BANNED USER: last straw
AhhhTheFrench
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Interesting that you clicked on this...I hope your day is going well and you're at least finding our conversation stimulating, if you're not finding it pleasant. Looking to reinforce your beliefs about about me? Dig up some dirt? Have at it! Only cowards and scam artists make their profile private.
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Banned by: @Amadan
AhhhTheFrench
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2mo ago
So are you saying you were watching MLP as a kid? Or are you one of the very weird people in that Wired article who is watching it as an adult? I watched the Disney afternoon lineup you mentioned, as a child home from school. I didn't turn it into a weird adult fandom with Baloo the bear fucking his sidekick Kit in Tailspin.
AhhhTheFrench
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2mo ago
I am firmly in the don't get it camp. I also have sort of a visceral disgust reaction towards Japanimation and that fandom. The stories seem stupid and the dialog is terrible, I don't know if that is just lost in translation or something?
AhhhTheFrench
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2mo ago
I have noticed this as well. It is literally crazy! If you have a normal USA wage you're a king in Spain.
AhhhTheFrench
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2mo ago
Don't worry too much about it, a lot of this lot are wanna be religious fanatics that don't have the courage of their convictions and authoritarians that don't have the power to actually impose their will on people. Just par for the course. The only power they have is a downvote on a fringe website that is slowly turning into stormfront.
AhhhTheFrench
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2mo ago
I don't understand MLP stuff, it is my extreme outgroup, like furries. Is it just being weird for the sake of being weird? Especially strange given the sexualization of kids cartoon ponies.
AhhhTheFrench
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2mo ago
By all accounts she kinda deserved it.
AhhhTheFrench
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3mo ago
The firefly episode is great, he just kicks him in to the engine and starts the same spiel with the next guy.
AhhhTheFrench
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3mo ago
Haven't Israel won though? They still exist and are expanding and expelling. Hasn't the US achieved no major islamic terrorist attacks or plots that aren't 90% federal agents in the us since 9/11?
AhhhTheFrench
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3mo ago
Nero was a pretty good ruler by the standards of the time. Just slandered by the winners.
AhhhTheFrench
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3mo ago
Ok then so this is just how you feel about athletic traits. Nothing objective or quantifiable. Just trying to understand, and now I do. It is cjet79's personal preferences.
AhhhTheFrench
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3mo ago
So you're just picking random genetic traits that you think are "athletic" and others that you deem "non-athletic", it is just a personal feeling then?
AhhhTheFrench
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3mo ago
To be consistent you would have to discount all genetic gifts or none of them. You can't do that without writing off sports/athletes as nothing but a ballistic glide path once you're shot out of the womb.
AhhhTheFrench
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3mo ago
I just don't understand your criteria, why is hand eye coordination ability athletic and height not? Why is a longer wingspan vs height athletic and not just height? Why are more fast twitch or slow twitch muscle fibers athletic and not height?
AhhhTheFrench
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3mo ago
I hear that, but you do know those names, without massive stacks they would never even have been in the conversation.
I found that study. Key correlations were in agreement with literature relating lower HR to greater physical aggression (r=−.17) and hostility (r=−.17)
Negligible results published for a headline. Not one of the greatest predictors of criminality.
AhhhTheFrench
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3mo ago
Surely it can tip tight races and there also must be a floor or a minimum amount one needs to run a campaign at all. It might not be THE factor but it is A factor for sure. If no one hears your message then it doesn't matter how good it is.
But all those traits are basically genetically determined, especially when you get to the top end of any sport, the silver medalist isn't silver instead of gold because they didn't try hard enough or something. They studied top swimmers and found long arms compared to torso length is very important.
AhhhTheFrench
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3mo ago
So wait I guess the better question is, what do you consider to be "part of athleticism"? Sounds like your getting on the hard determinist train. Welcome.
AhhhTheFrench
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3mo ago
This is all very confusing for me. So you think height is different from every other genetic advantage?
AhhhTheFrench
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3mo ago
"I don't consider height to be a key component of athleticism"....why?
AhhhTheFrench
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3mo ago
Why would this be forbidden? It was just a flu. Did something weird happen around it? I didn't see anything strange when clicking on the link. I say this as someone who thinks that covid was a gain of function lab leak.
AhhhTheFrench
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3mo ago
Trump himself has mocked the incident.
You're getting bogged down in semantics. You know what my point is, that this was a school shooter style kid who shot at trump instead of a classroom of kids, for the same reasons.
"They were definitely the type, and they did, make threats to shoot up our school," he said.
Although he and other classmates suspected Crooks himself was behind a threat, he said he had no firm proof. But after the threat came in, the future would-be >assassin didn't return to school for a few days.
Kid just needed to be better looking or not a weirdo and get laid. C’est la vie
AhhhTheFrench
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3mo ago
Considering @Recursive_Enlightenment's comment was regarding a conservative politician implying that the shooter would be a politically motivated leftist (hence picking an even more unpalatable VP to replace trump) As so many here often say, my thoughts on the matter were 'directionally correct', and so were yours, school shooter vibes, not deep state stochastic terrorist political assassin. Even a dead trump might have been ancillary to his true aim of acting out, suicide by cop, showing his anger at his own impotence, making a mark etc...
If we're not here for idle speculation on every topic under the sun, then what are we here for?
Friends and acquaintances are not there to be 'edified' by you. They are there to enjoy whatever interaction you're having or activity you are doing. If interesting info is exchanged in the process, then great! That can be part of it as well. But if you want to teach people, get a job as a teacher.
If you really can't be friends with people that don't share your world view, then that is certainly your prerogative, but perhaps focus on the things you do enjoy about being around them, all of this stuff is not anything that you or your new found liberal social circle are ever going to have any impact on.
Keep that shit online or in a personal journal, discussing politics can be fun with the right trusted people, but there is a time and a place. The football pitch or the bar with new friends isn't the place to go on an anti DEI rant or to tell people to throw their sim cards in the river because they are being tracked. No one likes a know-it-all with opposing views; even when they share your views it is off putting to be 'edified'.
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