4doorsmorewhores
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4doorsmorewhores
6d ago
You're attributing lack of travel during the pandemic to this? Why would people being afraid of corona virus disprove that there is a chilling effect? They're unrelated even if they possibly correlate.
4doorsmorewhores
7d ago
That might be true for you, although I'm unsure about the vagueness of "a lot of people." Obviously we're talking about larger trends for the general public - if you think that a travel ban for some small number of people for a year and a half will have had more of a chilling effect than all of the news hysteria about the recent ICE detainments then you aren't living in reality.
4doorsmorewhores
7d ago
What about June 2023 to November 2024?
4doorsmorewhores
7d ago
Couldn't you just go in June 2023 or September 2021?
4doorsmorewhores
16d ago
For most of English history a full English breakfast was considered to be kettled fish and some other gross shit, the recent changes are more present in our minds - living in current year - but broadly speaking if you ask a person from a random year in the last 1000, they'd think of English as fish-eaters, I think. Edit: Also Kippers
4doorsmorewhores
16d ago
This makes perfect sense if you've read Heideigger and Freud. The notion of the egg is easily understandable as the development of the id and superego as differentiable personality traits or development of the self, and being and becoming is basically a direct quote reference to Heidegger, lichtung etc. Reading this out of context without understanding the underlying work is like cracking open Topics in Orbit Equivalence by Kechris if you haven't read or understood Abstract Algebra by Judson. I'm not even a fan or deep-understander of this art movement but there is obviously some intellectual depth to the people who engage in this stuff.
4doorsmorewhores
16d ago
Literature as we mean in the common sense only really began in the mid 1800s and you could argue it peaked in that 1890-1920 period, or 1940-1960 period, or that it hasn't peaked yet, or is peaking now. This claim seems very fuzzy to me. Do you mean novels?
4doorsmorewhores
28d ago
The fact that you needed to pick a contrived example (Why just NATO, why not other western countries? why current defense % GDP spending and not a historical average? why is 65% of them doing it but 35% of them not doing it considered a success? why aren't we just comparing total or % of GDP expenditures against the USA's numbers?) sort of proves the point I was making. If Italy produced 80% of the EU's steel, whether or not there is some norm or rule in the EU rules or treaties, I would find it pretty fucking rich if 5 other countries made it an international incident that Italy isn't using it's steel output for X or Y industry after those same countries neglected their production and investment for years.
4doorsmorewhores
29d ago
I don't have much positive to say about Trump's foreign policy nominees or strategies but it's very funny to have seen every western country except the US ignoring all of their defense industries, spending, and global security, and then getting mad when the US doesn't spend those resources and materiel in the way they want.
4doorsmorewhores
1mo ago
Oh yeah my comment was for 2rafa thanks for letting me know I fat fingered it.
4doorsmorewhores
1mo ago
Principally I don't really have a bone to pick with you here, and many others are discussing the implications. However, still loads of addicts die all the time from overdose. Narcan prevents very few deaths, as you need to have it available, someone who uses it, and then having them actually contact 911 so they can get a second dose is not very common. Dementia is a progressive incurable disease, drugs aren't and the 99% number needs a lot of qualifying by you. Also there are alternatives to Narcan. E.g. intubation. We actually do this with specific overdoses of carfentanil. If a machine can breath for you, it doesn't matter if you're fucked up on opioids. Its the same — effectively — as Narcan.
Edit: Replied to wrong comment.
4doorsmorewhores
1mo ago
This piece has some interesting and well-written and well thought out passages, but I can't help thinking the conclusion is just too extreme. Trump and his political equals or coalition members obviously represent reactionary push backs against a lot of the left-wing political and social overreach, but claiming that it's an end of the open society, liberal personal focus, global interconnectedness, forbidding to forbid, when that Trump coalition embodies a lot of them just to a slightly lesser degree than the most progressive 'liberal' forces in society reminds me of how any curtailing of Christian social pre-eminence is met with cries that they're banning religion in society, when opponents on the other side would claim that they're just slightly removing some of their domination.
Obviously it's possible that this only began 5-10 years ago and the author is exactly right, and that Trump not embodying every single idea of where we're ending up doesn't prove we aren't in that direction - and credit to the author for trying to write some history in the middle of it happening (a difficult thing to get correctly) but I remain skeptical for the above reasons.
4doorsmorewhores
2mo ago
Kenneth Gaintermittently
4doorsmorewhores
2mo ago
That's quite true, and the dynamics of different body systems and what we eat/how we act is obviously not a solved system, but I would be happy with individual reviews of his practices of diet and supplements even if they amount to "X: 95% agreed by all very good and helpful, Y: 70% probably good but maybe is just targeting biomarkers and not getting perceived health benefits, Z: 40%, lacking evidence of claim, cutting edge practice by Mr Johnson"
4doorsmorewhores
2mo ago
Does anyone know of any reviews or analyses of Bryan Johnson's food guide/protocol? To me a large amount of this is obviously useful (eating well, sleeping properly, exercising, etc etc) but him also selling $50 packs of blueberries and supplements infowars-style suggests me that some portion of it might be grift. I'd like to see a rating of what's useful and what's more skeptical other than from the author himself.
4doorsmorewhores
2mo ago
That's why congestion pricing is a very small toll.
4doorsmorewhores
3mo ago
You can't do this to me on new years eve
4doorsmorewhores
3mo ago
Mentally preparing myself for when the Chiefs win a playoff game against a backup QB or a beat up team, have an uncharacteristically bad game from Allen/Jackson, then win the Superbowl 24-20 after a tight defensive performance, some questionable calls, and a late TD.
4doorsmorewhores
3mo ago
What do you think being a second class citizen in the USA vs a regular citizen in the UK entails? Being able to open a bank account? Having a SSN?
4doorsmorewhores
3mo ago
I write to it exactly the same I would a work email "Could you please X? And consider Y as well. Thank you", since I suspect most of it's training data is illegally harvested gmails or something and therefore more likely to mirror it's operations
4doorsmorewhores
3mo ago
Are you currently an american or brit?
4doorsmorewhores
3mo ago
Helicopters are very unstable and crash a lot.
4doorsmorewhores
3mo ago
Others have given good answers but you seem to be trending in this direction for a question of fundamental assumptions or what productivity or gain really makes. Try this:
The Expanse novel series fits this description very well.
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