netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
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netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
19hr ago
I supposedly turned off DuckDuckGo’s AI features, but I am not sure how much effect it actually had. Google won’t even let you opt out of their summarizer.
Yesterday I grew really annoyed trying to source statistics on medieval crossbows. Every site was the same AI-gen listicle. Did you know crossbows were easier to train than longbows? Because I fucking did. I wanted to know the bolt length and weight, machine, not the single most obvious fact you can find.
Where are the Web 1.0 sites which exhaustively document one guy’s home testing? The blogs nerding out over graphs? The doctoral theses on historical records? I swear Google used to give you Google Scholar links.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
19hr ago
Sure, but you’d have to pay me.
I don’t actually have much confidence in my fiction skills. It’s not something I’ve practiced. I could regurgitate tropes in your direction, maybe sprinkle in some memes, but I suspect modern genAI would outperform me on this task.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
21hr ago
Do you believe that all taxation is theft slavery, or can some of it be justified?
Your arguments are fully generalizable.
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21hr ago
OP did say “cooking for oneself.” I don’t think that’s ever been male-dominated outside of the army.
The editor seriously hopes that her toil may not have been in vain, but that her country-women may find just cause to be satisfied with the Model Cookery and Housekeeping Book.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
23hr ago
That surprises me. It’s around $12 where I am, and I want to believe my cost of living is further from NYC.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
23hr ago
I came away from that post feeling like you were really failing to model those movements. I channeled that into our resulting conversation, but I could see someone downvoting and moving on instead. That would most likely be driven by feeling attacked/insulted, a common enough response to being accused of lying.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
1d ago
Exciting! I’ve seen silencer shop around, but I didn’t realize they had cases in the works. I would very much like to get a can for .22 if nothing else.
That said…I didn’t think constitutional challenges worked like this. Does Congress cite the 16th amendment before laying out Title 26? If not, does the whole edifice of tax law evaporate? This is probably good enough for the 5th Circuit, but I would not expect the Supreme Court to buy it.
On the gripping hand, I’m not sure how much faith I have in a legal team which struggles to use conjunctions. Schoolhouse Rock, guys.
netstack
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1d ago
Alternatively: when the son does surpass the father, we are more likely to hear about the son.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
1d ago
Because it directly attacks the incentive to search illegally. If officers can’t get more convictions by searching illegally, they will make fewer such searches.
Requiring a second criminal trial to prove illegality is slower, more expensive, and just as vulnerable to judicial corruption.
federal crime with a set punishment
The Constitution doesn’t have any of those, except for “high crimes and treason.” Does your country?
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
2d ago
Now I want to see Aging Wheels evaluate some of these prototypes.
The flying car is held back by trying to be a car, which is the part people actually want. A flying equivalent to the station wagon is several steps less attainable than the ForTwo.
Abandon the “car” features, though? I could imagine a cyberpunk future where ultralights are the main form of solo transportation. It’d be incredibly goofy, but it might pass muster.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
2d ago
And here I was expecting Escape from New York.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
2d ago
The exclusionary rule is good because it is better to prevent abuse than to punish it. More so the more power we give to potential abusers. Cops are given a lot of power, so they should have to make extra sure that they use it correctly.
… to protect the people from unreasonable searches and seizures, such as were permitted under the general warrants issued under authority of the government, by which there had been invasions of the home and privacy of the citizens, and the seizure of their private papers in support of charges, real or imaginary, make against them.
In other words, we really mean it! Don’t take our stuff without asking!
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
2d ago
I understand why, say, reactionaries would endorse that. But in America, complaints about the rule of law are strongly correlated with “silent majority” populism. Lawlessness is allegedly fueled by elites, even if it’s perpetrated by an underclass.
That has something to do with the outpouring of Mamdani hate. He’s a singular figure, which makes him one of the enablers of lawlessness.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
2d ago
But Oedipus’ only conflict with his father was completely unintentional! There’s no incompatibility of ideals, no revenge, nothing to make Oedipus choose to surpass/replace him. I’m not sure what drives the characters in The Hawk but presumably they actually know each other is present.
Though I can’t imagine they’re supposed to work together like Maverick or, uh, Crystal Skull. That has to change the calculus.
Wait, what’s the male/positive fantasy? Cause I think Eva is completely distinct from Twilight in ways which don’t fit on either of those axes.
Someone has definitely written grim, psychosexual coming-of-age stories for teen girls, but I’m not really sure what. Gone Girl and Lovely Bones are pretty different. Carrie? Any one of the interchangeable angsty pregnancy dramas? There’s got to be some shoujo out there which fits the bill.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
3d ago
I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone make that particular objection to slavery. Is it, like, a neoreactionary talking point? A non-Western one?
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
3d ago
Nah, he’s right about this specific example. The “groping” is part of a claustrophobic, unsettling segment where the protagonist finds his crush/teammate/mother figure living in a genuinely disgusting apartment. You’re supposed to ask what kind of human would live like this.
There’s plenty of shameless fanservice in the show, but this ain’t it.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
3d ago
I’m…fairly sure that’s neither oedipal nor reverse-oedipal.
Anyway, it’s common enough in crime stories. “You shot John Wick’s dog?”
History is littered with famous aristocrats whose 10 offspring never amount to anything. As such, there’s no shortage of succession subplots in historical drama (The Tudors, Braveheart) or fantasy (Game of Thrones).
For a more mild version, try Awkward Father Son bonding.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
3d ago
How large of a geographic region do these meetings cover?
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
4d ago
Sidecar.
Okay, that's not true. I'm way more likely to make an old fashioned or something with gin (negroni, corpse reviver). But a good sidecar is a nice step between liquor-forward and citrus-forward.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
6d ago
If the more exotic experience involves vastly outperforming slugthrowers, they can still displace ‘em.
- no drop/windage
- adjustable destructiveness
- simplified logistics
- lighter combat loadouts
- answers some development in personal defenses
Pick one or more and roll with it.
I think you could make a good setup by expanding on the classic “kinetic barriers.” Have your psychics passively repel bullets and shrapnel but not lasers.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
6d ago
Kid with some combination of personal and domestic issues.
Inadequate food or shelter, abusive or absent parents, fetal alcohol syndrome, that kind of thing. Includes a bunch of stuff which really can’t be the kid’s fault but will probably turn into a bunch of bad choices by age 18.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
6d ago
first paragraph
He’s done it! He’s found a new hobby!
second
No way this is real…
third
Oh, there it is.
What’s your creative process for a post like this? Do you start by following Jews on Twitter, then looking for sequelae? Or do you see a modern habbening and start tearing up the floorboards?
Shit. This is exactly the opposite of what I was hoping.
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