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George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
5m ago
Secrets of that magnitude are somewhat more difficult to keep these days.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
15m ago
conveniently forget that Jesus said that it's easier for a camel to thread the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven (how convenient that my new religion that is supposed to save me from the problems of modernity doesn't require me to give up the material trappings of that same system)
Nitpick since it's irrelevant to your main point. As I understand it, the church threaded this needle by differentiating between the not-intrinsically-evil state of merely "possessing material wealth" and the intrinsically evil state of "being possessed by ones material wealth," i.e. not being "poor in spirit."
GBRK
17m ago
it's not about sexy new partners but a support system
That's it. That's the whole thing. Romantic involvement and religion are the only part of society modern technology and economics have yet to fully atomize. Polyamory offers both, in a way, to a certain kind of atheist. Polyamory forms a community and ideology at the same time. Of the rat/poly/atheist people I know IRL, two of them single mothers with apparently little to lose, and one of them actually tried Protestantism at an earlier point but couldn't manage to swing the "belief in god" part.
rockbier1218
21m ago
If these two powers enter into a non-meme war I have to imagine the west will get completely drowned by a tidal wave of immigration. RIP my chill software engineer job
TheDag
Per Aspera ad Astra
23m ago
Not sure, I suppose Iβm a fool. Perhaps I just was naive or was willing to wave it away. Perhaps I have begun to focus more on Christ. Could be many reasons.
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, thatβs my thought onβt
27m ago
It is far from clear to me how all of the above lack something which happily married monogamous people have.
I don't think I'll be able to convince you then, but it's pretty obvious from where I sit, even though it's a subjective view rather than empirical.
I am sure that there are claims of the form "X couples can form a special bond in a way that people in other forms of relationship can not", which someone somewhere has made for X being "lesbian", "same-race", "dominant-submissive", "straight", "enlightened", "Christian", "black", "child-producing", and so on.
I have no issues with someone expressing such views. I'll disagree with them but I don't really have some ironclad way to knock down their ideas. I might share some of them, I definitely don't share all of them, but I think it is broadly fine to say that not all relationships are equal.
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, thatβs my thought onβt
30m ago
That's what I would have said about gender woo until it swiftly moved from just being left alone into conscripting everyone else into participating in it. If people want to do something I don't approve of with their own lives, sure, that's their call, whatever, but I am now leery of pushes for normalization.
TheDemonRazgriz
33m ago
three Pakistani army bases
From what I have seen (to be fair information is still hazy, but this much seems to be clear) India very deliberately did not hit actual Pakistani military targets. India claims to have only struck confirmed terrorist targets, and Pakistan claims they fired on civilian targets. The reported blackout in Muzaffarabad would imply at least some civilian infrastructure was fired upon but whether this was deliberate, or even if it is correct, is not yet clear.
All things considered the Indian retaliation here was quite restrained. Nine targets divided across three towns (showing ability and willingness to strike over a large geographical range, since not all the targets were near Kashmir); no actual Pakistani regular forces were targeted; and all missiles were fired from aircraft which stayed within Indian airspace. To me it appears to be more of a demonstration of capability than actual intent to harm: βlook, we have the ability to hit you but weβre choosing to hold our punches at this time.β
Essentially India is kicking the can back to Pakistan. They have retaliated for the terror attack but in a limited way, moving only very slightly up the escalation ladder. Pakistan now has the choice to back down or to escalate further. There are reports of artillery duels and skirmishes across the border kicking off shortly after the airstrikes but this doesnβt mean much given the baseline in the region. What might be more significant are the official statements of the Pakistani defense minister, claiming that the strikes were all targeting civilians and that βour response will be greaterβ, and of a Pakistan Army spokesman: βThe temporary pleasure of India will be replaced by enduring grief.β
So, Pakistan will almost certainly retaliate for this retaliation. Their leadership, much like that of India, has put itself in a position where backing down looks like weakness rather than wisdom. The question now is, now that the ball is in their court, whether and how much they choose to escalate.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
34m ago
Not to beat a dead horse, but that is a less than convincing defense.
This essay is bad and I should feel bad.
I should feel bad because I made exactly the mistake I am trying to warn everyone else about, and it wasnβt until I was almost done that I noticed.
How virtuous, how noble I must be! Never stooping to engage in petty tribal conflict like that silly Red Tribe, but always nobly criticizing my own tribe and striving to make it better.
Yeah. Once Iβve written a ten thousand word essay savagely attacking the Blue Tribe, either Iβm a very special person or theyβre my outgroup. And Iβm not that special.
Just as you can pull a fast one and look humbly self-critical if you make your audience assume thereβs just one American culture, so maybe you can trick people by assuming thereβs only one Blue Tribe.
Gotta love vintage Scott.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
42m ago
You might be surprised at the number of evangelicals (I am not suggesting that's where TheDag is coming from) who claim to see Trump as a godly man. I am unsure how, or if it's just because of the bible-holding charade of a few years ago.
Nothing ever happens Β―\_(γ)__/Β―
More seriously, I would like to believe that everyone has enough skin in the game to recognize that the use of nuclear weapons is a bad thing for the globe. Beyond the direct human suffering of New Delhi getting turned into radioactive slag, the memes are at least partially true, nobody wants a trillion Indian/Pakistani refugees so the rest of the world et al. will do their damnedest to prevent nukes from flying. But maybe the interest of everyone else in the world isn't enough and Modi lets fly. Historical Events seem to be occurring more and more often.
thanks much!
The thing about blender is that it's a fully-general tool, and there's a straight tradeoff between power and generality and ease-of-use. Think of the difference between a dollar store calculator and a ti-85. the basic calculator is very straightforward: six or so function buttons, ten number buttons, a clear button and that's it. the graphing calculator is completely covered in obscure buttons, many with multiple functions, and these are in turn connected to nested submenus. The calculator is a physical bottleneck to a vast ocean of capabilities, and it's so complicated because the designers are trying to surface as much of the functionality as possible.
Blender is like that but possibly worse, because the functionality is broader and much more divergent. From a user standpoint, it would probably be better to be split into a suite of ten or so different programs with strong interoperability, but probably that would create other problems. And since it's such a broad generalist program, the default interface is kinda trash for specific jobs, especially if you have prior experience with other packages. I'm working through a tutorial that puts a strong emphasis on hotkeys and custom keymapping to optimize the actual modelling workflow, and blender gets a lot more usable once you've got it set up properly and build up the necessary muscle memory.
The downside was spending two nights after the kids were down working on setup, only to realize that the folder blender was saving the settings changes to wasn't write-enabled, so all my setup was lost when I restarted my computer. not a good feel.
For those interested, this is a pretty good place to start for Blender specifically. Best advice is to open a google doc or similar and take step-by-step notes as well, and certainly write down all the hotkeys he covers.
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
1hr ago
You could write the exact same thing about classical liberalism, except the relevant time period was the late-1800s/early-1900s (objectively, the freest time period ever to exist on planet Earth- rich enough for people to rapidly distinguish themselves, scientific progress was making quantum leaps [ironically, the discovery of quantum mechanics actually marks the end of this era], demand for industrial labor was so high that even single-digit-aged children were gainfully employed, and very little effective State capacity to enforce any sort of morality whatsoever).
Actually, you can do that with sexual liberation in the '60s and '70s, too: yes, some people are capable of maintaining the kinds of relationships categorically called evil by some tradition or other, but those people are not you. And the tools and concepts we left laying around have been misused as weapons in their hands; words like "homophobia", "consent", and "orientation" are incredibly useful/necessary tools when minds like ours talk amongst ourselves, but they're thermonuclear-grade infohazards to normies. (And just because someone is in a special sexual category, that doesn't mean they're like us.)
that despite looking up and admiring those people for various reasons, the horde wandering said field now has to contend with the revelation that they are not those people
And now they're resentful of the people who went before simply for having dared to go before- you can usually identify this group through their virtue Georgism (they believe things can be "ruined for everyone" for that reason).
So, now we've seen the end-game - a group of people with a very tenuous relationship on sanity whom carry the shield of rationalism by murdering their enemies, and the same people whom have considered themselves rationalists are now stuck in a very uncomfortable position with some very awkward questions to answer.
Those people are generally called "Jacobins" (also "progressives"). Liberalism in France never truly recovered after the Revolution.
As for where we'll go from here? Well. I don't know. I guess we'll see.
At this point I'm mostly just focused on self-defense- defending both my right and responsibility to be better than everyone else, one person at a time. It's not sustainable, and it tires me out, but I do what I can.
> going back to sleep after your pregnant wife's water broke
> lollygagging around buying snacks before showing up at the hospital
Surprisingly Chaddish attitude for someone who literally has a wife's boyfriend. Actually, two wife's boyfriends. But then again, as @HereAndGone mentioned, perhaps there was some confusion and motivational issues due to lack of paternal certainty. three_spidermen_pointing_at_each_other.jpg or Braun-Westbrook-Murray-almost-losing-uncontested-rebound.mp4, which could very well be a fresh meme from yesterday.
the people who had surrounded and outnumbered me, who did not seem to deal with me as an intelligent subject
Hmm... surely the hospital staff had no probable cause to proceed under such an impression?
Regardless of the author's particular cognitive ability (I suspect it's materially higher than average, especially higher than that of the median woman giving birth nowadays), I imagine hospital staff are trained to give clear, concise directions when things are chaotic. I suppose where the hospital staff may have failed, was to flatter and indulge her self-perceived intelligence during the birthing process.
To return to a basketball reference, if I'm coaching a basketball team and one of the players gets the ball unguarded in a corner, I'd be yelling "SHOOT IT! SHOOT IT!" and not saying "Please shoot the ball. Your true shooting percentage suggests you're a good shooter and analytics have long shown that corner three-pointers are one of the most valuable shots in the game from an expected value standpoint. This ask to attempt a field goal from your current location on the floor is time sensitive. Thank you for your understanding."
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1hr ago
Jimmy Carter had a way of messing up the USA. (To the tune of the Oscar Meyer theme song, which probably only makes sense in America)
Inflation. Unemployment. Energy crisis. Iran hostage crisis.
DiscourseMagnus
1hr ago
I don't mean to be a conspiracy theorist, but it looks to me like the powers that be in India are deliberately angling for a nuclear war with Pakistan because they see it as inevitable in the long term but think that the results will be more favorable for them the sooner it happens. Moreover, they're also angling for Pakistan to launch the first (nuclear) strike because they expect the rest of the world will be more sympathetic to them in that case.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
I wonder how much of it is literally just orthodox cassocks seeming like the wrong size half the time and the clergy tending to have beards thatβ¦ donβt look well groomed.
The Latin mass has a lot of the same issues with being literally in a foreign language and attracting plenty of obsessives but manages to be much more female friendly because it looks good. Not just beauty and grandeur but neat and orderly. And I have heard comments from women that it struck them when they first went that seeing immaculate, well choreographed and behaved boys serving the priest made an impression. Aesthetics has two dimensions, after all- thereβs a βclean and well maintainedβ look to go with the classical beauty look and women are very sensitive to the former. It definitely seems like in nonreligious contexts women really care about that stuff- much more than men- too.
WandererintheWilderness
1hr ago
Oh, all sorts of configurations can work. But in your configuration the straight person might still feel jealous when one of the bisexuals is sleeping with the other instead of the straight one. The jealousy problem is however obliterated if everybody's screwing everybody.
Pigeon
coo coo
1hr ago
- Note that these are not particularly tied to the patriarchy/matriarchy axis. Monogamous animals are usually egalitarian, but patriarchal polygyny (gorillas, lions), matriarchal polygyny (peacoks), patriarchal promiscuity (chimps) and matriarchal promiscuity (bonobos, elephants) are all common.
Interesting to note that there are also birds that operate with matriarchal polyandry, with very skewed sex ratios and reversed sex roles. (There are other animals that are also polyandrous but I do not know how they work at all β iirc some (but not all) of them were more of a female risk-reduction, either of the female herself or for improved reproductive success)
GBRK
1hr ago
It's funny when the ingroup jokes about the ingroup. It's disrespectful when the outgroup jokes about the ingroup. Simple as. Trump isn't catholic, so I don't want him making even relatively harmless jokes about my religion.
India has just attacked three Pakistani army bases near the Kashmir region with missiles. There are some indications that power infrastructure in a Pakistani town was targeted as well. Troops are also clashing along the line of contact. This is as far as I know the biggest escalation in the region since the Kargil war. If this were any other two nuclear powers the world would be on a state of panic now. What are the culture war implications of a full scale nuclear war in South Asia?
UPDATE Unconfirmed reports that Pakistan is carrying out a military response, including air strikes on Indian bases in Kashmir.
UPDATE Pakistani Prime Minister has confirmed ongoing Pakistani military response. Heavy gunfire, artillery and air strikes heard on live feeds along the line of control on Kashmir
UPDATE Multiple Pakistani news outlets claim that Pakistan has shot down two Indian Rafael fighter jets.
orthoxerox
If you can read this, you're using a custom theme
1hr ago
Listening to some of the stories, that may even be to charitable to polyamory; Even the regular dating period for most young people had clearer expectations and less drama.
Hm, could polyamory of the non-harem type be a way of prolonging the dating period for those who are into it? There are probably borderline people around for whom "settling down" sounds like a death sentence. Sex on a schedule, chores and bills, taking your partner for granted... Forming a polycule means the fun part of serial relationships is always on the table: flirting, dating, etc. Even drama for those who like it. And if you don't, breaking up with 33% of your partners sounds less painful than breaking up with 100% of them.
SigurdsSilverSword
1hr ago
He is. Very openly.
Well I was never going to pay for the anime I watch anyways lmao.
I remember saying something that if trump actually wanted us to re-industrialize he'd say something like, "china doesn't respect our IP, so we won't respect theirs." I said that not expecting it would ever actually happen because I don't like him, but this could escalate in a really hilarious way. Actually, you know what? I'll make that my official position. If trump gets rid of american respect for foreign IP I will start unironically liking the guy.
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