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1yr ago
I like bitter rich tastes. I don't like the gross sickly sweet taste of sweetened coffee. Call it an affectation if you must, but I take my coffee black.
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1yr ago
I read The Picture of Dorian Gray maybe 15 years ago. I recall it being equal parts boring and pointless.
Edit: Below someone says it made a big impression on them. I guess it really shows different strokes for different folks. What a waste of paper and my time that book was.
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1yr ago
my recollection is that
You know the "source: trust me, bro" joke? You are doing it to us right now. Knowing how fallible human memory is, we can't take vague recollections as meaningful evidence.
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1mo ago
There was a "as a black guy worried about my low-IQ genes contaminating my white girlfriend and our future kids" post on the reddit SSC culture war roundup thread shortly before it was permanently canceled. I didn't bother responding to it, but it was so clearly bait. Just the perfect example of intolerable wrongthink.
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2mo ago
Double nope: coin tumblers make it a random collection of coins rather than traceable coins from Russia or China.
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1yr ago
Like, would you be okay sending a Senator who has Locked-in Syndrome to Congress, who could only communicate through blinking, as long as he had a long prior history of supporting your favored policies?
Absolutely. Policies and voting records are king. If the alternative is a Senator who doesn't vote how I like, I'll take anyone.
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1yr ago
But no. It is exclusively just the black and indigenous ones. So the not-Asian POCs.
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1yr ago
Fair enough. But I want a single family home in a single family neighborhood. So I will advocate that my local government enforce strict rules to keep it that way. We should build more apartments and condos. Just not in my neighborhood, and enforced by law.
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16d ago
Every single liberal leftist normie-oriented talking head I ever encountered kept repeating for months
Any chance these drooling morons exist almost entirely in your imagination and almost not at all in real life?
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1yr ago
I dispute all of this. There is no factual basis for these claims.
But the key to solving any problem lies in either your own, or your partner's memories of childhood. How one of you or the other reacted to things, and the sorts of parenting that worked, or didn't, on you.
I'm a father and that's not how parenting works.
My mother says that the lessons she learned from raising me did not apply to my younger brother. Different kids are different. Remembering what worked in your own childhood is not relevant.
It's a god damned nightmare for those parents. They begin developing these ironclad notions that something is "wrong" with their child because they have so much trouble relating to their nature.
This is wild exaggeration or you really misinterpret what is going on. I'm not trying to go hard on you: but this is plain falsehood.
So what, exactly, are our leaders thinking?
I've said it before, I'll say it again: bleeding Russia is on sale right at an amazing discount right now, so we're buying a bit.
"But [list of reasons why long term Ukraine is screwed, won't be able to get back lost territory, etc, etc]." Yeah, sure. Also Russia is exhausting itself at a very small cost to the American taxpayer.
If Russia spends years grinding away to a standstill in Ukraine, then they won't have the ability to attack any further anytime soon.
And very optimistically, it serves as a warning to other countries wanting to invade their neighbors. If they badly desire a drawn out conflict that drains their resources for no obvious gain, we'll give it to them.
We've had it since the 1960s. Please recalibrate what are proposed radical changes to long established norms.
To be clear: no one is banning tiktok. They may force ByteDance to divest from the American form of tiktok. ByteDance can then sell it to non-Chinese owners. Or take their ball and go home. Their choice.
The arguments I've heard in favor of this involve the CCP controlling Chinese companies and the American form of tiktok being a horrible antisocial negative version but the Chinese version being a prosocial positive version. Which would be the CCP messing with our youth. And the black box hand-modified algorithm promoting content is not an even-handed arbiter of memetic popularity. Neither in China nor the US.
Anecdotally my Chinese American in-laws and wife agree that the Chinese version of tiktok is superior. And they use Chinese mainland Apple accounts to load it on their phones because it is the "good" version. So when some Congressman claims that, I accept it.
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1yr ago
Those three deleted top comments are really low effort. A drive by punchy one line comment is bound for deletion.
Other comments more thoughtfully discuss IQ and have not been deleted.
Any time someone appeals to tradition you should ask whose tradition and when? Back in colonial New England civil divorces were granted for reason of spousal abandonment. So you could just bail on your spouse and they'd get a civil divorce in your absence.
Lots of things are like that. Interracial marriage wasn't common in 1750, but it was legal and accepted. But in 1950 it was very much illegal and almost universally opposed across much of the United States.
I'm not going to greatly respect the hallowed traditions of 1950 in opposition to 1650, 1750 and 1970. Norms and traditions drift in a variety of ways in various places. Then a modern 2024 Conservative cherry picks one they happen to like and declare it to be Tradition, can't be frivolously tearing down Chesterton's fence, etc.
Having no enormous respect for a carefully chosen set of norms and laws circa 1950, and since we're a few generations into the current set of laws and norms, I'm going to follow the good example of Conservatives and declare the current norms to be Tradition and warn everyone not to too easily tear down this fence.
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4mo ago
trying to run as a war hero when he was anything but
I can't believe I'm leaping to Kerry's defense, of all people, but based on my memories of reviewing his service record, he's much closer to war hero than pretender.
They really did him dirty.
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1yr ago
Many years ago my roommate and I ate fried chicken while watching a vegan propaganda video. What a great afternoon.
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1yr ago
Holocaust deniers go the other way with this one. They find an account written by a purported Holocaust survivor with a clearly fictional detail and use it as evidence that the Holocaust was fake.
They found a few really silly lies about the Holocaust. /pol/ has a laugh about them every now and then. They of course ignore all the other written statements by Holocaust survivors that aren't made up.
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1yr ago
She has made some spicy statements about how horrible America is, but is a well paid weed smoking lesbian. She should have had a bit of perspective about how very well she has it in the US compared to almost anywhere else. I’m not happy that they found a reason to punish an American. But given her anti-American statements, I can see how some people are feeling schadenfreude.
Can't a country of over 300 million come up with a single charismatic, competent, young, energetic leader?
Yes. His name is Obama and he's unfortunately term limited at this point. Something weird happened these past few days for me. Every day I see mention of Michelle Obama running for president. Which doesn't even begin to make sense. But people are so hungry for a return to something like Barack Obama that they can't help but bring up his wife as an alternative.
But I agree: why can't we scrounge up a second one per generation is a good question.
Putting up a faux-pagan idol (in technical accordance with local law) is no more targeting Christians than Muslims. It's not like local Muslims have a great love of pagan idols.
This is not mockery of Christ where you could gotcha them on lack of equivalent mockery of Muhammad. This is a fake goat demon stylized like a Tarot card used exercise legal tenants from the 1st ammendment.
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6mo ago
And they're free to post here and now. Unless they feel such unbearable mental pain from seeing other posters' contrary opinions that they ragequit.
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1yr ago
Around a third of American adults have a bachelor's degree. Around a third of those also went to grad school. So it's a 4 year burden on a third of the population and 6ish years on around one tenth.
That's not a lot. That isn't a crushing burden killing our society's ability to make kids.
A miniscule sliver of society enjoys these things. I recall reading that even that sliver is loosing interest and these venues are dying.
Let's not pick political allegiance over this fringe of a past time. In fact, maybe purely entertainment activities such as movies and opera should be viewed as frivolous distractions. Good fun if you like it. But fundamentally unimportant.
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