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Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
29d ago
Anyone who doesn’t think this was clearly telegraphed is kidding themselves.
So clearly telegraphed that Iran failed to notice anything and kept their VIPs in high-rises instead of bunkers?
SkoomaDentist
29d ago
If only there was a way to get that effect on every ”provider” that insists on shoving AI slop to my face in their ”tools”…
conoclast
29d ago
Yes -- many of the inquiries I am surprised are treated as taboo as they are, many social 'norms' and rules are nonsensical and often weaponized already, "asking questions" is pushback and not malicious.
Well I can't know for sure how much controversy could be intentional, something that makes her less credible about this is she's done this for an audience for so long, and she 'should' know there are some others who react horribly to her. (In her shoes, I would not be able to consistently predict which topics would offend people though -- just that it would happen and for her has already happened for years.) It seems more resonant to me that she just does have the same disgust reaction / have the awareness of the "normal person" optics -- so yes, I think she is more sincere than others here seem to think.
The idea that my honest thoughts and positions could be labeled as 'provocative' (which they have before) is subjective to the reader, and I am often more frustrated by it than it has ever helped. In my life I have personally kept silent most of the time, which converts it into silent frustration and feelings of alienation about other people, instead of turning it into 'part of my brand' like Aella.
LacklustreFriend
37 Pieces of Flair Minimum
29d ago
Israel would have almost exactly the same national security interests and likely strategic patterns of behavior even if it had no element of racial-supremacist Abrahamic cult-myths, though.
Israel would never had existed if they didn't have that though.
orthoxerox
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29d ago
The only thing I can say right now is that Israel is much better at special military operations than Russia. Their rockets have actually killed several high-ranking Iranian officers and scientists on the first attempt.
FistfullOfCrows
29d ago
There was a reason for "tits or gtfo", it was to counteract the kind of poster who went into a community or a group and went, "look at me, I'm a GIRL, pay attention, I have dignified your little group with my presence". In the anonymous context of imageboard fora we called them ethots. Now Aella isn't exactly like that, but there is a similiar mechanic happening on twitter, where those who are women and feel insecure about the number of dudes they can catch or men who are seething angry at her ease of getting the horizonal tango. There's also the aspect of the more sex-negative or kneejerk anti-libertine crowd gaining foothold online, (the various BASED takes and one liners)
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
29d ago
That kind of transactional relationship sounds like the opposite of normal and healthy.
How many accounts — real or fictional — about relationships and marriage have you read that were written prior to the 19th century? Or from a non-Western culture (like any where arranged marriages were common). Marriage being treated to a great extent like a sort of financial/institutional merger involving two families, or a sort of "mutual physical/financial support" arrangement first, with "mutual love and desire" being a secondary factor — indeed, as something a couple deliberately builds over time — seems to be the more "normal" attitude across the history of settled human societies, with the 20th century West "all you need is love" attitudes being rather the outlier.
Edit: see also OracleOutlook's longer comment below.
orthoxerox
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29d ago
Please let me be obnoxiously pedantic and note that at least two more countries have their nukes in the western hemisphere.
wayfarer
29d ago
Even in the Netherlands, car travel is twice as popular as bicycle travel
for all travels or for travels where bicycles make sense?
cars are clearly better at long distance travel, this does not make them better at commuting 2 km
I am not asking people to walk 90 minutes to work. Simply use public transport or drive for long distances like almost everyone else.
at short distances cycling is typically faster, more pleasant, cheaper and healthier than public transport
FtttG
29d ago
This is where I first heard about them (?).
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
29d ago
But it's cruise control for cool.
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
29d ago
As one of "The True Psychos," I'd personally like to thank you for laying this out so clearly and in such detail. AAQC'd.
ControlsFreak
29d ago
You can pay well-above market rate, they won't do it.
That's not really what "market rate" means. It doesn't really come free-floating, without reference to a population of suppliers/potential suppliers. Yes, there is a MarketRate1, where the set of suppliers/potential suppliers includes everyone who can walk across the border. Yes, MarketRate1 < MarketRate2, where MarketRate2 is with reference to the set of suppliers/potential suppliers who are legally authorized to work in the United States. But if we just lived in World2, there would be no talk about paying "well-above market rate (MarketRate2)", because MarketRate2 would just be the clearing price in World2.
Supply curve slope upwards. Demand curves slope downwards. For there to be no non-zero equilibrium, the supply price at zero quantity supplied must be higher than the demand price at zero quantity demanded. This may be true for some goods (say, anti-matter-powered light bulbs), but it seems highly unlikely that it is the case for food.
orthoxerox
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29d ago
High decouplers vs low decouplers.
"I might have attracted you with spicy stories and explicit pictures, but can we now set my public image aside and discuss my latest serious article?" vs "opinion is invalid: author is a stinky skank".
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
29d ago
I see fairly few bicycles in my area, and I have a fear of killing someone, which can be easily allayed by simply taking a minute out of my day and waiting for a really clear spot to pass. If it were a constant problem, I probably couldn't do that.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
29d ago
I'll admit to not being overly familiar with the history of SoS press releases in response to Israeli actions..but this seems like a shift in tone from the Biden regime doesn't it? Rubio offers no praise of Israel, no solemn intonation of our close alliance, no love for our "closest middle eastern ally." It's not even entirely clear that Israel is among the "regional partners" they are in close contact with.
I'll admit to playing Fantasy Trump right now, but this is just about where I'd like the USA to be when something like this happened.
wayfarer
29d ago
Are you claiming that in a normal, healthy, average relationship man does 100% of childrearing and woman is there to provide sex?
Or are you claiming that in a normal, healthy, average relationship there are no children?
In a normal, healthy, average relationship, men trade resources and services for sex.
where and when it is supposedly the situation?
AFAIK it was never ever in no location considered the way you claim
In a normal, healthy, average relationship, men trade resources and services for sex.
That is not healthy or average relationship and it is not normal.
Even in the most radically transactional view of relationship this claim is simply wrong.
For start, relations where woman contributes solely sex in exchange of stuff are in fact simply prostitution.
wayfarer
29d ago
financial/institutional merger involving two families
yes, and it is still quite distinct from "men trade resources and services for sex"
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
29d ago
Generally people stop being praised for curiosity by their teen years.
You say that like it's a prescriptive standard and therefore anyone praised for curiosity is being treated like a child. I happen to think curiosity remains valuable beyond teen years, and more than than, since in many people it remains in short supply it should be encouraged.
Crowstep
29d ago
The American identity survives regardless of who makes up our population
I wouldn't call the country splitting into two halves who hate eachother 'surviving'.
Meanwhile Germany, in spite of the political changes you mention is the most politically stable country in the world (I didn't go looking for a list with Germany at the top I swear, I googled 'least partisan countries' and that's what came up).
Germany's form of government may have changed, but it doesn't matter because it has a core ethnic group whose similarity transcends political organisation. Meanwhile in the multiracial proposition nation, everyone hates eachother and can't agree on anything.
FistfullOfCrows
29d ago
that nothing he did in life ever felt as good as being on heroin. Not meeting the love of his life, not getting married, not even the birth of his first child. They all felt good, sure. But man... nothing topped heroin
I can believe it, I've been on the good stuff painkillers after a short stint in the ER. Words fail to describe the profound sense of peace and joy washing over you. Not even sex is that good.
It appears that this forum is filled with city slickers in fancy German cars. What cars have you driven on a regular basis? If they were expensive, have you found them to be worth the extra money?
I have driven the following cars on a regular basis.
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2023: 2023 Mitsubishi Mirage (purchased new for 18 k$)
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2019: 2015 Honda Fit (purchased from my mother for 14 k$)
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2017: 2007 Pontiac G6 (borrowed from my father for free)
I have been driven around by my parents in the following cars.
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The aforementioned Fit (mother's) and G6 (father's)
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2013 Honda Civic (mother's)
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2001–2010 Volvo S60 (father's)
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2000–2005 Dodge Neon (mother's)
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1993–1997 Mazda MX-6 (father's; manual)
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1993 Toyota Tercel (mother's)
I have never found fault with these cheap (not including the S60, I guess) cars (other than the Civic's poor rear visibility; I prefer hatchbacks to sedans) or seen any reason to get anything more expensive.
(Note that I purchased the Mirage, not to replace the Fit with it, but so that (1) I could sell the Fit back to my mother, and then (2) she could expunge from our household the Civic that I disliked. Another motive for getting the Mirage was FOMO on a car that was soon to be discontinued in the US market despite obviously being the best car there.)
FistfullOfCrows
29d ago
The backup singers of the gangbang
Anyone who doesn’t think this was clearly telegraphed is kidding themselves. The US pulling troops’ and diplomats’ families out of the region in recent days is about as clear a signal as you can give. The only developments in the conflict in recent years that appear to have been surprising were October 7th (which the IRGC seemingly didn’t even know about, at least not comprehensively), the Israeli surprise attack on Hezbollah (which was semi-expected, albeit not the exact format) and the Soleimani assassination. To some extent you can include Assad’s collapse, although all factions were surprised by that except for Turkey, which organized it.
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