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FairestWorld
16m ago
Yes, that's basically what happens, with some underlying "these people are/can be actually heroic if not for their traumas/life circumstances.
The argument over Cap's shield happens in Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
And "Fake Cap" is kind of weird, since John is arguably much more suited to be Captain America than even Steve Rogers. If you'd have to choose a priori, would you pick the scrawny nobody or the multiple times decorated soldier with proven experience and skills?
The only reason Steve got picked by the guy who developed the highly experimental and unproven Super Soldier Serum is because he showed the willingness to sacrifice himself when he threw himself over a grenade during bootcamp.
You might say that you'd test it on a guy like Steve and then roll it out to all of the John Walkers out there. The only reason that doesn't happen is because the facility gets sabotaged and they lose the formula.
Dean
Flairless
21m ago
I had to get this done a day early, or it wouldn't get done until several days late.
Thank you for doing so. The 1st of the month roundup is, well, a highlight of the month. The new month wouldn't start off right without it.
FairestWorld
23m ago
I think the reason the scene is so maligned, is because it seems contrived to have the heroes lose from a basically unloseable situation, just so they could have thr sequel.
Like,
ulyssessword
25m ago
Union leadership also limits membership to secure jobs for their members.
If the local union has 500 members and each can do 0.2 houses per year (e.g. a crew of 10 can do two houses per year), then I guess your city is building a max of 100 houses. What if you want more than 100 houses built? Too bad, union labor is mandated, and they're not interested in de-monopilizing the sector.
Those 500 workers will sure be happy that they're in so much demand. The union did its job.
FairestWorld
28m ago
... what? I think that's the most common trope in the last few decades, friends-to-lovers.
Anecdotally, online and offline, it also seems that at least in the Anglosphere (maybe exclusively?) a lot of women express preference for starting as friends, which may then develop into a romantic relationship.
FairestWorld
32m ago
My point is that there is a separation between "romance" books that are m/f coded, namely harem/vampire type of stuff, and romance like the sitcom/TV show "will they/won't they" stuff that permeated across genres. Think Ross/Rachel or Mulder/Scully. Those stories are not really about the couple, but it becomes a, if not the, driving force the more you go through it. Which mirrors life, since you wouldn't ditch your plans with your friends at the needs of a 2 week relationship at 20, but if you're 30 and in a long-term relationship for some time, it's a different (expected) response.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 'We have a golden rule: "Mind your own damn business!"'🍞🌹
35m ago
After they wipe out the malarial mosquitos, ticks should be the next target.
I have to say that the new version of Deepseek R1 is very fun to play with. It performs excellently on my idiosyncratic creative writing tests. When I ask Claude, even Opus, for deranged and crazy fun, it's positively sedate compared to R1. The machine's sheer enthusiasm is very charming and it's a decent bit smarter than it was too. Maybe not quite as smart as Opus 4 but still very smart.
When it comes to making dumb Hollywood trailer scripts of video game franchises, or bringing the wildest dreams of 1960s nuclear strategists to life, it's fantastic. Gets increasingly insane in multi-turn though.
FistfullOfCrows
1hr ago
woke-right is such a misnomer, you can't just use woke- for a generic "hardcore true believer" it waters down the term.
FistfullOfCrows
1hr ago
I see, didn't care enough to pry into his home life to learn that. This whole episode has been hilarious watching the usual suspects bend over backwards to try and smear him in front of what they imagine is a conservative crowd. It didn't work with Trump and it will not work with people who are absolutely through with Israel's and Mossad's shenanigans
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1hr ago
Well Birmingham England. I’m not sure NYC has ever been safe in the last 50 years. But I think he has a point. Crime and other social problems have restricted the children’s world to basically a series of prisons. They live in their homes, go to school, and whatever planned activities their parents have, and back home again. Add in that they spend a lot of time in daycares raised by strangers making barely enough to live on and it’s a very sad childhood.
Ioper
2hr ago
Also, the team was like 40 people + contractors. Thats AA on the smaller side, not indie.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
2hr ago
I owe a lot to my time exploring Orthodoxy, including a strengthening of my love for the Mother of God, an appreciation for the iconographic tradition (looks over at my icon of Christ Pantokrator), a more reserved approach to the procession of the Holy Spirit, a grounding and softening of my Western 'hard edges' -- without abandoning the juridical lens on Christianity as some Orthodox seem to call for -- and even a belief in the essence-energies distinction, which, interestingly, resolved a struggle I'd had with Western Mariology.
I can't believe I missed this post, and I'm really glad it got featured in the AAQC roundup. If I might ask, can you expand on these points some? I find your perspective on the Christian faith to be very enlightening, and I would enjoy hearing more about these topics from you.
Lizzardspawn
2hr ago
findom practices instead of Da Jews
Some jokes just write themselves.
HalloweenSnarry
3hr ago
I wouldn't say that's intelligence, per se, but evolutionary instincts doing what they're supposed to.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4hr ago
My opinion is just my opinion and is not meant to represent the macro level worldview of the group you're labeling "conservative." I'm speaking from my own experience of the world, particularly over time, and my views have evolved since I was much younger and the world seemed an eternal spring.
I've read on this very forum the view that parenting doesn't matter much, possibly related to a widespread view that nature trumps nurture. I think parenting most definitely matters--I'm absolutely certain of it--and also because of my own experiences and from watching people grow up around me.
I wouldn't suggest a certain parenting style will produce particular results all the time, but that's different from saying it doesn't matter.
I am not a psychologist thank god, and am not charged with having any particular view of this woman's psychology, damaged or not. I would suggest that her lifestyle at 30 is probably not sustainable in any sort of happy fun time past, say, 40 or beyond. Thankfully it's none of my business.
Jiro
4hr ago
"Bullshit jobs" strikes me as a massive motte and bailey.
There definitely are bullshit jobs. But a very common case of a "bullshit" job is one where the employee does work that's actually essential to a company or to societyy, but doesn't directly produce tangible things, so it feels like his job is useless.
We were in an explicitly Christian homeschool group, and when I was young, my parents would take me to church and related events, weekly park meetups, and other homeschooling and church adjacent things. It was fine, I think. I don't remember too well. I was in Girl Scouts, with mixed results. I wasn't very good friends with the other girls, who went to a Christian school together. I tried attending the school for fifth grade, and dropped out after a semester, because it didn't help my social problems, and the curriculum wasn't anything better than I'd been doing at home. In retrospect, fifth grade is probably a bad time to try out school for the first time. I never tried again, but went to community college starting at 16, and liked it a lot. My husband was in Boy Scouts and had a much better experience, made it up to Eagle Scout level, but isn't sure about it anymore (and was in public school, so probably less socially needy). My parents are both bookish introverts, who did not enjoy public school and made few friends there.
As an autodidact, I had the problem I mentioned of going out into the world and assuming all sorts of things were common knowledge that...weren't. I wonder how avoidable that really is; experts are famous for forgetting that their "jargon" isn't common knowledge, after all. It may be that any good education, no matter where it comes from, will set graduates up for that. Did you have that experience too?
That wasn't much of a problem for me, but I'm closer to the average interests and IQ than, for instance, Jason in the link, and my specialization is novels and art, so all my male friends in college could out-nerd me. Also, I joined the Orthodox Church (literally Byzantine liturgics) at that time, and everyone my age there out-nerded me all the time.
I guess my main experience has been that it's important to go find the little pockets of quirky book people, and move there. I've moved a fair bit in my 20s. There are all these interesting little subcultures, interesting little Great Books colleges, interesting little bookstores that run their own seminars, all sorts of things, and I just had to kind of follow them around. My husband and I are very high in trait Openess, and we've discussed that if the kids are having a lot of trouble in the local environments, we'd probably try moving, perhaps countries, or at least across several states, as close to a first resort. Which has mostly worked for me as an adult, anyway.
Edit: Ha, my mom talks about learning to read at three, by her father "reading the newspaper to her." She was especially unhappy that mandatory bussing (there weren't even black neighborhoods, it was just because that's what the other cities were doing) disrupted her ability to even get decent friendships out of school, or bike there and back herself
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
5hr ago
I'd like a movie where some gigachad Sean Connery secret agent from the 1950s comes forward in time and has to deal with modern norms and lame gadgets, shows all the paper-pushers and pencilnecks what real racism and sexism looks like.
Demolition Man, but different timeframes.
jkf
5hr ago
Children can no longer enjoy the vibrant culture of cities like London, Paris and New York as they could even in the 1980s
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When children have access to safe cities, they develop more independence, courage and can develop more maturity.
He's suggesting that NYC should be made safe again... like it was in the 1980s?
Cities are not fucking safe, yo -- navigating them despite that fact is what actually develops independence, courage and maturity.
(the country is not safe either, but in different ways)
Gaashk
5hr ago
What are some of the most important things you've learned since having kids?
I'm not sure. Parenting advice tends to be either vacuous, or too specific to be worth giving out generally.
erwgv3g34
5hr ago
Does 50 Shades belong in the romance category?
...Yes?
The romance genre is just the female version of pornography. Much like purpose of porn is to stimulate male reproductive instincts, the purpose of romance movies is to stimulate female reproductive instincts.
The difference is that men and women are attracted to different things, so instead of men watching an endless stream of videos depicting naked girls who moan a lot, women consume an endless stream of stories about billionaire athlete demon pirates kings who declare their undying love for the audience surrogate.
Tree
6hr ago
Also your characterizing Aella simply as a "sexually liberated woman" seems off here. Something something motte and bailey.
That is the point. It’s supposed to be a dilemma. The conservative tends to favour an education similar to aella’s, but detests what she has become (“damaged”). The liberal otoh detests aella’s education (“abuse”), yet finds she ended up fine (”sexually liberated”) .
So the lesson is: do the opposite, like George (not you). Every instinct they have, was proven wrong.
As to my own opinion, I don't think she's damaged, because for one, she doesn't think she's damaged. She also seems to have a pleasant undamaged personality, not bitter, mean or aggressive.
And I don't think parenting matters much, so that's how I escape my own dilemma.
TitaniumButterfly
6hr ago
Don't really have time to get into it atm but I didn't want to leave you hanging. Just play with it. Try to get it to do stuff. You'll be amazed.
I just now realized I should've included this in the OP, but I was blindsided since it's actually one of the few above-avereage Marvel movies, but in Civil War, the conflict between the 2 sides is over Bucky, Cap's long lost friend, who being brainwashed, killed Tony's (Ironman) parents. The previous movies establish a friend/rival relationship between Ironman and Cap, who are the defacto leaders of the Avengers. There's a line in the trailer where Cap says "Tony, he's my friend" and Ironman responds "So was I" which still gives me goosebumps.
While there still is a ideological undercurrent in the movie (should heroes work unrestrained or should they be state agents and everything that comes with either choice), in the comics that's the main thing.
I guess the jarring thing is that this sort of "drawing battlelines and breaking up the organization/friend group" is usually reserved for romantic conflicts in a love triangle or just 2 guys vying for one woman (think Troy).
I guess this is more common in Japanese media, Naruto has an unhealthy obsession with bringing Sasuke (even weirder friends/rivals relationship) off the wrong/evil path.
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