Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
3mo ago
Machine-gunning them in the streets would have presented a host of logistical problems
I cannot recall where I read it, but as I understand there were early mass shootings (more organized than just in the streets, basically rounding them up first), but there was found to be a significant psychological effect on the soldiers doing the killings.
Mantergeistmann
3mo ago
I mean, if we went to war with China today I'm sure some Chinese-Americans would feel themselves falling under a cloud of suspicion.
That's already kind of happening, at least in the Cleared communities. It's very difficult to not notice how many high-profile cases there are where it's Chinese-Americans selling out to China, and how few of any other ethnicity selling out to China (if you're vaguely white, you sell out to Brazil via a peanut-butter-sandwich information transfer mechanism).
Mantergeistmann
3mo ago
Man, and I thought the Walker & Hawkes version of those were a bargain at 20% the price.
Mantergeistmann
3mo ago
Rodents in general are a surprisingly common furry species, if not up there with the stereotypical dogs, cats, and dragons. FFIX's Freya (tbf, a white rat species) had a big impact on people. I'd say anthrofying them gets away from some of the real-world equivalent's grosser behaviors
There's also been a trend on the internet for a while (thanks to people with pet rats) that obviously everyone knows that rats are lovely and clean and smart creatures, and only the ignorant associate rats with those old stereotypes these days".
I feel like there has to be a word or phrase for that sort of "this common knowledge thing was wrong/inaccurate, but there's been a bit of an overcorrection in the opposite direction".
Mantergeistmann
3mo ago
Romance is not a physical desire/need, though, in the same way that food and sex are.
Mantergeistmann
3mo ago
I think C.S. Lewis got it right:
You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act-that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you came to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food? And would not anyone who had grown up in a different world think there was something equally queer about the state of the sex instinct among us?
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There is nothing to be ashamed of in enjoying your food: there would be everything to be ashamed of if half the world made food the main interest of their lives and spent their time looking at pictures of food and dribbling and smacking their lips.
Mantergeistmann
3mo ago
What I'm trying to do is see if anyone on the internet who isn't a self-hating leftist that might be considering another reasonable explanation outside of it just being the warrior gene assumptions that a lot of people on the right like to grab onto.
I'm sure as hell not a self-hating leftist, but to me it seems far more reasonable to blame this on upbringing and environment social group than it does genes. If race hadn't been mentioned, I probably would've assumed he was white, because that's my default mental image of a pro wrestler. Granted, I haven't followed the scene in years, so I'll freely admit it's based on wrestlers who are all retired at this point, I'm sure.
My point stands: I don't see any reason personally to consider this a "race" thing rather than a "son of a pro wrestler" thing, even if "not all wrestlers" (for instance, based on reading Mankind's autobiography, I'd have been very surprised if one of his kids pulled this, although I'd not have been as surprised if it was an anecdote about his own youth).
Mantergeistmann
3mo ago
Of course the image is real, it's really there in front of you, really shared by you for me to see, and it really exists. Saying it's not real is like saying political cartoons aren't real: technically true but missing the point. This is depicting something real in a way that's fictional
Mantergeistmann
3mo ago
leading crusades
Wait, which UK underage girl led a Crusade?
Mantergeistmann
3mo ago
using small provoaction in order to garner "disproportionate" attention that can be then captured and used for propaganda.
That's also pretty much the classic Palestine-Israel conflict at play.
Mantergeistmann
3mo ago
Joan Aiken's Dido Twite books might fit this, as might Patricia Wrede's Mairelon the Magician series.
Mantergeistmann
3mo ago
They were making 25% of revenue from licensed games, and in 2021 EA suggested that had been $2bn between 2019 and 2021 alone, and that’s pure margin.
I can't really even remember any games from that time. Battlefront II (the second Battlefront II), the one with the lootboxes, I guess?
Mantergeistmann
3mo ago
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: if they weren't Star Wars specifically, the prequels (especially the first) would have been much better received, Jar Jar Binks aside.
Mantergeistmann
3mo ago
Gotta make it present tense for that.
Mantergeistmann
3mo ago
Mercedes Lackey? Not everything she's written, but there was that one book about a teen boy being bullied... who then gets the magic power to set his bullies on fire (and set other things on fire). I had no complaints.
Mantergeistmann
3mo ago
Other than the (I suspect partially trendy) AuDHD? Something to do with physical mobility, but I've never learned what. Has needed a walker to get around for ages, and is certainly not yet old enough where that'd be unremarkable.
Mantergeistmann
3mo ago
Who on earth liked the Force witches
My wife's disabled, non-binary friend who sums up every character in any show they like by starting with their attributes re:gender, sexuality, race, ability status, etc.
Said friend sadly is a parody of themselves at some times.
There are hundreds of slightly radioactive buildings in Northern Mexico because one guy sold a dismantled cobalt-60 radiotherapy machine to a scrap metal company.
I recall a similar apartment building somewhere in SE Asia that wound up providing decently strong evidence (for a given value of "strong"; low-level exposures tend to have weak effects regardless of which side of the debate one is on) for opponents of LNT; that is, cancer rates were lower in the irradiated apartment building than its neighbors, despite similar demographics.
Edit: it was in fact Cobalt-60 contamination in Taiwan:
Based on the investigation conducted by the RSPAT,[10] the total number of cancer deaths among these residents is only 7 in 200,000 person-years or 3.5 deaths per 100,000 person-years—only 3% of the rate (i.e., 116) expected for the general population
Mantergeistmann
4mo ago
We expect the future to look brightly lit and with glowing colors everywhere because a lot of scifi media depicted it as such.
I'm reminded of how so many dashboards and such use blue light (when red would be much better for nighttime!) because red was "dated" due to its use in Sci-fi (which was because it was the obvious choice of the military).
Mantergeistmann
4mo ago
There was a brief, glorious moment in yhe early 2010s when all the fashion lines decided men's long coats were In. Sadly, my budget at the time was tremendously Out.
Mantergeistmann
4mo ago
There's also demographic concerns to keep in mind as well. Like discipline, a school absolutely does not want a situation where a legally protected demographic does worse than a cohort.
Mantergeistmann
4mo ago
So what would it do to the abortion debate? Would robo-abortions be illegal (since you clearly wouldn't oh god i forgot about fetishes I'm going to bleach my brain have created a pregnancy with a robot unless you intended to have it carried through to term)? But then what does that say, that the sanctity of a robo-vat-fetus is more legally "alive"/protectable than one in a human womb? But somewhere out there is a future where, if it isn't made illegal, some youtuber is repeatedly aborting his pregnant robot for the hate-clicks.
And I think that's the worst sentence I've written in my entire life, but I'm still young. Even without longevity, I'm sure there's time for me to write worse.
Mantergeistmann
4mo ago
As I often do, I like to consider a counterfactual: suppose there was a movement that existed to boycott only Muslim nations. Now, it wasn't against Muslims, per se, just that for mumblemumble reasons it only called for those nations to be boycotted, and for nations that are demonstrably worse at human rights like the likes of North Korea to be not sanctioned.
I don't think a lot of the people complaining about anti-BDS would also be complaining about being anti-Muslim-Nation-boycotts. Sure, there'd still be some overlap, but not enough to really make the news.
Mantergeistmann
4mo ago
Now I want an effortpost on wines... I personally am only really familiar with the Niagara region, but would like to become more worldly.
I assume you also think that every account of a prisoner being forced to dig their own grave is implausible? For instance, surely this old man was just blatantly lying about the atrocity he committed because it would make the victims look... better? Worse? I have no idea.
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