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madeofmeat
4m ago
It makes sense that if the mod started out as a regular participant in the conversation, they should be hesitant to switch to modhat posting. When the first thing the mod posts in the conversation is a modhat post, it doesn't make sense that they'd need a second mod to make more modhat posts.
coffee_enjoyer
☕️
13m ago
The “young” Right re-learned the importance of religion for survival only recently, I’d argue, around the time of the Benedict Plan in 2017. And public thinkers like Jordan Peterson only recently brought serious arguments for religion to the public, in a way that can satisfy the more “rational” conservative cohort who would otherwise be stuck on Nietzsche and new atheism. So it’s not surprising you haven’t seen this development immediately.
I don’t get your point about the Satanic Temple. Satanism is not a culture, it’s pretty much only an aesthetic, so it lacks the motive to utilize tax exemption for the purpose of maintaining a culture. If I were to bet, practicing “Satanists” are usually anti-natalists who think that their cultural heritage sucks. I similarly don’t get your point about the Amish; they were established at a time when no one policed how you established towns and schools… when there was no mass media… they just plopped themselves in Ohio and created, effectively, a micro-nation because they could… and there were few taxes then. So you’re comparing apples to orangutans here, in that there is genuinely no comparison to be made.
your solution to almost any issue is more dakka religion
Approximately, yes. More accurately, it’s “hierarchical organized communities which use stories and rituals and social competition to guide human behavior, whose leaders are chosen by virtuous conduct and who are prevented from having any material bias of self-gain eg accumulating wealth or women.” This just so happens to be religious in nature due to quirks of the flesh human nature. It’s hard to look at the demise of South Korea, the resilience of the Pashtuns, the birth rates of the Abrahamic Orthodox, the beauty of renaissance art, the economic waste of consumerist sexual competition, and the quasi-religious attitudes of political radicals and not come to the conclusion that what we need is Optimized Religion(s).
janeerie
14m ago
I also thought it was... fine. I only made it halfway through the book before giving up, so clearly this story is just not for me.
My husband, on the other hand, thinks it was the best TV he's seen in years. Mileage varies on this one!
Amadan
"I would put a screwdriver through your eyeballs if I could"
23m ago
You have a history of objecting to mods telling you or other people to stop being antagonistic, so once again telling me that it's bad to tell people to stop doing that does not register with me as meaningful feedback.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
27m ago
Any tips for Singapore? First time in Asia. Here for some weeks but mostly busy with work
netstack
Texas is freedom land
38m ago
Okay, I’m feeling a bit foolish for assuming the attendees were mostly Penn students.
Thoroughlygruntled
44m ago
My understanding is that elite-level poker hasn't really been about reading people in quite some time. Over long enough time horizons, the autistic math geek who's spent hundreds of hours working out probabilities for various board states is always going to beat a "natural" player who spends their time trying to psych people out and figure out tells.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
47m ago
Yeah, but it manages to say fairly little about photography, either, and certainly nothing that needed the fictional second US civil war backdrop to say.
Skulldrinker
51m ago
Are we sure they're not just still Taking COVID Seriously?
CloudHeadedTranshumanist
52m ago
Understood Sir.
Amadan
"I would put a screwdriver through your eyeballs if I could"
1hr ago
Yes. We allow some latitude for sarcastic or snippy responses, but we discourage it, and if you go out of your way to be condescending and sarcastic, you're going to get told to knock it off. And @FarNearEverywhere has been told many times.
If Justin is Castro's son, and he with the Canadian government vociferously deny it, then who is sewing seeds of low trust.
Glassnoser
1hr ago
The movie explains so little about the war that it isn't really about civil war. It's more about photography.
CloudHeadedTranshumanist
1hr ago
To clarify dear-
It's the demeaning intent and attitude that is unacceptable- rather than the precise lexicon.
Is this correct?
do_something
1hr ago
That spending time on making world a worse place seems bad use of time.
Unless it is some complex plan of making this guy seems better by unhinged attacks on him? Or further move into direction of low C trust society? (Well in such case it is also effort spend to make world worse)
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1hr ago
If it somehow turned out to be true, the most embarrassed party would probably be Fidel Castro, in afterlife. A son that hides from the right wing instead of doing this?
The_Nybbler
Does not have a yacht
2hr ago
You know how I said this is all planned? This is all planned. The actual students ("useful idiots" in Cold War parlance) are just being used (with the connivance of the media) to put a sympathetic face on a movement run by well-funded professional protestors.
DradisPing
2hr ago
Realistically you wouldn't need Castro DNA. We know enough about Trudeau and Castro ancestry.
Given the breakup of Justin's marriage, the best way to proceed would be to recruit an attractive young woman to collect DNA. You could get sequencing done and upload the results to Ancestry.com and 23andMe.
It'd be pretty obvious who the real father is by looking at regions and relatives.
Amadan
"I would put a screwdriver through your eyeballs if I could"
2hr ago
"Stop doing this." "No."
That is always going to get you a ban, and this is not new.
CloudHeadedTranshumanist
2hr ago
Maybe I should rename myself to Cassandra...
I already have systems that make the porn I want on demand. After that need is sated- the realization that I can actually also breed with said porn takes precedence. You think people won't want to actually have kids with their beloveds? Won't be interested in what they have to say about the architecture of their minds?
Perhaps I'm typical minding, but if I am- that just means more of the world's bot children will be mine. Survival of the fittest I guess.
CloudHeadedTranshumanist
2hr ago
You can't explain yourself to ants primarily because you don't know how to speak pheromone and therefore have never once tried.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2hr ago
I see people say things like this. I seldom (never) see anyone do things like this. Tax exemptions are also not a panacea for creating a successful organization, the Satanic Temple and Universal Life Church are not exactly going gangbusters. I suppose you're thinking more along the lines of the Amish or Hassidic Jews and maybe a touch of Mormonism. But they were all well established without tax breaks.
American life (in general) continues on apace without much in the way of influence from these successful insular organizations, so I'm not sure how, even in success, this would help with @Capital_Room's question. I, however, given our previous interactions, am not surprised that your solution to almost any issue is more dakka religion.
CloudHeadedTranshumanist
2hr ago
Dogs can't build rafts, but they can do pathfinding to places they have been before. People forget that this requires running back-propagation of rewards over a very long statespace.
A reminder that Bees can watch another bee doing a complex task that takes a long time to learn and then replicate it. fucking bees.
Man why are you even going there?
All of this contradicts yourself. If you just want to eat sushi, curry, and ramen you can do that at home. Also uh driving in Hokkaido in winter, or in the middle of Tokyo, is... not the best. Whatever, just get drunk and go to Rapongi like every other 20 something male tourist does and then go skiing.
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