Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11hr ago
Maybe when she shares a commiserating drink with all the other people who sold their souls, hurt innocent people through lawfare and wasted government resources, she can at least feel good that she didn't overplay so cartoonishly hard that she helped Trump get re-elected.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
19hr ago
The amount of new housing is going up though, and the rate is actually increasing, from about 890k in 2014 to 1.6m in 2024. Are you sure this is a general problem, and not a "trendy cities misruled by Democrats" problem?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
19hr ago
Mostly mid-Atlantic, but some from much further.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
Is there a distinctive "corporate girlboss" voice? I have regrettably reached the point in my life where I have to attend a fair number of zoom meetings. I have noticed a kind of common affect for a large number of the women who run them. It sounds like a reformed uptalk, coming from the roof of the mouth in a way that I want to call nasally, but it really isn't.
Is there some kind of vocal training course for corporate women that they might have in common?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
because of deliberate political decisions to restrict new supply.
And to inflate demand. 10-30 million illegal immigrants live somewhere, and sending them home would free up a ton of housing.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
The poverty of imagination of the characters is rivaled only by that of the author.
This is how I felt about The Water That Falls From Nowhere When You Lie. This variety of magical realism should be gatekept from the rest of genrefic with machine guns and minefields.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
One wonders how one could advocate for workers' rights and treating employees fairly, and yet also support the importation of a workforce to be exploited by employers for the sole purpose of reducing costs.
Because the people leading the charge on this are upperclass failsons and failed creatives, perpetual grad students and surplus low-midwit knowledge workers. The immigrants driving UberEats and hanging drywall aren't competing with Mamdami in the rap game, or getting lucrative contracts for shit-tier art that should have gone to his wife.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
but that's not a very good long term plan - they would need to have food, shelter, facilities, sources of income, etc.
What's "long term"? Now, I'm not asking you to define the term. I'm asking you to imagine being unable to grok it in the first place.
There was an old tumblr post about some animal, a racoon maybe, that had gotten itself in trouble. Maybe stuck in trash, something like that. And the notable thing that made it worth posting was that the critter openly approached some humans for help. The OP phrased it as something like "It's neat that they've developed an instinct to, if all else fails, just go ask the local apex predators and maybe they'll fix it for no reason". And the follow on replies discussed how we were basically fey to them, with powers and motives beyond mortal comprehension.
I have met people who act like this. They're not visibly special needs, but they're probably below 80 IQ. And their problem solving approach very often reduces to "find a person dressed nice and ask them to use magic".
What would a nation of people like that look like?
Why would those people need to worry about food, shelter, facilities or money? They have crossed the gate into the FeyWild, and know now that the fey are kind and generous to a fault beyond their ken. Those things are Europe's problem now. The EU will just use magic and fix it for no reason.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
I've been playing TTRPGs regularly for almost 30 years. GURPS is definitely my most extreme ratio of time spent reading to time spent playing. It was just all so elegant. But most of my friends like less crunchy, or more setting-specific stuff.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
The second one was written by William H Stoddard, a sure sign of quality.
I regret that I never got to play much GURPS.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
A crisis that is likely going to end Spain's left-wing government comes out of thin air, clearly coordinated,
How thin air? That left-wing government just recently granted citizenship to half a million Africans, with heavy implications that they'd do it again and in greater numbers. Invasion levels of young men charging into Spain was the most predictable outcome in the world.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
"feeling really hard about someone or something"
The other point is that this is sympathy. I can be very sympathetic to your plight while not understanding a damn thing about why you do the things you do.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
4d ago
First, it seems to me that there was little in the way of chattel slavery in England before colonization.
Slavery was extremely common in Europe before the medieval era, when it was phased out for serfdom. Just like it was common across Asia, Africa, and the Americas up until modern times.
"Hey, we were no worse than Leo II" is not a great way to plead exceptionalism.
Why mention Leo instead of, say, The Woman King?
But the point is entirely backwards. "Hey, you did this thing everyone else did too until you decided it offended you, and then stopped at great cost and tried to make everyone else stop too" is a terrible argument that the US is exceptionally bad. The only people who can plausibly claim to have done better are the very European nations that started the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the first place and sold the peak.
Meanwhile, the early US was itself being actively raided by slavers. Find me a single Turk willing to grovel like an American progressive for the way they enslaved my Italian and American ancestors - consider it table stakes for me to care about accusations regarding American slavery. Turkey didn't abolish slavery until 1924. I recommend perusing that whole article, actually. It's great for getting an overview of the extent of the issue, and who exactly ever cared.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
4d ago
Ctrl-F Testosterone. Zero results found.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
4d ago
then you're asking me to tell you what a person that I am not thinks.
Yes, this is what empathy is. Understanding the thought processes of other people.
But I tend to take the spirit of these questions as something like "Imagine a person with your rough personality and qualities, and imagine how they might react to these historical factors".
"Look, you like Austrian thinkers, just let me autistically lecture about Ludwig von Mises for a few hours and you'll see that-" BLAM.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
4d ago
Did slavery exist because of flawed individuals, or because the United States Constitution is a fundamentally flawed document that allowed such an institution to exist in the first place?
Neither. It existed because that sort of thing was totally normal across most of human existance and the Europeans hadn't decided to totally ban it for offending them yet. It's still totally normal across much of the globe.
Imagine a someone in a vegan future asking if the Constitution allowed meat-eating because the people who wrote it were just bad?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
Spicy romance where the mousy, shy German girl has to pick between the communist street fighter and the fascist street fighter who are both inexplicably obsessed with her.
Exactly what spin to place to bait women into supporting one side or the other is left as an exercise for the reader.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
*FWIW I think we all need to stop empathizing with the victims and start trying to empathize with the perpetrators, and realize that It Could Happen Here
That's a tall order. A lot of people seem functionally incapable of empathy - and there's a whole topic of partisan Discourse going on about it, and on the difference between empathy and sympathy.
Many people seem to interpret a call to empathy as something like "Imagine if your brain as-is right now were transmigrated into another person's body, how would you feel?" They can't even wrap their heads around the notion that they're supposed to be imagining that they had learned an alternative fact pattern, much less held to a different epistimology and metaphysics.
Of course it can't happen here; everyone knows the Nazis are the bad guys! Everyone who can imagine otherwise is a demon in a skinsuit, which means they aren't people and should probably be stripped of rights and isolated away from everyone else, perhaps in some sort of walled camps.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
Healthcare was about to collapse (not because this was The One pandemic but because the system has little slack).
AIUI, this was a great concern that functionally didn't happen. Yes, most critical care units only had so many beds, and if they got a surge of people who needed ventilators it would have plausibly overwhelmed existing resources, but, again, AIUI, that pretty much didn't actually happen outside a few isolated, short-term clusters.
Maybe some of the drastic measures helped with that, but the cost was things like "grandpa dying alone in a nursing home where he caught and spread the illness, while his healthy, functionally-immune grandchildren were forbidden to visit or even attend the funeral".
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
another item so rare and strange that I have no idea how to describe it on the public web because I would irrevocably doxx myself if it were searchable.
That is a special and fun sentence clause to get to write. Grats on the sweet haul.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
6d ago
Actually, as many NJ-legal rifles as you want, but only one handgun... for a second handgun you have to do the whole permit process again.
When I did it, the handgun permit let you get up to three within a 6? month period, but no more than once per month.
Somehow, that feels even more like malicious regulation.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
7d ago
I'll add the revelations from Fauci's diary that Rand Paul just released. That motherfucker apparently knew the wet market theory wasn't true, believed it was only as bad as the flu, and was having a narcissism gooning session about how famous and important he was even as he destroyed the economy with lies.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
7d ago
Ossoff appears to agree, asking Clayton if it's "humiliating" that Clayton is expected to "indulge the President's delusions". Clayton isn't crazy or stupid: he's just a coward who lacks integrity.
I think there's a midground here, because I occupy it. The 2020 election was a titanic clusterfuck, and whatever you think happened, explicit belief statements need a giant asterisk.
Gun to my head, one word answer or I get shot, I say Biden. In any other context, I want to spend a half hour driving caveat shivs in before getting to that conclusion, and no one in any kind of government hearing ever gets to explain a nuanced position.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
7d ago
Taking Hanania seriously is a sure sign of Low Human Capital. In the real world, almost every Democrat actively stood behind Plattner while spiking, sabotaging, and downplaying stories about his poor behavior... until the exact week he started polling worse than Collins, at which point they pretended that previously ignorable claims were damning.
Anyway, this dude sounds like an asswipe.
Yeah, totally random, self-described "concerned citizen" and double-digit ActBlue donor who knew enough about the topic to make a trip because he wanted to check it out for himself while somehow completely missing all the culture war angles, and so stuck his arm into a pool that you're not allowed to touch to feel it and wriggle damaged parts around just out of idle curiosity, but he definitely says that he didn't affect it in any way.
Completely random guy being harassed for literally no reason.
Nah, it's just rubbing your nose in your Arctic research station levels of isolated demands.
If you want a more general, real answer, it's because that's the meta. You immediately drop double-barrel, incendiary shells of rhetoric even over minor things, because the other side is going to do the same or worse, and they will never, ever, ever, show a shred of respect or grace for any kind of retiring humility or professionalism. It's not like you'd be granting respect if they'd said something bland and non-committal about "seeing where the process goes". It's not like anyone making a culture war bonfire out of a pool renovation would have chilled down a single degree - they (you) would have just kept heaping wild accusations onto the pyre*. And it's not like there aren't much more egregious examples to throw shade at elsewhere.
You just only ever notice it when you see an opportunity to pounce on the side you dislike.
*Turing Test Writing Challenge: SecureSignals style post blaming the pool issues on Israel. There was a person holding a "First they came for the algae..." sign...
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