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ketman hetman
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sarker
ketman hetman
4d ago
Dean's been real quiet ever since the Ayatollah got got. Makes you think.
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ketman hetman
5d ago
In your model, it's impossible to cooperate without subordination, unless you're on top. Since, as you point out, very few are on top, we can round cooperation off to subordination in this view.
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ketman hetman
6d ago
Cooperation is the ultimate and final cuck. Think about it logically.
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ketman hetman
6d ago
Hard disagree. Evil keeps coming back because the Elves give up on Middle Earth.
Nonsense. The elves had already fought several wars against evil by the time LotR happens.
The elves give up on middle earth because the cost of defeating sauron was the destruction of the rings, which destroyed the elvish realms and power. The choice of the elves was to leave middle earth or fade into wraiths. None of this is a matter of opinion, it's literally what Tolkein wrote.
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ketman hetman
6d ago
Certainly employment looks different. Not a lot of girlbosses in Uganda. It's nevertheless striking that so many Ugandan women sell goods and services outside of the household.
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ketman hetman
6d ago
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ketman hetman
6d ago
I think the vanishing of the elves and all of that was more to express the author's nostalgia for a preindustrialized past or some such.
This is probably more true for the fate of the hobbits than that of the elves.
It's not so much that the world becomes darker over time, but more that the magic goes away.
Of course, Arda has literally gotten darker since the days of the two lamps.
It's not just the magic going away - the dwarves and the hobbits are also gone. Numenor is under the seas and middle Earth kind of sucks compared to numenor.
the world becomes increasingly evil
It doesn't become increasingly evil. Nevertheless, it becomes ineffably worse.
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ketman hetman
6d ago
Yet the only thing in the Lord of the Rings that risks genuine defeat is passivity.
This is fundamentally wrong. The whole point of the LoTR world is that things keep getting worse and, although you may win the day, in the long run everything is cooked, as it were. Evil keeps coming back, it gets defeated every time one way or another, but things are worse off than they used to be despite the ""victory"". Restoration is impossible. We can never make things as good as our fathers had it. The elves wither and go to the uttermost West. The race of hobbits fails. The dwarves die in their mines. The ents disappear. Lorien dies.
Things are not looking great on that front either, but time will tell.
Also I think curves kind of suck - what kind of furniture are you going to put against a curved wall?
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ketman hetman
6d ago
You can pay per token for open weights models served by third parties that are a few months behind SOTA if you don't believe that the first party cost per token is real.
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