PropagandaOfTheDude
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PropagandaOfTheDude
1mo ago
as well as contractual poly families as described in Heinlein’s Stranger In A Strange Land
You're thinking the of the line marriages and so forth in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress?
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
Sometimes it was just easier to do than put it back on three minutes later at your next stop.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
It’s informative, relevant to the news du jour, written well and gratuitously sourced.
It's context for the complaints that I see sometimes about egregiously bad solicitations from Trump organizations.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
Like how Kameron Hurley and Seanan McGuire and Ann Leckie are all decent writers but such insufferably hateful harpies that, like Scalzi, I can't stand to read them anymore.
Without going into too much detail, Seanan McGuire appeared on my radar recently. What informs your description?
PropagandaOfTheDude
1mo ago
That's not how the game works at all!
How does it work?
PropagandaOfTheDude
4mo ago
PropagandaOfTheDude
9mo ago
James Rhodes was Iron Man at times. Sam Wilson was Captain America at times. There have been various Captain Marvels.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
(Let's not quibble about the fact that Urdu and Hindu are pretty much the same language with a different script, that's beneath us)
Not knowing either, my mental model is that the spoken languages map in the same way that American English and British English map. Different vocabulary for various things, but once you internalize the truck/lorry pairing (for example) you're okay. Is that the case?
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
I mix those little squeeze bottles of drink flavorings with mineral water for my ersatz sodas. I also drink it by itself.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
It's sort of like the Wii's "Go Vacation"?
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
I see a lot of stuff on the internet about being "healthy at any size" but it's always women under the age of 45 who seem to be the poster children for this stuff.
Phase one is beauty and fashion and dating instas.
Phase two is complaining about unfair beauty standards.
Phase three is assertions that chronic health problems have nothing to do with weight.
Phase four is turning into a shut-in due to immobility.
Back in the Old Country, in AskSocialScience, there was a recent question asking about the "growing number of POC nazis and white supremacists", and I have to assume that for the poster this is isomorphic to the question of "why are Latinos voting for Republican candidates?"
PropagandaOfTheDude
4mo ago
My mental model now has a Twitch "Lounge section" for non-gaming stuff.
Edit: And when I go to https://www.twitch.tv, it looks like Youtube For Games.
PropagandaOfTheDude
7mo ago
- Extroversion: 1
- Emotional stability: 98
- Agreeableness: 5
- Conscientiousness: 26
- Intellect/Imagination: 80
To quote Tom Wolfe, my emotional stability has a center of gravity like a 102-inch High Point Vinyleather sofa.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
Really? I recall BCAA powder tasting like death.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
I think you underestimate ironic Nazi slogan larping.
That's like 90% of 4chan.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
For the leg workout: split squat, or split squat, or split squat.
How are deadlifts on your back?
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
Just no pixel-by-pixel scrolling banners, please. Some sub-reddits have them, and they chew up CPU.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
That is: adults were banned from taking vaccines until the FDA had satisfactorily hemmed and hawed over the trials
Entities were banned from testing people for COVID-19 while the CDC spent weeks coming up with and distributing their own, broken test mechanisms.
Having been both a student and teacher at MIT, my personal explanation for men going into science is the following:
1. young men strive to achieve high status among their peer group
2. men tend to lack perspective and are unable to step back and ask the question "is this peer group worth impressing?"
PropagandaOfTheDude
3mo ago
I haven't seen these, but the first thing that pops to my head by way of analogy is the way that close masculine friendship is now frequently coded as gay. Arab men holding hands? Gay. Two bros hugging it out? Gay. Telling your decades-long friend that you love him? Gay. Slap on the butt or other physical encouragement in sports? Gay. Just hanging out together? Believe it or not, still gay.
John Woo films? Total sausage fests.
The focus on male friendships in Woo's film have been interpreted as homoerotic. Woo has responded to these statements stating "People will bring their own preconceptions to a movie .... If they see something in The Killer that they consider to be homoerotic then that is their privilege. It's certainly not intentional."
That was 1989.
PropagandaOfTheDude
4mo ago
Summoning up the faux anger...
Why didn't you post about Vermis when my wife was pestering me for Christmas present ideas?!?
Bookmarked for when Hollow Press gets back to the office.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
What should I do if I got Janitor Duty but the post was "Deleted by author"?
Oops, found the conversation below.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
For the LacklustreFriend link for September 12... This is the posted link:
https://www.themotte.org/comment/4770?context=3&sort=best#context
It renders the destination page, but at the top of the page, with no highlighting of the specific AAQC post. This is what the relevant AAQC post's "Context" link links to:
https://www.themotte.org/post/56/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/4770?context=8#context
The link takes me to a page where the relevant post is in the window and highlighted in blue. All of the AAQC links here seem to use the first format.
What would you remove from the equations for weight and muscle dysphorias?
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