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self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
2d ago
My guy, you asked me to go easy on Turok last time. Look how he repaid your charity.
If there's anything useful to be said on class resentment, you won't find Turok saying it.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
2d ago
Uh.. It's fine? I'm genuinely okay with "hard" scifi having speculative elements. My original objection was solely that Avatar represents harder scifi than Vinge's work. Nothing in Avatar outright breaks the laws of physics as we know them. This isn't a particularly big deal, since speculating on future advances in physics and engineering is part of the appeal of science fiction in general.
DirtyWaterHotDog
2d ago
Food Wars had so much potential. Behind all the titillation was a genuine coming of age story and a solidly executed food power system. It goes downhill real fast in the 2nd half. But the 1st half was a ton of fun.
Delicious In Dungeon
Can confirm that the manga ends with a conclusive and satisfactory ending. Worth it.
kingofpol
2d ago
Judging by the violent reaction from Trump supporters and the instant retraction and attempt at ass covering by DHS it seems the actual reaction has been to make Republicans fight each other* instead. I've hardly seen any reaction to this at all from the dems besides "Fell For It Again Award" memes
*or at least, right wingers; I'll grant most are probably 'right wing independents' rather than registered Republicans
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
2d ago
This is the opposite of an effort post, but I'm fond of La Vieille Ferme Rosé. It blew up on TikTok as "Chicken Wine" (a fact relayed to me by an ex), and I think it tastes great for something that costs £9 at the local supermarket.
(I have no desire to develop expensive tastes)
Brgp12
2d ago
Ian M. Banks Surface Detail.
Any others here read the Culture books? It's interesting to me the way fans of the series read them as so overtly anti-capitalist and generally liberal/progressive works. This is the fourth or fifth I've read and I'm just getting a depiction of a post-scarcity society where market economies don't exist. Maybe I just haven't read the right book yet though or I'm missing it.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
Turok was not here to discuss it; he was here to sneer.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Teenage girls are somewhat specific looking
?
While there are some tells(acne etc) these are more common on younger teens. Most 17 year old girls are not readily distinguishable from young adult women in the same way that is true for boys.
Pongalh
2d ago
"15-17 year olds back when I was in that age bracket..."
When you're also young, they don't seem particularly nubile or special.
DirtyWaterHotDog
2d ago
Frieren: At Journey's End, 10/10
Now, I'm not sure whether this score, which reflects my anime of the decade designation, translates to the general public, but it's very enjoyable
It's scary. Frieren is as close to a perfect as a manga gets. So much care and craft, and never places a step wrong. I'm worried that it has set an impossible bar for itself. From here on, anything but perfection will be a disappointment.
It's too freaking good.
So counter intuitive.
Mob Psycho 100: 7.5/10. In a nutshell: One Punch Man, but worse.
Huh, other way around for me. Liked both, but Mob Psycho is special.
Vinland Saga: Maybe an 8.5/10
9/10 for me.
The manga just ended. The 2nd half may not be brutal enough for your liking, but definitely worth a finish. This brand of Seinen tends to be stuck in haitus land. Ending it, and on a conclusive note is a major achievement.
Made in Abyss- 10/10
Alas, too much pedo energy for my liking. Well deserved 10/10 though.
Attack on Titan- 9.5/10.
Wow, the anime's last arc must be really good. I hated the manga ending. Felt like it was written in 1 evening. Must go watch it now.
Chainsaw Man: 7.5/10
That low ? Really ? I didn't watch the anime, but the manga was a 10/10 for me.
Some recommendations.
Koe no Katachi - 10/10 - If you must watch / read 1 thing. Choose this. I cried.
Grave of the fireflies - 0/10 - Fuck this movie. Ruined my entire month. So good it's horrible. No movie has hit me this hard. ever.
Dungeon Meshi - 9/10 - High fantasy dungeon crawler with a cooking gimmick and existential questions. Tight and gets tied together excellent. FMAB-esque.
Oyaji - 8/10 - Like Chainsawman, feels allegorical. Short read. You're mostly reading past the core narrative. like watching a single take movie that doesn't stop moving.
One Piece - I can't even/10 - One Piece is hard to describe. It transcends media. But always worth mentioning, because I want you to know it isn't over hyped. It is that good. One day it will end, and my life won't be the same anymore.
the Israelis advocated against it
Netanyahu advocated for it and he's by far the longest serving and most influential modern Israeli PM. All of the people who advocated against it are either politically irrelevant or dead.
EDIT: accidentally a word
kingofpol
2d ago
The US has given similar amount in aid to Egypt. Both use the money to immediately buy American weapons. At least Israel operates in tight lockstep with the American military. What does the US get by sending money to Egypt ?
Well that's an easy one, the US sends money to Egypt to keep the Egyptian military pointing its weapons at its own people instead of Israel. This should have been obvious to everyone when Rubio made Egypt the only country besides Israel to be exempted from the initial DOGE freeze on foreign aid.
In practice, American aid to Egypt and Jordan is also aid for Israel. Which makes it even more egregious.
SSCReader
2d ago
Sure like I say, by the numbers they might be wrong. But presumably that means you accept the principle that if say 25yo black Americans were dying at the same rate as 85yo white people from Covid then it might have been reasonable at the outset to reserve vaccines for white people over 65 and black people over 25, befoe you start expanding it to white people 45 and so on. That if the difference was as stark as age turned out to be, that their argument would have been justified.
Which means i think its hard to call it evil. At least for me. But thats value not fact dependent, so certainly arguable.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I am opposed to this permaban.
Like it or not, class resentment drives a lot of what goes on in our world. It's very worth discussing.
kingofpol
2d ago
they convince talented Jews to accept much higher private sector salaries rather than work in politics(and they get replaced with incompetent and delusional shaniquas)
Or they get replaced by even more politically talented Brahmin->Islam converts like Mamdani while clearing out the traitors in their midst at the same time.
kingofpol
2d ago
This seems like cope.
Saying this is about Israel is as misleading as saying it is about DEI, or immigration in isolation. It about no one of these things- it's about the collection of progressive/democratic coalition shibboleths, any of which is sufficient for the goal.
No, it is about Israel because nobody is getting deported over DEI. Top federal officials aren't devoting their full attention to girls yelling at guys wearing USA shirts. Not a single person has had the book thrown at them for "anti-white racism".
I believe what the Trump Admin does, not what it says.
Both of these, in turn, put the Democratic coalition in conflict with itself, by putting the fiscal interests of democratic political machines (the establishment politicians who need federal money, but also want to stay out of jail) against the partisan interests of the progressives (who want the shibboleths and the money, but care less for the Democratic establishment). Given what's already been written about the ongoing Democratic civil war, and the mid-term prospects, the worse the conflict of interests in the Democratic Party, the better.
Of course, Trump also is pitting the interests of his Jewish donors against the interests of "America First" voters who didn't sign up for endless glazing of a foreign country. The Democrats didn't need any help to provoke a civil war, Joe Biden did that all on its own. By wading in he's provoking an avoidable Republican civil war instead.
This, in turn, aligns with the demonstrated practice of the last half year or so of how the Trump 2 administration has been baiting / luring political opponents into untenable positions, where it will happily gleefully enforce the laws against the opposition from a position of legal strength.
On the contrary, it looks like Trump is himself being baited into an untenable position by his donors/blackmailers. Unconditional support for Israel to the point of punishing American citizens is taking the 20 on a 80-20 issue.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yes. They are, uh, not the people who are likely to adopt gene editing.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I'm sure there is a based tradcath
You called?
who can contextualize all of these follies of the modern world within the disaster that is the sexual revolution, but 'drastic' age gaps were, as far as my meme understanding of history goes, more common back in the day.
What do you mean by 'back in the day'? The youngest average female age at marriage since the middle ages was in the fifties.
It's true that teenaged marriage with large age gaps was viewed as more acceptable back in the day, and was more common than it is today- my own great grandparents were seventeen and thirty, marrying during the depression. But today that marriage is, contrary to the imaginings of progressives on the internet, sufficiently rare as to distantly aspire to be a rounding error on a lizardman's constant. IIRC married women under twenty have smaller average age gaps than married women in their early twenties.
The fifties were not trad; they were a social experiment that has been in many ways backed off from. In 1900 dating/courting was serious business for adult men ready to assume the responsibilities entailed in marriage and women who understood that this meant it was rather unlikely the man would be younger than about the mid twenties. Sometimes she was a teenager(Little House on the Prairie portrays this) but the average woman who married in 1890 was 23.
kingofpol
2d ago
Yet Trump never seems to apply this sort of reasoning to anyone except opponents of Israel.
I've yet to see a foreign student deported for criticizing Britain, or France, or even America.
It doesn't even make sense as a move against "political opponents" since in practice most anti-Israel protesters hate the Democrats and drag down their support, see the R+122 swing in Dearborn.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I'm ignorant here. Can you shed light on this ? What were the numbers like pre-Trump ?
I don't have a link on hand but TL;DR is that there's a grant program for security at houses of worship(it is very common in America for churches/synagogues to hire off duty police officers as security with full police powers during peak hours- and this option is available and used by other organizations as well, it's not specifically a church thing, police are allowed to do security work with police powers when off duty for extra money and this is common at both high security facilities and at places that have regular and predictable peak hours like churches). This program is available to churches but most of it goes to synagogues because Jews are very well integrated in the NGO network that doles out grants. IIRC this is an old program that hasn't really changed over time and it's fairly bipartisan.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I would further add that making democrats spend more effort on Israel-related matters will only benefit the republicans because they fight each other when they do that, they convince talented Jews to accept much higher private sector salaries rather than work in politics(and they get replaced with incompetent and delusional shaniquas), they make the progressive wing more prominent and demanding.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
As I've said before- the people drawing this stuff up are right wing Catholics(because that is who staffs conservative policy-making/writing) who do not believe there is anything special about Jews and are, currently, not fans of Israel due to some recent events in Gaza. This is about making democrats fight each other.
One weird trick diabetics hate.
But that would actually raise prices in the U.S., right, losing foreign sales, since it's typically not marginal cost of production that's the issue; it's the sunk cost of R&D.
So I'd prefer Trump take this issue on directly, and not make it harder for big pharma.
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