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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
10hr 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.
11hr 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.
13hr 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.
14hr 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.
1d 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.
1d 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.
1d 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.
2d 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.
3d 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.
3d 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.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d 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.
3d 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.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d 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.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d 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.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
12d ago
In 2026 they're often socialists who are mad that there are hierarchies that do not have them on top. In fairness, this was also the case for many of the "gaia worshippers" (watermelons).
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
12d ago
I don't think the baseline normie would openly admit, even pseudonymonously, that they would trade vaccines, central air and the internet for the power to rape chambermaids.
Each time I've had that conversation, it's been a similar path.
A. Capitalism fuels technical advancements that help everyone.
B. Those advancements only help the rich. They hoard them.
A. The newest tech may be gatekept by cost, but prices always come down. Even poor people in America have a level of physical comfort completely unavailable to a medieval lord.
B. But the lord still had more power! He had servants to make his life easy, that he would abuse and be horrible to.
A. The freaking Sun King shivered while a servant chipped at his frozen breakfast fruit because Versailles was impossible to heat with fireplaces. The average person on welfare in America can have fresh fruit at room temperature in the dead of winter.
B. That doesn't matter compared to the power over others!
Even if many normies would likely be at least mildly abusive with power, it takes a special kind of ideologue to openly talk about the power over others being an end in and of itself.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
12d ago
In my time arguing on the internet, I've encountered a disturbing number of people who seem to think that having power over others is more desirable than any level of technological advancement. We have degrowth people IRL.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
12d ago
We're taking it back!
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
13d ago
I'm not sure how meaningful that difference in. Imagine there's a conspiracy theory that Monsanto is doing eugenics by selectively adding sterilizing agents to food that goes to certain groups. The theory has a niche group of fervent supporters who push their belief in every way, but it also gets some more sanewashed radical support from very establishment figures. If someone who's social group is mostly Monsanto Files theorists goes and kills a VP of Monsanto, does it matter that he wasn't directly inspired by a specific person who could be blamed?
I just don't see why a general memetic environment couldn't also be responsible for stochastic attacks. It's not like we hold anyone responsible for violent rhetoric in other contexts beyond maybe some social censure.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
13d ago
No, that's fair. I'm not trying to downplay your situation. I'm just saying that if you win, I don't think you'll have to be making explicit tradeoffs like "Well, she's dropped from a 9 to a 7, but I'll tolerate it for the two sons".
I do wish you the best of luck in your quest.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
13d ago
will accept the tradeoffs to her personal appearance
It doesn't work like that. I mean, maybe you're the level of advanced autism where it does, but for a psychologically healthy man, you'll see those changes happen so continually and slowly that it'll barely even register. By the time you really notice she'll be the mother of your children and the reverence will come naturally.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
13d ago
Cats? Those shameless, opportunist egomaniacs without a shred of loyalty?
I get that's the meme, but it really doesn't match my experience. In my experience, I drag a feral stray out of somewhere inconvenient, kidnap it, clean it, and then it showers my family with affection for 15 years, like a permanent, low-effort toddler that wants to snuggle and also kills vermin.
The allergenic ones?
This may be more of an issue. My condolences on your condition.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
13d ago
This is why God gave us cats, so you could have a genuine meet-cute with a creature that will love you forever.
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