netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
If you’re ruling out interest groups because you don’t have the interest, you should rule out religious groups where you don’t have the religion.
Have you considered volunteering? Pick something that’s not too stressful or depressing, maybe gets you outside of the climate allows. My sister joined some sort of local team which cleans and landscapes the local parks.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
DCI is extra strange. My college band had a couple members who’d done it, but with corps that were nowhere near us. Not sure how much of their headcount is explained by catchment.
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Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
Strong doubt.
Compare the wild popularity of Dragon Ball, which has nothing to do with Egypt.
Are Hoteps actually…common? Outside of hand-wringing news columns feeding off the latest Ye controversies.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
The Deep South is a lot blacker than the rest of the country. It’s also a lot more fixated on football. I think the marching band stuff is downstream of that tradition more than any characteristic of the activity.
Source: band kid in South Carolina.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
Не знаю, но он определенно не внушает мне симпатии.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
I assume there’s more than one filter bubble at play. Twenty years ago MSNBC and Fox watchers were already getting two completely different spins. Now they can be siloed even within a single website. Boomer Facebook is not Zoomer Facebook, let alone Reddit or Livejournal.
I’d say the OP is overselling it. He’s ascribing way too much coherence and agency to “their movement.” This is something that’s followed organically from unprecedented access to information.
Look at it this way. Before the spread of printing, you might never have thought about contemporary religious schisms. Before the Internet, it was possible to go your entire life without ever being asked about preferred pronouns. As we grow more connected, we are asked to take sides on any number of previously invisible issues. These crystallize along existing fault lines with convenient labels like “personal liberty” or “traditional values.” Then the usual tribalism kicks in and the facts themselves melt into the background.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
To open your third eye, you must seal away the one-eyed snake.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
You don’t have to outrun the bears, just your fellow campers.
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Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
I suspect you’re wildly underestimating how much it sucks to spend months in a combat zone, regardless of how often someone you know dies.
Most of those arguments applied equally well in spring 2003. 15 years later, people were a lot less enthusiastic.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
I’m sure it’s as falsifiable as any other absolute, but it’s not a bad heuristic. The master of the house has a head start. Better to deny him his tools than to try and catch up.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
“Polished Chrome Tubular Base” has to be the most overwrought way to say “pipes.”
It’s also my new band name.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
I think describing this casual morality as a “fascist-feminist synthesis” is either very confused or very inflammatory.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
The…what?
Hosts and processors have generally erred on the side of prudishness because that’s the side of caution. It is harder to get sued or boycotted or arrested for not doing something than for doing it.
Why is explicit material so risky? Because most people recognize some sort of lazy deontology, and pornography triggers most of the common “boo” lights. For the spiritually inclined, that’s metaphysical damage. The rest of us have to dig for some physical justification. Harming children is a PRETTY GOOD REASON to criticize something. Thus, near-universal condemnation of the central examples, plus an umbrella of distaste for anything remotely related.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
Right, which is why eunuchs are obviously not female clones. Even metaphorically.
Also, only three decades? I was sure you’d go back at least to the Victorians.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
Please don’t paraphrase unflatteringly. Specific groups would be better, too. If you’ve got receipts for people saying these things—not just statements you feel are equivalent—bring them! It’ll be appreciated!
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
That’s dumb.
Metaphor or not, don’t you think there’s more to womanhood than lack-of-balls?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
What are you talking about? Female clones? Gelding?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
First—do you have any statistics on this? How can you know someone is a DEI candidate?
Assuming you’re right, and most DEI is implemented by a fifth column, there’s still an obvious bootstrap problem. Someone had to implement the first DEI policies. Someone at each firm, even.
If so…why? Why is this cause the one which gets a conspiracy? How’d they overcome the profit motive, the complacency bias, all the things which kept commies and anarchists from pulling the same shtick?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
Nah, we don't mind getting a goofy report or two. Well, maybe when the actual roundup is made?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
Funny. I was really upset when my work PC switched to Win11 because it removed most-used options. Specifically right-click shortcuts to git bash and the like. They had the nerve to just hide the existing menu under another click!
I guess the Explorer changes have been more persistent, once I learned that. But right click really bothers me.
Thanks.
And...maybe a little. Though that last paragraph was actually the most haphazard. I was getting pretty tired at that point, and I couldn't figure out how to incorporate the "Finis Germaniae" which concludes Massie's book.
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Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
I'll say "not particularly." America got to the brink of war for several other reasons, most prominently American deaths at the hands of U-boats. The sending, interception, and release of the Zimmerman telegram all hinged on Germany's actions at sea.
In elementary school, they taught us about the Lusitania and the policy of "unrestricted submarine warfare" all as one line item. This elided all the important questions.
What exactly did Germany do?
"Unrestricted" warfare never made sense to me until I learned what restrictions they were abandoning. Dating back to the Age of Sail, noncombatant ships were entitled to significant warning before being sunk. It wasn't as if sailing ships had any chance at stealth, anyway. They would surrender to the (faster, larger) warship, provide their papers, and allow a search for contraband cargo. If they proved to be a legal target, then, the raider was required to let them abandon ship, possibly taking them onboard as prisoners, before firing a shot. Such restrictions, known as "prize" or "cruiser rules", were codified by international treaties.
This was reasonable to ask of a surface combatant, which could comfortably outgun any prey or outrun any reinforcements appearing on the horizon. To a submarine, though, it was a terrifying prospect. Lacking the armor, firepower, or speed of a surface ship, subs were extremely vulnerable while surfaced. Requiring such a boat to expose its belly for the sake of propriety was extremely unpopular amongst submarine captains--and amongst their advocates in the German chain of command.
Twice, the German Navy declared that it would suspend these rules within a specific region of sea. The first of these campaigns lasted about six months before outrage from neutral nations forced them to walk it back. The second got America into the war.
Why did they think this was a good idea?
Britain was a powerhouse keeping the Western Front stable and Germany isolated. It was also an island reliant on imported food. The Germans had no expectations of beating the Royal Navy in a straight fight, so they tried to find another way to strike at the British Isles.
Initially, they believed their undersea blockade could be justified to neutrals as tit-for-tat with the more conventional British one. The first campaign was carried out with some limitations, preferring to target unambiguously Allied vessels, in an effort to minimize the backlash. But the British blockade didn't generate American corpses. Ultimately, this first campaign solidified the American government's position against unrestricted submarine warfare.
By 1917, the Western Front had ossified again. Jutland had thrown the Royal Navy into disarray but confined the Germans to port. Civilians and soldiers alike were faced with the abysmal Turnip Winter thanks to continued blockade and manpower shortages stemming from continued conscription. Germany was getting desperate.
Its informal military junta went for one last gamble. If the U-boats could break Britain, Germany could secure its position and make American diplomacy a moot point. They sent the Zimmerman note as part of an attempt to further delay the U.S. Unfortunately for Germany, British control of the seas extended to undersea cables. The telegram was sent on Jan 16 and intercepted immediately. Between its release to the American government and our declaration of war, German submarines began hunting American vessels in earnest, sinking ten.
Did it really matter so much?
Yes, it did.
I'd be willing to assume my main source, a book I just read, was too generous--it sure is a tidy conclusion for a book about naval power. But the chapters concerning submarines and American war support are well-sourced with statistics, letters, and quotes from the countries involved, all of which speak to the importance of these sinkings. My personal standout has to be Teddy Roosevelt, never the most reserved man, in the spring of 1917:
"If [Wilson] does not go to war with Germany I shall skin him alive!"
The trickle of American deaths into the headlines brought most Americans into Teddy's camp. Meanwhile, Wilson had drawn his lines in the sand, and Germany had finally, knowingly crossed them. We were done making excuses; it was time to "make the world safe for democracy."
Did anyone ever sample TikTok or Instagram representatively? What would they measure?
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