RoyGBivensAction
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RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
10d ago
Put simply, por que no los dos? Why does the fact that the shooter was active on Nazi fora automatically exculpate the trans community? Why am I required to believe that the Nazi fora was what done the radicalisation, and participating in online trans communities was incidental? Why exactly is that the null hypothesis?
The Nazi/rainbow overlap is even well-known enough to have a Stonetoss comic about it (the redditors refusing to understand the joke are icing on top).
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
10d ago
if you have personal presence, competence, and authority you will start running into other kinds of trouble - people will listen to you because you are the boss.
I knew this was a thing before becoming a boss, but experiencing it in action from the boss side is eye-opening. There is no escaping our primate brains.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
10d ago
Lynch was not mocking macho anti-heroes from prestige tv with the return
Nitpick: pretty sure he was making fun of Tarantino with the 2 bantering hitmen part of the Las Vegas storyline.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
10d ago
I know a Mormon man, as queer as a three dollar bill.
Probably not applicable to him if he's actually gay, but many of the Mormon men I've interacted with have an odd affect of some kind that trips the ol' gaydar. Of course, any given one is vastly out-reproducing me, so it's obviously not a hindrance for them with Mormon women.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
10d ago
(2) The legal issue of whether a person can be guilty of abuse of a corpse by simply leaving it alone (rather than a more typical situation of fucking a corpse or dumping a corpse out of the back of a van) is unintuitive. I would not have expected it to come out this way after reading the statute.
In my state, people charged with murder who then abandon/hide the body somewhere (or just leave it at the remote site of the murder) are often charged with abuse of a corpse as well. It's a bit absurd and reminds of me the "murder, arson, and... jaywalking!" joke. Someone charged with first or second degree murder is probably not too worried about the abuse of a corpse charge (which is a felony, but the lowest level).
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
11d ago
if a typical FTM's experience as an adult in society is closer to that of a masculine/low status woman or that of a median man.
Depends on the type of FTM. One type specifically tries to look like Danny Devito because it will make them invisible. Their dysphoria seems to be related to discomfort with getting attention from men, and becoming invisible is the way to avoid that attention.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
11d ago
How dreadful. Next you're going to tell me that your bubble can't tell apart an adze, a pulaski, a mattock, and a splitting maul.
RoyGBivensAction
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12d ago
flat banned from carrying(including brass knuckles, switchblades
Those are legal now in Texas since 2019 and 2013, respectively.
RoyGBivensAction
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12d ago
rancid little slapper
Always delightful to encounter more localized insults like this.
RoyGBivensAction
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12d ago
RoyGBivensAction
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12d ago
I don't think any NGO was involved, that part was the joke, but honestly at this point nothing woupd surprise me.
I don't think an NGO was involved, but the media kerfluffle appeared to be an attempt to kick off the racial reckoning (that didn't fully work; they got the formula right with Floyd).
RoyGBivensAction
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12d ago
I hope you all appreciate the sacrifice I made to explain the joke.
Thank you for your service. Of course, you still won't be spared in the purge of Tumblrites...
RoyGBivensAction
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12d ago
I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone.
I cannot even imagine. I'm very sorry to read all this.
I deal with plenty of delusional people, but drugs play a large role in their lives. It's beyond baffling when it strikes people who are otherwise functional and healthy (presumably the hospital found no organic cause for such behavior and the floaters like a brain tumor or something).
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
12d ago
having better work-life balance jobs where they can take long stretches of time off.
One of my brothers had a long, long time in the wilderness of dating apps (he's a high earner in a not-great location) and basically came to the conclusion, now popular in some internet corners, that some white-collar jobs are daycare for adult women. He lost count of the women he met who traveled internationally 2-6 times per year for 2+ weeks per trip (with the unspoken but sometimes spoken expectation that serious dating would involve joining all the trips and eventually paying for all of it). Somehow, their workplaces got along just fine without them during their long absences. Whatever jobs they had, they certainly had more generous leave policies than any of his private sector jobs or my public sector jobs. Apparently there's a secret third sector neither of us have found yet.
Women might also care less about splurging on travel from a lifetime of not needing money to attract/entertain men
Again, per my brother, many women he met had $100k+ email jobs, zero savings, and plenty of debt. Most of them perceived saving and being financially prepared for having a family as the man's job, and some were forthright enough to say it out loud. Anyone with that attitude would not have trouble spending money to travel frequently.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
13d ago
Some of this is different strokes for different folks
Yes, definitely. I have an upcoming backpacking trip where my phone will be off or in airplane mode (when I need it for navigation, unfortunately) for 5ish days. It will be heavenly. And I'll be reminded when I get back how little I really need the phone and how much I pay per month to have a texting/email/wikipedia pocket tracking device.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
13d ago
Yes, but your definition of 'right' is outdated compared to the actual definition of 'right'. I assert that, after 2016 and especially after 2020, the Blues repositioned themselves firmly on the Right and the Reds (the people who will be paying for that gross conservative decadence that was the uncommon cold for the rest of their lives) have inherited the Left.
Care to expand on this? I've read it multiple times and still can't follow it.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
13d ago
How old are you?
Middle aged. I remember all the way back to the world where normies had no internet, and then the later world when more cutting-edge weirdos had home dialup internet.
I love that I can pull out and read any book I want,
Physical books or kindle + libgen. I find reading on the phone to be terrible, and really, kindle isn't great either.
I love that I don't need a separate device for music
I recently bought an mp3 player again so I can run or hike with music without having my phone along. It's wonderful.
I love that I can research anything anytime instead of writing it down and searching through my encyclopedia at home.
This part is certainly convenient. I'm not sure I really learn more or retain more, though, compared to writing notes down and then internet searching at home.
Have you ever tried a long road trip with a physical map?
Yep, I moved across several states to a completely unknown city using physical maps. It was fine. My goal now on long road trips is to look up directions before I leave and then not look at maps again.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
14d ago
Where can I read more about this? None of the related articles have anything to say on the subject.
Various critics were deriding FDR as fascist within his first year in office, yet that NIRA article mentions none of it. Herbert Hoover was a prominent critic and wrote 2 anti-New Deal books in 1934 and 1936 specifically pointing out the parallels.
In the part about critics from the left:
Richard Hofstadter noted that critics from the left believed "that the NRA was a clear imitation of Mussolini's corporate state".[35]
There is this line in the criticism of FDR article:
John P. Diggins found only superficial similarities between the New Deal and Italian fascism. However, Diggins produced some quotations indicating that Roosevelt was interested in fascist economic programs and admired Mussolini.[49]
Footnote 49:
Early in 1933, Roosevelt told a White House correspondent: "I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman". In June 1933, Roosevelt wrote to Ambassador Breckinridge Long in Italy about Mussolini: "There seems no question that he is really interested in what we are doing and I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy and to prevent general European trouble". John P. Diggins. Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America (1972). Princeton University Press. pp. 279–281.
I haven't read the book by Diggins, but it sounds interesting.
This article by Codevilla talks about it some, but he doesn't cite sources.
RoyGBivensAction
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14d ago
FDR’s USA
Interesting how the wiki entry for the National Industrial Recovery Act makes no reference to fascism despite it being part of FDR and the brain trust's inspiration for the act.
RoyGBivensAction
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14d ago
How many run-ins with HR must a man have
before he recognizes the pattern?
The answer my friend
Is blowing in the wind
RoyGBivensAction
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14d ago
If fart-sniffing prestige magazines did not spend an inordinate amount of time lavishing praise on people who very conspicuously do not need it, how would we know who’s better than we are?
I do greatly enjoy FdB's outrageous seething.
If someone asks me, “Why do you write?” I can reply by pointing out that it is a very dumb question. Nevertheless, there is an answer. I write because I hate. A lot. Hard. And if someone asks me the inevitable next dumb question, “Why do you write the way you do?” I must answer that I wish to make my hatred acceptable because my hatred is much of me, if not the best part.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
17d ago
(2) It's very interesting to compare Australian sentencing with US sentencing. Presumably, these offenses would get something closer to 30 years in a US court.
I was thinking about this earlier. In my state, if he went to trial and got convicted, he'd be looking at life with no possible release for at least 25 years (and the release isn't parole, it's far more restrictive and rarely granted). I would be surprised if any prosecutor here would offer him a plea deal with less than 20 years, and even that seems optimistic.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
17d ago
You're like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know...
RoyGBivensAction
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17d ago
The defense of the legislature was best read as “you don’t have the right to tell us what to do, only we can decide whether we have this power (or Congress with an amendment), and we say no.”
Given this, what recourse would the voters have? They’d have to make this a single issue or else give up. And I’m really not sympathetic to the idea that a certain class - and politicians are by now definitely a class - deserves inalienable privileges over the rest.
You're in good company since 5 of the Justices thought this way. They thought the result was good policy (as opposed to the many, many times the Supreme Court dislikes ballot initiatives, as Thomas lists in his dissent) and therefore the actual language of the Constitution didn't matter.
As to your other points, I suspect you didn't read Roberts' full dissent since he addresses some of your concerns. Not that you have to; there are better things in life than reading random SC decisions from 10 years ago about election laws.
I am acceptable at management, but it's leadership where I'm adrift (and so much information/training acts like the former is the latter). Part of that is the nature of the job (public defender office)--I've never worked where the office seemed to have anything close to leadership, and it doesn't seem to be unique to places I've worked since the outside appearance of other offices is just as chaotic.
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