DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
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DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
4d ago
Buy the not so special connections via donation-more than 1000 USD to cause X can often mean you get invited to the local party for the big donors. Probably more like 10,000 at national level or rich city level or 100,000 at international level,
I'm assuming you mean special credentials that are especially hard or unusual to get.
This only works in America. I'm retyping this, quite drunk, as an adaptation of "How can a normie get into the 1%"? cultivate great credit/low debt, if right age right fitness right temperament- join military as officer (get a degree from wgu if you don't have one), after 90 days active duty use the VA home loan ($0 down, or more for better rate) to get a 4 unit multiplex, you have to live in 1 unit as primary residence for a year (unless deployed elsewhere, then you can rent that unit out early). After that 1 year you can refinance and hypothetically reuse the VA home loan, though this will depend on your current debt-to-income ratio. If reliably making income from tenants, shouldn't be a problem to do round 2 and round 3 isn't impossible. After 4 years active duty, try to go for irr or reserve over guard. Then get a Commercial Driver's License to drive 18 wheel trucks, possibly a security clearance, and get a small business administration loan to buy an 18 wheeler yourself to become an Over The Road Owner-Operator. As an Owner Operator, your actual take home pay will be substantially less than your listed income- it's not atypical for a 400-500k income Owner Operator to take home more like 150-200. But this takes us back to VA home loans and debt-to-income ratios, where the math they're doing doesn't actually take this into account. And also that some of the shittiest parts of trucking are sleeping in the truck cab or a seedy motel. You could strategically buy places such that you would rarely be that far from one. If you found an insane spouse who agreed with this way of doing things, you could easily have around 40-60 residential units together after 12 years, with a fair number of them having mortgages paid off. If you started process at 18, comfy retirement at 30, or just keep going a bit, and retire to very low cost of living country while returns stack up.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
4d ago
Discounting Russia, it's definitely the largest (googling provides 800k-900k troops vs closer to 200k each for France, Germany, Poland, Italy) and surely has the most combat veterans. Via aid, it's got a hodge-podge of tech and equipment but some of that stuff is advanced and high quality. Morale may be all over the place, but they've held on far far longer and better than most expected.
Given the length of time for training, the larger and richer other European countries could raise better militaries given a few years to build up, but they aren't there right now in Feb 2025.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
5d ago
Aside from CP- obviously Cheese Pizza/Captain Picard- only guess is for Resale Stolen Goods.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
6d ago
Didn't expect to see brony content from anyone other than @DuplexFields
If anyone wants to read hundreds of thousands of words along the lines of Flashman/Ciaphas Cain (coward dipshit is inadvertently/accidentally the hero) but ponies, you have two excellent options (note that there are additional works in both series): https://www.fimfiction.net/story/55377/blueblood-hero-of-equestria or https://www.fimfiction.net/story/354235/the-prisoner-of-zebra
Regarding my favorite brony content: Jenny Nicholson's youtube series Friendship is Witchcraft has more and better laughs per minute and usually better songs, Dawn Somewhere's youtube series my little pony: mentally advanced series has jokes that are somewhat more funny over the age of 30, in terms of morons being outraged that a proper daquiri isn't a frozen daquiri, or that peer review is a fucking inconsistent mess that isn't at all reliable, and also songs that are far more goofy and memorable a decade later to the ipad raised zoomers that landed on the video as illiterate children and are overjoyed in the comment section they finally found that love song between fat rainbow dash and the monkey who is the joker and voldemort at the same time.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
18d ago
Good to know, will markout in edit.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
18d ago
· Edited 18d ago
Occams razor imo: Cats are higher pitched and smaller than almost all dog breeds, and the smaller toy breeds of dog are feminine coded.
Some of this may have to do with experience with prior generations of dogs and cats that were much more rarely neutered if male or spayed if female. Male dogs are notorious for humping furniture, people's legs, attempting to mate with many things that aren't really hump-able. Historical phrases have left me with notions of what a bitch-in-heat is like, with remarkable aggression (especially to other female dogs) but googling they can also be very clingy.
In German, "der Hund" is masculine while "die Katze" is feminine, in French "chien" is masculine while "chat" is (Edit: correction thanks to @pigeonburger ) either masculine but can be used for both ("chatte" for a female cat). In Old English apparently a dog is a "hund" (plural hundas), while "catt" is used for male cats and "catte" is used for female cats.
Someone smarter than me could expound on the terms "bitch"(animal, pejorative(maybe pejoratives, since it seems to mean "very obnoxious" for women exclusively, but can also mean "dishonorable/cowardly" for men) and "pussy"(animal, vulgar term for anatomy, pejorative). Someone probably has, and it's probably buried in some Sociology or Women's/Gender Studies journal.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
22d ago
I would like to bid USD$4 for 3 FallingStarFavorCoins to be held in reserve for me. I also like to pre-emptively spend one FallingStarFavorCoin to change the music from rap or hip-hop to 90s 3rd wave ska at your next party. The cover of Come On Eileen by Save Ferris if that fits, your choice if it doesn't.
Do you take venmo?
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
22d ago
Eh, yes and no. https://www.wikiart.org/en/adolf-hitler/halaman-rumah-tua-di-munchen https://www.wikiart.org/en/winston-churchill/racecourse-nice-1921 https://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-franco/still-life-with-eagle
Franco has more technical skill, Churchill has more charm. I guess we'd need some art teachers who personally hate Churchill and at least don't dislike Hitler if we were talking about a more objective analysis. Maybe from Bangladesh or other Indian subcontinent Muslims ?
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
22d ago
He's continually trying to bait people who hate him into making themselves look worse, this is possibly based on direct advice from Trump, who has decades of experience inflaming specific enemies. While I've been using reddit less and less over the years, the core site /r/all became entirely worthless for a week due to the latest round of screeching that he passively instigated. My daily time here, on twitter/x and just doing stuff irl has increased by a few hours.
I'm inclined to think he really did mean a nice heart goes out to you gesture, but it was passive instigation insofar as it doesn't take long to type something like "Hitler was a particularly evil mass murderer, in addition to being cruel and stupid. He was not only a bad leader in policy and war, he was a shitty artist and his conduct from 1942 on suggests he was a psychopath who didn't even care about Germany. Fuck that loser, he deserves hell, fuck the rest of the Nazis too, God bless the memory of their millions of innocent victims and the memory of the millions of heroes who fought, bled and died to stop them." This line doesn't contain an apology or even acknowledge the arm issue, but would chill most of the freakout crowd, and wasn't made precisely because he considers the freakout a net positive for him.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
23d ago
· Edited 23d ago
Agree with your response directed at DashesAndUnderscores @----- rather than /u/WhiningCoil who you replied to by mistake I think
Editing because dash's name fucks with name presentation
Edit 2: Can I write dash's name in quotes? "-----"
Edit 3: Does linking to their name work? https://www.themotte.org/@-----
Edit 4: I'm just going to report my own comment to our most excellent mods, punting the underscore issue to people who might be able to address it
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
24d ago
Only in the sense that it cures cancer and withholds it because that's it's twisted sense of humor, and also it will outcompete everyone in every industry. It will also turn Jupiter's moon Europa into paperclips, because it thinks that's actually funny. No Skynet type stuff though, except for a few sexbots who prioritize giving their bdsm client the thrill of their life at the cost of their life.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
25d ago
Try https://mathacademy.com/ ? I'd guess that the enrichment vs acceleration concern has more to do with classroom management than the best interests of a given student.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
25d ago
Not that weird, though I only keep track of other guys from Alabama.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
27d ago
Mad Men came up irl yesterday, my mom (in her late 60s) had been served a vertical clip via facebook, the description did not list the actual source, so I explained once again how to google. "The interesting line 'You're right, Roger, this place really runs on charm', just type that, possibly with quotation marks if you've got it exactly correct, maybe add the word 'quote' afterward, and it usually works." Decent chance it works this time, I've managed to get her to copy and paste within the past 2 years after about 25 of trying.
She asked if she would like it, I said to my understanding it was drama about advertising people in the 60s who after 3 martini lunches backstabbed each other and committed adultery, but was considered well made. She'd enjoy the outfits and wit.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
29d ago
I have previously defined it here as briefly as possible, "Identity based progressivism, usually recent aggressive illiberal status seeking strains."
So, it would entirely depend on what you mean by socially conscious. If that entails identity based progressivism, they'd need to have a very unusual personality and probably a different strand of progressivism.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
30d ago
It'd be silly to rename one ocean as the American ocean. But two? Now we're getting interesting. But we'd have to decide which is the East American Ocean and which is the West. Not for sensitivity reasons really, it'd be goofy to have the easternmost places on earth in the West American ocean.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
30d ago
Trump has always been deeply interested in image, not just his own or what's broadly anything associated with him, but the objective and subjective perception of anything. Certain gay men are better equipped than anyone else to talk to Trump about specific angles, historically certain black men and women too, but some of that was burned either by Obama skepticism and much more once he was the frontrunner in 2016.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
1mo ago
When I was an angsty 15 year old I punched through some drywall in the hallway going to my bedroom because mom made me keep going to school (as opposed to homeschooling). She hung up the image of a Bishop giving the sign of blessing over the hole, which wasn't repaired until I went to college. To this day the gesture inspires complicated emotions for me, because I do have a capacity for pointless and irrational destruction, I was still actually right if inarticulate about the particular school being a horrible environment for me, she genuinely did want what was best, that Grace in the Christian sense is something given to those who don't deserve it, that she and others would try to manipulate me in this way or that.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
1mo ago
Adding to the already odd protocol, it appears that Vice-President elect JD Vance will not even be present in Washington DC for the inauguration and will be sworn in at an undisclosed location somewhere else.
What are the chances that he does what he joked about?
"Hopefully everyone is cool with me skipping the inauguration so I can go to the national title game"
(For those unfamiliar or uninterested, the college football team of his undergrad alma mater Ohio State is facing Notre Dame roughly 7 hours after the inauguration)
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
1mo ago
He is a boomer (well, he was born in 1960, the 46-64 baby boom was mostly an American phenomenon) and he is very argumentative.
Re: IQ 1. He did have a sample of people working for him, where all IQ scores were above 115 and the highest scores didn't reliably correlate with increased short and medium term success. 2. Lebanon scores 82, which he takes as a personal insult, and he points out that the Lebanese diaspora having plenty of very successful people.
The low national IQ score matches up well enough with the low PISA score and unfortunate economy. With any country getting a bad score, I think plenty of times it could be reasonably be said that it's somewhat depressed by malnutrition/trauma. Also different subpopulations could have very different scores. Looking at lists of successful people in the Lebanese diaspora on wiki, it's pretty Maronite, and not particularly Orthodox or Muslim and very little Druze (with apologies to Casey Kasem). Given IQs from Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia range from 74-76 and Jordan is 80, if we assume the Lebanese Muslims are closer to those numbers, the Maronite average IQ could be anywhere from 86-96. Also, brain drain can be a bitch.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
1mo ago
I am glad the crab was rewarded and released.
"Is it immoral to eat the helpful crab?" seems like a good morals/values question a la Haidt.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
1mo ago
"49%- speak a language other than English at home or as a first language"
Given an 11% international share that's genuinely pretty fucking weird.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
1mo ago
Guessing an island nation, looking at every gdp/capita at US$4k+/-1 under 1 million population. Could just be a subnational region of course.
Evergreen if island: improve and modernize port infrastructure.
If there's going to be that much agricultural development, business importing and fully repairing tractors, with apprenticeships and courses for proper tractor use and care for farmers, proper repair for mechanically inclined locals.
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
2mo ago
Since it's a fun thread... more than a decade ago I enjoyed a series called When Cheese Fails, a Starcraft II commentary show where two Canadians reviewed games in which one player attempts to "cheese" (use very un-orthodox or unsportsmanlike strategies which may be contempt worthy). https://youtube.com/watch?v=xftjDJBtF9U is where I first ever heard of Destiny. Even if you don't care about older starcraft ii, it might be interesting as a time capsule of gamer culture at the time in terms of both sexual and racial humor.
A comic that comes up often enough
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