100ProofTollBooth
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100ProofTollBooth
16hr ago
Details matter, and your outline of Saudi custodianship / colonial admin at least makes plausible sense. The idea that the Saudis will commit thousands of boots-on-the-ground troops to try to hold some sort of man made artificial border over/between southern Israel is nonsense.
The milestone to look out for, imho, is any of the major Arab states (so really just Saudi or Qatar ... the latter being very, very unlikely) endorse a relocation of Gazans to the West Bank.
100ProofTollBooth
16hr ago
Would recommend posting this in maybe the small scale thread for today asking for pointers on how to do things like this.
100ProofTollBooth
23hr ago
Non-consensual mind control is a capital crime, at least if you're not on a leash by a state.
So, uh, asking for a friend (that friend is the Culture War Thread)
What are your thoughts on social media and porn?
100ProofTollBooth
23hr ago
performing full population transfer and deploying international troops enforcing the border (and possibly also a temporary "colonial regime" to "dehamasify" the Palestinian state, run not by the Israelis but by some far-removed and suitably ruthless third party like the Chinese, or even the Saudis), would in fact be achievable and likely solve the problem.
Let's inject the number one strategic enemy of the west and/or a ruthlessly authoritarian monarchical regime into the most sensitive geopolitical spot on earth. The UN will also deploy troops to great effect; just look at their track record in Africa.
Is this a serious proposition, or am I missing some deeply nested online sarcasm and irony?
100ProofTollBooth
23hr ago
Best books (including audio books) on serial killers?
True crime, fiction, non-fiction are all fine. Doesn't need to be haute lit-ra-ture ... can be a dime store novel as long as it good.
Please and thank you.
100ProofTollBooth
2d ago
non nobis domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam
100ProofTollBooth
2d ago
Thanks for pointing that out.
Massive typographic error on my part. I don't stay away from veggies. Fixed in the original comment.
100ProofTollBooth
2d ago
Imagine how insufferable it would be for a normal gay man to date a gay Aziz Ansari.
100ProofTollBooth
2d ago
Her entire argument is just babies and tears
Funny - you could say this about both the left and the right regarding abortion today and not be wrong in either direction.
Politics is often silly.
100ProofTollBooth
2d ago
You looked great on the motorcycle!
Who was the jackass holding the phone case?
100ProofTollBooth
2d ago
This is a very interesting write up and I thank you for it.
Regarding the evidence standards in the first point - how is this not constantly abused by police?
Regarding the last point (which kind of answers my first question) - Again, it's just this insane reality that even the wealthiest European's (Scandi's) have long ago decided that at high standard of living is worth the wholesale trade of fundamental liberty.
100ProofTollBooth
2d ago
Unlike what you're saying I eat many more vegetables now, as well as fruit.
Wait, I think this is what I am saying?
100ProofTollBooth
3d ago
- Why did you fail? Make a list of reasons. Pick one or two to try and improve on.
- Pick a different project. Maybe make it related to your failed website.
- Project plan --> execution --> log and journal --> repeat.
There's no shortcut here and part of the only way to progress is to encounter and then surpass failure. This is a short comment because all of the content you actually need is in it.
This is the same content density of 98% of all self-help books.
Agree that "organic" types give me pause as well. Monsanto is just Gregor Mendel with a legal department. More food is pretty much always better in a global context.
Also agree that sugar isn't a "toxin" but that the highly refined granulated stuff (that is also present as a preservative in lots of foods) fucks hard with your pancreas and associated insulin cycles. That Type 2 Diabetes is now somehow mostly an acquired malady is evidence enough for this.
Re: "processed" foods, my general rule is to stay on the perimeter of the supermarket and, for main meals, that I must somehow be preparing the food via application of heat. If I'm not doing that, I should be conscious of what I'm eating; I don't have to "cook" milk, yogurt, cheese, nuts, nut butters, fruit, veggies. I should be the one cooking various meats. This is why I stay away from veggies (error), things in a can generally (massive exception here is canned fish).
Something I definitely overlooked: If you're eating at home for most of your meals, you're going to see results. For a variety of reasons, purchased full meals (anywhere from fast food to fast casual to sit down restaurants) is horrible for you. But that's the market meeting a demand. It is not the fault of "evil" corporations or mom and pop Italian restaurants.
100ProofTollBooth
3d ago
Saying one party is the party of the working class because slightly more than half of voters go for the other party while slightly less than half go for the same seems like it's drawing too strong a conclusion from too little evidence. Whichever poll you reference, characterizing the conflict as one of pure class comes across as slightly farcial. It is, however, consistent with my theory that the liberal-conservative conflict is sectoral (in particular, merchants and gentry versus professionals) and normative.
There's some parts of this that I might try to nitpick or reframe, but, broadly, I think this is well argued and an astute analysis.
100ProofTollBooth
3d ago
if you're done breeding you should probably skip the minor leagues and just get on TRT
What's the book on using TRT before or during trying to have kids?
100ProofTollBooth
4d ago
Whoops.
Link: https://www.natesilver.net/p/how-culture-trumps-economic-class
From the article:
In 2020, something unprecedented happened in recent American politics: Democrats won the wealthiest voters, or at least the wealthiest subgroup that the exit polls tracked that year (people making $100K or more). Among poorer voters, the story is more complicated. Biden did just a hair better with the white working-class than Clinton — not a lot better, but enough to get him over the finish line in the Upper Midwest — but considerably worse than her with Hispanics and slightly worse among Black voters.
100ProofTollBooth
4d ago
Then forget about learning how to do the job before you do it. You won't, and you might bring in some preconceived notions that actually hinder you.
- Work Hard
- Be willing to fail and then learn
- Ask for help
- Talk to people. Cold outreach e-mails work
- Understand you're going on probably the most difficult emotional journey of your life aside from a big relationship thing (wedding, divorce) or other family relevant stuff (birth of children)
100ProofTollBooth
4d ago
- Simply watching one's weight is sufficient to lose weight
- Survivorship bias: only the people who lost weight report it
Pretty much these two things. Most diets fail because the diet-er just stops.
100ProofTollBooth
4d ago
the Pope's rather unusual looking sculpture
Holy Fuck that's fucking metal as shit. Fuckin' Deus Vult, Bro.
As a tradcath (perhaps I need to downgrade myself to aspiring tradcath, thanks, @hydroacetylene) it's important to me that people realize the deep history of badassery present in religious art.
The 1970s Peter-Paul-and-Mary-ization of American Churches and hymns really did far too much to turn the aesthetics fake and gay.
100ProofTollBooth
4d ago
[1]: If you are into cryptocurrency, watch the episode of Alexi Friedman with the founder of Cardano on it. He talks for like 6 hours and says NOTHING. This is a good example of what a 2024 motte poster does in most top level posts.
My favorite part of that interview was him repeatedly saying "normies are too dumb to understand crypto so we can't let them use it. Also, it's very important that everyone uses crypto." He should'e had his wife's boyfriend review his notes.
100ProofTollBooth
4d ago
Trump won the >$100k/yr vote in 2020* and his electoral coalition was significantly whiter and older than Biden's.
I believe you are incorrect. [This Nate Silver article] specifically says it went the other way. More importantly, and to @jeroboam 's point ... the realignment is still happening.
@jeroboam - Re: your fact about major corp's donations; It was the NYPD and ... The United States Marine Corps. God Bless the Alcoholic Gun Cult.
100ProofTollBooth
4d ago
I feel like @FiveHourMarathon might have worthwhile input here.
He is of a noble lift-bro tribe that my elders (Mark Rippetoe) have told legends of.
100ProofTollBooth
4d ago
breaks the association
This isn't how your - or anyone's - body works.
Here's all of dieting summed up:
- Processed foods and sugar are the devil. You have to stop eating them completely. There is no other way.
- Put protein at the center of your diet. Every full meal you eat should contain a non-trivial amount of protein. Protein is meat, poultry, pork, eggs, and dairy. You can supplement (but not replace) with protein powders.
- Figure out if you are fat or carb sensitive. Most people just retain a lot more of one or the other. You do this by keeping track of what you're eating day-to-day, nothing how you feel (lethargic, tired, etc.), and then weighing yourself.
- Like sleep, regularity is important. Eat at the same times as much as possible (this is hard when traveling, I understand that). Snacks can be snacks in that they're smaller meals. They can't be absent minded. Plan your snacks.
- Hydrate
It's about the additive effect of multiple culture war angles:
All of this was on top of;
Were all of the bad things that happened at Woodstock '99 unique to it and no other large outdoor festivals? Obviously not. Were they an order of magnitude more extreme? I would also be doubtful. Were they more publicized? Absolutely. The original sinner here is actually MTV (specifically MTV news) who aped the Woodstock chaos non-stop for several weeks after and, I think, would occasionally do retrospectives on it or otherwise weave it into their programming even years on.
Now, as for the timing over the past couple of years, that I do not know. Maybe part of it were the deaths at Astroworld (with Travis Scott) serving as a memory refresher? That's just off the top of my head.
Are there any Mottizens who are regular or semi-regular festival goers? I most certainly am not, but would be very interested into what the median level of price gouging / blind eye to drug use / criminal activity / hostility and violence goes on at these kind of things.
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