HorthyMiklosKatonaja
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HorthyMiklosKatonaja
17d ago
Advice columnist Carolyn Hax once wrote something to the effect of, "We have five senses for a reason. How smart is it to look for a romantic partner without using any of them?", referring to the fact that photos are often old or complete fakes.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
22d ago
And didn't he originally say something about all cars in America being driverless by 2025 - something which nobody who has ever dealt with liability lawyers could possibly have believed for an instant??
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
23d ago
Optimus robot
Musk is famous for overpromising and excessively-optimistic timelines. He's basically the Peter Molyneux of tech. I wouldn't take anything he says seriously, unless we see the robot performing household tasks with proof that there isn't someone operating it like a waldo.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
24d ago
I expected something about racial integration.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
25d ago
There's also the factor that I'm old enough to remember when Fairfax County was 98% native-English-speaking white, and I've always possessed the ingrained mindset that "the way things were as I first remember them, is the way they ought to be forever."
Maybe it's a form of autism; I don't know.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
26d ago
I wonder if he's ever ridden the Fairfax Connector buses and found himself the only English-speaking person there. I suppose he would not feel, as I do, like an outsider - an endangered species - in what was once my own country.
I guess I'm just a xenophobe by nature. Whether this qualifies as a mental illness, a personality defect, or just a neutral personality trait depends on your outlook. The Redditors of /r/nova would certainly consider it either of the first two.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
I thought that malt liquor was the drink of choice on the MLK Avenues of the nation, though Fred Sanford was partial to Ripple.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
https [://] nitter [.] net/kanyewest/status/1920387087049572704
it's gone now.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
Would this mean that foreign films would no longer be distributed in the US? That would put most arthouses out of business.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
I tried to read Jurgen once, because it was supposed to be this towering fantasy masterpiece, and the title of Heinlein's Job: A Comedy of Justice was a reference to it.
I bounced off it. Didn't care for it, didn't see what was so great about it. And I recall the language being too affectedly old-fashioned for a twentieth-century work.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
That may have been the beginning of it, but IIRC as late as 1988 the Democratic nomination was up in the air as late as June/July. (Anyone remember the "Seven Dwarfs"?)
Every election cycle since then, the front-runner has been locked in earlier and earlier, and the whole process rendered less and less interesting to watch.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
Everyone seems terrified nowadays of having contested conventions which used to be the norm.
I'm reading Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972 and it's an eye-opener.
After the first few primaries nowadays, everyone just drops out to make room for the Chosen One. And it's happening earlier and earlier.
I'm subscribed to Noahpinion because he seems like he knows what he's talking about economics-wise, though I 100% disagree with his stance on immigration (since he completely ignores cultural issues (On that front, Peter Brimelow's Alien Nation strikes me as just plain common sense.)) and American exceptionalism.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
There's /r/libsofreddit and /r/conservative, Reddit's token right-wing echochambers.
/r/politicalcompassmemes has more ideological diversity and /r/shitpoliticssays is worth a look.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
Also, Milton Berle.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo ago
I have a vague sense that this "Dreaded Jim" person is internet-famous as some kind of troll or lolcow.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo ago
If the administration manages to nuke the DOE, maybe we can go back to the days when individual teachers were allowed to set their own curricula.
Stranger things have happened.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo ago
Isn't there also a version where it takes the prince literally raping her to wake her up? Or am I confusing it with Sleeping Beauty?
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo ago
Apparently, 19th-century Americans could tell mulattos, quadroons and octoroons apart by sight.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo ago
I recently saw a travelogue video by Noel Phillips in which he was picked up by a Waymo at PHX.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo ago
Tir Tairngire, the Elf Supremacist dictatorship, is my personal favorite Shadowrun nation.
(I don't actually game, I just like to read the sourcebooks for the world-building.)
Heh.
In GURPS Cyberworld, published in 1993, following a pandemic in 1997 the US is ruled by a dictator, who rules through executive orders, under a Provisional Government established in 2024 (there are still elections but it's a "managed democracy"), and has incorporated Mexico as six new states, with the lower-class Mexicans not free to travel to the old US.
And there are VR Cyberdecks (of course) but Steve Jackson Games failed to foresee social media.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo ago
Labor camps will probably suffice. Put them to useful work like filling in potholes, cleaning up trash from sidewalks and vacant lots, and removing graffiti 14 hours a day, under strict supervision, and they'll be too exhausted to get up to didoes.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo ago
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- and by the time you do, your own homeland is more prosperous with a higher standard of living than the US.
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(Some of the later Japanese emigrants to Brazil must have been kicking themselves a few years onward).
Koremlu, a popular depilatory whose active ingredient was thallium acetate.
Radithor, giving people radiation poisoning for ten years.
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