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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
3hr ago
Well, that seems misleading. The Iron Dome is exclusively defensive.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
6hr ago
Nicole Shanahan
Huh. I thought Musk only dated weirdo art hoes, I didn't realise he was a man of culture as well.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
6hr ago
After looking up the data, Israel gets $350 per citizen almost exclusively for war.
By "exclusively for war" are you including funding for the Iron Dome and other defensive measures?
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6hr ago
Are we playing five degrees of separation here? I have not seen credible claims that he is personally a member. His mother was reportedly active in the Egyptian MB (EMB, henceforth) in the 1970s, and reportedly he defended a friend who was imprisoned for funding the EMB in 2021.
One degree of separation is a lot less than five.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
7hr ago
New Year's resolution check-in:
- Went to the gym three times last week. I can deadlift 1.82x my bodyweight, squat 1.33x and bench press 0.82x.
- Have not consumed any pornography since waking up on January 1st.
How goes it @self_made_human, @thejdizzler, @birb_cromble and @ThomasdelVasto?
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
7hr ago
Forgive my sarcasm, but: yes, and some women are taller than some men and are really interested in computers.
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8hr ago
I think Presidential races tend to be much closer (aside from Obama in 2008, the margin of victory has been 5% or less in every race this century), which inevitably leads to noisier poll results. Midterms don't seem to be as close, for whatever reason.
the most hardcore anti-Rowling folks on the left immediately stopped accusing her of being anti-semitic the moment October 7 happened.
Did they? According to Spiked they were accusing her of Holocaust denial as recently as March 2024. I think the specific claim was that denying that trans people were one of the primary targets of the Holocaust is tantamount to Holocaust denial, but they were obviously hoping people would interpret this accusation as a denial of the Holocaust in toto.
I'm more than a little alarmed by the number of people who actively foment hatred against Jews and yet who are willing to use baseless accusations of antisemitism as a cudgel against people they despise for unrelated reasons.
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23hr ago
Also, maybe don’t make the gnomes working in the bank Jewish stereotypes.
I've heard this claim so many times and I still think it's a massive reach. The claim that was intended as a jokey allusion to the gnomes of Zurich seems vastly more believable to me.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
Seconded Hitchhiker's. I read the first one when I was about that age and loved it.
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2d ago
True, the Irish state doesn't directly furnish weapons to Hamas. It has, however, donated over €68 million to UNRWA in the last twenty years, and a significant proportion of UNRWA staff are known to have participated in the October 7th attacks.
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2d ago
I find the idea that Abdul would need to mirror the US support for Israel if it become pro-Palestine questionable I think I pro-Palestine America would look a lot more like Ireland than Iran.
I'm not sure if this argument expresses the point you intended it to. Most people in Ireland virulently hate Israel, turn a blind eye to Hamas's activities and are happy to donate money to organisations which are, at the very least, affiliated with Hamas.
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2d ago
Ender's Game has a child protagonist, but the violence might be a bit excessive for a ten-year-old.
When I was that age I read this collection of Philip K. Dick stories and don't remember any of them containing anything too objectionable.
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2d ago
I'm in exactly the same boat as you. It's still a funny line though.
(I'm also not bisexual, but on at least one of the three times I caught Covid, certain symptoms lingered for months after the acute symptoms had passed.)
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2d ago
Are you going to shoot a guy in a wheelchair?
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2d ago
IIRC Pinker quoted exactly this to buttress his argument.
I gave up on A Gentleman of Leisure about fifty pages in. It hadn't elicited so much as a chuckle.
Last year I bought my dad Steven Pinker's book When Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows..., about the concept of common knowledge. He enjoyed it and lent it to me. I wanted an easy read, so I started it on Tuesday. Richard Hanania's argument about the deficits of non-fiction books certainly applied here, and it did give the feel of being unnecessarily padded. In particular, even outside the chapter which was specifically about humour, there were an awful lot of references to sitcoms and jokes (I don't mean Pinker himself cracking jokes: I mean him reciting jokes told by other people to illustrate his points). I was also broadly familiar with most of the arguments he touched on. But for all that, it was absorbing enough that I'd finished it by Thursday evening.
Perhaps the only surprising part of the book came near the very end, in which, as part of a chapter about academic freedom more broadly, Pinker more or less outs himself as a HBD enjoyer. His argument, in effect, is that scientists should deliberately avoid investigating the question of whether there are differences in intelligence between the various ethnic groups, as it's simply something we don't need to know, and were it to be proven true, people would use that information to indulge their worst prejudices. I interpret this as a tacit admission that Pinker thinks that certain races are more intelligent than others, on average: if he didn't, why would he be advocating for intentionally burying our heads in the sand? This passage felt eerily familiar to me, and I realised that Scott (who wants to duel Pinker to the death) has already done the endorsing-HBD-without-technically-endorsing-HBD thing at least twice: once in Kolomogorov complicity and once in his review of Freddie deBoer's The Cult of Smart. (I'm curious if deBoer thinks scientists ought to investigate the question of whether races differ in average intelligence, and if not, why not.)
I received a gift, an adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird in comic book form. It occurred to me I haven't read the book itself since I was in secondary school, so this might be a fun way to reintroduce myself to it. A snack between meals before my copy of The Camp of the Saints arrives.
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2d ago
Hire a genuine leftist or two into the mod team and then consult them when issues arose in regards to modding leftists.
I have to be honest: implementing two-tier policing/sharia courts in moderation decisions is an objectively hilarious suggestion for how to run a forum.
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3d ago
The ad explicitly claims that Americans cannot afford groceries because the money is being set aside to kill Palestinians, not Iranians, so I question the relevance of the war in Iran.
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3d ago
"Occasional CIA informant" suggests to me something very different from "worked for the CIA" or "documented CIA handler".
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3d ago
Sure, but a large portion of commenters think he was a terrible poster who should have been banned.
Okay. So what? He wasn't.
Is there a particular account you have in mind.
I do, but I'd rather not say.
Do you think I'm him?
No.
And I've yet to see a single one of darwin's comments that people could bring up as an example of his supposed poor behavior that rightists don't mimic in the other direction while receiving a free pass.
Well, plenty of Darwin's bad behaviour was expressed in comments that received a free pass. The aforementioned crashout over JK Rowling did not incur any mod actions, so far as I can see.
I highly doubt that's how he would see it.
I agree with you that he would claim not to see it that way. Still seems like the most parsimonious explanation.
His original account is not banned so I don't see why he'd need an alt.
Simple: to escape the reputation the previous alt (guesswho) had accrued. I don't think he ever created an account under the username "darwin2500", so creating the "guesswho" account wasn't done for reasons of ban evasion.
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3d ago
I'll never understand the contention that Darwin was treated shabbily by the mods or by the userbase (if anything, I think the former treated him with far more patience and forbearance than he really deserved), nor that he was "chased out". He made a series of demonstrably false or misleading claims about JK Rowling, multiple people pointed this out to him, and he was so embarrassed at being shown up that he simply stopped posting. It's not like he was facing torrents of abuse or harassment.
It's also absurd to claim that he was "chased out" when there's a good chance he's still posting here under another username.
Surely you can agree that sending someone a thousand AK-47s is a very different proposition from sending them a thousand Kevlar vests.
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