HorthyMiklosKatonaja
No bio...
User ID: 540
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
6mo ago
And how many Bloody Sundays have there been?
Right off the top of my head there's 1/30/1972 in Derry, and 1/9/1905 in St. Petersburg.
Wikipedia gives me 21 more of them!!
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
6mo ago
Additionally, if most people could walk to their local pub, drunk driving injuries/deaths would be almost nonexistent.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
6mo ago
It's not that way in Scandinavia, or wasn't when I visited. It's just too bad the US doesn't have the demographics of Denmark.
(deleted and reposted because I posted one level too deep)
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
6mo ago
I, who have never had a driver's license, find stroads a real pain in the ass. I don't want to think about how many hours of my life have been wasted just walking through 20-acre parking lots. God forbid anyone actually put the parking lot in the back, with the store right on the sidewalk like in a real city, and have the main entrance on the sidewalk, and a separate entrance in the rear (supermarkets used to be built like this in the thirties and forties).
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
6mo 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
6mo ago
Nobody personally remembers the eighteenth century. But plenty of people remember 1960, with its comparatively low crime, affordable housing and prosperous industries, when cities had WASPs, Irish, Italians, Poles and Jews and that was all the "diversity" anyone needed or wanted.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
6mo ago
Hard to imagine never being able to leave your window open at night.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
6mo ago
or Paddies and Orangemen.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
6mo ago
A fact I find fascinating is that until (IIRC) 2021, every member of a Zimbabwean Olympic swim team was white.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
6mo ago
France, at least, should have learned that lesson in Vietnam and Algeria.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
7mo ago
PE classes are also divided by gender
Not always. I went to private school up until 8th grade, then public high school, both in Fairfax County, VA. All my P.E. classes were co-ed.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
7mo ago
What did FDR do against religion?
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
7mo ago
And books get junked from public libraries a lot quicker nowadays too.
I doubt if anybody under 40 has ever read Arthur Herzog's Heat or IQ 83, or Robert Silverberg's The Calibrated Alligator.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
7mo ago
I kind of like the kitty that follows your cursor.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
7mo ago
How about that old standby, Madagascar?
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
7mo ago
Yeah, I saw speculation on Cracked that Michael Jordan's brief stint in baseball was a secret suspension caused by his gambling problem, which was so severe that it led to his father getting murdered.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
7mo ago
There's still the oasis that is Political Compass Memes, and LibsOfReddit (though that one is just as obnoxiously partisan on the right as the rest of Reddit is on the left).
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
8mo ago
(it's hard to be sure when the news steadfastly refuses to notice "Emma's" Adam's apple)
Yesterday I collected my very first Reddit Warning for promoting "hate": noting on /r/slatestarcodex that said individual didn't look like an "Emma". I had hoped that Reddit's "transocracy" didn't extend as far as SSC. Guess I was wrong.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
8mo ago
Or how about 1979, my last year in elementary school. If it was good enough for me, it's good enough for today's kids.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
8mo ago
they genuinely don't know whether books in their classroom library violate some part of the law (because, say, LGBT content wasn't among the things they screened for when buying the books in the first place)
They could have just kept the books from before 1990; that was safely before LGBTQ stuff started to get shoveled into everything.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
8mo ago
National debt was much lower, so very little interest to pay; no social welfare programs; small army except in wartime; no horde of "alphabet agencies" interfering with everything.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
8mo 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
8mo ago
Just something I've been idly wondering - how many of the substack/blog links in top-level posts here and on /r/slatestarcodex are "I found this article and think it's interesting," and how many are actually "I'm blowing my own horn! I wrote this!!" but the poster is pretending it's the previous.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
8mo ago
Because Snow Crash made it sound super-cool thirty years ago!
(Some of the later Japanese emigrants to Brazil must have been kicking themselves a few years onward).
More options
Context Copy link