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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
23d ago
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
23d 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.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
23d 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?
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
23d 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.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
23d 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.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
23d 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".
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
24d 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.
24d 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.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
25d 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.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
25d 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.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
25d 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.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
26d ago
(Is this a common tabletop RPG thing?)
Yes. If the DM needs to communicate information to exactly one player, stepping into another room is the easiest way. We sometimes DM on Discord instead, if it's just a quick note.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
26d ago
Is it? It sounds like a recipe for disaster and abuse.
Because all you hear about (especially in leftier circles with all their sexual disfunctions and neuroses) are the horror stories. Friendships and meaningful platonic relationships across much wider age gaps are normal and healthy. The thing where everyone spends their first 22 years dealing with peers within 10 months of their own age is an extreme historical oddity.
My best friend is five years older. The relationship has a certain parity now, but we met when I was fourteen and other friends used to joke that he was basically my dad. But it was really helpful to have someone a life stage ahead around to offer advice and buy booze. Two of my other friends had similar relationships with guys from his friend group. It was almost a bootleg Big Brothers program.
Half my actual dad's golf buddies are my age. He's mentored a double handful of men even younger through AA.
I'm not saying your concerns are baseless, but having the group collectively treat her as a kid sister is reasonable and healthy for everyone. And if you just don't want to deal with that, that's fine too. I refuse to let my similarly aged daughter come to D&D because I want to crack jokes with my friends without being in Dad Mode.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
26d ago
I just think that a high school senior wanting to hang out with 30 year olds and vice versa is disturbing.
She doesn't want to hang out with 30 year olds. She wants to hang out with people playing this niche nerd game. Once when I was fifteen, I got into a car with a much older man that I had just met and allowed him to take me to a second location because the local game shop was closing and he offered us more D&D. I don't even remember the guy's name, but I remember the cleric I played.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
26d ago
To be fair, I was sampling from the most vocally leftist/progressive strata of Scottish society.
Mr. Human, our libtards are the same way. My only trip to Europe was during the height of Iraq War tensions. There were no issues, even when I was obviously culture shocked.
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.
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.
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