HorthyMiklosKatonaja
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HorthyMiklosKatonaja
8mo ago
Terms that were popular only in small, socially ostracized circles of internet weirdos and incels are now mainstream.
I still have yet to see "Bayesian", "quokka", "defectbot", "epistemic status" or "toxoplasma" in the Washington Post. Heh.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
9mo ago
It would upset too many applecarts, so without some kind of coup or revolution it definitely will never happen.
(Unfortunately, this country is just too big. Each member of the legislature should represent no more than 50,000 constituents, but that would require a House of Representatives with 6,600 members!)
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
11mo ago
The YouTube fight video has been yanked already. That was quick!!
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1yr ago
... or maybe they'll take the edgelord route. Homelander goes off the deep end and wipes every Arab nation (plus Iran) off the map. Fade to black, silent credit-crawl.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1yr ago
In stores and malls, I haven't heard any religious Christmas music since sometime in the 1990s. It's just one billion repetitions of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", "Chestnuts Rosting on an Open Fire", and various pop abominations.
My two local malls (Tysons Corner Center and Tysons Galleria) and the stores in them, in fact, have really been skimping on Christmas decorations in the past few years. In the 1980s, the whole place used to get transformed: tinsel and colored lights everywhere, decorated trees in every shop window. Seeing this used to be one of the things I most looked forward to about the Christmas season.
Nowadays, there are just a few anemic strings of white lights hanging from the ceiling (colored lights seem to be permanently out of fashion for some reason) and almost no stores have any decorations put up at all!
I suspect it has something to do with the fact that the area now has a sizable Muslim population (when I go there now, maybe a quarter to a third of the women are wearing headscarves or hijab) who'd rather not see a Christian holiday celebrated, although I doubt anyone would admit publically that that's the reason.
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.
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
5mo ago
IIRC this is what the "lightning" thing in Kolmogorov Complicity was really about.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
7mo ago
I've been waiting for decades for laser eye surgery to be perfected and standardized to the point that I can get my severe nearsightedness corrected to 20/20 or better, forever, by a robot at my local CVS for $9.95.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1yr ago
anything that's ever actually kept anyone up at night--Gaza, inflation, illegal migrants, Trump, covid, BLM, metoo, or climate change
Has there ever been a movie about inflation that isn't a documentary?
But simply having too many cultures, too many languages, religions, ethnicities in a country (to the point they, put together, outnumber the former dominant group) is bound to make it weaker, IMO, because there will no longer be a consensus on values. There will no longer be anything to hold the country together and it will essentially cease to be a nation in any real sense at all. Every group will have its own shibboleths and taboos which it will lobby its political representatives to codify in law - which will probably get shot down except in all-Muslim (or whatever) towns, but the time and energy wasted on this stuff is time and energy which cannot be used to work on the nation's real problems.
I, for one, would rather euthanize myself than live in such a corpse of a country.
(This situation, multiplied by a million, is also why I firmly believe that no world government can ever work.)
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1yr ago
East Germany had something like this. Because of its unique situation with continued flight to the West, many factories and other businesses were constantly begging for employees.
For what reason would we want to tile the land with housing?
Because there's a severe shortage of affordable housing in every city in the US and Canada which is worth living in.
Somebody needs to build the walkable equivalent of a thousand Levittowns, starter housing which can be easily paid for on the salary of a single working-class adult - and not a highly-paid one, either.
Here in the Washington DC area, everyone's taken it for granted for decades: carjackers, robbers and other violent criminals (except the occasional domestic murderer), and professional thieves/shoplifters, are never white.
Edit: And of course, you'll never find anybody drawing attention to that fact in public, as that would be "hate speech"; the metro area is 99% blue tribe.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1yr ago
I've never seen any progressives raising their voice about the plight of the few remaining whites in Zimbabwe, though . . .
(That might have changed had Mugabe forbidden them from leaving the country, but it's still a stretch of imagination.)
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2yr ago
What about Yuengling? I seem to recall that company having some sort of association with the right wing, though I can't remember the details.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
17d 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
3mo ago
Apparently, 19th-century Americans could tell mulattos, quadroons and octoroons apart by sight.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3mo ago
Setting aside Benjamin's socialism
I'm a bit curious - does any right-winger/believer in free markets ever use the term "proletarian"? I've only seen it from Marxists.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
4mo ago
What did FDR do against religion?
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
5mo ago
And the ozone hole in 1991 that was going to give everyone in the Northern Hemisphere melanoma. Lots of scary articles, but when the hole disappeared, nobody thought that even worthy of mention.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
5mo ago
If Trump is somehow assassinated during his inaugural address, IMO that has a very good chance of kicking off a civil war.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
5mo ago
I've never gone to Starbucks, but if it's like any fast-food restaurant or other commercial space, there's loud annoying pop music playing all the time. I like to spend as little time as possible being subjected to such aural assault - unless I can get drunk enough that it no longer bothers me.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
7mo ago
anyone who was legitimately from the lower orders
The thief Mundungus Fletcher surely qualifies.
Eh. Back when everyone lived in one-room hovels, parents always had sex in the same room as their kids.
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