sun_the_second
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sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
13hr ago
Russian soldiers aren't refugees or immigrants.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
16hr ago
What do you mean? Just a few months ago the West went to war on the Middle East, again. Does that look like huge appeasement to you?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
21hr ago
As far as I'm aware marriage for love was quite rare in the era before the suffrage.
You might say that wives probably liked their husbands some, even if it was usually not the primary stimulus for marriage, but then I'm willing to believe high-end escorts like their clients some as well. It's not like liking your job is entirely unheard of when you're not working in a gutter.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
21hr ago
Apparently women selling themselves for lifelong indenture to a man and in return sharing in all he has is totally fine, but the instant a woman sells herself for only a fraction of her life and in return shares in a fraction of a man's wealth...
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
23hr ago
The art of the courtesan, revived?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3d ago
You can if you pretend it's the most impassionate, cold-headed punishment you can devise. Many prisons, however, differ in practice.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3d ago
Why limit it to foreigners? I say bring the whole Bloody Code back. Or are you feeling too much tribal kinship with white chavs specifically?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7d ago
Wouldn't forked content necessarily have identity similar enough that it is easily confused?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7d ago
That does sound good, except as the other user noted, the IP laws also protect the small quality authors from the massive slop companies to an extent. Right now, if you have Legends of Gemlands and a generic mass-marketed Slop Wars, you can google the former and it will come up. Gonna be a lot tougher if the massive company can fork Legends of Gemlands and have their version come up in the first 10 pages of search.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7d ago
"Someone writes new novels set in your world" vs "someone writes new novels set in your world that take over your brand by sheer volume of marketing" is an important difference, yes.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7d ago
We still have that, it's called fanfiction. About the only difference is you can't earn money on it (usually).
"Girlfailure", but it's more affectionate than disdainful, because apparently we don't in fact hold women to female-specific standards of maturity.
"I'm so random" maybe.
sun_the_second
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9d ago
If we're not counting priests of fantasy religions, then we shouldn't count evil fantasy priests and evil fantasy religions, either. I think that would cut down the initial grievance by a lot.
sun_the_second
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11d ago
I take offense at calling Pale slice of life just because it still includes some slice of life.
sun_the_second
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12d ago
We should hurt criminals in a way that averses them from criminality while minimizing crippling consequences. If we destroy criminals they become a burden on society and quite possibly recidivists. You can avoid that by jailing for life/execution/exile but you can't reasonably apply the capital punishment to every crime.
I don't think most humans who wish to punish are usually satisfied with a criminal receiving a single session of caning and walking free. Usually people want the criminal to "rot in prison", to use a common expression.
sun_the_second
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12d ago
Sure.
Would you believe me if I told you I consider it more cruel to lock someone up for five years than receive ten rattan strikes?
It's my impression the positive male role models are best introduced before the teens break away from the social fabric and start working as dead droppers. Actually purging the drug dealer rings instead of the cops grazing off the pawns indefinitely would also help. Unfortunately, such things are against entrenched interests.
I'm far from a pedagogy expect, let alone a criminal pedagogy expert. The exact best way to realign the values of young men whose values are already misaligned is beyond my reach. The folk wisdom is that the conscripted army service shapes them up. Perhaps separate the reformative detachments from the regular college-dropout ones. (Not suggesting to send them to fight - fighting a war should be the privilege for the best men, not the punishment for the worst, at least if you want any respect for the purpose and goals of war in the first place).
It is my impression that "alternative service" in Russia is mostly in dead end low level jobs. Couldn't something be done to enroll youths in enforced, but compensated apprenticeship in trades and such? Some part of that already exists in the army, as I understand - you could get a driving license, for example.
having one requires sacrifice, and modern society is great at telling people sacrifice is for the lesser mortals even as people like Elon has enough progeny to staff a soccer team.
I can't help but note that Elon is a terrible example of someone who sacrifices much to have children. Elon's contribution to his children, as far as I'm aware of from media osmosis, is a visit to the sperm bank and a payout that is a pittance to him yet enough to make the mother's time worth its while.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
13d ago
So what exactly happens in the ideal world?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
13d ago
They correctly intuit that their personal consumption is a drop in the bucket next to big industrial pollutors.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
13d ago
Quite a lot of people who casually talk about wanting someone in prison clearly want the prisoner-to-be to suffer. I don't think the precise difference in sadism matters.
Nearly everyone knows prison sucks, many perceive that prison is more cruel and arbitrary in practice than intended by the law (the old "don't drop the soap in the shower", etc). They still want their enemies in prison, often gleefully emphasizing the cruel and arbitrary parts.
On the other hand, the attitude to corporal punishment as something that might seem cruel but actually done out of necessity and desire to reform is as old as time. "Spare the rod and spoil the child".
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
13d ago
How do they prove you're unmarried by choice? Shall the government introduce marriage centers (analogous to job centers) that bids you to marry the first bottom of the barrel man or woman they match you with?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
13d ago
Then, consider the following:
During the period 1933-45, when literal self-identified Nazis controlled a major world power, people did not stop having children on the grounds that it would be “cruel” to bring a child into such a world. During the second world war, which claimed the lives of at least 3% of the entire world, people did not stop having children on the grounds that it would be “cruel” to bring a child into such a world. During Ireland’s Great Famine, in which a million people starved to death (perhaps as much as 11% of the country), Irish people did not stop having children on the grounds that it would be “cruel” to bring a child into such a world. During the Black Death of 1346-53, in which half of Europe was killed, Europeans did not stop having children on the grounds that it would be “cruel” to bring a child into such a world.
An element of the climate change narrative is that it's not just bad, it's only going to get worse, forever. This removes hope and stoicism that would normally spur people during a war or during the era of high infant mortality.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
13d ago
There is no charitable reason to specifically say "If you have significant amount of blacks in your society..." and "aggressive and violently inclined black youth will eventually get their hands on guns" unless you want to imply that the black criminals, among all criminals, are uniquely incompatible with guns. As if white, or Han Chinese, or Latino criminals don't have a tendency of getting their hands on guns should guns become available.
I consider this to be common sense and nitpicking around the exact meaning of the poster's statement, devoid of context, meaningless.
If I had any inclination at all to care what Lego thinks about the proper usage of their trademark, I lost it when they canceled Bionicle.
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