SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
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SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
4hr ago
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6hr ago
It's pronounced "shitter" for a reason.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
7hr ago
I don't have any numbers but there's probably a reason you don't hear anything about similar utter devastation that's common in North American natives and Australian Aboriginals communities.
AFAIK more or less every human farming civilization has developed alcohol so most of the people in those who were at very high risk of alcohol dependency simply died off centuries or millenia ago and the rest developed physical and cultural resistance mechanisms.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
13hr ago
But what if the zeitgeist is all about how things are not on a good track? The 20th century artists wanted to explicitly wake people up from their slumber, so they don't think that everything is fine. To upset and shake people by the shoulders.
Eh. The fear of nuclear annihilation during cold war was by any sane definition about things not being on a good track but it resulted in a whole bunch of beautiful art (ie. music). See exhibits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and so on.
Art can be intentionally made to wake up people while being both beautiful and popular.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
13hr ago
There's one that has definitively met the high bar, which is the terrible disease resistance of Native Americans and Australian Aboriginals due to not having plagues until colonisation
Alcoholism resistance is another obvious one. The rates are just ridiculously higher than for any society that didn't move directly from being hunter gatherers to modern life.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
14hr ago
Hantaviruses are found all over the world and not that rare. There are around 100000 cases caused by different Hantaviruses per year globally. What's different is this strain sustaining spread between humans (but not particularly effectively).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
You're just really unlucky or surrounded by autists in a particularly woke environment.
I've worked in tech for the last 30 years and personally know of exactly one (1) trans person (and that's not via anything work related). She had obvious autistic tendencies (severe enough to prevent holding a steady job for very long) before transitioning.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
Honestly, who gives a shit?
This is a ridiculous flogged to death hobby horse some Americans insist on sticking to. Clinton had bad taste in women? So fucking what? That's completely and utterly irrelevant to literally anything at all other than keeping up juvenile kindergarten level "Clinton is a poohead"-rhetoric that mostly just tells how the complainer doesn't know when to give up when they have no actual criticism left.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
Hugo Weaving and Liv Tyler are just bad - the films in general just cannot do elves
Liv Tyler / Arwen simply shouldn't have been featured in the films beyond perhaps one short scene in Rivendell and another at the end. Expanding that role was a prominent example of how the film series was completely needlessly hollywoodized.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
My issue with the Hobbit trilogy is that it is abundantly clear that the studio wanted more LotR movies but the Hobbit is a very different work from Lord of the Rings in both tone and content.
Much of the WTF-ness of the Hobbit trilogy is explained by Del Toro noping out less than a year before the shooting started with the result that Jackson didn't have the preproduction or script finalized by the start date and the problems only got worse for the second and third installments with Jackson essentially having to go "Fuck this, let's just shoot something and hope we can edit it to something coherent".
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
9d ago
Should western powers have banned all political parties that took money and instructions from Russia
Yes. Alas, we can't change history, but better to start now than never.
Of course this has nothing to do with the parties being populist, communist or whatever.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
10d ago
I can't help thinking of a recent Ladbible Stories video I watched where they interviewed a British porn director named Dick Bush. That's not a stage name. His parents Christened him Richard Bush and nominative determinism took care of the rest.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
10d ago
In terms of policy, how is Trump any different than Bush 2.0
Bush didn't go out of his way to alienate every other US ally than Israel. That's a pretty major policy difference.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
10d ago
This would be more convincing if the Maori weren't well ahead in civilizational terms, despite being even more remote from Eurasia.
You are aware that the Maori only arrived in New Zealand in the 13th century, right?
Taiwanese indigenous people had agriculture back in 3000 BCE and took it with them when they spread to Philippines and around Melanesia (and then in the 13th century to New Zealand). The distances in Melanesia much smaller, so a bunch of related cultures with centuries / millenia of seafaring had no problem exchanging ideas and technology between them. That situation is completely different to Australia.
The revisited Harry Potter by Balenciaga is both hilarious and surprisingly a genuinely good parody. There are still AI tells all over the place but they honestly don't distract from the short film itself.
It also desperately needs a fanfic that tells the back story of how
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
12d ago
I can read the wikipedia article on gun politics in the EU.
I don't think you can because there is no such thing as "gun politics in the EU" (something people on The Motte very often fail to realize). There's gun politics in country X that happens to be in EU but those are all different between the countries.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
12d ago
cloud of violence
That’s climate change for you.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
15d ago
What did Azatoth ever do to hurt you so much that you have to compare him to Trump? That’s just rude, man.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
15d ago
Best to just go with "rained in".
SkoomaDentist
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15d ago
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
16d ago
in most of Europe that still requires Russian gas
In what alternate reality?
Most of Europe is very much not dependent on Russian gas for generating electricity, particularly for electricity that is at least somewhat time flexible.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
19d ago
Comrades, we found the fake Russian!
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
20d ago
I don't think they do. They certainly could but frankly their recommendation algorithms have always been utter garbage and they've gone out of their way to make it impossible for users to even manually help them. For example I can't say "Never recommend this artist for this playlist" nor can I say "Never recommend this album or song for anything (but do recommend other songs from this artist)". Their recommendations to playlists keep repeating the same small number of songs over and over and can't even distinguish multiple identical versions (so a playlist that has song X from the original album will get recommendations for song X from a compilation album).
This runs in parallel with them having a massive team to work on the Spotify client with the result that it has only degraded with time since people need to justfify their existence while the real development needs could be filled by just a couple of small teams.
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