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zeke5123a
12m ago
Probably not from a discounted cash flow perspective. Also you ought to factor in failures like the Star Wars hotel in WDW.
kky
23m ago
Mexico is AFAIK basically a narcostate. Opposition “disappears” and then reappears in several different garbage bags.
Hungary - not familiar on the details, what gibs do they give to whom?
SA is a bit of a special case. To be a majoritarian gibs-based political party, on practical terms you need an exceptionally productive minority to tax for the sake of the voterbase. This doesn’t happen in most places. SA, with a wealthy white minority, is able to do it. I’d call it an exception that proves the rule.
yofuckreddit
25m ago
John Wick is a well known franchise. Perhaps not quite mass market.
Dune?
coffee_enjoyer
☕️
30m ago
Something nice about Vanilla WoW is that each location was drawn from one specific European fantasy source. It’s not just some random person concocting his own fantasy. Stranglethorn Vale has the vibe of a colonial expedition into South America or perhaps Africa, Tirisfal Glades pulls from gothic horror, etc. So they are renditions based on real preexistent motifs, and the game takes you through a survey of European fantasy and history. It’s not all just “fantasy medieval area”. There is no catboy character because that doesn’t exist in the Western imagination.
hydroacetylene
50m ago
Hungary and Mexico both do this. I'm pretty sure South Africa does as well.
Throwaway05
57m ago
While I'm sure you had some exceptions I doubt you had the current situation where many states had problems with a flood of zero English effort population and the government was both forced to and decided it was fine to essentially instantiate a second official language.
And for instance the Pennsylvania Dutch are small, isolated, insular, and German - and still are. Very different from getting on public transit in NYC and getting surrounded by Spanish speakers.
kky
1hr ago
Hmm… I’m not sure how true either of those is of the examples I gave. Japan’s main “gibs” are highly focused domestic policies around food and agriculture, and I think they’re better categorized as strategic subsidies. Singapore mostly gives to its minorities, but the ruling party depends on the (non-gibs-receiving) Chinese majority for most of its support. I do know that Singapore actively represses other parties, but Japan does not, and the main party actually lost an election recently (and are now trying desperately to reform internally to weed out corruption).
Is it true of, say, Russia? Yeah, because Putin doesn’t depend on votes. But I’m not sure it’s true of countries with permanent or near-permanent elected parties. If there’s information you have to the contrary I’m all ears.
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
1hr ago
Big highlight for me was Padeen getting addicted to the Laudanum and Maturin casually telling Martin that a x20 dose is usual for an addict.
Holdo also had the sin of being a terrible leader in general. Going from assuming command to a mutiny in a matter of days, when the mutineers are experienced and committed believers in the cause, says far more about the commander than the mutineers.
Plus, it was frankly poorly thought out on a thematic level. 'Defer to people in positions of authority and do as you are told even if they appear incompetent' is not only contrary to the themes of much of Star Wars, but anathema to a lot of the cultural convictions of the more individualist/egalitarian West. In turn, it created tonal confusion for the major themes of the movies, while also flagrantly demonstrating the lack of concern for the verisimilitude of the broader IP.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
There were massive German-speaking enclaves in the USA until the world wars. You can still find enclaves where the older folk prefer Italian.
Dean
Flairless
1hr ago
Gundam? Pokemon? Dragonball Z? Half a dozen other major Japanese IPs?
Even if we limit to within the Anglosphere, I'm fairly sure that- various efforts to the contrary- franchises like D&D, Warhammer 40k, and most fighting/strategy genre video games are more popular among men than women.
ControlsFreak
1hr ago
Agreed that this make districting quite the tough nut to crack.
I had a thought that I should learn more about the history behind the adoption of the Seventeenth Amendment, which was ratified by the very people that it took power away from. I did a little bit of reading, but there are competing historical perspectives that I'll have to ruminate on further.
There are definitely parallels in terms of national/state-level dynamics, impinging on one another. It also seems unlikely to me to propose that people at that time were simply naive to the possibility that such a rule change would be likely to advantage/disadvantage them. Some explanations try to argue that some of the main implications had already effectively come about via other means, so it wasn't a terribly sharp break. I don't know.
In any event, perhaps worth ruminating on and reading more history. It seems not entirely impossible to come up with something, but perhaps it is the case that nationalized interests are too entrenched and 'smart' to the scene that even minor steps will be more effectively blocked. In that case, we'd probably need to be more clever to messy up the predictive capabilities.
I haven't totally given up on toying with various schemes, but it is a difficult problem that is seriously resistant to most flippant proposals.
TowardsPanna
1hr ago
It's annoying to hold BTC and no ETH at all right now. Could have tripled my money with ETH this year. It wasn't so much in terminal decline after all.
Rate cuts announced: ETH goes up 10% and keeps its gains. BTC goes up a few percent and starts to give back its gains, as usual. Fucking whales thinking this is a good enough price and unloading their bags, always a little too hard.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
All congressional districts are A: contiguous and B: have very roughly the same number of people- the number of Americans divided by the number of representatives. Google says this is 747,000, but grain of salt. The one caveat to (B) is that every state gets at least one representative, even if- like Wyoming- it has less than 747,000 people.
You can just google congressional district maps- by state probably gives a more detailed view- to see the twisting contortions involved.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
One party states also hand out gibs constantly and force influential stakeholders into using their platforms to support the ruling party.
DelendaEst
1hr ago
I strongly agree with this, especially for someone with the cultural attitudes of the median motizan. The gatekeepers to the existing paths to success are largely all held by people who are actively looking for NOT YOU and view keeping you out as an active good, and while alternatives such as Baen exist they are but one port and that is just a different tournament model of which of the legions of authors applying to them get picked.
Kindle Unlimited and other self published routes have a bad rap in a lot of places because the lack of gatekeepers means the quality can be pretty low, but there are a lot of people who have been a success who would not have been able to make it otherwise. You probably don't want to do this because it seems low status and sends a signal that your book isn't good enough for traditional publishing, but try to be Larry Correia. He self published his first book, marketing it primarily by sharing it on the gun enthusiast forums he participated it, and now is very successful in the trad publishing world (largely through Baen, but still) on the basis of that success. If you self publish and make a follow up post with the link here I will pre-commit to at least giving it a look.
deluxev2
1hr ago
So far that has been the only AI propaganda. Definitely thematic parallels in other places and the story isn't over so still have to wait and see if it full tilts into it or something. I've been enjoying my time with it, there is definitely some cringey spots but better than the state of most media.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
The party which won the last popular vote must provide two bulls between four and six years of age, white and without blemish, sharing a sire. The party which lost the last popular vote must pick their bull first; the party which won will then get to slaughter, eat, and enclose their lands to offset this advantage of picking the slightly larger bull.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
It's just literally straightforwardly true that blue states tend to have bluer congressional delegations compared to popular vote than red states have redder congressional delegations compared to popular vote. Texas had actually come closest in proportionality among big states before redistricting.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
This raises the question of- can you name mass-market popculture franchises which are more popular among men?
philosoraptor
1hr ago
Read the OP and judge for yourself. Based on my own read of same, I wouldn't go so far as "retarded" but "unexceptional" fails at doing her justice in the other direction.
self_made_human
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
2hr ago
My mom used to watch Star Wars because she was a Harrison Ford fangirl. When she'd gush, I used to groan and tell her that was TMI. To be fair, he's a handsome man, and I get the appeal.
She also, uncritically, enjoys the second trilogy, which I can't excuse on any level except the second film, which I will defend as decent.
self_made_human
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
2hr ago
I should have been more specific:
- Her dad is a successful businessman, but not so rich that they have fuck you money.
- Brother is a programmer? I think? Anyway, he lives abroad, works for an MNC and makes big money.
- Mom's a housewife.
From what I could gather, the rest of her family are reasonably well off.
Anyway. Marrying someone below average in intelligence is close to a deal-breaker for me. I strongly value intelligence, at least for the sake of my future kids. I'm the kind of guy who intends to at least try and talk my future spouse into opting for embryo selection for IQ and overall disease risk. Now, if the girl in question was gorgeous and had enough money that we wouldn't have any financial concerns for life, I'd be right on that.
And, to put it bluntly, I genuinely believe I can do better. That might come across as conceited, but I still think it's true! I'm an okay looking guy, who makes decent money, live in the West (which is a big deal for Indian women), a doctor etc. I got into training relatively young, so I'll be a mid-level psychiatrist when I'm in my very early 30s, and hopefully done with career advancement by my mid 30s. As far as I can tell, I'll only get more attractive and appealing with time, my uncle, a senior shrink in his 50s, still has women all over him.
Indian women tend to at least have a kernel of pragmatism. They look at this and are almost always keen. Even right now, if I decided I wanted to get hitched, all it would take is coming home for a few weeks and hitting the apps, or just asking my family to put out feelers on my behalf.
I'm late 20s, and would likely be at my best-by mid 30s. However, I think it's better to be a dad younger than that, raising kids in the West is hard fucking work, and the more energy and health I have in me, the better. As of right now, the plan is to look for someone here (easier said than done the dating market is abysmal), and if that's not successful, consider going the arranged marriage route with semi-seriousness when I'm done with the my current stage of training.
self_made_human
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
2hr ago
How large does said district have to be? A city block? An apartment complex? Ten thousand people?
In the other reply, @VoxelVexillologist says that it's not well defined, except by litigation and negative examples, but a rough ballpark would be something I'm interested to know.
This comes up on Reddit a lot so you can always search over there (Steins;Gate generally shows up on lists but I was never a fan of that anime in general).
Anything recent and high budget (ex: Dan Da Dan, Apothecary Diaries) is always likely to be good.
Someone else here mentioned Cowboy Bebop which I think is a good pick but that is in part because the English voice fits the mood and vibe better, I don't think the dub is truly stellar by modern standards.
My personal vote is FMA: B, the dub is pretty great and has some big names you'll recognize if you know their voices, but the outtakes are absolutely incredible and work better if you spent the show listening to those interpretations of the characters.
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