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Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
1d ago
Not exactly a book club, but as a former precocious and voracious reader, the Great Illustrated Classics served me well at that age. It's classic literature like Jane Eyre or The Red Badge of Courage rewritten to almost exactly that level, but the maturity of the underlying subject matter makes them hit much better than other books for middle schoolers. Excellent mix of volumes for boys or girls, and more than enough to keep the kid busy until she's ready to try (and fail) to read OG Dickens.
And I'm very happy to note that the prices are very reasonable for books these days.
Primaprimaprima
...something all admit only "TRUMP", and the Trump Administration, can do.
1d ago
Indie meaning non-hololive yeah. Just random women with their own channels.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
1d ago
Lmao so cutting! And so ironic. The product is called waves, your name is Wave_Existence. Ease your mind, that was the extent of the mental bandwidth I expended on you.
Was it the nanny state when the government updated its laws about child pornography distribution in response to the development of p2p technology? When is it sane to invoke the constitution in your eyes, if not when there is a question about the potential legality of an action or technology?
I was using it colloquially to refer to the right to privacy, sorry for confusing you. But do you have any reason - at all - to assume the government won't use privately made recordings like they have tried to with ring cameras and bodycam footage?
It doesn't make me feel a little uncomfortable, it infringes upon a principle I grew up with and will fight for no matter how sisyphean the task. You might live such a tame and banal life you have no need for a general expectation of privacy in your private life, but I do not.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
1d ago
- 20 minutes
- 2 hours
- 5 minutes, corn.
- 20 minutes
- 15 minutes
- Local airport has "international" in the name but doesn't go to any other countries. Doesn't even go to a majority of US states. So I guess 40 minutes, but really 2.5 hours.
NYTReader
1d ago
Comparing streamer popularity by follower count is a misleading metric. Several of these accounts amassed millions of followers because they were already popular on another platform, like YouTube, and the people who watched them there would create Twitch accounts just to "follow" them. This explains how someone like Myth, the twentieth most followed account, has only a fraction of viewers on his livestream compared to streamers with far less followers. Others accumulated a large amount of followers when they very popular for a relatively brief amount of time and now have fallen off, so to speak.
I'll give a concrete example. Ninja is #2 on that list, with 19 million followers. The streamer I'll compare him to, Emiru, has 1.8 million. However, when you look at how many views their recent broadcasts have received (Emiru, Ninja), you'll see that Emiru far outpaces him:
Emiru (excluding today's and the two broadcasts that were under 10 minutes): 683K, 218K, 318K, 402K, 426K.
Ninja (excluding the non-gaming stream: 121K, 93.1K, 154K, 88.7K, 117K.
Same with the streamer I linked to in my original comment, ExtraEmily. She routinely pulls 15,000 to 20,000 concurrent viewers, which I'd estimate puts her near the very top of streamers in North America, despite having less than a million followers.
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
1d ago
alsfhwe
1d ago
I strongly caution against sneaking oil/butter in her food. It may cause her to be anxious she's not losing weight and restrict more, and that's if you don't get caught.
Cooking good food and planning dates at fancy restaurants, and nudging her to eat more, are good suggestions.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Whatever the hell Moose are.
That really depends on what you think the goal of divorce law/alimony is.
Giving them $250 million should set them up for life and is almost certainly sufficient to pay for their 'services' during the marriage. Or if you want to assume the value of their services is inherently equal to his,(as partnerships go) then sure, start with that assumption.
Just understand you're creating an incentive for men to avoid marriage as a institution since it takes most of the control of their wealth away from them at the drop of a hat if they get married before they build their kingdom.
As usual, though, the point is less about billionaires and more about men who enter the marriage expecting to get some level of reliable partner, then realize that under the current legal regime the woman has no obligation to pull her weight, to act respectful towards him, or to even sleep with him, and yet is generally able to file for divorce regardless of how well-behaved he was during the marriage.
Its an inherent asymmetry.
stuckinbathroom
1d ago
Obvious fake is obvious: everyone knows Bielefeld doesn’t exist. Try again with a real German town.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
1d ago
I looked for the biggest streamers on twitch and they seem to be almost all male. Pokimane is 13th biggest, Amouranth is 34th which surprised me. I think they're the only 2 women in the top 50, eyeballing it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-followed_Twitch_channels
I think that since the females are creating the drama non-twitch viewers hear about, we're getting an inaccurate view of the platform. I don't really use twitch and certainly don't use it like the normal twitch user. I doubt many here use twitch that much either except in niche usecases. It seems to be overwhelmingly dudes playing games.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
1d ago
By indie vtuber, you mean the ones who aren't with hololive or phaseconnect or whatever? Because the big vtubers are pretty tame.
I watched two and neither are sexual at all, though naturally they get huge amounts of pornographic fan art made of them anyway. World away from amouranth and co.
Wave_Existence
1d ago
Not a lawyer of course, but invoking the constitution in a situation where people could absolutely use this equipment legally seems insane to me. When the government demands i dont do something that is currently legal because it makes you feel a little uncomfortable, yeah thats pretty close to when i would start calling it a nanny state.
existential concern
i hope you haven't wasted any mental bandwidth forming an opinion of me, i certainly haven't of you.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
What’s the wealthiest country with a non-marginal presence of each category of megafauna?
Temperate bears are easy- it’s the United States, if you say that doesn’t count for some reason(tinkering with the definition of marginal, I guess), then Canada. The next one seems like it’s probably Japan. Polar bears would be Norway, but let’s say those are a marine mammal.
For elephants, I’m guessing either South Africa or Malaysia, depending on exactly the range of Indian elephants. For giraffes and rhinos, I’m a bit more confident in South Africa.
For big cats I think this is Uruguay, with jaguars. Maybe there’s more leopards in Saudi Arabia than I think, though. Of course if you count pumas as big cats(they are after all both those things, but taxonomically different) then the US wins again.
For big grazers, this is the U.S., with bison. If you specifically restrict it to large antelope it might be Kazakhstan.
For apes, I’m pretty sure it’s Malaysia, with orangutans. Large monkeys would be Saudi Arabia, with baboons.
Big canines would be, probably, Norway.
Eagles are probably Switzerland.
Big snakes are, I’m guessing, either Malaysia or Singapore.
Any categories I’m missing? Any corrections?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1d ago
Headland helmed The Acolyte, which I have never seen and can't judge, but as you say that show was cancelled after its first season. She is hardly representative of the entire franchise.
I'm not sure what your definition of "a bad person" is when you relegate Kennedy to that position. She worked with Steven Spielberg on many of the classic films of my youth, including Close Encounters, E.T., and the original Raiders of the Lost Ark. (Just as an aside, your evisceration of the most recent film is I believe overly negative. I saw it and enjoyed it. It was clearly Ford's film from start to finish, he was never "outdone" by Waller-Bridge [whose relative beauty I might also disagree with you on], they brought back the very welcome Karen Allen--and John Rhys-Davies--from the first film, and generally Dial of Destiny was one of the best in the series apart from the first. As well, the vast majority of any action done by "80-year old" Ford was when he was young. The de-aging was the best on this film of any I've ever seen. Having said this, you are of course free to dislike the film as much as you like.)
Back to Kennedy: I completely agree with you that she has made some fairly disastrous decisions when it comes to the new-and-enlightened Star Wars films. The disappointment comes on two levels: 1) Woke nonsense that you so accurately pinpoint in your parent post and 2) so many had such high hopes after a general disappointment in Lucas's decisions about storyline in the prequels--this disappointment is less noticeable now, a barely passing odor in the air, as so many rageposting now cut their teeth on the prequels and see those films (and not the OT) as the best Star Wars. For a while, and maybe even now on reddit, you could/can generate many upvotes for yourself by asking "Wasn't Han actually an abuser showcasing toxic masculinity?" The younger fanbase is not what the older fanbase used to be.
I am not familiar with The Despot of Antrim that you mention in your last paragraph, but that's just because i'm pretty out-of-touch.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
1d ago
Oh, we're doing the meme where women are begging for attention as men replace them with AI waifus?
It's not going to happen because men are also biological units with evolutionary hardwiring. A woman willing to put out is never going to be alone. She might not get the guy she wants, but she can get a guy. And a man who has the tiniest shot at a real girl who doesn't repulse him will prefer her to a digital waifu.
Trans women are a tiny presence for all the noise they make, and if surveys say 3% of heterosexual men would consider dating a trans woman, I'd bet the number who really would date a trans woman is <1%.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1d ago
Why would his being Jewish prevent you from being a fan?
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
1d ago
I understand defending these things is an existential concern for you Wave_Existence, but come on, this is the nanny state? The fourth amendment does still exist right?
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
1d ago
I would expect some government intervention, they'd want you to ensure it only works on glassholes and doesn't affect security cameras somehow. Because otherwise it's just a free crime app.
FD4280
1d ago
Learned of him from HPMOR. Feels similar to Timur Shaov (but not as mean). National Brotherhood Week and The Masochism Tango stand out.
Wave_Existence
1d ago
is it just the discrete/covert nature of the device that bothers you? because 90ish percent of people on the street already have a HD camcorder in their pocket at all times.
People are becoming more and more aware that using these cameras to record any manner of material can result in either financial gain and or positive notoriety. There is clearly a market for these always on recording devices and i just wonder why the nanny state needs to get involved on this one.
NYTReader
1d ago
Jewish, but I don't know exactly what he means by "subversive". Protestants were saying much worse things about Catholics in the 60s, and in any case, all the Catholics I know have laughed along with the song.
But yes, Smut is so good.
MonkeyWithAMachinegun
Dancing to Tom Paine's Bones
1d ago
One of my friends has a 9-year-old niece, and she's a fairly precocious reader (to his delight). She apparently, and I'm quoting here, "rips through books and has outgrown Highlights." He's asked for recommendations for a monthly magazine or book-club that is age appropriate and steers clear of culture war fodder/is non-woke. Any suggestions from the Motte?
KingOfTheBailey
1d ago
Not parents, but a friend introduced me to his genius. The Vatican Rag would have been scandalous when it came out but it was also packed with great lyrics and incredible rhymes. But I will always have twin soft spots for Poisoning Pigeons in the Park and Lobachevsky.
MBTI is binary big5 (ocean) without neuroticism and with German pseudo-science for spice.
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