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faceh
2hr ago
Yeah I was specifically thinking of WHERE you would reside to mitigate a lot of the random elements of life.
And having enough money to pick up and move if you need to is, IMHO, the final "fuck you" step.
Cirrus
2hr ago
His being an awful person is fully priced in by now and I don't see him turning out to be a kiddie-fiddler as well as all the other stuff is going to persuade anyone who isn't already persuaded.
I disagree. Trump’s awfulness had previously been directed at people the MAGA base also had issues with. Illegal immigrants, elite celebrities, Democrats, academics. In the Epstein case Trump is perceived as defending all of those people in the coverup. Now the Trump-branded awfulness is directed at his own supporters—that’s the difference. He called his own supporters losers and weaklings, using the very same rhetorical tactics to shut them up that the base chafed at so strongly when, only a year before, it was Democrats in power doing the same thing. (E.g. covering up Biden’s age-based incompetence with ludicrous claims, ‘cheap fakes’, etc.)
In addition, I think the MAGA base genuinely cares about seeing justice come to the children and young women victimized by this pedophile cabal. This sentiment runs deep among social conservatives. It relates to longstanding scandals/conspiracies involving Bill and Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, Hollywood actors, rich financiers, and the other archetypal Republican villains for 30+ years. The base won’t let such a visceral scandal pass. This was a central promise of the Trump 2024 campaign. Trump has a real problem on his hands now.
Gaashk
2hr ago
Same with reddit's daily complaint threads about how 'the fashion industry' refuses to sell women dresses with pockets. Inevitably someone links an outlet which does offer that but is doing poorly because no one actually wants them.
This was the only example I know anything about, and it's not that simple. I tried looking up some Reddit threads, and after about half an hour, brand mentions included:
- Duluth Trading always has good pockets, so if you want pockets for hiking, gardening, and generally being outdoorsy, that's great. Can confirm, I have a coat from them, and I while I look like a giant tomato in it, I can wear it in any conditions between -40F and 40F, due to how many layers it allows me to wear under it. Do I want to fit a hat, scarf, and gloves in the main pockets, and then still have an inner pocket for money and keys? This is the coat for that! Could I wear it to an office job, or a date night? Not unless the date involves hiking in the snow (it frequently has).
- Someone said that Torrid had one pair of black pants once that offered great pockets, but she has never found them again.
- A few people mentioned cargo pants, where even the women's versions have pockets.
- There are a number of brands that sometimes have pockets, but not that often, and will sometimes say on their listing that they have pockets, but they're tiny and poorly placed, such that it's not safe to put anything inside them. If you spend a lot of time and effort, you might find something suitable in a department store. Maybe. Or maybe you just wasted two hours and will leave with no clothing (this is why I stopped shopping for clothing at department stores). Maybe they'll have something, but it will cost $200 and be dry clean only. Hard to guess.
- Target often does have pockets! The responses being: good for them! (they are not doing poorly)
- Temu and Uniqlo often have pockets! Good for them! (they are expanding quite quickly)
- A recommendation for Maya Kern skirts -- comments that other had also bought those, and liked them.
Goodguy
2hr ago
I've been temporarily banned here before for going on rants against my political opponents and so on. When I chilled out and let the matter settle, I always realized that the mods had been right to ban me. "Be no more antagonistic than is absolutely necessary for your argument" is a key rule that helps to prevent this place from turning into a largely useless cesspit of outrage bait and insanity, like Reddit or X. AlexanderTurok certainly broke that rule many times, but he is not the only one. I've broken it before. I think you've broken it before. It happens. We're emotional beings, after all. I'm about as pro free speech as it gets, but of course in order to keep this forum from turning into chimpanzee shit-flinging, some rules have to be enforced. I think that the ideal of "try to bring light instead of heat" is a good one. No matter what the content of your opinion is, there are more and less inflammatory ways to state it. And again, I say this as someone who is very pro free speech. But the pragmatic reality is that this forum would go down the tubes very quickly if the rule against being inflammatory was not enforced.
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
2hr ago
…”the enemy”?
BurdensomeCount
—Your em dash is showing...
2hr ago
Ah, I was going more Lord Tennyson but your link works as well to describe the current situation...
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2hr ago
Not even wokeness can stay the powerful dramatic impulse to write a story of karmic retribution.
Goodguy
2hr ago
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right... here I am, stuck in the middle with you...
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2hr ago
I look forward to seeing an Asian Cassius Clay and a white Idi Amin.
The conventions of movies and TV are that your actor should look like your character as best as you can; unlike in live theatre, race-blind casting isn't typically a thing. Of course there's a lot of latitude -- Naveen Andrews isn't Iraqi but they can get away with casting him as a member of the Iraqi Republican Guard because the audience doesn't know an Indian from an Iraqi anyway. It doesn't extend to filling WWII-era London with black people or making a remake of Roots with half of the African characters looking like Norwegians.
You can argue that the convention ought to be broken, but then you have to deal with what I noted in my first sentence and the Roots remake -- you also have to justify making it work one way only.
RenOS
something is wrong
2hr ago
There's degrees of petty criminals. Plenty of them aren't actually nearly as ballsy as they like to pretend. If the NP store just does literally nothing, Aldi just having a guard who knows their faces and doesn't let them in might be enough. But it's hard to tell.
Throwaway05
2hr ago
Well played.
NunoSempere
2hr ago
Strongly in favor. In particular, if you become good at it it's a good chip to impress people with. I've also found it a good way to dump my need for cognition when needed.
MadMonzer
Temporarily embarrassed liberal elite
3hr ago
I don't think anything in that article is inconsistent with my claim that things got an order of magnitude worse after 1997. J'accuse identifies a lot of cases with single-figure numbers of victims going back to the 1950's, but nothing on the scale of Rotherham or Telford.
yofuckreddit
3hr ago
Massive congrats. Probably ~5 years behind you which basically means it's so close I can almost taste it at this point.
ChickenOverlord
3hr ago
My favorite was the show Vikings when one of the lead female characters stops a fellow viking raider (and the fact thst there was a woman on the raid already tells you a lot) from raping a woman in the town they're murdering and pillaging in.
No_one
3hr ago
His day job was mostly medical research and teaching. Wasn't unsuccessful at it, quite well regarded. Became a full professor eventually. (it's a bigger deal/more rare in eastern Europe than in US) Personally I think he wasn't (when younger) as scatter-brained as he pretended to be and used it as an excuse.
No_one
3hr ago
I don't think it was a real war. More like police action / counterinsurgency operation.
Yugoslavia.. there was a fair bit of pitched combat there, no?
phailyoor
3hr ago
Archive.is is the main way to bypass paywalls, but the owner is kind of a nut and he does something fucky with the dns because he has a beef with cloudflare and others.
phailyoor
3hr ago
The funny thing is that the area in the article isn't even a food desert. There are multiple other grocery stores within 1 mile, and also in heavily black areas.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
3hr ago
I’m not sure and I’m not sure how much of an honest answer to the question simply because no academic is free to say anything nice about the nation and era that’s seen as demonic. It would be like asking a 16th century academic in Catholic ruled parts of Europe to describe John Calvin’s Geneva. Saying anything good about it, no matter how true or even obvious is, is going to get you n so much trouble that no one would dare.
WhiningCoil
3hr ago
Not to be the Debbie downer, but how much have you hedged against expgenous black-swan type risks?
Yeah, this is going to be relatively humble "Fuck You" money. The longer before I have to tell someone "Fuck You", the larger the pile grows. Maybe it could handle being cut in half ala divorce at a certain point. For the psychotic violent asshole problem I moved to a conservative area with strong self defense policies and 2a right.
But end of the day, you can't stop all bad things from happening. Whatever happens the "Fuck You" money will hopefully cushion the blow if it can't stop it.
Not to be the Debbie downer, but how much have you hedged against exogenous black-swan type risks?
Being able to say fuck you to any given job or walk away from any situation where they treat you unfairly is truly powerful.
But its always the thing you didn't expect coming in from the angle you weren't guarding that gets you.
Divorce, or credible accusation of criminal conduct, or randomly getting on the bad side of some psychotic, violent asshole are hard to ward off just with "fuck you" money.
I'm in an intermediate stage, I'm aggressively paying down (unsecured) debts, and I've got some money saved up to throw towards a big play the second I see one.
Good luck.
Well, that's where the usual affirmative-action argument comes in - "black actors deserve as many job opportunities and chances to shine as white actors, and they won't get them unless you go for race-blind casting and compromise on the convention of casting for physical resemblance". Notably, this argument works even without ascribing racist animus to any casting director - it's just an emergent consequence of e.g. most historical dramas being based on western history.
And you can certainly reject that argument if you want, for all sorts of reason. I don't buy it all the way myself (I personally don't find race-blind casting distracting, and would encourage more productions to use it if it were up to me; but equally, if a director is really committed to a lifelike historical vision, I think that's their prerogative and it doesn't make them a racist, which is a hot take these days). The point I wanted to make is just that "the convention ought to be broken" is the serious pro-race-blind-casting position, which means the endless arguments about the plausibility of black WWII pilots or black Hobbits are a distraction. If they want to be taken seriously - and granted, that is an uphill battle to an unfair degree - retractors need to ask more questions like "Is it detrimental to a film's artistic worth for a white WWII pilot to be portrayed by a black actor?", and to make fewer snide comments about the apparent population genetics of the Ring of Powers Shire being implausible, which is, again, missing the point on a level with complaining that a Muppet doesn't look like a real barnyard animal.
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