Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
The most popular women's sport by far is tennis, but even there, a quick perusal of the world rankings reveals no household names.
I mean, isn't that more that the very well known Williams sisters didn't really have any obvious successors for the public eye?
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
Best I ever saw was a fellow with the plate "DREDNOT" (or similar) and the frame "My other car is a battleship".
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
I mean, if they really wanted to go with the women and early beer angle, they'd have a Mesopotamian-dressed queen drinking from a golden straw.
I still wouldn't buy Miller Lite, but props for effort would be in order.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
Jon Haidt (I think) said about biases and belief, that if someone is biased towards something, then when presented with evidence that reinforces the bias, they think "CAN I believe this," but when presented with evidence that counters the bias, they think "MUST I believe this?
I think that sentiment goes back to Thucydides, if not earlier.
It might be a different translation that what I remember, but the closest I could find is, "for it is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not fancy".
I'll try to keep looking, as I preferred the wording I half-remember.
edit: "When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason".
Note that it wouldn't surprise me if this wasnt actually Thucydides, but that someone said it was, like how everything gets attributed to Twain, Lincoln, or Disraeli.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
Every now and then you see people arguing that Taiwan should follow Hong Kong's example. I will admit that I find it difficult to come up with a charitable explanation beyond uninformed, dangerously optimistic, or shill. Maybe that "It'll happen eventually anyway, might as well take the best terms possible even if the agreement likely to be broken"?
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
As one historian put it, the NAUTILUS was Admiral Rickover's pyramid.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
the hard times were going to create strong men
I'm pretty sure that's been fairly strongly debunked.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
It'd be nice if US policy would take on a more realistic bent and acknowledge these basic facts instead of pursuing futile policies doomed to failure.
Which policies are you referring to here?
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
- I don’t think that a Muslim immigrant in 1900 would have been permitted to wear a Hijab or skullcap. They certainly wouldn’t have been able to demand that schools and workplaces install ritual baths or schedule their work/school day around prayer times.
I mean, unless they were in a Muslim-heavy immigrant community. You certainly had thatt sort of... not quite enclave, but significant presence, in some areas, I believe down to things like German-language newspapers, for instance.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
What's the Evangelical/Fundamentalist take on this whole situation? On the one hand, they're pretty against mocking Jesus, and are heavily waging culture war. On the other hand, they're not exactly pro-Catholics. I'm assuming in this situation the former will take precedence over the latter, especially as it can be used for sermons to rile up the base.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
Man, I'm definitely not familiar with that one. Which letter was it from?
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
Are we really going to pretend like Bud and Miller aren't easy-drinking beers? Valuable after mowing the lawn on a hot day?
I can enjoy a good lawnmower beer, but I've never enjoyed the taste of Miller/Coors/Bud. To each their own.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
Clearly, the only solution is for them to release a new 11-bladed razor.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
Man, that article is wild. I'd forgotten about the shooter who showed up with a box of chicken sandwiches.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
I dont tend to think of IPAs when I think of strong beers (although, as you said, the doubles and triples can be); my first though goes immediately to stouts, preferably imperial/barrel aged, or the Belgian Tripels, or the barleywines. I'll happily go for a good 9% Old Rasputin, for instance, or the 11% barrel-aged dragon's milk.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
It was a weird moment when I realized that the cancelled 1970s Boorman script was truer to Galadriel's character than RoP...
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
Shandies (and radlers, and half-and-halfs) are tremendously underrated, and it feels like it's high time someone capitalized on it.
As far as Carlsberg vs Bud, I'll give the edge slightly to Carlsberg. Weirdly enough, if Budweiser ever came out with Bud Dark, I'd be willing to give it a go, based on my experience with Heineken and St. Pauli Girl's dark versions. Much more to my taste.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
Wait, is that meme from an ad? I thought it was from a sitcom!
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
Leinenkugel's solid, but i was thinking of something targeting the "cocktail in a can" demographic.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
a game whose entire point is its pointlessness. playoffs are everything now, it didn't use to be this way. the fall classic was the last celebration of the season, not the point of the season. in baseball's greatest eras people were packing stadiums of teams that had no shot at the pennant. they weren't there to feed avarice, they were there to pass time watching summer's mandala.
I'll add a point of agreement to that. I never watch baseball on TV; it's incredibly dull. But I can have a blast at a game with my dad, because it's not about the game. It's a good time hanging out and chatting and drinking, with the occasional impressive/exciting play and interjection of obscure stat from my father.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
I would say that there's also a difference between a show and actions taken in real life. When Upstart Crow talks about "they burn you for eating a wafer!" (Which I know is referring to the protestant monarch, but there's other eucharist jokes as well) It doesn't feel nearly as mean-spirited as actually partaking in a mock sacrament.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
So they cast an actress who is an entire foot shorter than the character. Well, that's diversity for you, I guess!
I mean, Elendil's actor is also significantly shorter than the character, but in his case, that would have significantly limited the pool of options.
Still wish they'd done something with the occasional perspective trick as at least a nod to "Elendil the Tall".
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
I wonder who the market is for these long-form New Yorker and Atlantic articles? You know the ones that start with long rambling sequences like: "Susan Hernandez was enjoying her coffee sitting at the Whistlestop Diner as was her habit on Tuesday."
That sort of writing is how you win a pulitzer/other awards. "Writing for Story" (unintentionally) discusses that sort of shift, from news/facts to long-form journalism. The idea is that giving it that human element draws the reader in.
My understanding is that men are still allowed to attend such things. However, i have no doubts that an equivalent event advertising itself specifically for men (but still allowing women) would either draw the wrath of Title IX, or else be overwhelmed with women showing up in protest.
edit: What Voxel said below.
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