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NYTReader
1d ago
How do you guys keep up with comments on The Motte? Do most of you read every comment, or just skim?
I'm finding that I'm struggling to keep pace with all the comments.
Our sizable underclass of drug-addled, criminally-inclined, antisocial losers, many of whom come from broken homes and shitty communities. As Europe imports the third world, I expect it to struggle with many of the same issues.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I'm very skeptical that online anti-Semitism has or will translate into real-world (right-wing) anti-Semitism in the US. X has created the impression that there are millions of Nazis actively living among us, but the vast majority of the public are and will remain normies.
Look, I live among the offline hardline right wing in the US. Trust me when I say Israel and Jews in general have seen a giant decrease in popularity over the past year and a half or so. It's one of those huge increase over a trivial base things but it's real.
I wouldn't say it's over Gaza- all of these people think Mohammedans deserve it- the media person who thinks Russians are inferior savages, Israel is proving that 'judeo-christian' was a lie, and the nineteenth amendment was a mistake is more upset over Israel manipulating us to not pay its own bills. But right wing antisemitism went from a twitterati thing to a real thing during the time period.
Lewis2
1d ago
hell-on-earth shelters
Are yours actually that bad, and not simply because the homeless people themselves are shitty? I ask because I’ve heard plenty of complaints about the ones in my area, but when I’ve asked what the specific problems are, they tend to boil down to
- They have strictly-enforced rules against bringing in drugs and alcohol.
- If residents behave erratically, they’re given drug tests and are expelled if they test positive.
- The residents are kicked out during the day (the place needs daily cleaning and the residents are supposed to be out working or looking for work).
- There aren’t enough beds.
And of course
- The shelters are all run by Christian organizations, and they strongly encourage (but don’t mandate) church attendance.
For most critics, this last-named is the greatest offense of them all. Of course, suggesting that the complainers considering funding a secular alternative just makes them irate.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Israel has(unofficially) quite good relations with Jordan and Egypt, and its main adversary is Iran.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The two are, notably, similar sounding. Like all of the vowels are the same, 80% of the consonants are identical, and the initial consonants are both palatal.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
I've really enjoyed fishing the few times I've done it. I just can't stand the constant line tangles, knot tying, and hook prickings. Any protips to keep these to a minimum?
oats_son
1d ago
Trump, breaking with Netanyahu, acknowledges ‘real starvation’ in Gaza. Reddit discussion.
This makes him the first right winger I've seen say anything about starvation after something happened recently that made lots of places start talking about it, maybe the move to GHF food distribution? I can't really trust the UN when they talk about it, since they may have been still pissed that Israel cut UNRWA out, plus I heard it was only two dedicated Gaza writers putting out statements of that kind. I can't really trust leftists when they post about it, because they fail to show me their homework and seem to argue a very motivated stance. But Trump talking about it... I don't know about that either. He has spoken off the cuff before. But it brings me to ask: how bad is it? What footage did he see and is it reflected in the data?
Supposing that there is starvation: is that Israel's intention? What is Israel's strategy going forward? I thought that making camps to move civilians into was a good idea, and then once everyone's out, painstakingly clear the whole place, but I think that the international community wouldn't accept that because it's technically ethnic cleansing. There isn't actually anything the international community would be satisfied by except for total ceasefire and return to October 6th. But I don't actually know what the intention is, is the intention to draw Hamas out of hiding to get to the food somehow? I have a hard time discerning what is true about the war and what isn't.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I don't know any Jews well but those that I'm acquainted with are very concerned about escaping the genocide that is just around the corner despite all evidence. Maybe Jewish history has naturally selected for having a backup plan.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
My model of Count says he finds this about as funny as I do. If I were less shameless, I'd probably have asked if he could spare 10 minutes (£30 at his hourly rate) to say hi while I was in the area.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, the equivalent of a lottery ticket(getting to be a mistress for an upper 1%er) is going to attract lots of applicants, even if the odds of success are low.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1d ago
I mean if you create a super stimulus, then people will absolutely choose that over real life. There are beetles in Australia who prefer shagging beer bottles to real females. And that happened without humans doing beetle psychology and A/B testing to create the best, most addictive Waifu-bot possible. Humans designing robot waifus would be working overtime to make their version as stimulating of the male mating system as they can.
Just looking at the NEET phenomenon as an example — people choosing to escape living an actual life in favor of internet, TV, and gaming. Is it normal or natural for a person to choose to live an isolated life indoors over going out with friends, accomplishing things, and moving forward in life? But if you make simulated reality good enough some nonzero portion of the population will choose that, and the better the simulacrum, tge more people get sucked in.
I expect robot waifus to eventually be good enough that all but the most successful men who could get supermodels anyway, and the rest will be at home alone wanking into a robot who’s learned exactly how to get him to spend time with it.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
If I had to pick high rates of infidelity by profession, I would put bartenders, tattoo artists, and taxi drivers towards the top, and male nurses solidly above average just due to gender ratios in their field.
I would agree that working class men in male dominated but lucrative(by working class standards) professions are much more likely than average to see sex workers of any description, regardless of marital status. I would also say that fucking teens is either weirdo coded or solidly working class(in the not particularly high income sense) in American culture. But bartenders and tattoo artists cheating on their wives is mostly shocking in the sense that they got married in the first place; these are (relatively)high income men surrounded by easy(relatively) women.
SSCReader
1d ago
Ahem. Bureaucrats are unlikely to have made this decision. Politicians probably did (or at least decided the guidelines) so that the impact of housing asylum seekers was disseminated across differing communities. (Which might also involve getting one over on financiers, or charitably ensuring that the wealthy have some skin in the game (or even more cynically "See we're not JUST putting them in poor communities")). The bureaucrats just implement largely. This is Home Office funded so the decisions will have been made at a pretty high level.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
They were definitely younger. About half of them had worked as teachers(so better educated than a high school dropout who managed to become a master plumber, at minimum), none of them worked again after marrying him. Each got a Carribbean condo as part of the divorce. Only three had kids.
Might one of them have been a grad student who had sex with a fat old plumber for a few years for a condo in Belize and a check? Uh, maybe but they didn't strike me as the type.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
You've got me sold, thank you for taking the time to review it. Despite my hard scifi fetish, I can occasionally ignore the square-cube law and enjoy a good mecha brawl!
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
Appreciate it. I might be doing a decently long vacation there this year, a dear friend of mine is getting married in Texas. I hope to make the most of it, and visit as much of the country as finances or time allows. I'll hit you up when I have things more set in stone!
hydroacetylene
1d ago
OK, horse riding codes rural in America more than upper class. At least in Texas. And upper class housewives do not iron their husband's suit, they take it to the dry cleaners.
Upper class housewives pay(as in enter the credit card number) for private school, they manage IRA contributions, they maximize tax exemptions, they pay the contractors. They host dinner parties. What they don't do is, uh, housework. There's Mexicans for that, as in the Georgian era there were the lower classes for it. It has always been thus.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1d ago
I mean for little girls, I remember reading Beverly Clearly’s Ramona books as a kid, Babysitters Club, Sweet Valley High. Those aren’t woke and would probably be interesting to a girl.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
If you get to immigrate one day, DM me, I'll take you to an off the beaten path place for brisket. And shooting.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
1d ago
Same. As is likely true for most people living in large metro areas in the US.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
I've got no strong feelings about Asahi, it's alright. I only chose it because it's the only beer I had twice this trip, and thus noted the price. I think the British version is okay, nothing to write home about.
I normally drink Tennent's, or ciders, but I'm really not picky about my liquor.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, Trump looks likely to send out 'doge rebate checks' or something similar in september of '26. Peronism, here we come.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
1d ago
I'm not sure exactly when it disappeared, but that sounds about right. I know the laws still allowed it in some cases through at least 2000, but I never saw it myself. My parents have stories of it happening.
Mohammedan nations have spent and spend far more on lobbying than Israel. This is of necessity a crude measurement, but it's also necessarily as close to objective as you're going to get.
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