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ToaKraka
Dislikes you
1hr ago
Activities that are both fun and cheap:
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Playing video games
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Reading
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Converting texts from print or PDF to HTML
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Watching video games on YouTube
t. zero friends and zero romantic partners
BahRamYou
1hr ago
The thing about being a bachelor is- it's not really a stable situation. My happiness comes and goes. Sometimes I get a girlfriend or enjoy casual dating, sometimes it's just an endless hell of being ghosted/ignored like @Skulldrinker. Sometimes I can have fun with friends, sometimes they ignore me to go focus on their families (and are not shy to tell me that they consider their families infinitely me valuable than a mere friend). Friends just come and go. Nobody wants to watch TV with me or play video games with me, kids these days do that by themselves at home streaming because that's so much more convenient. But you can hire someone from epal.gg to do those things with you that's, uh... sorta like having a gamer girl gf.
Skulldrinker
2hr ago
Actual physical hugging with no dating apps involved. This is a woman who I met at a show, she turned up to one date, we had a great time, then every single date since then she bailed on until I got the message and stopped asking. Then I bump into her again and she runs over and hugs me. I asked her out again, she said yes, then bailed. Three months later, I run into her yet again, get that same reaction, ask her out again, she says yes, she bails, I stop going places where I might run into her.
And the online courtship scene doesn't function.
This fits but I actually thought of the Praetorian Guard too when it comes to the Roman analogies.
When dealing with the contemporary version of it, I hope we don't have to wait as long as the Romans did for Severus Septimius to put the Praetorian Guard in its place.
SteveKirk
2hr ago
Conservatives were stupid enough to think these weapons were only going to be used against Osama bin durka durka jihad, which is why all the original "counter-terrorism surveillance tools" had foreign activity requirements.
None of them ever suggested using them against domestic political opponents, and naively believed Democrats would also consider that out of bounds.
If I was going to own up to how stupid I think conservatives and their politicians are, I would be at it all day and inevitably get banned.
Primaprimaprima
Bigfoot is an interdimensional being
2hr ago
I think you're implying that we've become too ideologically homogeneous and people's viewpoints aren't being challenged often enough here. Maybe that's true if you restrict yourself to only looking at "basic" culture war issues - Trump, trans issues, DEI, etc. But if you look at the total range of issues that get discussed here, we have lots of arguments over lots of things. We have plenty of substantial disagreements with each other.
It would be better if we had more "garden variety" leftists who were anti-Trump, pro-trans, etc. so we had more ideological diversity, but, the reasons for our lack of leftists have already been discussed ad nauseam.
I also see that you haven't made a top level post in the last 3 months. You are the forum. If you think the posts here are low quality, then write the kinds of posts that you would prefer to read.
zeke5123a
2hr ago
Court intrigue and usurpers seem categorically different from the modern assassin.
BahRamYou
2hr ago
Yeah it's a weird double-mission in the modern era. I guess it made more sense in the wild west days, when they were more like frontier super-policemen.
Botond173
2hr ago
I'm not sure I understand if HBD has some unified perspective on this. While I see darker hispanics, most hispanics I see are majority European.
It's because Hispanic is a linguistic category, not a racial one.
SteveKirk
2hr ago
Did anyone who complains about "trumpers" ever complain about the opposite, or it is just usual tactic of "identify the community population as problematic, suggest doing something about them"?
zeke5123a
2hr ago
I doubt many people here are Trumpers. They are probably better described as anti anti trumpers.
2rafa
2hr ago
Fair enough, I just think conservatives should own up to the ways in which politicians they elected are in part responsible for the dramatic escalation in state surveillance of financial transactions and other data in search of allegedly malicious actors.
hanikrummihundursvin
2hr ago
'Wow, a viewpoint or topic I don't agree with? This place is getting a bit too low brow for the likes of me'
You are equal to a Fox News viewer, believe it or not. You just come at it from a different direction.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2hr ago
And Americanization programs in public school systems.
MaiqTheTrue
Zensunni Wanderer
2hr ago
I’m gonna agree here. We haven’t had a situation like this since the civil war — both sides absolutely believe that the nation will be in grave danger if their guy doesn’t win. They’re not going to simply cower in the corner and do nothing when they believe that the country’s future is in the balance. There’s a not insignificant number of people on the left who believe that Trump is Hitler with a bad combover, and likewise a substantial number or people on the right who believe that Biden is a Mao or Stalin. Furthermore, the belief on both sides that the election is being manipulated in various ways creates even more tension as the losers can absolutely believe that the president in question cheated.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2hr ago
Trump is Tiberius Gracchus
On which of these other places would you see a comment like this implying that readers know who Tiberius Gracchus was?
The Tea Party wasn't coopted by the mainstream GOP, it became the mainstream GOP. When Ted Cruz could force a government shutdown and the Tea Party could force Boehner out of power, they're the ones with the whip hand.
Edit: Lest we forget, the big representative of the GOP 'Establishment' (a vacuous concept to be sure -- Trump is the establishment) this year, Nikki Haley, was elected as a Tea Party Republican, originally.
And, of course, Boehner himself was originally elected all the way back in 1990 as part of a micro-anti-establishment wave with particular bugaboos about corruption and the GOP Establishment being gentleman losers. But, of course of course, they actually were corrupt, gentleman losers when Boehner was elected, having not held Congress in 40 years, and there actually was genuine Congressional corruption he could attack, like the House Bank scandal. It's just an eternal cycle with the Republican Party.
urquan
The end desire of the system is Kubernetes for human beings
2hr ago
It’s still fascinating to me we got the people who investigated money to be the presidential guard. I guess all around they’re there to make sure the presidents’ face stays intact.
urquan
The end desire of the system is Kubernetes for human beings
2hr ago
Bill McKinley
I definitely had to look this up, you’re talking about William McKinley. I didn’t recognize the name from the list of presidents stuck in my head, I thought you were talking about some other politician.
laxam
3hr ago
It has been quite the journey over the last decade seeing this general space, in its various homes, drift from being a place for a variety of dissenters, idle imaginers, original thinkers, and malcontents to being just another space for Trumpers to get together and gripe about everyone but themselves.
Or "AI has two letters, my plan for alignment."
Moofy
Chacrinha of Cold Brazil
3hr ago
Wikipedia says their black population is 10%, i.e. a smaller percentage than what the US has.
Going deeper into this, the Wikipedia article on the Demographics of Brazil makes it seem as though only those with almost entirely African ancestry are counted as black (at 7.6% of the population) and then indicates that 42% are classified as Pardos (with a mixture of white, indigenous, and black ancestry). The article on Pardo Brazilians includes some genomic analysis that indicates between 10 and 30% African genomic ancestry for Pardos in most areas, and that in many areas, those classified as black have at least 40% European genomic ancestry.
Red Tribe will, Blue Tribe won't. For two reasons. One, Red Tribe believes more in the institutions and will yield them rather than engage in a fight that would most likely destroy them. Two, Red Tribe learned what happened when it does more than cower in the corner on January 6, whereas Blue Tribe has been learning the opposite lesson since the '60s.
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