HorthyMiklosKatonaja
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HorthyMiklosKatonaja
5d 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
2yr ago
"scaled moderation team"
The lizardmen are real and they work for Twitter! Heh.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
7mo ago
The recent huge, unprecedented influx of low-intelligence Indians into Canada, IMO, plays a huge role in the spread of the "pajeet" stereotype.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1yr ago
countries could simply provide "quality of life worth a damn" to everyone living under their umbrella and are electing not to out of spite.
That ingrained assumption completely blew my suspension of disbelief in Neill Blomkamp's Elysium.
Sure, medical care doesn't actually cost anything!! It's just the fault of the nasty bad evil rich capitalists who are selfishly refusing to treat every little twinge and hangnail of ten billion people!!
I felt dirty after having watched that.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2yr ago
I regularly read CapitalWeather, the Washington Post's weather/climate section. In the articles about record temperatures/rainfall/whatever, you think there'd be links to the National Weather Service's (or whichever country's meteorological agency's) website.
Nope.
The links are always fucking Twitter.
Maybe they'll stop doing that now, or just assume that everyone who can read has a Twitter account.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2yr ago
From the name I assumed it was a rapper.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1yr ago
It is impossible to browse Amazon the way you browse bookstores or libraries. Amazon is 95% less fun.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
7mo ago
A disproportionate percentage of Reddit powermods are trans, so of course dissent from trans-worship is not going to be welcome there.
...because anyone who doesn't publically "support diversity" is shamed, made a pariah and possibly fired.
Observe the posts in subreddits for individual cities, inquiring about neighborhoods to live in. Every one is looking for a "diverse" area.
Try posting that you want to live in a white neighborhood, and see how quickly you get banned for "bigotry" or "hate speech", with a mod note referring to you as "scum" or some similar endearment.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1yr ago
Not since 1965 or so in DC itself. School desegregation in 1954 caused the trickle of white flight to turn into a torrent, making for the "Chocolate City/Vanilla Suburbs" that obtained until:
1973 in Prince Georges County, when school busing was introduced to achieve racial balance and created an even greater surge of white flight there, and
The early eighties in the rest of suburbia, when the first wave of Central American immigrants started pouring into the affordable garden apartment complexes, displacing the whites from there and pretty soon taking all the fast food, landscaping and physical labor jobs. Nowadays, on the buses and at the bus stops in Fairfax County, you will not hear one word of English (even the drivers are all foreigners now! (And most of the taxi drivers are African immigrants and Afghanis.)), nearly all small shops are owned and staffed by immigrants, and Fairfax County schools are maybe 35% white, down from ~80% in my high-school years forty years ago. Less than that in Montgomery County and in the low single digit percentages in DC and Prince Georges.
Pretty much all the whites here are white-collar PMC types, and the white working class has decamped to remote trailer parks many miles from the nearest public transit.
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
5mo ago
IIRC this is what the "lightning" thing in Kolmogorov Complicity was really about.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
9mo ago
There were schools and orphanages in Ireland within living memory that were worse, and nobody outside that country cares, because the victims weren't part of a "marginalized group."
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2yr ago
Me, I like the excitement it creates; it makes playing Stellaris and HOI4 even more fun than it is sober.
I never drank at all until past age 40, when the Borders bookstores started closing, the Barnes & Nobles began devoting floor space to toys and other kiddie crap, and the local public libraries got rid of most books except recent bestsellers, concentrating on providing internet terminals and daytime shelter to the homeless.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
11mo ago
The YouTube fight video has been yanked already. That was quick!!
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
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
8mo ago
IIRC, the FBI classifies most Hispanics as white, so there is no way to see the crime rate of (what most people think of as) white perpetrators except in the rapidly dwindling number of areas where Latinos are rare or absent.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1yr ago
Part of the new puritanism fueled by feminist disgust at "sexualization" and "male gaze".
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1yr ago
I'm guessing he read about the Buddhist monks who immolated themselves to protest Ngo Dinh Diem's regime and, maybe was depressed/suicidal already and decided that as long as he was putting an end to himself he might as well do it in a way that makes some kind of impact.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1yr ago
Rootless cosmopolitans, even!
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2yr ago
Since there were suddenly a lot fewer ways to pass the time.
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.
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