cjet79
Anarcho Capitalist on moral grounds
Libertarian Minarchist on economic grounds
User ID: 124
cjet79
1d ago
I removed your first post according to mod history. I don't remember why or even if I definitely meant to. I'll undo that now. Sorry it upset you, we do have lots of alts of banned users that persistently join and cause the same problems. Sometimes we are trigger happy.
cjet79
2d ago
Ya bronze age was nuts. I think I listened to the hardcore history episode about the sea peoples and bronze age collapse.
cjet79
2d ago
I like interesting historical theories. Especially with an element of the fantastical. Ancient apocalypse series is full of them.
Another one I read somewhere was about how "dragons" might have been real. A large winged predator that was hunted to extinction at the end of the last ice age as they clashed with human populations.
Anyone have any fun ones they've read recently?
cjet79
2d ago
I remember there being some fun magic mods that really opened up the variety of spells. That and I was always a pack rat so I liked having mods that increased carry capacity. Which led to stores running out of gold too fast, so I'd get a mod for "investing" in stores that would allow you to upgrade merchant gold capacity.
Half my modded playthroughs were abandoned cuz I just kept adding new mods to tweak things.
Stealth archer gameplay is fun. It's cliche too but whatever, lean into it.
cjet79
2d ago
Alright this has come up before. No more pedophilia cases in the Friday Fun Thread. It's just not fun for a lot of people.
cjet79
4d ago
It has a cult like smell to it for new people.
My mother recently joined the DAR and they have a whole badge system for in group rewards.
Scouts organizations get away with it, cuz it's cute when kids do culty things and the adults quietly role their eyes a little.
cjet79
4d ago
I worked in the tech sector and don't follow sports so "Manu" is definitely an Indian name in my mind.
I like the greeting. Say hello to your new asshole overlord.
cjet79
4d ago
Meta bought an AI company called "Manus". The company automates remote work using AI.
I was wondering how it is pronounced.
The easy candidate is "man-us" like we are going to man you with workers.
Less likely but funny: "Manu-s" like we are going to provide an endless number of Indian workers named "Manu" for all your remote work needs.
Finally my favorite and definitely not the case: "M'anus". Like you better start enjoying all the shitty slop we put out, it's coming straight from "muh anus"
cjet79
5d ago
I said they rarely make an impact, not never. Those rulings you listed are spaced out by decades sometimes.
It's also often questionable how much impact they really have. We have a resident gun law expert that will tell you the supreme Court rulings aren't worth shit and the states regularly flaunt them.
They abolished obvious and explicit affirmative action, but it was very much still happening under "holistic" evaluations.
Compare their impact to something like the IRS which has a daily impact on our budgets, and their yearly rule changes can make thousands of dollars of difference.
Or your state DMV which isn't federal but impacts almost everyone.
The bureaucracies of the federal and state governments impact me way more than any of the official branches of government. But of those branches the supreme Court is often most removed from daily impact on my life.
cjet79
5d ago
Weird inconsistency for him. Usually his spiel is about how making things more restrictive and exclusive them better. Like the urbit project.
cjet79
5d ago
I'd say most of the law making gets done in the bureaucracy. And technically that bureaucracy is under the presidents authority, but reality is a much different picture. The supreme Court handles a tiny minority of disputes that are interesting to legal nerds. But they rarely make much of an impact. The only ruling I can think of recently that impacted me was their handling of homelessness.
cjet79
6d ago
Nothing ... we have three kids and celebrated with three other nieces the day of (my wifes side of the family). Aint no one got time for adult gifts. I also nixed the secret santa gift exchange that typically happens on my side of the family. Maybe if we'd both been feeling better I would have gotten some marital enjoyment, not so hot when the wife is coughing up a lung, and I'm shivering under three blankets.
cjet79
6d ago
I'll admit to being that guy. I feel like I get sick less often than my wife, but my worst sicknesses on any given year are always worse than my wife's.
I'm pretty sure we are getting the same sicknesses just reacting differently to them. Sicknesses tend to burn through me fast and hard. I am very sick for a few days and then mostly back to normal. Whereas my wife is often just a little sick for a week or two. Just over the last two weeks with holidays and the spreading of germs everywhere I've had two mild fevers (101-103). She has had none. I have also had a light cough, she has a heavy nasty sounding cough. For two days I had one of the worst sore throats I can remember, literally was drooling to avoid swallowing. Its fine now. She has had a scratchy throat the whole two weeks.
cjet79
6d ago
Excellent post Dean. I've joked before about renaming AAQCs to "The Dean's List". Consistently high quality stuff from you. Thank you for being part of the motte.
I've noticed that I have different writing modes depending on what I'm hoping to get from TheMotte at any given moment, and some of those writing modes lend themselves more or less to getting an AAQC.
There is a sort of "trying to be informative about something I have deep knowledge on" mixed with frustrated rant that seems to be most likely to get me an AAQC. The stars don't align for me to be in that writing mood very often.
More often it's "a stranger is wrong in the internet" or I'm just trying to work through some new arguments in my head and through open debate. I have noticed that working through new arguments tends to lead to plenty of AAQCs around my post. Some even shredding me apart. I guess some people need a good sparring partner/ punching bag. I'm usually happy when that happens.
I'm a parent of three youngish kids, my initial reaction is sort of "eh ya I get it"
Not that I really agree with them. But kids are a radically different gear speed than career.
All the instincts that probably serve very well in a career, like caring about time / productivity / efficiency are negatives when it comes to being around kids.
Kids eat slow, they do things slowly, they get distracted easily, their play isn't working towards anything specific, etc. At a young age their accomplishments are existence and survival.
It's tempting to say that the dad should learn how to slow down and get to the level of his kids. But I think that's his decision to make, and there will be trade-offs. He might get worse at his current job role. And if it's bad enough he will lose the position and resent the kid for it. The kids will speed up eventually so he will miss their younger years as a father, but being bored with them as toddlers doesn't mean being bored with them as school age kids.
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