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self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
I'm almost tempted to unblock Count so he can get back to me on that.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d 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
1d 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.
1d 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
1d 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.
1d ago
Then you are insufficiently familiar with the breed.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1d 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
1d ago
Scandavian winning again due to their socialized natural resources…
MonkeyWithAMachinegun
Dancing to Tom Paine's Bones
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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.
HereAndGone
1d ago
It's not on a pedestal, it's "marriage is a partnership and the unpaid work of running a household is, indeed, work".
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
1d ago
Shots fired at BurdensomeCount?
Corvos
1d ago
Mr. BurdensomeCount, who is currently banned. Famous for his loathing of the British underclass and well-padded opinion of himself.
TIRM
1d ago
Subjectively, I feel like my local incarceration rate is way too low. Given the endemic property crime, illegal encampments ruining public spaces and open hard drug selling and use. Some enormous societal failure has occurred. 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. And imprisoning the non-crazy ones.
I am not very invested in Canada's incarceration rates. If this boosts our incarceration ratio to 8x of Canada's, so be it. We have a real problem with the cost per prisoner per year. I'm open to building much cheaper prisons or paying 3rd world countries to house our prisoners.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
I remember that the site AshleyMadisons most frequent occupations of the users was physician, second highest? Lawyer….
A website well known for its users' strong commitment to honesty.
HereAndGone
1d ago
Not just the rich guys at Davos, though, is it? It's the support staff around them, and all the journalists reporting on it, etc. Plenty of transient custom to be worth importing some short-term workers for.
ControlsFreak
1d ago
I think you've lost your own thread. Rather than tying yourself up in knots and running yourself in circles, just be clear.
due to the definition of knowledge work in the first place
You don't have one of these, either.
HereAndGone
1d ago
I would imagine rich men getting married (relatively) earlier, as it used to be (and maybe still is) that settling down and getting married was seen as a sign of mature stability that proved you were ready for greater responsibility and promotion up the ladder. So marrying someone of a similar background and age who knows how to navigate the work and social circles where you'll be networking your little heart out is an advantage; you can always have a discreet affair with a hot young thing from the secretarial pool later on once you're established.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1d ago
I felt like this was an allusion to something I didn't understand.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
The only leglock I consistently use is the straight ankle. Everything else, I'm too worried about fucking up.
Though I did once land a cool kneebar from an electric chair sweep, but since then I have seemingly forgotten how to hit the electric chair sweep.
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.
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