kakistocrat
1yr ago
I don't think they were wrong, but I believe they would be surprised by the depths to which we have sunk.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
DR3 is true but irrelevant.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Those tits are absolutely massive.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Or just giving yourself lead poisoning.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
So if I understand correctly, I could theoretically be eligible for German citizenship by virtue of my male line ancestry stretching back to a defecting Hessian soldier during the American Revolution?
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Nominative determinism in action
kakistocrat
1yr ago
What food is unhealthy?
We spent how many decades with the FDA pushing a "mostly carbs" diet?
I know how this will go... the most intolerant (probably Vegans) will eventually gain control of agency tasked with restricting our food options. And now I'm penalized for enjoying steak and pulled pork.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
What makes bacon unhealthy? Fat? Fat is not in itself unhealthy. Eating nothing but bacon is not great for you, generally, but neither is eating nothing but lettuce.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Uncured bacon exists. And the risk from nitrites is not a nutritional one like is being discussed.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
And not relevant to a discussion based on nutritional content. Also overblown. Everything is a carcinogen.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
If true, I would imagine there certainly could be genetic factors. Similar to how pretty much every single 100 meter gold medalist in the past 30 years has been of recent African ancestry.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Well, the problem is that many, if not all, types of non-SFH have negative externalities for the people in the SFH.
For example, if my neighbor sells their house to a developer who then builds a 5 story apartment building, this will have significant effects for me.
My street will go from quiet to busy.
I will go from knowing all my neighbors to definitely not knowing all my neighbors.
Noise will go up.
Etc.
All these are externalities we, the current residents of this neighborhood, seek to avoid.
Therefore, we work with the town to zone our area for SFH.
There's no aspect of "competing" here except insofar as we are in a death struggle with developers.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Does anyone actually believe Biden is the president? I don't mean in an election integrity sense. I mean, does anyone actually believe he is the one steering the federal government or making decisions?
No, not even my liberal to a fault wife.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
The last "real" president was maybe FDR?
I would guess Eisenhower actually.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
The goal of human civilization and society is not to make the most efficient use of resources. If you can accept that then there’s no reason to insist on a tax policy that would inherently sacrifice things that are genuine good things.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Utilitarianism is a false god. You can never genuinely capture what Utility is. Goodhart’s Law will bite you in the ass every time.
Put another way, if you really want to be a utilitarian, become a religious traditionalist. Amish, trad cath, Muslim, Hindu, Hasidic, doesn’t matter.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Property taxes also suck
kakistocrat
1yr ago
It certainly is not.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
I was also surprised when Kiev didn't fall and the war dragged on. My perception was that Ukraine was a European version of the regime in Afghanistan, and would fold before determined attack because no one was truly loyal to it.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Putin didn’t know his army was complete shit. He didn’t take a good gamble and get unlucky. Some limited nato training since 2014 simply eclipsed the entire Russian military.
Perhaps, but if Ukrainian leadership had panicked and fled, I doubt the training makes a difference. See the Afghan Army and security forces in the face of the Taliban just last year.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
"I can't spare this man - he fights"
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Can we have a sensible right that also is not concerned with people's private sex lives?
I would love to be able to not care about other people's sex lives, but it seems like there is a direct line from "well we'll let gay people be gay" through to "we are prescribing puberty blockers to your son/daughter and cutting his/her dick/tits off" and "we're fucking your kids and there's nothing you can do about it"
kakistocrat
1yr ago
a natural aristocrat of noble lineage, raised from birth with the kind of education necessary to rule in a traditional society, even if there was a little philandering on the side.
That's what we have now, except that the people in these roles are selected by virtue not of lineage or skill, but depravity.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
The fact that Jewish interests find it increasingly necessary to exercise hard-power to eliminate any sort of criticism of their behavior is a sign that these criticisms are not going away.
Or that they have gathered sufficient power that they no longer feel it is necessary to operate in a non-overt manner.
Fibbing, Feckless, Factious, Fake, Febrile, Feeble, Fickle, Furtive Fetterman.
There are literally a dozen better options than "Lying Liberal."
Alliteration is key.
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