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1yr ago
Can someone explain this thread to a confused Slav? I thought "are Slavs white" question was just an expression of good old-fashioned Anglo supremacism. And that it was aimed at our culture. But people here seem to be seriously discussing whether we are white, in literal terms.
What does it mean? Personally I am probably paler than most Anglos. Most people in my country are paler than Italians or Spaniards. What's going on?
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1yr ago
I think it's still worth watching, more than anything I've watched over the last few years. It dethroned Better Call Saul as my favorite. It would suck if they cock it up but the writing, acting, and aesthetics are still so good that they stand on their own.
You're genuinely depriving yourself of something Great.
Besides, why would they cock it up again? Are the conditions for that happening even there? It's a finished story of a smaller scope. They know they fucked up. I'm not worried.
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1yr ago
This is just Jordan Peterson's idea of what Marxism is, based, apparently, on reading a political pamphlet. Marxism is a critique of political economy, or an analysis of capitalism. One of the intermediate conclusions is indeed that capitalism requires a class division (or, that it is constituted in a social division of ownership). Further conclusions are that this actually limits productive capacity for example, and should be abandoned for the sake of scientific planning of the economy.
This is of course wrong, I'm just pointing out that wrongly interpreting a relatively small part of his ideas, abstracting it away from its foundamentally economic context into a completely generic "oppressor-oppressed" framework, is intellectually lazy and plain wrong. It is wrong because the moralistic dimension is unimportant to the actual intellectual content, and this approach is what set Marx apart from the myriad of other socialists at the time or before him.
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1yr ago
Can someone explain to me how sex with no strings hurts people, and specifically how it hurts women more? In an age of contraceptives?
I'm not saying it's not true, it obviously is. I've been in situations where "sex with no strings" turned out to have a lot of expectations attached after all, while I on the other hand would be perfectly fine if we just went on with our lives. As would most men I know. (Maybe I'm some awful combination of high value enough to be given a chance, but not high value enough for it to be free.)
So it must be true, because they wouldn't bother pursuing anything more un
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1yr ago
Honestly, this sounds like something a person who doesn't experience being piled on enough would say.
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1yr ago
books had a sufficient potential liability on Trump they were literally encouraging arbitrage
What does "encouraging arbitrage" mean here?
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1yr ago
Fair enough, they certainly might fuck it up. Personally I think it's much less likely than it was for GoT. Baseline probability for fucking up shows that start so great is low, smaller scope, and lessons learned are still my arguments.
But that's not the point. I just don't share the overall sentiment that GoT is not worth watching because they fucked up the last few seasons. It feels like you are substituting the legacy of the whole show for its overall quality.
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1yr ago
You can't conclude that just because one technology didn't pan out. To me VR problems seem much more 'hard', related to hardware and biology and economies of scale, while AI continues to make rapid progress is infinitely more valuable economically.
A year ago you would've listed a different set of problems. They got solved. Things like "maintain coherent style" sound like research problems that are being solved right now.
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1yr ago
I'm blaming Peterson for popularizing a very shallow reading of Marx, not the concept of cultural Marxism.
Alright, makes sense. I guess I'm just one of those people who doesn't form romantic bonds. Completely alien to me.
But I will note this reads a bit like ideology in that it conflates a useful social technology of monogamy with something natural and true. It seems like throughout history and today, powerful men had no issues with such bonding, and in fact one of the main motivators for men is access to a variety of women. Their goals aren't to faithfully commit to a single one.
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1yr ago
Do beware: I initially almost dropped it out of annoyance at the woke casting of one Old Valyrian family (not the Targaryens thankfully). Since then they've more than made up for it. On the other hand, the woke actors are at least very good, and it's consistent (instead of making random characters black they really bit the bullet and made an entire family black with white hair).
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1yr ago
Russia might not be much better than the poshest prison cell you can afford
What?
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1yr ago
I'm sorry but this reads like mega-cope. I think most of my friends of the "chad" variety find quite a lot of value in it.
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1yr ago
Some limited nato training since 2014 simply eclipsed the entire Russian military.
More like a force of 150k couldn't fight a force of 900k. We'll see how this plays out on a less uneven field soon.
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1yr ago
I wouldn't read that book because reading is much harder than watching a TV series but I do get your point. GoT is worsened by its bad ending, how can I argue it's not. I'm just saying it's not completely ruined and that I'll rewatch it no problem.
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1yr ago
I saw people saying that he was on there very briefly. It might be a Russian psyop of course but they put children and Roger Waters on there. So they might as well have put Musk before someone with a brain gave them a call.
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1yr ago
Imma be real I have no idea what VTubers are. Virtual YouTubers? Strong suspicion that it's all media invention. Have never seen literally anyone mention them irl. And people here follow streamers.
Besides, how are they related to VR?
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1yr ago
It's wild that there's 4chan-styled "user was banned for this post" flairs here now lol. Very lindy
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1yr ago
Like most who commented I was very surprised about galaxies being that close. Thanks for the info. But I have no idea how that was supposed to test my estimation skills tbh. It's clearly not common knowledge.
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1yr ago
I'm not even familiar with that. Only know it in terms of settlements, e.g. company v. union under third party (the arbiter). Guessing it's "price arbitrage" meaning profiting off price discrepancies. But not sure how it relates to betting under the circumstances OP described, maybe it's the same thing.
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1yr ago
I don't have much to add here except to say that this has been a very shocking/amusing development. I use instagram, and the amount of my female friends who just casually post pole dancing videos in revealing underwear is completely weirding me out. I'm not complaining of course, I'm simply bewildered. Just a few years ago I would find it unthinkable.
And the 9s/10s that get into modeling also appear to have this culture of getting naked at every opportunity. Not with a pornographic intent, it's always 'artistic' to some extent.
Did you watch HoD? It's genuinely amazing. Not sure how to put it exactly but its treatment of power and tragedy makes GoT look one-dimensional. And there are some scenes that took my "#1 Tv/movie writing" spot. For example king Viserys' ruminating on the nature of his rule and what it means to be King to his Hand, if you've seen it.
This show deserves more cultural spotlight than GoT had, imo. And I love GoT.
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