durdenhobbes
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durdenhobbes
1mo ago
I disagree. I think people would respond negatively to overly-repetitive topics to the degree warranted, regardless of the username posted in the corner above it.
durdenhobbes
1mo ago
Sagrada Familia, hands down. Maybe my favorite manmade work, period.
durdenhobbes
2mo ago
I'm more persuaded to believe it was Len Sassaman. The background, experience, personal values, evident time zone... it's all there.
durdenhobbes
6mo ago
When you said "misadventure", I initially imagined a guy going "Sorry, your honor, I was on a severe bender that week and forgot to vote" and it being totally legit.
durdenhobbes
9mo ago
Of his dialogues, I'd put Plato's Republic as the most foundational one.
durdenhobbes
11mo ago
I would think that's a fairly rare scenario. At least in my experience growing up, every one of my many friends with a step-parent referred to them by first name.
durdenhobbes
11mo ago
Nope, tried it already. Had very much the opposite of the intended effect.
durdenhobbes
11mo ago
This makes much more sense than any other explanation I've ever heard.
durdenhobbes
11mo ago
Professed Catholics in America have many different ethical beliefs, but a common theme is that almost all of them aren't keen on violently attacking those who mock them. I think that's less "silent stoicism" and more "ethical passivity".
Maybe they all should just go back and watch The Boondock Saints
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
It could be the case that you simply interact in such circles that you are not exposed to such disposable men, but it both biologically obvious, and has been throughly examined from an academic perspective.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
"Your food choices could not be tied to any one social class."
My graph was pretty even among all five groups, with the highest scores in the Upper and Lower classes
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
I’m of two minds about this. On the one hand, I can say without hesitation that having kids had a severely negative impact on my life. Most of that was due to my poor selection of partner/her post-partum/outside elements that don’t have anything directly to do with the kids themselves. On the other hand, the moments of joy I experience when my children are happy and loving… it’s a higher high than any other sensation I’ve been able to find in this life. And then, egotistically, I get the satisfaction of fulfilling my belief that a reasonably-good-looking National Merit Scholar is the type of person who should be reproducing.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
I hate to admit that I feel the same way. My disillusionment with the way gun violence cases are highlighted (or buried) in the media has forced to quit giving a fuck entirely, just for my own sanity.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
"Completely" as in zero coverage. "Explicitly" as in they came right out and said "We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listener’s and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions”
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
That's an uncharitable re-phrasing of the op comment. He simply calls it "an understandable reaction" to what some would consider involuntary capture, but then qualifies it with the observation that many school shooters appear to kill not only their "captors" but random fellow "inmates" (implying that op believes there's a good chance these shooters are simply unhinged people).
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
Mea culpa, missed that caveat.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
This feels like low-effort consensus building. You can't just pose hyperbolic, rhetorical questions and then ask us all to join you in your quest to slap the label of "criminal" on someone whose trial has yet to begin. That is antithetical to our justice system and to this rare sanctuary of online discourse.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
In fact I think it's already quite clear that Presidents as Kings is an even more untouchable standard, so long as you weren't elected against the wishes of the entrenched elite. But god help you if you were.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
I fully expect this to be one of Adams’ classic hypno-rugpull antics, where he flips it around the next day and says it was all a ruse to elicit some form of reactionary learning.
Nonetheless, it’s a risky maneuver. I have to imagine his publishing agent is not having a very fun day.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
One would expect that successfully navigating business relationships/social interactions would track closely with navigating successful romantic relationships, not to mention simply being exposed to more opportunities to meet and pursue potential love interests.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
I haven’t witnessed anyone on the right (or otherwise) demonizing the Scientific Method, but rather criticizing the new definition of “Science (tm)” being utilized as a consensus-building weapon against any who would question the mainstream narrative.
It’s the bastardization of “science” that invokes revulsion, not true scientific inquiry itself.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
And not just support. In a tight-knit community, if you beat up your wife (who is also someone's daughter/sister), you can expect a dad/brother/their buddies bringing hell to your front door the next morning.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
There are also very few enslaved black people in the past few decades.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
Ultra-premium wine, like any luxury good, is driven by the fact that people with more dollars than sense will naturally derive more enjoyment from having spent a stupid amount of money on it. So it literally tastes better to them at 200 bucks a bottle than it would at $20, or even $50. Consumer psychology be crazy like that.
Give me Winking Owl any day.
You don't consider the economy a plausible reason to motivate someone's political leanings? That defies belief.
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