HorthyMiklosKatonaja
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HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1yr ago
"scaled moderation team"
The lizardmen are real and they work for Twitter! Heh.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
5mo 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
10mo 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
1yr ago
From the name I assumed it was a rapper.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
9mo ago
It is impossible to browse Amazon the way you browse bookstores or libraries. Amazon is 95% less fun.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
5mo 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
1yr 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
2mo ago
Oddly enough, Moreno's arrest record lists her as white non-Hispanic.
Though not transgender, could she be trans-ethnic?
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo 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
6mo ago
Rootless cosmopolitans, even!
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1yr ago
Since there were suddenly a lot fewer ways to pass the time.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1yr ago
1997? Try 1955, when Rudolf Flesch's "Why Johnny Can't Read" was published.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1yr ago
As a kid, I read the version where the Oompa-Loompas were African pygmies. When did that version go out of print?
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
I think it's this one:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy-in-an-enormous-planet-sized-nutshell/
Also the origin of the "fifty Stalins" line!
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo ago
close friend and colleague of Martin Luther
Someone should have asked him for his longevity secrets.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
4mo 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
7mo ago
"Tifo"?
I visited Seattle in July 2011; there were a few bums, but it was still a livable city then.
This is 3rd and Pine in 2011:
The main public library building had just opened; it was sparkling clean and still had the new smell. I don't want to think about what it must be like now.
And I visited Portland in September 2008, walked back to my hotel at 2 a.m., wasn't hassled. Back then Portland's homeless all seemed to be the "crusty" type: white guys with dreadlocks, who usually have dogs.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
6mo ago
They've aimed brickbats at Przewalski so I guess there's going to be a call to take his name off the horse too.
And of course the bloody article has a trigger warning for the exceptionally faint-hearted.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2d 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.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo ago
"The 1949 Minneapolis Lakers"
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3mo ago
If it's hot, dry weather you want, you can't do better than Phoenix or Tucson (if you like mild winters), or Salt Lake City, Boise or Denver (if you like snow and cold winters).
All of these places' housing prices have spiked in the last few years and all have homeless problems in the downtown areas, but tell me a US city that doesn't.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
4mo ago
Back in the old days, when often no candidate had a clear mandate going into the convention, and it was there that the deals were hammered out - things were just more interesting back then. Every election cycle, it seems to me, the D and R candidates are decided earlier and earlier, and the national conventions became pointless coronations by 1988.
Now the nominees are set in stone even before the election year and all we get to look forward to is month after month of attack ads and partisan news leaks. I wish I could go to sleep and wake up on the morning of November 5.
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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