Celestial-body-NOS
We are all human beans. Together, we will rice.
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Celestial-body-NOS
We are all human beans. Together, we will rice.
4hr ago
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee;
Theology tells us we existed before birth.
Before conception, or in early-to-mid-XX-Century terms, 'before you were a twinkle in your father's eye'.
Celestial-body-NOS
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4hr ago
First Gulf War was the US supporting
the post-1945 taboo against wars of territorial expansion.
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4d ago
Or perhaps I don't have an eye for Afghans, and they all look the same to me.
To a weasel, another weasel is weaselly weckognised.
But a stoat? That's stoatally different!
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5d ago
Me and my buds would go fuck off in the woods for an hour, whittle little spears and wooden daggers, set interesting looking plants on fire, hurl rocks and playful taunts at other patrols we encountered. Headed back to camp, cooked and ate dinner, cleaned up, made a fire, play some cards while cracking the raunchiest jokes and using the worst profanity we knew while the dads snickered and pretended not to hear. Then it was lights out, to our tents and sleeping bags where we talked about girls (90% bullshit, we knew nothing) and busted each other's balls for this or that. The dads cracked a bottle of whiskey and shot the breeze;
Doesn't seem Courteous, Kind, Clean, or Reverent....
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5d ago
There is no [Haitian] fracking community in South Dakota.
...much to the chagrin of the supervisors, who, much like factory managers in Ohio, would appreciate a workforce who show up on time and sober.
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6d ago
immigrants do make housing less affordable simply by the numbers
I don't think it's the recent immigrants who are preventing houses from being built....
As a moderate opponent¹ of Mr Trump, I did get a 'nabbing al-Capone for tax evasion' impression from the matter....
¹Capable of understanding that not every possible criticism of him is necessarily true², and of recognising his stopped-clock moments³.
²Compare the cancellation of Bill Maher post-9/11 for pointing out that the hijackers, while irrational⁴ anti-freedom murderers, were not, in the usual sense⁵ of the term, cowards.
³Such as the Executive Order on architectural styles.
⁴For those not familiar with Mr Maher's oeuvre, he has a very dim view of organised religion.
⁵As opposed to the vague 'bad person' sense, which far too many terms for specific character flaws erode into....
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10d ago
...system leaders voted to phase standardized-test scores out of admissions decisions.
Institutions ... that have self respect have pivoted back to some form of standardized testing....
Standardised tests are the worst method of determining college admissions, except for all the others that have been tried.
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11d ago
Possibly relevant: today is the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials.
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11d ago
get the military to act in some very under-specified way
Seems more like they're trying to urge the military not to act in a particular way.
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12d ago
There's almost nothing that women can do better than men that society values. If society valued these things, I don't think the issues between the genders would be anywhere near as clownish as it is today.
That was G. K. Chesterton's issue with feminism.
But in this corner called England, at this end of the century, there has happened a strange and startling thing. Openly and to all appearance, this ancestral conflict has silently and abruptly ended; one of the two sexes has suddenly surrendered to the other. By the beginning of the twentieth century, within the last few years, the woman has in public surrendered to the man. She has seriously and officially owned that the man has been right all along; that the public house (or Parliament) is really more important than the private house; that politics are not (as woman had always maintained) an excuse for pots of beer, but are a sacred solemnity to which new female worshipers may kneel; that the talkative patriots in the tavern are not only admirable but enviable; that talk is not a waste of time, and therefore (as a consequence, surely) that taverns are not a waste of money. All we men had grown used to our wives and mothers, and grandmothers, and great aunts all pouring a chorus of contempt upon our hobbies of sport, drink and party politics. And now comes Miss Pankhurst with tears in her eyes, owning that all the women were wrong and all the men were right; humbly imploring to be admitted into so much as an outer court, from which she may catch a glimpse of those masculine merits which her erring sisters had so thoughtlessly scorned.
-- What's Wrong with the World (1910)
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12d ago
...and use goats as a medium of exchange.
On the other hand, goats have actual uses beyond 'Alice will give me useful stuff in exchange for this because Bob will give her useful stuff in exchange for it because Carol will give him useful stuff in exchange for it because Dave will give her useful stuff in exchange for it because....'; they'll clear out overgrown vegetation, fuel themselves in doing so, and are delicious!
(I still don't get how people can be like 'USD is only valuable because people think it is, but gold has real value.'; they both derive their value from that same endless loop.)
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12d ago
Are the refugees welcome in their neighbourhood or in their kids schools?
Yes.
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15d ago
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16d ago
The part of their brain with which they can grasp that electrical safety comes from the laws of physics and not regulation seems to be atrophied.
Compare Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, on being told that his demands for a backdoor in encrypted communications were mathematically impossible: “The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.”
(Where's King Canute when you need him?)
Celestial-body-NOS
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17d ago
if it's generally considered that 14 year olds can be mature enough to decide to have sex
With each other.
it's tough to argue that 17 year old is too young to have sex
With someone much older.
You may or may not think this distinction relevant, but it is drawn by those advancing the aforementioned propositions.
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17d ago
They were also threatened with/subjected to violent reprisals.
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19d ago
I've got mental health = I've got mental health problems
Possibly analogous to referring to someone with a fever as having a 'temperature'....
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19d ago
One more: "Have a good rest of your day" is rampant in Canada and has almost completed replaced "Have a good day" among customer service workers under 30 years old. To wish anyone anything implies that you wish it for the future. Are they worried that I might think they're wishing that the past of my day, up to the point of our interaction, had gone (or more likely "went") well?
I'd still take that over "Have a good one.", which has been plaguing us for nearly a quarter-century.
Celestial-body-NOS
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19d ago
not getting their/there/they're right.
What do you say to comfort an English teacher?
There, their, they're.
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19d ago
an ellipsis contains three full stops, no more, no less
Ackchyually, an ellipsis at the end of a sentence can contain four dots, the last being the period.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
becomes
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur....
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20d ago
'E work for 'elfin safety?
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20d ago
The actual conflict is between Natural Law people and transhumanists.
Also between 'people who believe Elliot Page to be a woman with mental defects, causing her to change her body away from its Natural Form' and 'people who believe Elliot Page to be a man born with a defective body, causing him to try to bring it closer to its Natural Form'.
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25d ago
A reasonable point, and one which was unfortunately lost in the noise as the pro-equality side either naively pattern-matched¹ the case to one of a business posting a 'WHITES STRAIGHTS ONLY' sign (or worse, all the businesses in a less tolerant area doing so), or possibly sought to avoid creating a precedent which would allow such an outcome.
¹cf. the Rightful Caliph's Meditation on Bingo Cards.
Scott Alexander wrote something about this tension.... (TL;DR version: limited central government enforcing very robust exit rights.)
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