CertainlyWorse
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CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
7hr ago
Interesting. While my ex-partner was largely pragmatic and saw the world mostly the same way I did, there were still times that I just needed to shut my mouth to keep the peace. I feel lucky now for what I had, at least in that way.
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1d ago
I'm on the high end instant coffee gig, and leaning into high caffeine black teabags. Happy where I am, no need to correct it.
CertainlyWorse
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1d ago
I think Kimmel was just throwing red meat to his followers and critically failed at reading the current political climate. I can understand why; he got away with highlighting Trump's inflammatory statements in low key victim blaming after the two Trump assassination attempts.
I think part of this though is that its the final straw in Kimmel's repeated stances on these kind of events (eg political violence is bad, but he kinda deserved it wink wink) and it had drawn the Eye of Sauron FCC attention. Whether Trump had a quiet chat to the FCC chairman about this is a seperate issue.
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1d ago
A few pounds of muscle on my bones made a world of difference.
There's a lot of low hanging fruit for making your life better.
People talk a lot about 'noob gains' and rapid early progress in muscle gain, but they don't talk enough about the early psychological effects of heavy resistance training on the indolent and sedentary. There's a large spike in hormones when you first start lifting that go a long way towards killing anxiety and reinforcing confidence and resilience.
Honestly its probably more impactful on male attractiveness than the physical toning itself.
I agree that its possible that the partner knew nothing (or at least thought the shooter was just being edgy/hyperbolic). It reminds me of observations of a friend before he took his own life. It was similar in that he was considering a massively life altering choice that his loved ones would disapprove of and send shockwaves through the lives of those around him. He pretty much managed to keep it hidden with only small hints that were only obvious in hindsight.
So, while I'm not entirely sold on the partner being completely innocent in all this, its probably best to go with Occam's razor until there's any new official revelations. Better than the alternative.
CertainlyWorse
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1d ago
I never really considered that users might be 'hiding their power level' from their spouses. Sounds exhausting, but considering the amount of polarisation in Western political discourse, its not that surprising.
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2d ago
Yeah I agree, it should be taken with a large grain of salt. Someone in their early 20's can change their views a lot from when they were 18. I'm not trying to focus on the partner's political point of view as much as their trans identity and the possibility their 'innocence' was deliberately telegraphed by actions pre-planned with the shooter.
I mean, how do you surprise your live in romantic partner with a political assassination? They really didn't see any signs?
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2d ago
Hoo boy. I don't have a solid link to confirm that, as referencing /pol/ is like pointing at yesterday's sandcastle on the beach.
Best I can do with the Peterson reference is this. I've got nothing for the AnCap thing, but you could do a deep dive on the partner's suspected reddit account history if you have a real interest in this.
In the chaos of the Charlie Kirk shooting, a lot of people forgot about the weirdness of the multiple arrests.
Apropos of nothing, I'd like to talk about a tangent that I picked up on in Patel's Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing today. He was directly asked by Senator Kennedy if there was the possibility that the shooter wasn't working alone. Patel said there were a number of individuals currently being investigated and interrogated by the Feds.
I'm pretty much caught up on the trans partner and their chat logs, but it seems like the FBI is doing a deeper dive into some of the other connections. Perhaps other users in the Discord channel of interest?
Does anyone else have anything on accomplices? Does the idea of the trans partner knowing nothing about the shooting seem a little suspect? I know the partner is apparently an AnCap follower of Jordan Peterson and immediately cooperated with the police, but the text logs seem a little off. Particularly when combined with an 'IT WAS ME!' note left by the shooter under his keyboard for his partner to find.
Edit: Additional links
CertainlyWorse
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5d ago
Pretty much. I'm sure they could figure out how to walk and chew gum at the same time, which is to create due process to protect against debanking due to social pressure, but still allow for banks to freeze accounts for defaulting and dodgy business practices.
For political requests it gets a bit thornier and requires some nuance. How do you seperate 'illegitimate' govt requests (eg Trucker protests) vs 'legitimate' govt requests (eg financial sanctions on Russia)?
shoe0nHead's reaction
I went and read all her tweets over the last few days. I really think the assassination genuinely shifted her political views and view of the current political climate. She seems quite distressed about the whole thing. Some of this would be because she is also a moderate influencer with a fairly large platform, who is married with kids. Many in that position (some on the left too) feel very vulnerable right now.
I think there's a large amount of people like shoe that thought a lot of the spicy takes and fascist labeling from the far left was just rhetorical larping. Now however it seems the radicals actually did drink the koolaid and see even moderate right wing influencers as goose stepping Hugo Boss enjoyers.
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6d ago
I don't think people should be debanked at all except for organised crime and terrorism. Even then I would expect justice dept or fintrac officials to make that call and not the banks or credit card companies themselves.
It should be know your client > report suspicious activities to the authorities > authorities ask judge for approval to debank > banks debank.
Not lobby group lobbies visa/mastercard > banks debank or even politicians ask banks to debank for expedient political reasons (Canada Truckers) > Banks debank.
Banks are like power and water utilities. Its not something you cut off in a modern society without very good reasons.
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6d ago
Then started hearing about "controversies" like "people are waving the German flag after winning the world football championship".
I couldn't believe it when I saw Angela Merkel's attitude to the German flag.
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7d ago
Someone who says "I think right wingers are bad people because the news told me they hate minorities and that's wrong." Is a good person, even if they're wrong on a factual level. Someone who says "Right wing people should die because the news told me they want to kill minorities" and sincerely believes it rather than merely exaggerating for rhetorical effect, is a monster.
This is the banality of Evil. What facilitates it is the socialisation of our youth into believing what they are told by authority figures or elites. This priming is mostly pro-social and allows mass programming so people can function in a society. Unfortunately if they listen to the wrong source they will believe crazy things that don't align with reality.
I wish to emphasise that last point. We have gotten so good at programming people that some do not trust their own eyes and ears. They are able to believe things like that a regular guy debating different ideas from themselves is an actual monster that must be slain.
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8d ago
“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms” ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
CertainlyWorse
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8d ago
The US political establishment is far more loyal to their donors than their constituents.
This is the biggest issue. Complete regulatory capture.
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8d ago
I'd say (as a complete normie) that you should take into account your morning routine and your willingness to operate the equipment as soon as you wake up.
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9d ago
Demand sharing is a terrible crab bucket that stops people from reaching escape velocity from an underprivileged life. I really sympathise for people that start out on hard mode. Many never had a chance.
It doesn't feel right to me that demand sharing is only a black/brown person thing. I've seen it growing up in white communities too.
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9d ago
I too remember the wave of Chinese mainlanders popping across to Hong Kong and the locals' reactions to young ladies wearing $10k+ outfits encouraging their toddlers to defecate out on the street.
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9d ago
Same with indigenous Australians. Demand sharing from family and friends is speculated to have roots in hunter gatherer societies.
I think its more that about the Eternal September of international travel driven by price and accessibility. In the old times they were sending their best for work and tourism. Now, not so much.
/pol/ was making a lot of hay about Thailand and more recently Philippines allowing 'short term' visa free entry from India for example.
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10d ago
I picked up Hollow Knight SilkSong. Played it for about 10 hours over a few days and then put it down because I'm not willing to invest the time to 'git gud'. There are some legitimate issues with the game's artificial difficulty, padding and grind, but really I just don't have the free time (or interest) to invest in iterative fights until I memorise combat sequences.
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10d ago
I see so many migrants who make the simultaneous arguments of 'the locals aren't skilled enough to do high skilled work' as well as 'the locals find low skilled work beneath them', with the general theme being 'the locals are lazy and incompetent, so give all the jobs to migrants'.
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10d ago
I honestly want to send a thank you note to the genious in the Police that gave the order.
The way that the head of the Metropolitan Police asked for the govt to 'review and clarify' the hatespeech laws makes me think the arrest has the whiff of malicious compliance.
Is this mostly an American thing? I have come across this in Australia, but its thankfully rare and any girl putting 'don't contact me if X is your politics' is doing both of us a favour. (Where X is almost invariably right wing views)
Most people here just don't talk about politics that much and if they do, they only do so briefly when dating.
I certainly pretend to be a disinterested centrist when dating, unless I think the girl genuinely aligns with my views.
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