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BurdensomeCount
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1hr 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.
1hr ago
Not even wokeness can stay the powerful dramatic impulse to write a story of karmic retribution.
Goodguy
1hr 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.
1hr 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
2hr 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
2hr ago
Massive congrats. Probably ~5 years behind you which basically means it's so close I can almost taste it at this point.
ChickenOverlord
2hr 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
2hr 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
2hr 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
2hr 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
2hr 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
2hr 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.
Left out the one inadvertent right wing culture war. It's revealed that in the past a female doc aborted a male doc's kid (without him knowing, he of course totally understands) is now struggling with fertility, has a miscarriage on shift.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Au contraire, turning 'Is Trump a pedo' from a government coverup scandal to a boring legal drama will energize NPR resistance libs but convince everyone else this doesn't matter. They'll forget it in a week.
Right -- of course the people selling food in 'food deserts' are prioritizing products with high demand in the area. How else could it possibly be? "Hey let's open a market in a heavily-black area but instead of selling them the fresh organic produce they want we'll only offer processed foods." Does anyone think this kind of oppression is actually happening?
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.
Or for that matter the 'pink tax' on women's items such as razor blades.
"The products are the same but they charge more for the ones marketed toward women!"
"So if the products are the same, buy the one marketed toward men."
"...No I like the pink one better."
The market is in the business of selling you what you want at a price you find acceptable. There is no conspiracy by rich white men to get in the way of that process.
...Except maybe the war on drugs.
faceh
3hr ago
Trump successfully dodges every other attempt to scandalize or imprison him (and a literal bullet) and yet people still think THIS is the one.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Produce isn't getting stolen. The underclass doesn't want it and doesn't know anyone who does. There's probably a meat theft problem, but the real reason is that the urban poor just doesn't cook and doesn't want to. There are no grocery stores selling fresh ingredients because nobody would buy them; they buy whatever processed foods and sodas/energy drinks their foodstamps cover, but not raw meat, produce, staples like rice or flour or pasta, dairy. The native underclass eats an atrocious diet of ultraprocessed foods with terrible macros and they won't buy anything else.
…”the enemy”?
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