cjet79
Anarcho Capitalist on moral grounds
Libertarian Minarchist on economic grounds
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cjet79
1d ago
I am perhaps the only one that seems to think that children should have access to the Internet. Just like they should have some measure of access to the real world.
Yes they can both be dangerous and harmful. Navigating those harms is a requirement for all adults, and only learning how to navigate them when you turn 18 seems like a recipe for disaster.
The combined "children shouldn't be allowed outside or on the Internet" seems the most draconian. Why not just drop them off in a prison until they turn 18?
cjet79
2d ago
I might be wrong, maybe the Israeli part is incorrect. He did say this in the last chapter note:
As some of you already know, I'm ending Sublight Drive here because my country mandates two years of military service. Since I will be enlisting, I will have no more time to deal with all this, and thus I've decided to wrap it up while I still can.
Had Gemini tell me the countries with mandatory two years of service and high English skills.
Singapore has a two year requirement.
Israel has a three year requirement for men and two years for women.
South Korea and Thailand are also possibilities.
So maybe I'm wrong and they are not from Israel.
cjet79
3d ago
I do feel like theaters have been chasing a gimmick that will bring back moviegoers but ultimately it's good movies that would bring people out.
The theater I saw Hail Mary in had special vibrating and slightly rotating seats as their latest gimmick. I hadn't been to a theater in a while so I thought sure I'd try this out. It had two bad moments: one where I felt like some little kid was just kicking my seat and another when it pre jumped a jump scare. Some weird moments where I thought during a lull and sappy moment it was moving like a rocking chair. And mostly slightly positive moments where it was adding to the soundscape of the movie through vibration without having to blow out my eardrums.
It was a good movie with good cinematic moments. But if I had the option of watching it in my basement with my ~70 inch screen, with no worries about volume, with the same friend, and on my nice comfortable couch ... I'd choose at home.
The movie theater won out in this instance because I didn't want to wait, and inviting my friend over to watch a movie on my couch at noon is weird compared to inviting him to watch it at a movie theater with me.
cjet79
3d ago
Watched Hail Mary in theaters. I read the book beforehand and saw it with a friend that had not read the book.
We both enjoyed it, really good movie.
Movie was more cinematic, less science heavy than the book, which was probably a very good choice. Still had the same heartfelt moments.
cjet79
3d ago
That is a good recommendation, especially if you are looking for a Hobbesian view.
I do read a lot of stuff on royal road, but I'm racking my brain to come up with things. I mostly don't feel like I encounter any of the ultra leftist stuff either, but I'm more aware that it exists. I just tend to avoid the works with certain tags like 'gender bender'
For a while on Reddit anytime any of the works of inadvisablycompelled were recommended, people would show up and complain about his "abhorrent" anti immigration views (aka middle of the road around here). However, It was hard for me to notice anything explicitly right leaning about any of the works. Paranoid mage maybe fits. The dungeon core story doesn't.
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/72498/sublight-drive-star-wars is written by an Israeli that was about to join the Israeli military. Star wars clone wars fan fiction, with self insert MC on the losing side. Again, I couldn't pick up much explicitly right leaning.
Off Royal road, Michael Chatfield is ex military maybe ex marine. He has some series out. Again, no explicit right leaning.
Off Royal road and out of copyright is John Carter of Mars. Was probably leftist at the time it was written a century ago, but now comes off as heavy trad rightist.
cjet79
3d ago
It's not like there's some fixed percentage of women whose class is who are destined to sell porn no matter what
Sadly there is a correlation with women that were sexually abused as children and teens and those engaging in sex work.
That category of women is luckily not a "fixed" percentage. But I do feel that maybe it changes the calculus a bit.
cjet79
3d ago
Agreed that it is not currently a stable state of affairs, but I think that is a product of the current cultures views on the role of government and how the government chooses to behave (like whether they choose to follow the constitution).
The prohibition movement started in the 1820's, so it took them a century to build enough momentum and then eventually ban alcohol. And then the ban failed in clear ways and they reversed it.
Tobacco has been grandfathered into legality.
There are also many local laws on the books all around the country that ban "sodomy". Certainly enough to make it into a national law, but that was never done.
I think for a long time there was a very steep hill to climb to ban something at the national level, even if it was hated and reviled. You needed more like 70-80% general approval for a ban rather than just 50%+1 for a single election. Nowadays it does feel more like 50%+1 for a single election is enough to get anything banned. And overturning the ban requires something like the 70-80% general support (like Marijuana legalization).
It is reasonable and rational for any vested interests in a product/activity to get very worried when approval levels for their thing dip below 55%.
cjet79
3d ago
Society seems to have lost the middle ground options between hating something + banning it and allowing it + enthusiastically supporting it.
I'm generally in favor of more things being legal, but heavily discouraged and frowned upon.
cjet79
4d ago
The "not perfect" is doing a lot of lifting in that statement.
Prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine Russia seemed no worse than any of America's Gulf state "allies". Ukraine would probably get dumped in the same general category but much less bad within that category.
America has been friendly and "allies" with plenty of shit tier governments around the world.
I've been putting "allies" in quotes because an ally that you aren't willing to let have nuclear weapons is more accurately a protectorate territory.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union there has not been an ideological reason for Russia and America to hate each other.
Back in 2016 Trump had no reason to do saber rattling crap with Russia. He was instead picking a trade war fight with China. And you'd probably want Russia on your side if you start a trade war fight with China, since Russia can negate the main leverage over China: Fuel.
The general point is that back in pre 2016 taking bribes from Ukraine would not have been ok simply because "they aren't Russia". I would consider Great Britain to be one of America's best allies, and I don't think Hunter Biden's relationship with them would have been ok.
Meanwhile the lukewarm stance of Trump 1 administration of "we are not going to label you as enemies" was treated as being equivalent to treason.
cjet79
5d ago
I got the impression that the Trump "obstruction" was very similar to a "resisting arrest" charge by cops accompanied with no other crimes.
Basically go hard on accusing someone of a crime, when they protest their innocence as just about anyone will do, slam them with your body or investigation powers and now the cop has a guaranteed crime even if the original accusation was bogus.
But realistically it doesn't even change anything. We already know that Trump is extremely friendly towards Putin and Russia! We don't need any proof of campaign coordination to know how much they get along, he's pretty blatant in this!
He was friendly far below the "friendliness" that the Obama and Biden administrations had with Ukraine. Which amounted to million dollar bribes to Biden's son.
I very much felt like the Democrats were expecting their own level of corruption to be uncovered by the investigation, but instead it was a bunch of nothing. Like the jealous partner that insists you are totally cheating when it's then that has been unfaithful.
cjet79
5d ago
With Joe Rogan what you get out of the interview is often exactly who goes in. Boring Politician goes in boring political talk comes out. Funny comedian goes in funny podcast comes out. If I like listening to guest on other podcasts I will usually like them on Joe Rogan as well. It won't be that persons best podcast, just solidly average.
He has good comedian podcasts with Stavros Halkias, Ms Patt, Tim Dillon, (protect our parks crew), etc. but those are all people that are just excellent and entertaining on podcasts anyways.
cjet79
5d ago
The top-level post below this one (JeSuisCharlie's) is literally just a link with a quote from that link: the only user-provided content is the label for the link.
You don't mod it, despite that having less personal commentary than any one of Eetan's links.
It's not a top level post, it was a response to eetan.
Discussion engagement with a topic is a limited resource here. So if you spend the time to write up an in depth post and it take you half a day, you don't want someone sniping the topic by basically posting a dumb article or twitter thread.
Yes you can respond to them, but responses often get less engagement than the top level.
Other spinoffs of the culture war thread concept have been tried. The ones that allowed bare links are all dead.
Top followers exists, at least for mods. I can't tell if other people have access to the users page.
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