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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
18hr ago
By that same argument, he doesn't need campaign money ever again.
In the real world, Donald Trump does have an inner life, and also midterms to worry about.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
18hr ago
but even literal pirates flying the Jolly Roger in the golden age of piracy would offer quarter if thier target surrendered and offered no resistance.
They did that because taking the ship was still risky and some of them could die. Do you think the average pirate would have still been so merciful if they had the option to push a button and simply delete the defending crew?
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18hr ago
In my understanding, judges during the age of piracy were rather the opposite of bleeding-heart liberals. If a hostile judiciary were fighting like hell to let pirates off without serious response because they're poor kids who are nice to black people sometimes, I suspect that summary executions would have made a triumphant comeback.
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23hr ago
I had a similar issue with Lucifer's Hammer. I made it a couple hundred pages, and it was about 2% comet related stuff and 98% sordid vingettes about the grubby little sex lives of a wide cast of people I didn't care about.
I seriously wonder if people remember the book fondly, not as scifi, but in the same way I recall the magazines my dad had hidden when I was young.
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23hr ago
About 10% of the deaths are attributable to second-hand smoking.
This also feels like a solved problem. I can't think of the last time I was truly exposed to second hand smoke. There's still older waitresses with a time bomb in their lungs, but will there still be by 2040?
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1d ago
Closer and closer to the Day of the Rake.
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1d ago
It was one of those situations where I was pretty sure that was the case, but couldn't recall any specific details, so I couldn't be sure I wasn't just making assumptions.
Let me guess; Hawaii and NY?
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1d ago
So is harm only harm if it's been designated illegal? Seems like we could solve all the drug problems just by legalizing them then.
Did you see how I answered the question? I made it more extreme and then yeschaded it.
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1d ago
Sounds like both Russian invasions of Ukraine.
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1d ago
That's a black sense of humor congruent with most people in a profession where people die. Doctors, soldiers, EMTs, cops, etc. What that actually intends to signal is solidarity with the people who might have to carry out actual violence, over desk-and-degrees leadership a thousand miles away (and their fellow social class members like journalists and general upper class laptop people who take WaPo seriously).
Hegseth's entire pitch for the position was "the purpose of the military is killing people, get back to basics". Getting verklempt over a dark meme is the new R government equivalent of misgendering someone.
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1d ago
If US manufacturers and gun shops were selling guns in the US, and the guns they made and sold were involved in the deaths of ~48,000 a year and used in untold numbers of robberies and other crime, would you be ok with the government using lethal force on the gun shop and manufacturers?
Let's specify "illegal ghost guns" just to highlight the faultlines. In which case, no, because I am not opposed to unregistered ghost guns. But I would bet that approximately 0% of the people upset about the narcoboats would bat an eye if the US government slaughtered a warehouse full of guys 3D printing guns with no warning or warrant or evidence.
Even if they're doing the exact same thing and selling the exact same products.
Cocaine is not legal for sale from US producers. The point of that hypothetical was to change the object-value-valence (guns:good/bad, drugs:good/bad) and see what people's moral intuition came up with.
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1d ago
There are people who make the argument that gun sellers should be held responsible for anything done with their product, but it's generally laughed out of American society.
It was absolutely not laughed out. It was part of a serious lawfare push from the left to bankrupt and destroy the entire domestic gun manufacturing industry. The right ended up passing legislation to specifically ban that kind of "process is the punishment and maybe we win the lottery" fishing lawsuit.
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1d ago
Only in direct response to normal contraband-interception-operations being attacked with lethal force.
Including in this scenario, where "normal contraband interception operations" are completely impractical?
Are you familiar with the heat map meme?
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1d ago
My dude, that whole quote is pure "The media rarely lies, just carefully weaves un- and half-truths like a wicked fey. Meet them with fire and cold iron."
And there's actually still plenty of room for straight up lies in what you posted. That first sentence is a masterclass in smuggled assumptions and sleight-of-hand implication. But no, there is nothing remotely resembling "confirmation" in that quote. What you are seeing is your own motivated reasoning, in a mirror.
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2d ago
Or, you know, we could take them prisoner?
There are significant logistical difficulties in doing this before the boat has been hit by a missile. Afterwards, they apparently have been, when reasonably possible.
If you're referring to the purported double-tap specifically, well, is there any good reason to think such a thing happened? You're not seriously taking an anonymous anti-Trump report from the Washington Post at face value in 2025, are you? One so perfectly timed with a Democrat Party psyop that it was almost certainly coordinated? Pity that CIA-Afghani dude went and shot a couple of National Guardsmen who were following "illegal according to Democrat Senator winking and nudging" orders. Really messed up the flow of the news cycle.
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2d ago
If South American cartels were running guns into the US that were used in the deaths of over 100k Americans per years, would you be ok with the government using lethal force on the gun runners?
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2d ago
I have fewer interactions with China outside of, as I said, the fiction, which likely plays up certain elements for drama. But the zero sum thinking comes up often, in a way that makes it feel like I'm listening to a fish talk about life, and just inferring the presence of water. In my impression, the Chinese are less "scumbag war of all against all" compared to India, but there's a consistent notion that your gain is someone else's loss - and your loss, someone else's gain. I've seen a few different sources suggest that wisdom is accepting that during your life, you'll be on both sides of the situation and that wickedness is going too far in the war of all against all.
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2d ago
Are talking about the man’s daughter.
No, we are not, and thinking Trump was is retarded.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
I've had a similar idea to this post floating around in my head for a few months now - just observing bits of the phenomenon without having a word for it. I think China has a pretty similar version, or at least, that's what shows up in their translated fiction.
Perhaps the common cause is a long standing, fully settled culture. If there's no "frontier", if there's no concept of "making money" in a Randian sense of creating wealth by the alchemy of effort and ingenuity, then wouldn't a fiercely zero-sum culture make perfect sense? If the only way to benefit is for someone else to lose, then wouldn't that explain a culture of scammers? The way visiting vtubers talk about sliding into a hatefully defensive mindset in a week because every cabbie and street vendor "accidentally" adds an extra digit to the charge? Or the prank videos where someone records "finding" a bill on the floor of an Indian-owned shop, and the counter-minder immediately goes all on on a bluff check, insisting that they money was theirs and they dropped it and "If you are a good person, you'll give it to me."
What would happen after a hundred generations of that?
And getting caught up on the murder rate thing is an error. China doesn't have a high murder rate for the sake of face... but when it came to it, the CCP let millions of people starve so they could pretend to the world that everything was going great. Doesn't India have a history of mass famines? How many of them were made worse by aristocrats refusing to acknowledge the problem because it would lose them points in intra-elite status games?
What would happen after a hundred generations of that?
One of the things I see people talk about regarding India is this superposition of hateful gloating blended with crying supplication, like code switching back and forth to whichever seems most advantageous.
Ironically, I see the same thing in black thug culture. A guy will act like the toughest motherfucker in the world... until he gets pinched. Then he flips a switch and turns into a crybaby bitch, begging for a mercy he never showed anyone else. Seems kinda dishonorable for an "honor culture", but maybe that's just an optimization for a matriarchal/matrilinear subculture. If there's no name to pass down to your sons, why not trade that honor/face for a shot at an undeserved mercy? Or at least a police brutality payout?
That's another culture that openly celebrates "hustlers". Have you ever been hustled? I have, in my quokka days. It took more than a half dozen times, feeling like a fool for offering help and charity, before I internalized the rule "If a black guy asks you for help that even touches on the concept of money, he is a piece of shit scammer. Fuck him, fuck his "sick" mother and fuck his whole sick culture."
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2d ago
He doesn't have any other fiction on the level of HPMoR, though, does he?
Not on the level of MoR, but he is very likely the author of The Waves Arisen, which is a similar take on Naruto, with less intensive plotting.
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2d ago
Part of me tends to call this the (1944 American) Jewish experience of the war, the outcast's experience of the war: alienated, never fitting in, always being removed from your comrades, never quite one of the guys.
A gay friend once described his alienation in high school in a way that made me think (but not say) "Yeah, that sounds exactly like being an insecure fat kid." I think the internal experience of alienation is pretty source independent. Maybe Mailer was just a weird asshole that no one else liked, doing a big old Typical Mind Fallacy.
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4d ago
Then there ought to be some kind of evidence that could be produced, no? Minutes of a meeting where Biden was briefed and made a decision, something like that?
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5d ago
How did you get into Venturing? I wasn't even aware it was a thing when I was young. And when I was an adult volunteer, everything made it sound like a thing for older kids who couldn't let go, a way to hang onto scouting after Eagle until you could drink.
If it's more of a parallel to existing BSA program, maybe that's the a good chunk of the answer I was looking for... just poorly advertised.
Looks like there are none in my county, but 25 miles isn't too far. My 14 year old might be more into that than the social studies stuff.
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5d ago
It's possible there is some mix-up between regional terminology and technical rankings. But as I have always used them, the "den leader" term is for the actual, on-the-paperwork adult in charge of a den. A "den mother" would be another parent, probably a mom, nowadays always an on-the-paperwork volunteer (but maybe not in the Olden Days of 1990), who would focus on more nurturing aspects. Stuff like making sure no kid skipped breakfast on a camping trip, that a dad might be more likely to just ignore or shrug off.
There's a similar dynamic on my son's middle school football team. There is a group of coaches, mostly dads, all men. And there is another group of "team mom's" who do things like self-organize rotations to make sure the players are provided with Gatorade and snacks at halftime and after the game. The "team mom" role is so female-coded that they don't even bother to reach out to me (single dad) for my turn in the rotation. Instead, they contact my mother (who, in fairness, was a longtime and committed volunteer when I was little and is more than happy to keep going for the grandkids).
Yeah, it's pretty comparable to where he was a year before winning the White House, the House, the Senate and the popular vote.
Just a quick calibration question, but you did peg Ann Selzer as being full of shit, right?
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