RoyGBivensAction
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Married to a tomboy, so I have that going for me, which is nice.
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RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
1mo ago
Sometimes I go to a grocery store or a restaurant and hear what's current
I rarely hear what's current at a restaurant, store, or coffee shop. 95% of the time it's classic rock, and being in any of those places more than 30 minutes means a 100% chance of hearing a Buckingham/Nicks-era Fleetwood Mac song.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
Not within walking distance, but there are cities with all kinds of parks around the city. Phoenix is one example, and that list doesn't include a number of parks that are on the farther edges of the metro.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
That thin, monotonous flute piping gets old.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
Which is why, as a broad generality, I think (male) autists are prone to falling into the trap of a relationship with a cluster B woman. If they don't have a good benchmark to judge against (and perhaps have a bad benchmark like "women are crazy," which leads to "this woman is acting crazy, that's nothing unusual because all women are like that"), then they're less likely to see all the red flags for what the flags really are. They could be naive about other people's motivations (hence the quokka insult) and fail to recognize malicious or destructively selfish motivations under the woman's expressed interest in them.
As for why they might be prone to be targeted, they are likely presenting some behaviors (appearance of emotional stability, internal locus of control, unwillingness to go with the crowd, etc.) that histrionic/borderline types find attractive (see hysterical bonding proposed by McWilliams), and it's only later when the incompatibility in all these traits between the two people causes it all to end in tears.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
The country isn’t their yet, but it’s the long-term outpost of a maga-Israel S America hub.
"Zionists preparing to flee to Argentina" seems to be one of those instances of history rhyming.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
I enjoy your trucking office stories. Thank you for posting.
the fact that she needs her hair pulled in bed.
You've addressed this elsewhere, you have many good reasons for ignoring this green flag, and you are likely making the correct choice. However, I look back at my history of ignoring similar green flags and then at a friend who has pursued every green flag (and just about every other color, too) ever shown to him, and I think about how much more interesting my life could've been.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
while more generous estimates (I'm in this camp) put it around season ten
Quite generous. Season 8 at the latest in my mind (Season 9 is when Scully took over), and even half of season 8 is weak. Even being generous, anything past season 9 (the last one to have Hartman) would be a tough tough sell for me. I'm old enough to have watched all those seasons as they were released, though, which might make a difference.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
1mo ago
I strongly suspect that the state legislature would have kneecapped every one of his actions and it would just have been boring business-as-usual.
My guess as well. He was already ineffective as a state legislator and I doubt he would've been much better as governor.
An amusing aside from his wiki entry:
On December 12, 2002, Duke pleaded guilty to the felony charge of filing a false tax return under 26 U.S.C. § 7206 and mail fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1341. According to The New York Times: "Mr. Duke was accused of telling supporters that he was in financial straits, then misusing the money they sent him from 1993 to 1999.
Huh, doesn't that sound familiar?
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
Is posting and enjoying other Motte posts a sign of ND?
Yes. Not definitive, but it's a sign.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
a particular class of water treatment chemical
has a habit of expanding upon touching water
That sounds exciting to try to use.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
Yes, true. I was incorrectly thinking of any misleading statements to donors; false statements to the banks themselves would be much more straightforward.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
Those are old jury instructions that don't reflect the 2025 Supreme Court decision in Thompson v. United States, which held that the statements involved must be false and not simply misleading.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
I don't practice federal defense or prosecution, so I'm not qualified to get into the weeds. I will note, though, even with a Supreme Court that seems rather hostile towards the notion of wire fraud prosecutions against elected officials, they upheld a wire fraud conviction against a contractor who actually provided the agreed-upon services but wasn't a minority-owned business as they claimed. If that can support a federal wire fraud conviction, then I don't think it's that big of a stretch that SPLC's promises and behavior here could suffice.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
Rinse and repeat. They basically are creating the demand for their funding
The ideal self-licking ice cream cone.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
If you want to read an eye-opening book about this (but not eye-opening in the way the author intended): Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream by Leonard Zeskind
The author worked for SPLC/Klanwatch for years, and the book is not impartial in the slightest. When discussing informers, he repeatedly takes the tack of "ha ha, you loser white supremacists, your org was infiltrated again!" He explains how David Duke was probably an informer/compromised by the feds given that Duke got arrested with explosives but the charges never materialized, and then somehow the Klan member/donor list "mysteriously" got into FBI hands shortly after that. He explains how a high-ranked Klan member of the Duke era, who repeatedly engaged in public threats of killing law enforcement, turned out to be on the federal payroll. Things like this happen over and over again in the book, but the author never once considers what this says about the nature of those organizations. At some point, anyone with perspective would have to wonder about the reality of these "right wing hate organizations" when high-ranking members and leaders are all being paid by the federal government.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
But the back half of season 2 is painfully padded and drawn-out, just barely managing to pull a satisfying cliffhanger ending out of the hat.
True, I generally block a bunch of the back half from my memory. For every bit of interesting acting or lore or character interaction or whatever, there are 3 bits of bad soap opera padding.
watching it for a second time recently found it extremely erratic in pacing, with lore-heavy episodes that go nowhere and take forever to get there, to the point that I gave up on it halfway through.
I haven't rewatched it, but I do remember that it was necessary to sit back and enjoy the journey because overall the series wasn't going anywhere quickly... right up until everything started to happen and then it was almost impossible to hang on. The way it managed to come together (as much as is possible for Lynch) made me think the pacing was deliberate, but that might not make it easier to sit through some of the lore stuff.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
I have my flair for a reason.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
As you describe it, that sounds more like BPD mirroring, but I'm not a doctor and don't even play one on tv.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
No, by trap I mean male autists entering a relationship with a cluster B woman, specifically borderline or histrionic tendencies.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
I am in my late 30s and I have discovered that I may be somewhat neurodivergent.
Posting on TheMotte
Uh, anon...
Kidding aside, I had my own realization in my early 20s before it was such a common thing, and it was when I read about Dr Asperger's "little professors" and thought "oh shit." Turned out to be more complicated, but unsurprisingly parents in the all-too-common autist/cluster B pairing managed to produce a bunch of weirdo kids.
And really, that would be my main worry about someone figuring it out later in life: that they would've already fallen into the cluster B trap. It sounds like you avoided that, so everything else that stems from your realization can probably be managed.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
1mo ago
I swing back and forth between top 1% and right around that (top 10%) every few weeks lately it seems.
You forgot to attach the "wiping up tears with handfuls of money" gif.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
It did not improve my day to be reminded I'm in this situation.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
Government change, unless the world cup win was that dramatic.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
Fermat's marginal proof never existed, for crissake.
Then he's entitled to the name for such legendary trolling.
Deep in my heart of hearts, I'm a 2008 Paultard.
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