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George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
19hr ago
My assumption. Bad form to hit at someone not present to defend himself.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
19hr ago
My assumption
netstack
Texas is freedom land
19hr ago
To be clear, there are no plans to adopt something like this.
But you also make a good point. I’m amenable to the idea of some bans just being for the CW thread. I wonder if that’s feasible.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
I would guess France, actually- a small but self-sustaining bear population with a large economy.
faceh
19hr ago
Eh, its the same as how we crave unhealthy junk food but can restrict ourselves to eating the healthier (but still flavorful) options over the long term.
I think guys have their horny brain which will screw almost any living thing, and then the post-coitus clarity brain that knows they need to find someone stable.
Guys have the things they want when they are mostly aiming to get their rocks off, then the things they want when they consider what kind of kids they'll have, who will help raise them, and what type of person would they tolerate sticking around AFTER they've had sex with them.
Rich guys presumably have the same urges, I'm just suggesting they have more options on the table to chase some strange if they can't keep the urges in check.
NYTReader
19hr ago
This sounds like "Jews will not replace us".
the_Culture_is_great
19hr ago
Some enormous societal failure has occurred.
Agree 100%
Step one on the long road to fixing it is institutionalizing the crazy homeless people rather than letting them self medicate with hard drugs while living in filth and stealing to afford more drugs
Also hard-agree (though I do think some consideration to their well being is still warranted)
And imprisoning the non-crazy ones.
I become skeptical that the problem is this simple. Maybe 8x Canada will fix it, but what if you have to go further? What if you have to get up to 10x, 15x 20x? Are you willing to pay that cost?
I bring up the comparison just because it seems like other countries do better, or at least not much worse, while having much lower incarceration rates. If you think that the nature of the US makes it impossible, what factors make it so?
faceh
19hr ago
I'm not sure that's as true now, marriage rates being lower and median age at first marriage are creeping up.
But maybe. "Early" being early-mid 20's still leaves time to screw around a bit in college, find a girl by Junior year, lock her down, and get married and established early enough to start social climbing.
I'd guess that flings with younger staff are actually less common in the post Me-too era, but its genuinely a target-rich environment to find single women in any corporate environment.
quiet_NaN
19hr ago
Yeah, that's the bet all western jews are making. They think Israel is going to fall someday
While I am sure that there are some Jews who carefully select their country of residence based on minimizing the chances of being genocided, I am positive that for many, other factors (employments, economics, existing relationships) play a more crucial role.
My subjective mental model of the median US Jew is not "these fools in Israel will get themselves murdered again" but "having a state which is guaranteed to accept Jewish immigrants in a world where countries sometimes expel their Jewish citizens is a nice fallback solution, and we should support Israel for that reason even if we do not have a compelling reason to move there."
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
19hr ago
The problem with the "root cause" thing is attempting to address the "root cause" never alleviates the symptoms. This may be because the claimed root cause isn't actually the root cause, or it may be because we can't actually do anything about the root cause. But basically that trick never works.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
19hr ago
I'm almost tempted to unblock Count so he can get back to me on that.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
19hr ago
Thank you. If the stars align, and I'm there, I'll buy you a beer.
As a matter of fact, I'm likely going there this December for a wedding, and unless you're in Alaska, I might still be able to!
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
20hr ago
Can I make a suggestion as someone who is likely to get a travel visa?
I've grown to understand that I'm going to get muzzled in the culture war thread. Just how it's gonna be. But I'd appreciate still being able to participate in the other threads, I do enjoy the community of them.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
20hr ago
And they're completely wrong, because they won't get the juice, only the squeeze. The cops aren't going to go back to beating up drunk/high vagrants of color if given the authority to beat people up; they'll beat soft and fun targets like teenagers, white collar guys, and generally anyone who gives them lip.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
20hr ago
by subway
Alright, but what is that in freedom units?
I joke, but I really have no idea how fast the average subway covers ground. Our light rail is…not particularly efficient.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
20hr ago
Then you are insufficiently familiar with the breed.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
20hr ago
I know there's selection effects and all, but doesn't it say something about the base rates of partaking when importing 2K ultra-rich men causes an immediate increase of the hooker population by 100? Best case scenario that implies a 5% rate the ultra-rich demanding hookers, no? (Oh shit, I think I misplaced a decimal point when conceding, and was right all along!)
netstack
Texas is freedom land
20hr ago
Scandavian winning again due to their socialized natural resources…
MonkeyWithAMachinegun
Dancing to Tom Paine's Bones
20hr ago
Oh man, talk about awaking a core memory. I read Great Illustrated Classics' The Swiss Family Robinson cover-to-cover like a half a dozen times as a kid.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
20hr ago
I got a good chuckle out of that one, too.
I think it was a couple BC bans ago that got me thinking about alternatives to the tempban. I thought, “when he does one inflammatory post, it’s interesting. It’s when he follows up that people start to insist he’s a troll.” How could we get the compelling conversation starters from some of our most divisive posters while making it clear that their behavior was still against the rules?
Once your 60- or 90-day tempban expires, you can post or comment again whenever you like. But it starts a timer leading to an automatic follow-up tempban. We like hearing from you, but you don’t get to stay.
Since it was BurdensomeCount, I thought about calling it the Motte Travel Visa. Or maybe it would be less controversial to call it resurrection and ascension?
FtttG
20hr ago
I'm not saying the Hannibal directive isn't real. I'm saying I find it very suspicious that the primary context in which it's brought up is to reflexively dismiss any and all claims that certain groups have mistreated the Israelis. I'm sure if you look at the ratio of "Israeli civilians killed by groups which are hostile to Israel" vs. "Israeli civilians who were intentionally killed by the IDF as part of the Hannibal directive", it would be extraordinarily lopsided - maybe 9:1 or higher. But critics of Israel seem to have decided that, because the Hannibal directive exists and has ever been employed, therefore they can dismiss all claims that Hamas or whoever murdered Israeli civilians by saying "eh, they probably did it to themselves". But of course, they're aware that this looks really bad, unserious and conspiratorial (perhaps even bearing a family resemblance to that great woke sin, "victim-blaming"), so rather than explicitly asserting "I believe that Israel is lying when they claim that Hamas killed these Israeli civilians, and they were in fact deliberately killed by the IDF", they'll just wave their hands and say "Hannibal directive, look it up", hoping the reader will join the dots themselves.
It's a cowardly, dishonest style of argumentation. If you believe in conspiracy theories, at least have the balls to be upfront about it.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
20hr ago
I mean, now you're just increasing the denominator and making him even more right.
Who cares about Klaus Schwab's personal butler sniffing coke off a hooker's ass?
Wave_Existence
20hr ago
The product is called waves
I didn't pay attention to that. shit i regret my jump straight to bitchy comebacks, i thought you were implying i was a big fan of recording people. Sorry for that.
That said, I still don't see how this, used in public, is an infringement upon your right to privacy as the current US legal structure exists. The problem, and what makes your privacy tangibly less whole, is the panoptic media aggregation and distribution services like Facebook Tiktok Youtube Twitch etc, those are what we should be up in arms over. Not a guy with a tiny camera strapped to his face.
The government using info they shouldnt have via parallell construction or similar is a different issue, but trust that i'm no fan of it. I just see these glasses as a small, nearly insignificant advancement that in no way changes the dire underlying situation with personal information rights.
I'm glad you enjoyed your weekend, and this is an excellent write-up. You have a good eye and have now possibly seen more of 2025 London than I have.
I think a huge amount of the cost growth in central London is due to non-doms on semi-annual migration paths. For complicated reasons I am staying in a nice block of flats there temporarily and I check the parcel collection regularly for a delivery that I am expecting; I have never seen an English or even a European name on the parcels.
I suspect also that there was a pent-up suspicion that London could tolerate higher prices and that COVID provided the excuse to let 'er rip and see the limits of what the market would tolerate. As a result locals seem to have mostly accepted that pubs and meals out are a treat and not a lifestyle, and go maybe once a week while penny-pinching the rest of the time. This may skew prices and (God I hope) they may come down as the market decides it prefers regular attendance to spiky high profits.
I've come to appreciate Wetherspoons
I love Wetherspoons. It's got a reputation for being uncouth but a pub is somewhere you go to eat, drink, and have fun with friends. Why argue when someone wants to make that as cheap and pleasant and convenient as possible? Plus they buy a lot of surprisingly nice buildings to put their pubs in.
I don’t think that fixes anything.
Well. Maybe it pushes the nonviolent homeless out of the choicest spots on the West Coast. But the fent users go through worse. Public mockery ain’t shit compared to whatever they’re already doing to their bodies. Opioids mean the normal rules of shame and discomfort just…get washed away.
This probably also increases the number of shootings of police. A medieval peasant had zero chance against one or two men-at-arms. A crackhead with access to Austria’s finest export? You never know. Police are already on edge when they confront these guys. There’s no way that raising the prospect of a beating makes them safer.
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