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No_one
4hr ago
There was a treatise and also some horribly smug memoir.
The clown part is that it took years for people to surface that crap even though half a day of effort would have found it back then. But that'd mean someone out there would have to be proactive.
TitaniumButterfly
4hr ago
My other thought was some kind of foreign language keyboard that makes such slipups easy but IIRC this guy is in Texas.
TitaniumButterfly
4hr ago
I mean I'm pretty transphobic but the whole reason this place exists is to be an open forum where people of widely-divergent viewpoints can have conversations and consider each other's perspectives. I upvote effort and sincerity. Downvotes are reserved for bad form, not for disagreement. This is basic stuff and it bugs me that even among our much-smarter-than-average userbase people can't seem to figure it out. Downvoting you for your perspective is the equivalent of rating an item on amazon one star because USPS delivered the package late. Real trog hours.
Also @TheDemonRazgriz since I'm coming back late.
No_one
5hr ago
Dunno, maybe autocorrect /word prediction simultaneously enabled for several languages at once?
TitaniumButterfly
5hr ago
Why is that e accented? I mean I'm a fan of fancy vowels and am constantly fighting the urge to use them, so believe me when I say I'm not bothered so much as titillated.
No_one
5hr ago
Man just noticed.. I should have added 'for sexual stuff and profanity' .. It has an impressive vocabulary but for swearing and lewd stuff it's not that great.
Gaashk
5hr ago
The MAGA base doesn't see it a "shilling for Russia". They just stopped having a problem with Russia when communism ended and see the policies popular in DC as incredibly antagonistic for no reason.
Yeah, that's been my experience of pro Russia rightists.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
5hr ago
and now they feel BETRAYED
Which is extremely low-T behavior and should be seen as embarrassing on the part of all involved. The best and most masculine, high-agency response is to continue taking power at the fastest rate possible and then take revenge once power is achieved.
Not to whine about it on the Internet and “take revenge” by willingly sacrificing all gains made so far.
Sad to see genuine reactionary potential throwing itself away. Many such cases, I guess.
guajalote
5hr ago
I grew up around many Christian Zionists. I think they would agree that "the Second Coming is going to happen when God plans it to" but would add that (1) God puts his plans into motion largely through the actions of people and (2) the Bible sets forth the outline of what that plan looks like. Because people have free will, it's therefore important for them to choose to follow God's plan as laid out in the Bible.
To them, your critique would sound a little like if someone said: "What's so bad about murder? Everything happens according to God's plan, therefore if someone commits murder that must be God's plan."
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
5hr ago
Due to a brief alignment of opinions and goals certain parts of Twitter managed to convince themselves that they had real power and influence over the president and the wider right, and now they feel BETRAYED when the wider right tells them no you're just a stopped clock that happened to be correct.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
5hr ago
You too doc. Fin is the single most important intervention. I was lucky that I did not heed advice from e Alpha Males for my issue. Did not know you had a substack.
Primaprimaprima
...something all admit only "TRUMP", and the Trump Administration, can do.
5hr ago
9 and 10 are hyper GOAT status for me, some of the best games ever made across any genre.
7’s alright, but even back when I played it for the first time as a kid I thought it was overrated.
I enjoyed 8 quite a bit more than you did, but that was probably just due to the spectacle of how much of a fever dream it was, rather than it being a “good game” in the traditional sense.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Yeah, thé single most hazardous job to have in the event of a military coup is probably ‘antagonistic, weird looking political pundit’. Other strong contenders might include ‘previous head of state’.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
5hr ago
Different perspectives on weather
I was always surprised growing up whenever I would see westerners on TV talk about "Sunshine and rainbows". How can one like sunny weather. It cross 50 degree centigrade, the warm winds kill you and you are unable to do anything in the open at any point during the day until the seasons change. The idea of rains being sad or gloomy never made sense to me. My part of the world is made up of semi arid forets and sand dunes. North India has some of the worst environments. Rains cool things down. It is very common for people to go outside in the rain and its seen as a normal thing. 500 mm per year in the span of 6-8 weeks is not a lot of rain. Beyond the weather, the farming unfotunately is dependent on the rains and since there are no outdors here, you only see any form of green for two weeks post the rains end.
It started raining in the thid week of June here, we had showers today and the weather is nice. I can sit outside and soak in somewhat cleaner air. Apparently due to climate change, the rainy season in India is now slowly changing. The noth west has never been a place that got a lot of rain, with Rajasthan being home to Thar Desert. When I was in Chiang Mai last year, I noticed that the one month long rainy season in my city a lot longer than I expected. This was not a one off. Climate change has apparently, allegedly led to a shift in wind patterns, which means that the Thar desert might contract for real. Jaipur last year recieved more than twice its average rainfall.
This also means plenty of bad things. India, a place that lacks water, has floods each and every year. The roads are all jammed up as the drainage here is non existant. Mosquitos are everywhere so you would be wise to wear trousers and shirts 24/7 to avoid fatal infections. The internet is all shaky, most people, shops and e commerce stores have no clue what raincoats look like. Even during a time when people get to escape the extreme harshness of their environemnts, India finds a way of neutering it.
Which brings me to my real question. What is ideal weather like where you are from? Tyler Cowen talks about the distance from the equator being an important factor a civilization. Lee Kuan Yew called air condtioning a miracle as working productively in South Asian heat was pretty much impossible for most people. Hell, even Digital Nomading pioneer Pieter Levels loved Bali a lot because it had cheap wifii and aircon in most cafes where he would work in.
I have seen people post about Fall, some even like the snow. What times of the year do you like the most weather wise. I prefer spring but the wall of text above was to help others gauge why the subcontinent in particular has a lot of affection for the rains.
ace
5hr ago
“People thinking I’m this type of woman who didn’t protect my kids,” she added.
Perceptive lady, knowing exactly what I think.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
5hr ago
Did you purposely intend to have that instinctively read in the voice of the Law & Order intro?
Pretty slick writing, if so.
BahRamYou
5hr ago
I'm kind of wondering if Ted Cruz knows all of that, and is simply using "meh bible" as an excuse to do what he wants for other reasons... (ie, i'm wondering if Ted Cruz has been compromised by Israeli spies)
Rov_Scam
5hr ago
You're assuming that if there was only one victim, or one act, he would have been convicted of the same crime. It's possible that, had that been the case, he would have plead to a lesser offense.
self_made_human
C'est la vie
5hr ago
I agree that finasteride is treated unfairly. Even if you're in the unlucky 1-2% that gets significant side effects, they usually wear off in weeks or months from cessation.
Thanks for reading, and good luck keeping your hair while you still need it!
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
5hr ago
Appreciate the effort OP. As someone on Fin, it has to be the first line of defence and using it wihtout minoxidil or any other inhibitors like Dutasteride is a waste of time. Finasteride is extremely safe and there is nothing you can do beyond it and its bigger brother in Dutasteride.
Hair transplants are expensive, painful, give bad results and force you to hop on the same two drugs for life that I just pointed out. Most anti fin advice is garbage and is some form of real alpha male cope instead of some well thought out conclusion.
My hair is very straight, very thin, not very dense and I have a wider than average forehead. My dad and grandad have a full head of hair, my younger brother has denser hair than most girls I have met. By age 16 I could see that the norwood reaper was knocking at the door as my temple did have some recession, men on my mtohers side are bald. I saw my dermat and he offered minoxidial as fin should not be taken before puberty ends. Like all men in my situation I decided to simply pretend that I was not losing hair. I hit 21 and my hairline was still the same, yet I was worried about losing hair. I found the channel More Plates More Dates, ran by a Canadian roidhead named derek who was also sponosring a retired MMA fighter I knew. He laid out his own case with hairloss and often hammered hom the importance of finasteride.
The summer of 22, my grandad started complaining about my loose hair he found. One day my mother told me that there was a small bald spot, the size of a tiny apple on the top of my head. I went to the dermat the next day, hopped in fin and do not have that baldspot anymore. My three years have yielded zero side effects and I cannot think that youtuber enough since most if not all advice I see online is pretty garbage on this topic. My high school best friend would often joke about me being someone who would need a hair transplant. We stopped talking 6 years ago, I saw a photo of him recently and he is nearly bald from aggressive hair loss.
Going bald is traumatic because it absolutely traumatic and if you dont lie to yourself, it is very easily avoidable. I posted about this a few weeks ago and the response I got were not very good. If you are suffering from Male Pattern Baldness, see your dermat, pop finasteride (take it topically if you are afraid) and dont read about potential side effects, plenty get them via the placebo effect or something. I look normal now, I still did when I was receeding but getting it fixed at the right time did a lot of good to me.
Hadad
5hr ago
You did, in fact, excise the entire post to quote a single line, and in doing so missed the broader message. But if you're willing to back down, then sure, consider it dropped. Just don't do it again next time.
DradisPing
5hr ago
Natalie looked hesitant. “Yes,” she said. “The conservative media shilling for Russia unnecessarily is sort of a symptom of the Covid backlash. Because we don’t trust the authority on that, we’re going to not take their words on anything. Do I think Putin’s a great guy? No.”
This stands out particularly as a straight up fantasy take.
The MAGA base doesn't see it a "shilling for Russia". They just stopped having a problem with Russia when communism ended and see the policies popular in DC as incredibly antagonistic for no reason.
They're not even spies. It's just AIPAC.
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