DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
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DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
9d ago
The guy who drafts Patrick Mahomes way too early
I might actually change my team name to that in the league I've been in for 8 years, because it's kinda true.
It's only kinda true and not literally true because he's my keeeper.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
9d ago
Some backgrounds can really, really trip up even fairly educated and informed expectations. Take Guyana- South American English speakers, 30% Caribbean black types, 40% South Asians, 30% mixed or indigenous.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
9d ago
When you see some genuinely unimpressive ancient ruins, possibly Sparta itself, read this text from Thucydides:
For I suppose if Lacedaemon [Sparta] were to become desolate, and the temples and the foundations of the public buildings were left, that as time went on there would be a strong disposition with posterity to refuse to accept her fame as a true exponent of her power. And yet they occupy two-fifths of Peloponnese and lead the whole, not to speak of their numerous allies without. Still, as the city is neither built in a compact form nor adorned with magnificent temples and public edifices, but composed of villages after the old fashion of Hellas, there would be an impression of inadequacy. Whereas, if Athens were to suffer the same misfortune, I suppose that any inference from the appearance presented to the eye would make her power to have been twice as great as it is.
Who all is going? Would the group have more fun at a museum, restaurant, beach, boat, walking in a city, hiking?
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
21d ago
Birmingham, Alabama. Suburban neighborhood called Crestline Park.
Alabama Symphony Orchestra's offices are 3ish miles away, but I hear them perform 6ish miles away.
I can get a custom suit within 1 mile, actually bespoke 10 miles.
I'm having trouble sorting through recreational barns, hobby farms, plant nurseries, LLCs that own houses which call themselves farms, wedding venues etc. The nearest Tractor Supply store is 14 miles away, I have had commutes that involved passing small groups of cattle, cotton fields.
Amtrak is 6 miles away, Walmart is 1 mile away. Birmingham Airport calls itself international and presumably has a minimal number of flights to various Caribbean island countries or Mexico per year. It is 5 miles away. Atlanta Airport 147 miles.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
27d ago
Honestly, I was(/am?) still on the fence about the Assad gas attacks because it would be such an insanely stupid thing for him to do, but I'm more inclined to believe he makes incredibly stupid decisions since he lost in the way he did.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
1mo ago
Here's James Spann talking with other meteorologists about the Texas floods last night, will take me a few hours to listen to it in full https://youtube.com/live/T-mT7v6tjc0
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
1mo ago
Could you link specific instances or mention the worst users who are regularly doing this?
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
2mo ago
Quoting an early South Park episode Helen Keller the Musical, which I chose along with state flag because of a few different threads where my state has come up.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
2mo ago
If you're even remotely possibly an alcoholic (who enjoys cola mixed liquor drinks most of all), it goes down easier and might even taste better once you're used to it. Cherry coke zero and bacardi are cheap, fucking your life up is expensive.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
2mo ago
You and @FtttG are remembering correctly https://archive.ph/b6SpY
CMV: I am pro-abortion (in favor of aborting fetuses, not pro-choice) submitted 3 years ago by by AmericanNick7
I think that something as significant as consciousness should not be imposed on matter (the person before they gain consciousness) without consent, and as a non-conscious person cannot give consent, being born is inherently done without consent. In addition, as a negative utilitarian, I wish for suffering to be reduced as much as possible. If abortion were mandatory for pregnant women, no new people would be born, and thus no new people would experience suffering. If no new people are born, humanity will end and thus human suffering will end. This would require no deaths of people already in existence, it would simply prevent new people from coming into existence. Over time, resources would become more plentiful, another benefit of this method. I am aware how radical this view is, but I do hold it sincerely.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
3mo ago
A petty correction re: "media that eggs on religious beliefs"
To "egg on" is to encourage a person to do something to their detriment. If I said "I think you could beat up that silverback gorilla, jump into the pit, thump your chest and smile to let him know you mean business" that would be me egging you on.
I think you've conflated this with the modern phenomenon of "egging", similar to "TPing"- in which obnoxious adolescents throw locally cheap (to them) material at a house or onto a tree as low effort vandalism.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
3mo ago
For what it's worth, I thought phrasing was slightly rude but not out of bounds, hence I went with a confrontational "You know full well", but reflecting on it you probably were focusing on the growing slop issue- between your post, the replies and the edit timing it really does look like people talking past each other. Sorry for adding heat when none was necessary.
Tim Walz says his thing, talking heads start new round of talking shit about him, Nate Silver links slop including fake stuff, online people continue shit talking Walz online, you post here that Silver linked slop but people on this forum were ready to criticize Walz here and there wasn't another top level comment for it, you angrily edit that they're ignoring that Silver linked slop which was your point, but mottizens really want to criticize the real things Walz has said and done (or been chosen for).
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
3mo ago
Believe it or not, but I pretty much learned fluent French by playing fully voice-acted text-heavy games in French, many years ago.
Strongly believe that, and I think back on reddit CWR there was some discussion of individual substantially higher written English fluency as a direct result from getting into 90s unvoiced pokemon (translated into English) with no alternate translation, so just diving into text, sometimes translation dictionary, but lots of grinding, as opposed to classroom or tv/film osmosis
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
3mo ago
I was once strongly tempted to go into title insurance because I Fucking Love Maps and History and I'm kinda interested in Laws but I'm not lawyer material. This is one of those moments where I wonder if I could have saved a lot of grief or would have been ignored.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
3mo ago
David Jaffe, who is from my hometown, overdid the edginess on the twisted metal games, which I treated as absolutely rental tier ~25 years when that was a way to encounter new games. Original God of War didn't impress me quickly enough, I figured people were into it for tits that snuck past the ratings.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
3mo ago
You're confusing how Greeks (or any polytheistic people) related to their gods in public and private worship with their tolerance of and actual belief in particular mythological story. The people who would disparage Zeus and emphasize the particular myths about him turning into an animal and raping this or that woman or boy were the atheists of their time. This was useful for others- Christians, semi- or flat out proselytizing Jews, and various mystery cultists. Guaranteed to be preserved, in the same way that if every computer is fried, and most libraries burn, 1000 years from now there might be a classic book by Obadiah the Amish Guy talking shit and owning the Atheists like Dawkins and Hitchens with cheap shots.
The actual practice of worship in much of the antique pagan west would focus on the particular city gods, heroes if Greek, lares and penates (household spirits and ancestors) if Roman, schedule and luck or misfortune based on who was worshipped how by whom last year.
I, as a Christian, have a particular stake in Jesus of Nazareth, Son of the Virgin Mary and raised by her and her husband Joseph, being crucified and dying for my sins and resurrecting Himself 3 days later, roughly 1993 years ago in the vicinity of Jerusalem. I take, and as a matter of church council all Christians take, a particular level of literalism in interpreting that the events in the New Testament happened as a matter of history.
He does not have particular obligations in belief as a generic Hindu beyond some system of karma and dharma, but might have more specific beliefs on personal particulars, but he isn't bound to believe every stupid myth some asshole made up last year about his own gods and those of his ancestors. Nor is he necessarily bound to particular interpretations or literalism. For many Hindus it's a buffet of belief choices, not hard and fixed catechisms.
As a Christian American I take the Resurrection on Easter as more factually reliable and real and important than whether the Continental Congress actually did anything on July 4, 1776.
Not trying to put words in his mouth, he could say the entire Mahabharata and associated composition traditions are historical fact and he certainly wouldn't be alone.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
3mo ago
· Edited 3mo ago
You know full well that the reaction is to the snippet of his remarks "code talk to white guys" and that was entirely real. Shame Nate Silver spread slop, I respect him a bit less for this, but people are getting older and more careless and AI more convincing. Let's wait until tomorrow for him to correct or retract the slop link. Having never read Yahoo Entertainment I have no idea if it's all slop or was semi-legitimate entertainment journalism at some point but I'm going to be extremely skeptical if I see it again.
So again the AI put totally false words into somebody's mouth and you apologists are defending it.
Are the hallucinated parts actually making a big stir somewhere? They aren't in a cursory glance in the replies to Silver.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
3mo ago
Sailor Nothing, by Stefan "Twoflower" Gagne
Neat author, I tried getting into his Slayers Trilogy but couldn't really manage to back in the day. Absolutely loved his Neverwinter Nights (2002 version) fantasy comedy module series Penultima. I might have to redownload the game just to replay Pastor of Muppets in particular. Absolute height of comedy for me, age 16 in 2004.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
3mo ago
Any chance the artist is this guy? https://www.deviantart.com/the-real-ncomics who previously had a different account https://web.archive.org/web/20111108093000/http://8red7.deviantart.com:80/gallery see reddit account https://old.reddit.com/user/NComics/submitted/?count=50&after=t3_1e8zzl
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
4mo ago
I'm happy to share my impotent response from last year, here in Alabama. Not 100% against the practice, but it still sets off alarms for me.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
4mo ago
I will thank any given American white nationalist who has a chance to import a Moldovan and choses not to.
I'll also try to pronounce 谢谢 properly for his wife.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
5mo ago
The novelization of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith recommended in last week's fun thread lol. I'm enjoying it. Anakin does want the prestige of being on the Jedi Council, but he's genuinely pissed that he is not granted the rank of Master, which he desperately wants because that would give him restricted library access that he thinks could help him figure out his premonitions.
I'll probably read Storm of Steel later this week, unless I need levity, in which case I'll re-read the fanfic Seventh Horcrux by EmeraldAshes, in which Harry Potter has all the memories, power, paranoia, bigotry, arrogance and other personality of Voldemort but it's very much a comedy.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
5mo ago
I found out from this post, because the ~5 people I knew personally who recommended his works have obnoxious extremely political tastes in literature and entertainment, so I politely ignored him.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
5mo ago
I'm an idiot and you should assume I'm wrong.
All federal courts prevent photography in any sense, and while someone might get away with something in a district court, the supreme court will rain down fire down on anyone who tries, so some courtroom sketch artists will continue to exist as long as judges. There are actually very very few trials that aren't open to the interested public, I think that those only happen when evidence is classified material.
The states themselves have individual rules, usually against film, but California allows enough for the rest of us to enjoy real court entertainment.
Please specify, which manuscripts of which texts?
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