HorthyMiklosKatonaja
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HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1yr ago
I thought the invasion would have started within a couple of days after the first attack, and certainly within a week.
Surely Israel has detailed war plans ready for such a scenario. They certainly struck back lightning-fast in 1973.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
12d 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
1yr ago
Forcible transfer of populations is considered a crime against humanity, so expect any nation that does it to have all kinds of sanctions leveled against it.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
8mo ago
Especially, it's trans people, or people with lots of trans relatives/friends, who are severely decompensating online and losing contact with reality (i.e., acting as if Trump's first act upon being inaugurated will be to round up all trans people and herd them into the gas chambers).
Screenwriters and especially studio execs are dimwits who know bugger-all about science, but have absorbed the notion (from watching Captain Planet and Ferngully as kids) that science is Bad and destroys the environment.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
25d 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
6mo ago
If any of you has seen Winter's Bone, the all-white Missouri community it depicts gives off a definite vibe of hostility towards outsiders (whatever their race). I personally would be too intimidated to set foot there.
And this is besides the place having few or no jobs.
I always vote Libertarian no matter who their candidate is. I want no part of the bipartisan shitshow. I wish we had a Proportional Representation Single Transferable Vote system to allow a larger portion of the political spectrum to be represented in the legislature.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
8mo ago
It seems that the US gets all the smart Indian immigrants, and the rank and file are inundating Canada and causing dire effects on the quality of life there.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2yr ago
Wouldn't it have been cheaper to just shoot the stuff into deep space?
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.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
5mo 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
1yr ago
Oddly enough, Moreno's arrest record lists her as white non-Hispanic.
Though not transgender, could she be trans-ethnic?
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1yr ago
"Skrewl"??
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2yr ago
The folks at Politifact disagree.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3mo 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
7mo ago
I haven't seen "grok" in at least forty years!
I've never driven, or owned, a car.
I hate "car culture" as it developed in the years after 1945 because of how ugly and unlivable it made nearly every American community. Six- or eight-lane arterial roads, lined with strip malls, fast-food places, Walmarts etc. (interspersed with car-related businesses such as gas stations, auto dealerships, tire stores, muffler shops, etc. which take up huge amounts of space), every one with an enormous parking lot that one has to walk through (I can't even count how many hours of my life have been wasted just walking through parking lots) while keeping an eye out that some distracted moron might run me down.
The sidewalks are invariably empty except for the homeless, the poorest of the immigrants, or once in a great while a dog-walker.
All that wasted space which could have been used for housing.
Bus stops, most without a shelter, for buses that run every half hour or even every hour (less than that if it's snowing or raining).
Neighborhoods with nothing but houses, on winding streets (many without sidewalks). For mile after mile after mile. No corner grocery stores, no corner pubs, nothing to walk to unless you're buddies with all your neighbors.
In the US, there is no such thing anymore as an affordable, safe, walkable urban neighborhood. There are smaller cities and towns with affordable housing - but with no jobs, very little shopping or cultural institutions, with a huge fraction of their population bombed out on opiates or meth.
If I want to visit any "outdoors" destination - beach, mountains, national parks - that's just out of the question because there are no trains or buses that go there.
Thanks a fucking heap, Henry Ford and postwar urban planners.
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
4mo ago
Hard to imagine never being able to leave your window open at night.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
5mo 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
5mo ago
Some judge in Hawaii is bound to zap it.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1yr ago
What is a "cut" in this context? Do the Outlaws all have a certain haircut?
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.
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