HorthyMiklosKatonaja
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HorthyMiklosKatonaja
8d ago
What annoys me, and has become quite common lately, are people who write in to advice columns who deliberately obscure the gender of everyone mentioned in their letter. They, spouse, sibling, child, partner.
Since I was in college, I've read every advice column I've been able to get my hands on, as a way to make up for my complete social cluelessness. Dear Abby, Ann Landers, Miss Manners, Carolyn Hax, Care & Feeding, Captain Awkward.
I try to picture in my head the people involved in these situations. But I cannot picture a genderless person - my mind short-circuits and just gives me a sentient cloud of fog!
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
11d ago
while they have some tricks those will be impenetrable to patients.
I know that if the ending of the name is the queen of the fae, it's going to be really fucking expensive.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
11d ago
They should go back to the old-fashioned "Dr. Billings' Soothing Syrup" type names.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
14d ago
We still have /r/shitpoliticssays to carry the anti-progressive flag.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
19d ago
Other than losing my hair and having to urinate every hour or so, no. I guess I got lucky in my genes.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
20d ago
Who said I was young?
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
20d ago
40?? I'm already 57. I walk eight miles a day and I'm still in great health (though I put down enough beer that my liver probably isn't thanking me (I never get hangovers though)), but that can't last forever.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
21d ago
And even if you're healthy, what happens if you get Alzheimer's? You wouldn't even know it, and eventually you'd either freeze to death trying to walk to work or get in a car accident if you still drive.
I have never been in a romantic relationship and furthermore have no friends or loved ones, and the very day I become conscious of physical or mental deterioration, I'm checking into a hotel and euthanizing myself with the strongest poison I can get my hands on.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo 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
1mo 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
1mo 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
1mo ago
I expected something about racial integration.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo 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
1mo 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
2mo ago
Would this mean that foreign films would no longer be distributed in the US? That would put most arthouses out of business.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo 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
2mo 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
2mo 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
2mo 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
2mo ago
Also, Milton Berle.
I'm remembering a 1954 movie, and it's worth a chuckle pretending that them refers to giant ants.
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