TIRM
28d ago
That's an easy assertion to make. But I have no reason to think that is better than the previous norm of a married couple working together to contrive a fake at-fault divorce.
TIRM
1d ago
Perhaps you could proactively explain how these malicious actors got to him. I also don't suppose these bad people made his wife sick or made him take drugs.
TIRM
11d ago
I thought the Russian economy lacked the ability to replace expended or destroyed high tech equipment. Or recently destroyed oil infrastructure for that matter. They could be throwing large amounts of effectively unreplacabe materiel at Ukraine. And then none will be left for other uses. Bleeding them.
I have little doubt in their ability to field many men for a long time and gradually grind at the Ukrainians. I don't take more men under arms as a sign of economic strength for them. But it doesn't matter since our ""allies"" in Europe will fund them more and more through oil purchases so their GDP will grow merely by being a petrostate.
Ukrainians have agency and I am not at all sympathetic to arguments we are egging them on when we give them the arms they ask for. Or that hastening their brutalization by Russia is somehow a moral good.
TIRM
11d ago
Tabletop Games (W40K)
Assuming this is a racial issue: Shouldn't a true to the setting depiction of 40K be full of POCs? If anything it's weird that all of mankind 10s of thousands of years in the future produces mostly white guardsmen and space marines, given their depiction in various media.
TIRM
23d 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.
TIRM
3d 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?
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.
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.
TIRM
11d ago
Yes: using a silly and false theory we can purposefully contrive false conclusions.
TIRM
11d ago
But GW isn't introducing female space marines. So that's a non-issue.
Females custodes is a change. I'm not sure I'd denounce it as wokeness.
TIRM
23d ago
It is really quite amazing how genetics so horribly strikes Haitians but not to remotely the same degree other black Caribbean populations or black Africans or black British people, etc. It does make one suspicious that maybe a second factor could be at play.
TIRM
28d ago
Sure you can build more homes. You just can't build a looming condo high-rise next to my house. Blotting out the sun, causing extreme traffic problems, causing enormously worse problems should a bus or light rail terminal be built by it, etc.
In fact the negatives of such a project are so certain and great in magnitude that my locality has strictly forbidden such a project. As have almost all localities across my entire continent. The local regulatory environment norms across a continent of hundreds of millions of people point in one clear direction: ban this thing.
And I wish they'd legalize it in a few special economic zones so new urbanists would go to them and stop trying to go against local sentiment in almost all places and trying to break the really nice thing we have going for us.
TIRM
8d ago
Usually I would agree. But she is so thin and flat that she lacks a feminine figure. She's way too far in that direction.
TIRM
29d ago
why are we banning TikTok and not everything else
CCP controls TikToc. For all their many sins Facebook and X are not similarly run by the CCP.
TIRM
2d ago
One of these is not like the others.
In the places I have lived they appear to be extremely strongly correlated.
"Send the police at them"? For what? If you mean enforcing public camping bans, then I'm fine with that. Not clear in what other sense the police would be sent after them.
TIRM
2d ago
Maybe you could criminalise all sexual conduct that is also possible for same-sex couples
I believe the sodomy laws common until 2003 actually did this. It was hypothetically just as illegal for a man to get his dick sucked by his wife as by another man.
But then those laws were almost never enforced against openly gay men and truly never enforced against straight couples using their mouths or butts.
TIRM
21d ago
I excessively love bitter rich flavors. Like 85% cacao chocolate or dark black coffee. I wish great tasting very dark coffee existed so I could have it all day.
I like black coffee because it is so great. Huffington Post videos be damned.
TIRM
27d ago
I very much doubt that 9 or so motivated people in almost every locality all across the continent bent all zoning rules to their will.
Almost every local government independently decides to do this. It would be amazing if every locality had a small core of turbo NIMBYs forcing their will onto everyone else. All other people almost everywhere somehow helpless.
The fact that a very large number of independent elections converged on one policy makes me think the policy is popular among voters.
TIRM
10d ago
From a redditor:
When you try and make the hips bigger, it makes the hands massive.
More just dumb than clearly some ideology. Unless the ideology is merely that ugliness is desirable.
Let's not overthink it. It's SS (or is it ϟϟ?) He has to mention Jews every post even if he has an unrelated topic to discuss. I'm just glad this one is about a real topic instead of questioning the Holocaust again.
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