to ditch paw-paw's little arsenal might run afoul of the ATF through no genuine fault of their own).

Really? This was the first article I found on DDG about Utah cuisine, and a lot of it not only looks decent, it looks not unlike Southern food. Granted, this is some listicle from some website I've never heard of before, so all the caveats about blogsites in the age of ChatGPT apply.

There is an argument that, as the de facto economic hegemon, the US should let as many people as possible come to the table to deal, but at the same time, as expressed elsewhere, there are fairly valid reasons for why the US has done the economic-warfare things it has done.

Yeah, reading that, my mind went to the Gundam franchise, but I don't think any series from that IP comes close to that description.

Isn't he still around?

I do remember people in the ratsphere saying during the Trump years that a realignment in both political parties was underway, so perhaps the definitional collapse is a necessary ingredient of that.

Hell, I just saw a Twitter shitpost where Russia repeatedly claims Ukraine or someone else did it, and not ISIS. If Russia is accepting that it was ISIS, that's apparently not being signal-boosted.

It is weird to see an anti-government anti-Tivoization rant given that I've always seen it as an anti-corporate position.

From some perspectives, there is little separation of business and state, so maybe this shouldn't be so surprising.

In fairness, I think even the book's appendices and such almost tacitly imply that it might as well be Arizona's population stretched over an entire planet.

I think what ChickenOverlord is getting at is that Commando does contain more levity than just that one scene. John Matrix cracks quite a few puns and jokes during that whole thing.

I think 3 is the most likely candidate, helped along by 2. We've become sexually liberated in many senses, and yet, we've somehow also shied away from it in a way that may have also impacted on-screen romances.

To echo the other replies to this comment, a modern military will need drones, but will also still need 4x4 vehicles (whether Humvees, JLTVs, or even just modified pickup trucks), transport trucks (so you still need GMC and International Harvester and the like), and men with rifles (which will be some flavor of AR-15, traditionally-milled or possibly even 3D-printed).

This is a good point, but to echo VoxelVexillologist's comment below, I think pretty much the only reasonable response left is sink-or-swim: either Detroit manages to shape up and make the transition before they get the rug pulled out from under them, or the American auto industry will simply be forced to leave the Rust Belt and look elsewhere.

This would be disastrous if this was still the era of Who Killed The Electric Car?, but thankfully, we have something of an actual industry for EVs in the US thanks to one very-outspoken and intense tech CEO.

And as I understand it, there's almost nothing in common between a car factory and a modern weapons manufacturer.

Well, perhaps aside from armored vehicles and firearms. WWII suggests that industrial capacity is fungible in some specific contexts.

Is that Jaibot? Did they move away from their own blog and onto Substack?

That's probably down to culture in the Japanese business world.

Really, they're getting rid of them even in Europe?

I suppose the point remains that Peterson has lost quite a bit of cachet, because he lost his edge. Before the benzos, he was a smart, articulate dude trying to defend himself from the political zeitgeist. Now, he's a brain-burned weirdo memed for saying "up yours, woke moralists!" I kind of don't want to blame the benzos and the weird asphyxiation(?) treatment he underwent in Russia, but I imagine it all could not have helped.

I'll echo 2rafa and say that this post, while interesting, seems to contain a lot of "big if true" assertions. Many of these cultures eventually gave way to one empire or another, and for reasons likely unrelated to women selecting and being selected against beauty and femininity. Burn your boats, slay your babes, say "not a step back" all you want, if you can't win a fight, then you can't win a fight. Nowadays, warfare is much more complex than "get a bunch of guys to march and kick ass," and is so mechanized that women can probably still participate in some combat function, even if they can't quite be PBI like the men.

I am, however, not equipped with the knowledge to challenge your historical analysis, but I know enough pop culture to interject on a few things:

1: Re: nuns, I'm not aware of nuns being given spiritual aspects outside of literally like 2 or 3 horror movies. The demon nun trope does exist, but I think that's kind of about it. If anything, Catholic nuns are probably the most disapproving of any notion of assigning supernatural powers to them. I guess some Japanese media has nun-looking warrior women and spellcasters?

2: On the subject of Kyrgyz bride capture, I have to wonder if the horseback girl-chasing was what inspired Red Sonja, given her whole shtick of not being allowed to lay with a man unless he defeated her in a fight.

3: Speaking of women who fight in media, I'm somewhat surprised at the lack of mention of anime; plenty of Japanese media have women characters fighting directly and holding their own against big, beefy men. Outside of martial-arts-inflected shonen or fantasy-based isekai, you have sci-fi mecha shows where women can drive a robot just as well as a man (unless you're in a Tomino show; then it's more 50-50 as to how good you are).

4: If the VTuber Ironmouse has taught me anything, I would say that laughing at the 4'10" Latina D.I. would probably end badly--that's a can of Latina temper you do not want to open. Would she be able to choke you out, Gunney Hartman-style? Maybe not. Would she reduce you to tears with her mouth? Quite possibly.

5: I am very unfamiliar with the conception of the E-girl as the adventure travel influencer; the latter definition you give is by far the dominant image. If anything, e-girls are stereotyped as not going outside and living in some measure of filth.

Why, though? Why would we want social scoring (which I'm taking to mean something like the Chinese Social Credit system)?

Another thing with video games and writing is that a number of games approach writing and storytelling in different ways vis-a-vis the gameplay. You have games where you just wander around to learn about the setting (Myst, Gone Home), games that attempt to immerse you in the world so that you can directly participate in the story (Half-Life, System Shock), games that attempt to be movie hybrids (Metal Gear, Wing Commander), or games where the story feels more ancillary to your progression gameplay-wise and you aren't always the sole driver of the plot (Command & Conquer, MechWarrior).