SteveKirk
2yr ago
Probably a lot of pushback from reli-trads, but interesting pushback. Most of the ones I can think of are at least familiar with ye old manosphere, and at least have reasons why they don't agree.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
I agree with your first bolded highlight. On reddit voting was easily gamed by subreddit brigading to create a false appearance of consensus, but that's not an issue on a single-sub-site.
This just cedes the territory to people who are skilled at writing posts that are maximally annoying but time-consuming or frustrating to refute with as much evidence as they demand. (Or who ghost and return to demand the same evidence over and over, pretending the previous conversation never happened).
This is a common tactic, as you will have noticed on reddit and certain heavily downvoted users here.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
I can't name any others that has all those features, can you? Certainly not the combination with "rugged individualism"
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Because I think most people except the zealots sleepwalked into Current Year, and a great enough shock could have changed the course.
Everything that's happened was due to people falling for a constant creeping barrage of lies and gaslighting.
I was in a luxury college with a free gym and lifting courses. Yeah, pathetic story, but it's a counterbalance to "with sheer grit, determination, and weighted milk jugs."
Also change doesn't have to come from within if your surroundings make change the default choice. This is an underappreciated lesson that explains a lot about the last decade.
After college I got a free set from a woman whose son left, because she couldn't lift the weights to get rid of them herself. And a bench press the school was getting rid of.
His mother I believe. I can't remember if it's the ancestor he shares with his wife or not (that would be a little too pat)
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Do you just never use maximized windows with a 32:9? With 3 smaller 16:9s I have one window active in each of them, but you must have a way of aligning multiple windows on one screen to use all that space
SteveKirk
2yr ago
I thought it might be him, but dismissed it because of "2018"
Incredible that wokeness is such a new term. The language treadmill is running in overdrive now.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
I'm starting to hope it's enough money to buy you foreign citizenship somewhere
SteveKirk
2yr ago
I think we're running into confusion about what a "not a life-changing amount" actually means. Can you get rid of 5 figures in cash eventually?
Foreign purchases under the customs limit are always a safe bet for using coins, it seems like.
The Iraq war came to 1-2 trillion though. That at least puts it (viewed as a single policy) in the same order of magnitude as the "inflation """reduction""" act"
SteveKirk
2yr ago
That's terribly vague, but now it's nagging at me too. let me know if you find it?
SteveKirk
2yr ago
employers must be permitted to “nip in the bud” the kinds of employee conduct that could lead to a “hostile workplace,” rather than waiting until an actionable hostile workplace has been created before taking action.
I wish I could just... Send these rulings 20 years back in time and preemptively use them against their creators. How were people so stupid to let this happen?
I just started using zyn. It's good but the 6mg is much too strong. I'd suggest the 2mgs or lozenges instead.
6 is enough to give me head and stomach aches.
Update: the cop has since died. I wonder if the stabbing victim he was pinning down will be charged for his death.
German press report that the motives of the stabber "remain unclear"
Sky news reports: "police officer stabbed during attack at far-right rally dies"
You don't hate journalists enough
Absolutely not, every "blue" woman I know is heavily into woo, and I know a broad profile of them. Even the ones who work in tech have Quantum Spirituality books on their shelves.
Horoscopes are almost universal.
Again this is a range from "part time barista" to "social worker" to nurse to an actual tech VP.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
You shouldn't need to explain anything until you sell it, unless your country has some kind of asset reporting requirement. Like Fuck said spending it directly in small chunks is probably safest.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
The grid already deals with sudden overvoltage from lightning by dumping it to ground without (usually) interrupting service. HVDC transmission lines would be interesting to learn about, but maybe it would just be free amps for them.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Yeah, I shamelessly stole it from your post about Orthodox communities abusing welfare state bureaucracy with their rabbinic skills
I haven't even heard anecdotes about the recent solar storm other than Musk noting that starlink was "under pressure" from it.
Am at the point of writing it off as doomwishing similar to zombie apocalypse fantasies.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Started to ask "but which half" and nearly died laughing that the question makes sense.
Haven't all the easily-deployed-by-third-parties nuclear weapons been decommissioned? There aren't backpack nukes with 4 digit arming codes written on the side in crayon any more.
The closest thing is probably a Russian Topol, and I don't know how well those are locked down. Can the crew launch a nuke with the truck ignition key? I seriously doubt it.
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