HorthyMiklosKatonaja
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HorthyMiklosKatonaja
4d ago
I'm remembering a 1954 movie, and it's worth a chuckle pretending that them refers to giant ants.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
17d 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
7d 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
7d ago
They should go back to the old-fashioned "Dr. Billings' Soothing Syrup" type names.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
16d ago
Who said I was young?
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
16d 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
10d ago
We still have /r/shitpoliticssays to carry the anti-progressive flag.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
15d ago
Other than losing my hair and having to urinate every hour or so, no. I guess I got lucky in my genes.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
I expected something about racial integration.
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
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
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
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
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
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
3mo 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
3mo 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)
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
3mo 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).
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
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
2mo ago
Also, Milton Berle.
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!
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