netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Trump and RFK blame acetaminophen for childhood autism. I couldn’t find a transcript yet, but the meandering press conference is recorded here. Was this on anyone’s bingo cards?
I’m confused. I vaguely knew that the Trump campaign had decided to fight autism at some point, but I always figured it was appeasement for the antivaxxers. Is there an untapped pool of Tylenol haters out there? Is this a stalking horse for a broader wave of FDA guidelines targeting the usual suspects?
Maybe there’s some sort of political smokescreen going on. We don’t appear to have started any new wars, and domestic hate for Trump looks more or less like it did since last week. If it’s a distraction, it’s not a very efficient one; I had a hard time finding reporting on it, and all the sites that bothered were also eagerly blasting his abuses of the Justice Department and the Supreme Court. That leaves the old-fashioned political motive of throwing meat to the base. Maybe Trump is just checking off campaign promises. But again, it’s so niche.
I suppose there could be some sort of personal beef. If Trump is trying to tank someone’s stock, uh, this is still a pretty weird way to do it.
That’s not even touching the medical case. The administration doesn’t appear to have provided much substance behind their claim. This will dissuade approximately no one. Enjoy your fresh CW battleground.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
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Texas is freedom land
4d ago
While you are certainly welcome to be annoying Catholic, you’re still supposed to follow the rules. This comment is combative enough to fall in the “more heat than light” category.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
Creation myths have a pretty terrible track record for scientific scrutiny.
If you’re suggesting that being unverifiable counts as “withstanding scrutiny,” then I have a bridge to sell you.
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Texas is freedom land
4d ago
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day. A weird little guy goes on a road trip through ‘50s England while reminiscing on his former employer and colleagues.
I don’t think I got it. Delightful prose, vividly drawn characters, and some excellent scenes…but I just don’t understand how it works as a novel. What was the point? Or was it some sort of metafiction where the lack thereof was, itself, the point? It just didn’t land for me. I enjoyed the process but was left unsatisfied and a little embarrassed.
Up next is C J Cherryh’s Merchanter’s Luck for a change of pace. This feels incredibly “genre” in a good way. Pretty impressed with the economy of prose so far, too. Looking forward to it.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
Too combative by half.
Please review the rules on the sidebar.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7d ago
It’s a world populated almost entirely by bots and scammers, sadly. “dark net pen!s pills d3fw^kg]5” or “Life Hacks for the Mindful Manager.”
On the rare occasion that someone does try to submit their abstract cosmic energy hypothesis, we tend to allow it. This happens less often than I expected.
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Texas is freedom land
8d ago
Trump has made his opinions on pussy pretty clear.
By extension, Trump enthusiasts are more likely to think “bullying a TV channel around” is actually a good thing.
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Texas is freedom land
8d ago
Bold of you to make a statistical argument without any statistics!
Like, I’m not expecting polling or studies. But how much support is a “deluge”? Why can’t 5% of a population generate such a “deluge,” if they’re motivated and/or influential? How many people are you counting when you say “leftists,” anyway?
I think you’re overlooking the selection bias. It’s very hard to make my case if I can’t even tell what you’re claiming.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
9d ago
For what it’s worth, I don’t hold Hitler’s suicide against him. Best choice he’d made in years.
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Texas is freedom land
9d ago
I realize this is kind of rhetorical, but yes, holy shit, it’s a surprise they ended up radicalized. If it weren’t, we wouldn’t call it “radical.”
Speaking of which, most of the 9/11 hijackers were also in their twenties. It’s a natural time to recruit healthy men.
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Texas is freedom land
9d ago
About 4%, no? All the mitigating and exacerbating factors are going to be lost in the noise. At the point someone is turning himself in for an unrelated crime, I don’t think normal reasoning about behaviors holds up.
And did it actually help the shooter escape? Setting aside the delay, I have no idea if the cops who were handcuffing this guy had any chance of chasing down a shooter from a couple hundred yards.
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Texas is freedom land
10d ago
“___ is an ideology of losers” is one of those phrases that is basically always going to demand more effort than this.
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Texas is freedom land
10d ago
No, it’s the marketplace of ideas (TM). As long as the socialists keep failing to deliver cheap goods and/or national prestige, their market share is going to remain low.
I’m not sure why you think colleges are so threatening. Have you been to one, recently? Nobody even gets shot by the national guard.
Our institutions were a lot better at creating revolutionaries in the 60s and 70s, back when we still had a draft. And volume alone can’t be enough, or the labor unions would have toppled the government back when America was predominantly blue-collar.
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Texas is freedom land
10d ago
Democrats would like to distance themselves from this lunatic. Republicans successfully distanced themselves from those lunatics. Is it any more complicated than that?
And now you’ve got me confused about the “lawmaker” thing. I’m normally pretty darn skeptical of Google trends, but it’s not subtle. Wikipedia starts with legislators, though the Responses section prefers lawmakers. CBS, CNN and NPR appear to favor lawmakers, as does Fox. The Guardian was the only one I found that uses both terms, and I suspect they wouldn’t have bothered if there weren’t two uses in one sentence. Even OANN gets in on it!
This is definitely some sort of fad, and I have no idea why.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
10d ago
That’s an argument for choosing a different style guide, not for abandoning it when the subject is sufficiently grim.
It also assumes that the NYT does not, in fact, believe the underlying premise. I don’t think this is obvious. If it were, though, why should they break kayfabe for this? Is it somehow more compassionate?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
10d ago
Is support for Israel actually reliant on dispensationalists? Hell, is it even tied to Boomers?
- Knee-jerk reaction to Oct 7
- Knee-jerk reaction to one’s domestic opponents expressing a position
- General distaste for Islam
- Vague sense that Israel is more aligned with western interests
On the rare occasion that I encounter such a discussion at work, it’s more likely to be the last one. It’s not like there’s any shortage of Christians here in Texas. But we also fought enough wars in the Middle East to give a ton of non-Boomers an excuse to support Israel. Pro-Palestine protests only confirm that bias.
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Texas is freedom land
11d ago
That doesn’t seem right. FTL barely has metaprogression at all, and it’s a definitive roguelite.
Besides, why should expectation of completion deserve a separate genre? “FPS” doesn’t even distinguish between single-player campaigns and uncompletable multiplayer lobbies.
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Texas is freedom land
11d ago
“Procedural dungeon crawler.” Maybe squeeze in the word “permadeath” if you’re worried about people confusing it with procgen-as-compression like Elite.
I don’t think -like and -lite merit different terms. If adding a jump button or RPG stats doesn’t keep a game from being an FPS, adding metaprogression still leaves you with a PDC.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
14d ago
Depends on the user.
There are a few where it’s just “ugh, not that Austin Powers guy again.”
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Texas is freedom land
14d ago
Since I haven’t played silksong, I guess I’ll hijack this as a general video game thread.
Nebulous: Fleet Command is a sci-fi naval tactics game modeled after Cold War/modern hardware. You equip your fleet in the editor and then take that list into battles. Right now, that’s almost always 4v4 against other players, though a campaign mode is coming with the next big update.
I like you get to build towards a particular strategy and then try to play it out. I like that the micro has a relatively low floor; ships and weapons are unwieldy enough that you generally have to commit to your course of action. I think the visual design and the sound effects are great. And I particularly enjoy the existence of a game which cares about ELINT and RCS. For professional reasons, of course.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
15d ago
Getting bombed by the U.S. does not make you a failed state. Getting bombed by a U.S. ally, even less so.
I think this is a questionable decision, but not a particularly novel one.
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Texas is freedom land
15d ago
We aren’t.
Other commenters have asked the important meta-questions like “why do you think your socials are representative?” and “who exactly are you planning on shooting?”
So I’ll engage purely on Catholic terms.
- Is there a competent authority organizing your violence? No, there’s no credible counterpart to the existing government. To satisfy this one, you’d be better off joining the army or at least the police.
- Is there a realistic possibility of success? The caveats about an organized authority ought to apply here. But you’ve also got to have a goal which is actually compatible with whatever you’re trying. There are remarkably few which benefit from acts of terrorism.
- Is the cause just? I consider this the free space on your bingo card.
- Is it your last resort? Ask yourself whether Republican control of the White House, Supreme Court, both houses of Congress, 28 state legislatures and 27 state governors represents a total collapse of your legal avenues.
One in four criteria. Make of that what you will.
Rationalists need to fund prescription markets.
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