RoyGBivensAction
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Married to a tomboy, so I have that going for me, which is nice.
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RoyGBivensAction
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8d ago
How functional are we talking? Jerry Garcia was a user for 20 years. William Burroughs was a long-time user.
RoyGBivensAction
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8d ago
We haven't had a presidential hopeful that embodies those in 14 years, and the predicted hopefuls for the next round don't either. For the failed candidate that had a grain of any of those- well, hard to forget what one of the later shitbags said about him.
Romney sure put paid to the claim heard among some liberals that they'd be happy to vote for a moderate Republican, not a crazy one like [insert whichever one they're putting down at the moment].
RoyGBivensAction
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8d ago
How do you think it would end up?
Either Cabrini-Green or High-Rise.
RoyGBivensAction
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8d ago
Meanwhile ICE is cruising around Minneapolis looking for minorities. They have arrested several native americans
Obviously ICE needs more advanced racists in their ranks. Embarrassing racism 101 mistake to grab those Indians when looking for the other kind.
RoyGBivensAction
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8d ago
Posting my favorites would lead to posting them all, but man, HowlingMutant is on another level of poasting.
RoyGBivensAction
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8d ago
It's an ordinal value, not an absolute one, so people are comparing themselves to others, and disproportionately everyone will compare themselves to the apex.
Yeah, I don't notice the 99% of dudes at Costco to compare myself to, I notice the 2 dudes who look like they can bench 3 plates.
I tried to follow this plan, but it went more like this:
Get annoyed/bored/lazy/too comfortable with job ->
Performance suffers ->
Promoted to management in a line of work where no one wants the job and I would massively have to fuck up to get fired ->
Stuck with golden silver tin? handcuffs
RoyGBivensAction
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8d ago
I know another guy like you, who just quits jobs, lives off savings, and fucks around for months to years. Then when that runs out he just gets another job, white knuckles it as long as he can, and repeats.
That dude is living the dream. God willing, I will blow up my life that way next year.
RoyGBivensAction
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8d ago
The most Chadly thing I've read so far in 2026.
RoyGBivensAction
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8d ago
I misread that as fun ideas to blow up your life, and I was going to say quit your job and hike the Pacific Crest Trail.
For blowing off steam short of that, I like day hikes or shorter hiking trips (3-6 days). I get through months of shitty job work daydreaming about my upcoming trips.
RoyGBivensAction
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12d ago
This woman, mother of three,
This is special pleading.
Every time one of my clients wants to argue that the judge should let them out of pre-trial detention because they have kids (this is always most amusing from guys with many prior felonies), the immediate rebuttal is, "why weren't you thinking about your kids before you (allegedly) committed this crime?" I have had judges point-blank ask clients this, and I've yet to hear one with a good answer. This person didn't accidentally end up in the midst of an ICE enforcement action. So if her being a mother of three is supposed to be dispositive that her intentions were good, why didn't she think about that motherhood before entering the fray?
RoyGBivensAction
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12d ago
If he's worried about that, he would be correct. The smart move is remaining silent.
RoyGBivensAction
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12d ago
All my examples come from IRL interactions in Chicago. It happens with randos, it happens with people I meet socially.
I am so, so tired of the "it's just some loud weirdos online" argument that you're responding to. No, I am talking about real-life examples dealing with blue-triber whites where they can't go 5 minutes without making some kind of snide comment about rednecks/chuds/white trash/whatever the preferred term of the day is for the residents of Red America. Trying to discuss the weather leads to it. Trying to discuss local events leads to it. There is no escape.
RoyGBivensAction
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12d ago
It has some really interesting ideas, but I found the execution underwhelming for the same reasons as you.
RoyGBivensAction
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12d ago
How did you arrange to be hanging upside-down at some point with each woman you've dated?
RoyGBivensAction
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12d ago
On X, I've seen this referred to as zero-sum hypercapitalism, and as you note, it results in the tiniest inefficiencies being ruthlessly engineered away wherever possible. Optimization uber alles, but "optimization" from the big line go up forever view, not any kind of human flourishing view.
RoyGBivensAction
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15d ago
New York v. Tanella, 374 F.3d 141 (2nd Cir. 2004) or Texas v. Kleinart, 855 F.3d 305 (5th Cir. 2017), are probably the kind of thing you're looking for, but those are admittedly other circuits.
RoyGBivensAction
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15d ago
Always so cringe when a woman LARPs as a badass,
There is a particularly cringeworthy strain of white millennial woman who seems to believe that swearing a lot and listening to rap makes them an MMA champion.
RoyGBivensAction
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15d ago
Hell, the right's problem seems to be that they won't come to the aid of their 'heroes' once they've been expunged of all their usefulness and 15 minutes of fame.
It appears that Daniel Penny got hired by Andreessen Horowitz.
One of the biggest signs of the changing times came when an ICE prosecutor with a blatantly racist Twitter account didn't get fired when it came out.
Interesting. I'm familiar with that account and it's a spicy one. I can't say I'm all that surprised it was an attorney working for ICE, although the method of discovering who it was reeks of parallel construction.
RoyGBivensAction
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16d ago
I recently realised that I'd been doing Romanian deadlifts rather than actual deadlifts
I had wondered along these lines when you previously posted your weight/reps on deadlifts.
RoyGBivensAction
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16d ago
Huh. Before this conversation I would've confidently said that Costco sells it in the pharmacy section. I must be thinking of CoQ10.
RoyGBivensAction
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17d ago
None of this is perfect, there's still a ton of early career gatekeeping and prestige games, especially around the highest end jobs. But we're not comparing it to perfection, just to the example offered by OP: research science.
I was going to point out the many Striver Merit Badges you're overlooking in your analysis that are needed to approach the highest end legal jobs, but yes, by comparison, it's far more meritocratic than research science at universities.
RoyGBivensAction
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17d ago
I don't know if they're astroturfed, but there is no shortage of written material by people trying to rationalize them getting screwed out of 6 months to 2 years+ (depending on location) of their lives.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
17d ago
I have a heinous clavicle fracture from exactly what you'd expect
Is there something obvious that usually causes those? Football, rugby, lifting, trying to saddle a bison, manually stimulating a horse?
More like "plastic coated with aluminum foil" handcuffs, and I'm only wiping up tears with money if I'm using (and reusing) a bunch of singles.
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