MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
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MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
2yr ago
Sure, if you have only one or two types of socks it makes sense, but having only one or two types of socks is actually kind of a compounding signal.
I’m not exactly a fashionista but I have several types of athletic socks alone; short & thin athletic socks, long & thin athletic socks, long & thick athletic socks, socks with threading, black ones, white ones, multicolored ones.
Not to even mention the different styles and colors of dress socks I have. Which if you are matching to different colors and styles of business casual or formal wear is a necessity.
Even at my poorest I didn’t have that little variety of clothing. Besides, on this forum I sort of doubt it’s a poverty issue, I remember the poll we did back in the old place and people here are mega wealthy, I think I was literally one of the poorest people on the forum. Half my shoes I’ve bought second hand or on clearance.
If I walked into someone’s home and I was pretty sure they weren’t poor or a cultist or a religious fanatic, and for some reason I looked into their drawers and closets and saw one type of underwear of the same color, two types of socks, a closet with only T-shirts and jeans, only one pair of athletic shoes, and so forth, I’d certainly feel some sort of way about it.
And I’m a heterosexual man.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
4mo ago
This is a fair point, and that’s why I said it’s not a precise comparison.
Do we have examples of elections being held in circumstances exactly like Ukraine’s? I genuinely don’t know, although I know elections have been held in war torn countries before.
Yeah, that about sums it up.
On a related note I rewatched “Chicken Run” and felt strangely like that movie came back into my life at an opportune moment.
One could argue that was “the good ending” as the memes go and it’s the situation I hope and pray for.
Every day I feel more and more like that’s the endgame worth striving for and the most realistic victory condition for me and mine.
Worst case scenario is as you laid it out.
Best case scenario, the world of my dreams, is a whole-ass fedpost. Another day, perhaps.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
7mo ago
No, what happened is what it is to be Roman simply changed. In the beginning it meant living in the city and surrounding area of Rome, then it denoted a status being a citizen of the empire, and after that it became essentially a sort of super-ethnic category that rested atop more specific ethnicity, much like “Latino” or “Arab” or “Desi”.
They went through a process of ethnogenesis. It’s a historically common process, ethnic groups don’t just spring from the earth.
After the 3rd century or so Rome wasn’t even the most important Roman city anymore in any given year.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
10mo ago
Good ban. And I loved CWR.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
2yr ago
Early and often, that’s the real solution.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
4mo ago
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
4mo ago
That looks delightful. German N.A. bubbly from a quality region like mosel seems like a winning combo.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
4mo ago
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
4mo ago
It’s because the most economical ways of making non alcoholic wine end up cooking off the aromatics, which make up the majority of the flavor of wine.
There’s high fidelity ways of doing it but they are mega capital intensive
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
5mo ago
Yeah it had / has a huge presence on social media. It’s extremely popular and well known in online culture, which as we both know tends to leak copiously into the mainstream at this point.
People used to use it all the time in video edits to the point of cliche.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
5mo ago
How old are you? This song is instantly recognizable to a huge portion of Millennials, zoomers and gen alpha across cultures.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
7mo ago
It’s actually the reverse; by the time the Roman Empire was split the eastern portion of the empire had far outstripped the western portion of the empire in terms of wealth, power, population and prestige for more than a century.
In the Taiwan / China analogy, which I do t think even applies very well to premodern empires, you’re the one insisting Taiwan is China.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
8mo ago
and even a bit insufferable.
I am relieved.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
8mo ago
If you’ll notice my posting history it comes in little bursts. I basically never write very long entries. There’s a reason for it.
That’s because outside of this cute rarefied forum, I don’t have a silly little email job that allows me to get large amount of screen time and pop in here and write big theses with multiple citations. I have a real job in which I work insane hours and it that requires my full attention, and a family with young children.
So I found myself parked on the side of the road trying to find a source in an old x thread that would pass muster to make some random person believe that fresh off the boat immigrants from one of the most backwards countries on earth immediately change their entire way of life and diet the second they pop off the plane due to ‘magic culture’ and ‘magic laws’ which are basically unenforced. And that people in different countries eat different meat, including bushmeat. The absurdity of the situation sank in, and I resumed the important task I had at hand.
Even now at the ass crack of dawn as I write this on my phone, my daughter points to this as she climbs on me over and over again and exclaims “wow! That’s a lot of words!”.
Very politely, I’ll recommend you do a google search. Specifically about cat eating as a cultural practice. If you do it “raw” you’ll be greeted by a tidal wave of screeds of legacy media screaming “hoax” at the top of their lungs you. There’s also a handful of reels & tiktoks from people, some Haitian, saying this is true.
But if you know a bit about search, and can pull articles from say ten years or older, you might be surprised at what you see. The thread on X that I was looking for but unable to find even included a bbc article about which cultures ate cats, but I’m certain the Haitian portion of it was scrubbed after the controversy. They tend to do that.
Anyways, I’ve wasted enough time on this. Good luck in your search to find out that not everywhere is like the USA, I guess.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
9mo ago
Based on his other responses in the thread I’m guessing he thinks the Wermarcht was pretty competent.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
9mo ago
where is the evidence that the American or British are particularly effective soldiers.
Time on task.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
9mo ago
Yeah, fair enough.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
10mo ago
Bronze Age Mindset (BAM), the principle written work of Bronze Age Pervert (BAP)
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
1yr ago
I mean, he certainly isn’t able to do it.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
1yr ago
I wasn’t on PEDs although I understand why that would be an assumption, anyone I’ve ever talked to with a background in this straight up told me I’m a weird outlier in terms of bone density, including my childhood doctors.
Took me a better part of two years to achieve that training 3-4 times a week.
I was also pretty laser focused on getting my deadlift as high as possible, and started off my powerlifting journey with high lower body strength as I had formerly trained as a cross country runner, and was an avid cyclist and amateur martial artist (kickboxing).
It’s really amazing what you can achieve when you’re consistent and keep your goals very narrow.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
2yr ago
I too know the autistic pull of making huge playlists.
I’m trying to introduce them to discrete bodies of work as I feel that’s a mode of listening that’s falling out of fashion but shouldn’t.
I’ll take those album recommendations to heart, though.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
4mo ago
Miguel Torres makes excellent non alcoholic Rosé and Sauvignon Blanc, they’ve been making it for like twenty years
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
5mo ago
Not everyone is aware what Suomi is in reference to.
I dunno, man.
All I’m saying that outside a handful of situations, having a very limited variety of clothing is highly unusual.
Not something I thought would be particularly controversial, but there you have it.
If you met someone who got about half their calories from chicken nuggets, you’d think it’s weird too and you wouldn’t be wrong to feel that way. The situations are not entirely analogous but while they aren’t in the same ballpark they are definitely in the same sport.
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