bolido_sentimental
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bolido_sentimental
1yr ago
I remember those days.
I don't know what goes on behind the scenes, but I imagine it's not easy to have to ban someone you've worked with for so long. Frankly I had long hoped for this to happen, but it's still not without pathos. I didn't talk to him much, but I've been reading HlynkaCG comments for like a quarter of my life at this point.
bolido_sentimental
1yr ago
I would advocate for a temp ban here. I agree that he goes too far sometimes, but BC often posts well-considered or interesting/unusual takes. In general, I feel like the benefits from his posts outweigh the demerits of his occasional blow-up.
This is just my opinion.
bolido_sentimental
5mo ago
I've felt that way ever since I read The Picture of Dorian Gray.
bolido_sentimental
10mo ago
Do any Motters buy gold or other precious metals, to store at your dwelling?
If so: why do you do this? How much of it do you have? (E.g., one month's salary worth, or some other relative figure that can just give a sense.)
This has come up frequently in conversation among my friends lately, for some reason. I am asking with an open mind.
bolido_sentimental
1yr ago
The part where Stallone is frozen in a block of ice, in cryo-imprisonment.
bolido_sentimental
1yr ago
I drive a Buick and I really like it. Every time I see the last-gen Buick Regals I drool a little bit. There's a station wagon version that looks simply awesome to me.
bolido_sentimental
1yr ago
I recently joined a D&D campaign as a player, and was invited to write a backstory. The act of doing that was my favorite creative thing I've done this year. Fantasy is not really my chosen genre, but it was very helpful to have that as an "assignment" to work on. I wonder if there are more ways I can take on "writing obligations."
bolido_sentimental
2yr ago
My best friend is getting really into drag, and her state (Kentucky, where I also once lived) just passed laws limiting drag shows in public spaces. I hope we never talk about it, because I'm not going to lie and say I disagree with the law.
Related, but not the same admittedly. I do not currently know any trans people, although I have friends of friends that are.
bolido_sentimental
9mo ago
Ahahaha I'm not there yet if it is. Can't wait lmao.
bolido_sentimental
9mo ago
Adding to the pile - please do, it would be awesome.
bolido_sentimental
10mo ago
This is a good point that I had not thought of.
bolido_sentimental
10mo ago
Last week, a lady at work asked me to read The Brothers Karamazov with her. Perhaps we could get some Motte book club action going.
bolido_sentimental
11mo ago
Yeah, definitely. Depending on the forum, I'd probably pay a lot more than that if I had to.
bolido_sentimental
1yr ago
I'm in a Rusty Nail phase. Just the absolute best cocktail. Trying it with various inexpensive blended scotches.
I wonder what else Drambuie is good in?
bolido_sentimental
1yr ago
I always wondered what would happen if you just put it in the coffee grinds when making coffee. Almost certainly nothing, but man, that would be handy.
bolido_sentimental
1yr ago
Andrew Klavan might be up your alley.
bolido_sentimental
1yr ago
Do you think there was any particular incident that originated that fear? Not that there necessarily need be one. I'm claustrophobic and I don't remember ever being shut up anywhere. And yeah, both being shut up in close places and giving birth have real dangers associated with them.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Interesting to think that many mothers are consciously electing to push through/past a fear of the process.
bolido_sentimental
1yr ago
I use dumbbells for presses! I can't get my friends to do it with me. It also has the added bonus that I probably won't be able to crush myself to death with them. It's great!
bolido_sentimental
2yr ago
Do you know of any articles or writings about the impact of this on NLP and NLP labs, or fora where they're discussing it? I'm curious to learn more about that or to hear it from them.
bolido_sentimental
2yr ago
To some extent I'm also wondering if even those places, are still like that. My mental image of the situation is that even those remnants, which I've had some awareness of for a long time, are on their way to being digitized as well.
Not really a question for you in particular - I just wonder how we'd even know if that had happened.
bolido_sentimental
2yr ago
Thanks for the insight!
bolido_sentimental
10mo ago
These are called filial responsibility laws, and they also exist in America. An interesting effortpost could be made by someone investigating the extent to which they are enforced here - something Wikipedia is kind of vague about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filial_responsibility_laws?wprov=sfla1
bolido_sentimental
11mo ago
Well, I can't argue with that. I just wonder where they were happening, and over what. I admit I didn't go into the residential areas much.
bolido_sentimental
11mo ago
Would it have been different if you could have used strikes? Remember, no-holds-barred was the premise.
Ahahaha there's definitely something to this. Several years ago, when I lived in a different town with my best friend, I bought some LSD from a strange Serbian guy I knew. Then I put it in the freezer and forgot about it.
I visited my friend this year, who still lives in the same apartment, and we remembered the LSD. We took it together and found it to still be very effective; and we had what we both consider to be the best time we'd had in many years. And indeed we had many great insights at that time.
Unfortunately I've lost touch with the Serbian, and I have not taken the time to find out where I can source additional psychedelics. Perhaps it would be worth putting in the effort.
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