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Now I am become a Helpful, Honest and Harmless Assistant, the destroyer of jobs
1d ago
In my observations, the median person on the street is far uglier than the median person working (to filter out the obvious confounder of youth if students were considered) at a university. I think any effect to the contrary people notice might just be an artifact of attention - it is easy to ignore the ugly and unremarkable people in everyday life and only notice and remember the beautiful ones, while the exceptionally smart people will be remembered regardless of their appearance.
(1) 17 miles (27 km)
(2) I'm not sure what a "bespoke suit shop" is.
(3) I'm not sure how I would search for that. Also, it's my understanding that most farms near me are "preserved" (heavily subsidized by the state government), so the question may not even be meaningful for me in the first place.
(4) 4 miles (6 km)
(5) 6 miles (10 km)
(6) 43 miles (69 km)
I'd actually love to know the same numbers for non US individuals, if only because the Amtrak bit would be hilarious. Your equivalent long distance commuter train equivalent would also be interesting.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
1d ago
So if I'm getting this straight, a person with a 'weird life,' as you're terming it, isn't capable of making good art? And being a "pariah" in high school is an explanation of Kathleen Kennedy's bad choices in making executive decisions regarding Star Wars?
I meant Leslye Headland, I can never get her name right. Her understanding and depiction of the world is totally warped, as she had bad experiences. I have seen zero Star Wars movies and refuse to watch them now since the entire franchise is somehow more longhoused than movies starring women. Headland is a lesbian who made a TV show named The Acolyte that got cancelled for good reason.
Kathleen Kennedy seems to be a bad person, too. LucasFilm also owns Indiana Jones, which is also dead, thanks to the 5th movie where some ugly chick outdoes the 80-year-old archaeologist. Star Wars is a beloved franchise; there is no reason for it to do worse than Marvel. The movies and TV shows released by them have been bad, given what they could have been. My dad has fond memories of Star Wars, they fumbled hard and have started firing the ideological zealots from the studio, begrudgingly accepting some of the criticism. Leslye just hates the world, Kathleen is just a normal exec who has lefty ideas, the latter is much more bearable.
The issue isn't "feisty women" in film. Strong women are neither a myth nor something new in cinema. The issue is bad writing and caving in to unrealistic progressive norms, making women into stereotypes of men rather than writing them realistically--the points you made in your main post were rather more compelling than what you're suggesting here.
Yes, I like feisty women personally, but I also know that she is a woman. You can have a female protagonist; there are plenty of old Sanskrit texts that have them, they are not girlbosses. Young kids can see themselves in Indian Jones, them being made to see themselves in biracial uggos like that chick in the acolyte is parasitical. The critical reception of the literal worst piece of feminised media is top notch, you are called sexist and racist for not watching and loving these shows.
The only suggestion I have for the anti-SJW crowd is that they should acknowledge this and ask why these two things are wrong at all. The Despot of Antrim gets this explicitly; others get it somewhat. This has been a minuscule white pill for me, if Sargon can get it and not get his bank account or channel taken away for stating the obvious, then I hope we can have movies where the maximum levels of leftism do not exceed Watchmen, which itself,, whilst enjoyable,, makes me really dislike Alan Moore's view of the world. A good next step would be Noalsn Oddyssey bombing badly, having sub saharans and literal trasngenders in a movie adapting ancient Greek epics with Halloween rent-type costumes needs to be panned.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1d ago
I can find all of these within a 10km radius (assuming the Finnish state railroad station is valid for Amtrak and the nearest big box store for Walmart). The nearest farm I could find where I could definitely say what they farm produces potatoes.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
From my house-
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Is definitely downtown Fort Worth(easy commuting).
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Depends on what you mean by ‘bespoke suit shop’. There’s a tailor in the nearest shopping center. There’s a habadAsher in the next nearest one. An actual from scratch suit place is, again, a trip to Fort Worth.
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Small cattle ranch within thirty minutes, but I think it’s a breeding operation to sell sperm more than a meat production place. Multiple actual cattle ranches or big grain farms within 45 minutes. Thats just top of the head, there might be a fruit orchard closer. I’m assuming you don’t count people who sell backyard eggs and the like.
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Idk I assume ft worth.
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Very close.
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Probably DFW airport.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
Google Maps doesn't even try when I try to find a path to the nearest Walmart, which would be in Canada. So I guess we'll never know.
FD4280
1d ago
~100 miles for 4 and 6, and at least that for 1 and 2.
Walmart is 3 miles out. Farms are closer than that, mostly wheat, some cattle ranches.
No_one
1d ago
I think the Russian objective is to make AFU as personnel poor as possible and make them withdraw & negotiate rather than create a sudden collapse.
That's probably why e.g. bridges over the Dniepr haven't been bombed (it'd also complicate civilian situation a lot). It really is a quite limited war.
5434a
1d ago
actually represents something meaningful
It is meaningful to you, of course, but importantly it's equally meaningful to other people (and I'd suggest this is what makes it truly meaningful to you).
The thing about a wedding ring that makes it eminently appropriate for a tattoo is that it communicates an unambiguous social status to other people and that you are identifiably committed to that status.
The same principle operates for prison gangs, football hooligans and tribal islanders. It doesn't work for artsy urbanites who create their own private symbology, sentimentalists who appear to be concerned that they'll forget their most personally significant relationships, or trend followers that want to add visual interest to their appearance.
johnfabian
1d ago
It's possible - perhaps probable - that you were banned by an AI. Reddit is using LLMs to detect and automatically punish users for "violent" language. So you have to be careful quoting song lyrics, or politicians, or people you don't like, etc. In my experience they've just been warnings but if it was bad enough it might be a short ban.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
1d ago
For an established member, we might be okay with someone posting a portfolio in an effort to get work, but you're a fresh-rolled account and I literally don't know if you're just a random spammer, so I am not going to allow this comment out of the filter.
Markass
1d ago
But one of the main killers was from an Australian defamation suit.
Actually the Australian defamation suit had little to no impact at all. The main outcome was time and money lost by the defendant, who was somebody with almost no relation to the forum at all.
Payment networks have historically been the biggest problem to the Kiwi Farms..
(And despite that, they're still around anyway).
Only because Null is stubborn and refuses to give up. A lesser man would have shuttered the site long ago.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
1d ago
It did in the past, yes.
Today, it's just what young people do because it's cool, and because it outrages the Olds. No, not everyone who gets a tattoo turns into a septum-pierced shrieking woke harpy. I would guess that almost every septum-pierced shrieking woke harpy has a tattoo (probably many), but the converse is not true.
I don't like tattoos. But I'm an Old. If you're railing against tattoos, sorry, you're just yelling at the kids to get off your lawn.
birb_cromble
1d ago
I've been noticing a lot of interesting trends as I read comments here, and I have a few questions for anyone who would be willing to answer.
For these distances, I'm only looking for rough numbers.
- How far away is the closest symphony orchestra that pays it's musicians?
- How far away is the closest bespoke suit shop?
- How far away is the nearest commercial farm (not hobby), and what do they farm?
- How far away is the nearest Amtrak station?
- How far away is the nearest Walmart?
- How far away is the nearest international airport?
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
There's disagreement on that, but I'm going with my personal opinion and experience. There's a lot of studies, and if you want to pick your definitions and operationalizations, you can find damn near anything you want. Current meta-studies are saying there's no relationship at all between attractiveness and IQ, or maybe only on the lower end. I don't believe them, in part because I've met Scott (and a couple other geniuses).
There's certainly a relationship once you get into abnormal cases; there are a number of conditions (e.g. Downs) which result in low attractiveness and low IQ. But checking out Nobel Prize winners (including finding pictures of them when younger in many cases) doesn't result in a list of uggles.
In computer science and related fields, I can say that Theodore Kowalski (fsck), Rob Pike, Vint Cerf, and Benoit Mandelbrot didn't have obvious twitches.
2D3D
1d ago
Not to speak for the OP but there a liberating clarity in the proferred societies rightwingers espouse. By material or immaterial benefits being realized by knowing the rituals and paths it at least provides a framework towards which apotheosis can be achieved for at least some theoreticals. If all we have to look forward to is anodyne self destructive indulgence like /r/antiwork mods pray for, rightists would at least want to nuke the swamp before throwing themselves into the woodchipper.
2D3D
1d ago
Yea the big diff is that rightist postrevolutionaries fully expect to either be dead in the dirt or cracking skulls or someplace clear in the value chain even if its the bottom (this tilled land will be the field for my lords children to feast on!) Circular paperwork is right wing hell.
2D3D
1d ago
Tattoos are identity signallers more than anything else. If that identity is "basic bitch" good for them for declaring it openly, just as much as "tacky manchild" is an identity. When identity has a barrier to in-group signalling, then it becomes a useful gauge. Shitty gangbanger cosplay tattoos signify generic douchbagginess, a young man with a high and tight haircut and an eagle globe anchor is a boot high on USMC propaganda.
But the real diff is that context matters. In anodyne polite PMC society a brony tattoo is a skin decoration just like a labubu handbag tag. Its when you go INTO the context of where a tattoo holds meaning that the posers true power level is revealed. A Russian with a full chest of tattoos going to a banya better know what the fuck he's doing or he'll be set upon harder than a Mystique cosplayer at comic con.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1d ago
Magic did change in a few centuries, as for mundane technology I don't recall anything specific.
Corvos
1d ago
The thing is, that work doesn’t hugely differ whether you’re the wife of a coal miner or a self-made billionaire. If anything, the latter has more professional assistance, although she’s also expected to be slightly more personable. (I don’t think Amazon was really that kind of business though.)
I don’t think many people think the wife should come away with nothing in such affairs, only that scaling it directly to the husband’s business success is pretty dubious.
HereAndGone
1d ago
Yeah. The tattooed women are not (necessarily) violent themselves, they just associate with and get into relationships with the tattooed guys who are drug addicts, small-time drug dealers, petty criminals, drunks, and violent.
Fifteen miles; Three miles; three miles; three miles; eight miles; thirty miles. Slightly changed distances in different directions.
The Farm sells all kinds of things, and it’s a perfect example of how poisonous foreigners are to a community. This is a locally owned multigenerational farm, so they price things fairly because their neighbors are their community. They pay good wages, because they hire their neighbors and their neighbors are their community. They are devout Christians, so so they live humbly and give back to the community, which is their neighbors (the list of their giving is absurdly long). There are a lot of older adult workers, who are definitely “inefficient”, but there’s not a sociopath or a foreigner or a corporation owning it, so they care for those whom they hire. It’s a beautiful Americana farm and store. They sell organic, because like most Americans they have a distrust of most commercial pesticides.
If Indians bought the farm, all the employees would be overseas relatives; some of the proceeds would be sent back home; they would have to signal their wealth more, meaning resources wasted on commercial goods; they wouldn’t care about fleecing others; it is unlikely (but I suppose not impossible) that they have the morality to give lots of their profits away, and if they do, it is unlikely to be toward the White American community nearby but instead toward various Indian things, or perhaps to an elite institution that doesn’t need the money. If devout non-Christians owned the store, they would be giving back to their non-Christian institutions, meaning the resources are gone from the community.
Visiting is wonderful; everyone is nice and everything is cozy. It stands in stark contrast to the convenience stores (and in past decade, Dunkins et al), where you have some aggressive impolite overseas Indian staring at you the entire time, and everything is ugly and cheap, and they only hire their relatives.
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