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And every gimmick hungry yob
Digging gold from rock n roll
Grabs the mic to tell us
he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this
And it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns
Will later join the church
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1d ago
Just wanted to note I really enjoyed your contribution on this occasion.
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1d ago
Can that manifest in your 30s? I always assumed that was a birth thing.
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1d ago
Formal Satanism is or was symbolic opposition culture. Invoking Satan, wearing all black and a pentagram or whatever, was for Lavey and co a way of scaring off normies. Today, it just doesn't have the same impact. I probably interact with someone with a pentagram tattoo on a pretty regular basis in an ordinary service job, like a barista or a Target cashier, and no one would frighten me by saying they're a satanist.
On the other hand, having a Swastika tattoo pretty much marks you out as a true oppositional figure in society. Even when I was looking for HVAC contractors for my dad, when I saw the guy with a swastika and SIEG HEIL on his knuckles, I felt the need to report that to my father as telling me something about his character and history. It marks someone as a true opposition figure in society.
And in the same way that Satanism has only a tenuous relationship to Satan or anything supernatural beyond using it as a normie-repellent, esoteric hitlerism will often have only a strained relationship to the National Socialist party, beyond using swastikas as a normie repellent. We already see this in use in several places.
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1d ago
How does bruising work?
I started BJJ classes. I'm having a great time. But, I'm covered in bruises from rolling, and even from drilling sometimes. It's bad. Where they're on visible parts of my body, it looks a little much for public display. Where they're on private parts of my body, my wife winces when I take my clothes off.
I'm used to having scrapes and bumps from climbing, but my whole bicep being black and blue, or a giant blotch on each forearm, is too much. My coaches have commented on it ("Who are you fucking rolling with bro?") so it's not normal bjj stuff I guess. I should note that I'm pretty fair skinned, so it might just show up more on me.
Will I callus to bruising, in the same way my palms get callused to lifting and my feet to running? Is it some vitamin deficiency? I'm thinking of trying to get into the doctor to ask, but I'm a little wary of being pulled into some medicalized solution to a problem I don't really think I have.
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2d ago
Eagles win the Pennsylvania Bowl. Wawa>Sheetz, Youse>Yinz.
Pretty big win for the iggles. Steelers are a very, very good team, they play physically and hard. Watt is a monster, game wrecker. He should be getting MVP buzz, because of the impact he has on the game for a top team in the league.
The Steelers sold out to stop the run, and Jalen Hurts and co showed that they could beat teams in the air. O-Line held up against an excellent Steelers' D, with Dickerson, Becton, and Johnson being replaced with Steen, Driscoll, and the other Johnson at different points, with virtually no change in result. AJ and Devonta feasted.
There were some bad calls in the Eagles favor, so maybe the game was closer than it looked. Or maybe it wasn't: the Eagles chose to run out the clock on their last drive, eating over 2/3 of the fourth quarter on a drive in which they did not score, which some tweets said was the longest game ending drive they had ever seen.
I'm starting to think the Eagles have a viable path to the Super Bowl. The entire NFC looks pretty beatable for the Eagles. Lions are looking increasingly worn down by injuries, they already beat the Rams and Green Bay (and while Green Bay might be better than it was in Week 1 so is Philly), and Minnesota is relying on Sam Darnold at QB. The Bucs rape choked the Eagles earlier this year, but I'm not sure that's repeatable, and there's a good chance that the bracket shakes out so that they never face the Bucs anyway. If the Eagles get the 1 seed, big if, they're going to be weak favorites to win the NFC. And no team in the AFC looks unbeatable either: the Bills are going to be a boat race that could go either way, the Chiefs are great but weaker than the team that beat a weaker Philly by 3, and the Eagles have already smacked the Ravens and Steelers.
Elsewhere, Detroit now has an entire viable starting D on the DL. Josh Allen has gone crazy since getting engaged. The Falcons are benching Kirk Cousins, a hilarious outcome given that they are now starting their first round pick while paying $45mm to the backup QB.
And Patrick Mahomes may be day to day with an ankle injury. Putting the current #1 seed in the AFC in the hands of...Carson Wentz. Wentz has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever. Wentz famously had his best year in 2016, leading the Eagles most of the way to the #1 seed in the NFC before getting injured, forcing the Eagles to turn to backup QB Nick Foles. Foles would rip through the end of the season, outpunch Tom Brady in the Super Bowl, winning the Eagles their first ever Lombardi, and leaving Wentz a permanent also-ran in Philly sports history. Now, Wentz has a chance to redeem himself, and take over someone else's #1 seed, and lead them to a few wins. I want it to happen just for the podcast drama.
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3d ago
Esoteric Hitlerism is just a new manifestation of Satanism I guess.
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4d ago
Anyone here know who radfem Hitler is or was? I keep seeing it referenced.
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5d ago
Ahem
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5d ago
I wouldn't really have reported any of them. I try not to report stuff just because it insults me for waking up early. After all, how much sense can you expect out of people from Pittsburgh?
Just struck me as odd is all.
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5d ago
To those early birds who think that it getting light a 4 is just as good as it staying light until 9, you either do not have a job, a family, or other real-world obligations.
On the contrary. I wake up at 430 so that I can do things before those real world obligations kick in.
FiveHourMarathon
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5d ago
Rov was being way more of a dick than his replies were.
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5d ago
I've always been curious: would refusal to pay for birth control or plan B etc actually make the plan cheaper, or more expensive?
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5d ago
I guess the warrant is for your body, with your mind/soul is the intended owner
Except that it covers your mind, assuming coverage would also include psych/mental health stuff, which it reasonably should inasmuch as we're not going full Szasz-pilled. The blasphemy disappears inasmuch as you stop thinking of a warranty as coming from the manufacturer, and moreso assuring the consumer a roughly median experience.
The more concerning part to me is that warranties always restrict uses. Your factory warranty on your car won't pay out for damage that results from racing. Your consumer warranty on your washer-dryer set won't pay out if you open a laundromat.
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5d ago
It's extremely common to abort a surgical procedure because of unexpected complications. And, to scale, a surgeon would face similar liability: modest penalties for damage done, reliance.
This is easily figured out in contract.
Why are y'all so dramatic with your examples?
FiveHourMarathon
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6d ago
Why not?
Loners, or just "those who can't produce evidence that anyone trusts them," are a much more logical exclusion from the category "the people" than automatically excluding felons or minors or non citizens.
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6d ago
I'm going to return a theory of Fashion I've forwarded before, which I formed about clothing but is generally applicable to almost anything.
What we normally label as aesthetics is actually two entirely different things. One half is Appearances, the other half is Associations. Appearances are the actual physical appearance of the garments on your body. This is the realm of geometry, color theory, trump l'oeil. "Skinny jeans make your legs appear longer because they have a streamlined silhouette." Appearances are what you look like. Associations are the opposite, who you look like. Associations are about how a garment codes socially, who else is wearing it. Skinny jeans make you look like a fag, or an emo kid, or a trendy guy in the city, or a lame-o millenial dad, or nowadays in some quarters a conservative. Associations vary, depending on the viewer.
The trouble is that most people don't make those distinctions in fashion, they mix them together. Fashion writers put them all together at once. Generally where they talk about the associations, they treat them as universal results of the appearances. Skinny jeans will ALWAYS be classic and masculine, because of the way they drape on the body. Or vice versa, skinny jeans will ALWAYS be faggy and effeminate.
A lot of things make more sense when you frame them in this way. Taste for art is better when framed this way. Taste for architecture is better when framed this way. Taste for ideas is mostly better when framed this way.
Part of distaste for McMansions is about their architecture, but much of it is based in what kind of person lives there. Part of people liking art is about the actual art, and part of it is liking the kind of art that the person you want to be would like.
This extends into taste for ideas, taste for political positions. I saw so many Pro-Russian takes throughout the Ukrainian war in which it was clear that they started with an aesthetic of being a hard nosed realist, and tried to imagine what the hard nosed realist would say, and then reasoned from there. And the result often had little to do with reality.
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6d ago
Then you are an opponent of gun rights.
I'm an opponent of gun rights for certain people, yes. As almost everyone is. You don't get to just announce some purity test, any more than BLM gets to tell me that it's Racist to want a police force.
Yes, you are more socially adept than many.
I'm a weird loner who hangs out on the motte. If I can do it anybody (sane) can do it.
And what the heck is the point of joining a gun club if you don't have a gun?
You borrow a gun at the range until you're ready to buy one of your own.
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7d ago
It's just a meme. It's the one that features in songs, The Donnas tell us to stop staring at her D Cup, Christen Chenowith asked us what would Dolly Parton do W W Double D. So it sticks in people's heads. The number of men checking tags is zero anyway.
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7d ago
I find him and his ilk intensely fake. I wouldn't say I hate him, but after the first few encounters whenever he comes on a podcast I do like I skip the episode. His politics feel workshopped for engagement.
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7d ago
They may be a trap game but have been playing their best ball of the season lately.
That's exactly what makes them a trap game.
As for MVP, even with the loss it feels to me like it's Allen's to lose at this point.
Allen absolutely should win, but if he doesn't I'll be pissed if it doesn't go to Saquon.
In my mind, a player should not win multiple MVPs unless he is the best beyond a reasonable doubt. Not just a tie breaker, a higher standard for previous winners. So applying a higher standard, Lamar and Mahomes are out. That leaves Goff, Hurts, Darnold, Love in the running. Hurts and Love don't have the stats. Goff and Darnold have had great years by the stats, but lack the je ne sais quoi to carry an MVP. I do think Watt on the Steelers should be getting more MVP love, he's the heart of that team.
Allen is the clear favorite, and he deserves it. By any standard, he deserves it more than Saquon. But Saquon is the clear second place and I don't think it's particularly close.
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7d ago
Oh certainly, I'm old enough to remember seeing Forty More Years on the shelves at Borders.
But, to take that as a clear analogy, the Republican party that came back and proved Forty More Years and the Obama Coaltion of the Ascendant false, was very different from the Dubya-McCain era party that was defeated. Not as different as some would have you believe, many of the same guys are still involved, and many of the same aims are still pursued. But the changes are obvious and manifold.
The hypothetical Democrats who come back and win the 2026 midterms and then run the table in 2028 against JD Vance would probably look very different from the Harris campaign. Quite likely in ways we don't quite know about yet! McCain was perceived as a bit left of Dubya on social issues, civil and bipartisan, focused on getting money and corporations out of politics, but hawkish and interventionist on national security; the McCain strategy was certainly not the one that lead Republicans to victory in 2016 or 2024.
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7d ago
I honestly question whether health is "insurable" even in principle.
This becomes perfectly obvious when we consider the different products that are wrapped up in Health Insurance in America.
If I wanted similar coverage for my car, I would need all of Car Insurance, a Warranty, and a prepaid Service plan. All are available on the market for most cars, all can be priced out, but they are different products completely. Comp Car Insurance makes sure that if I get into an accident, I won't be left without a car, but does not cover mechanical failures or ordinary wear and tear. A warranty makes sure that if my car breaks down, it will be fixed, but doesn't cover ordinary wear items. A Service plan allows me to bring my car into the dealer for regular service for wear items, fluids, etc, but doesn't cover those other things. Health insurance, by comparison, covers all three situations at the same time. It is true insurance, in that if I have an accident, it will cover my medical costs. It is a warranty, in that if I suffer from a genetic condition it will cover me. And it is a service plan, in that it covers my regular expected doctor's visits. But I expect to make the same payment for all three, and it is not clear how to distinguish among them.
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7d ago
I loved the McMahon doc. One of the most interesting parts that no one commented on: him and his son both had great wrestler genetics. Like, yes there were a ton of roids involved, but still: it's crazy that they were able to put in a solid workmanlike performance in the ring with guys who weren't nepo-babies from ownership. Like most of the other wrestlers who were main event guys were pure genetic freaks who worked their way up, and then you had Vince and his Son participating and they got into it purely from having inherited the role.
It's wild that not only was the original documentary planned as a hagiography, it was specifically planned to go with the Netflix-WWF deal. So Netflix didn't just find themselves with a documentary they needed to salvage from a MeToo disaster, they had to salvage a multi-billion dollar content deal in real time.
I mostly endorse your opinion, and extend it to all famous people. Famous CEOs, politicians, intellectuals. Rare are the famous people who wish they weren't famous, who just want to work and hate what has been thrust upon them, rare enough that I think they can mostly be ignored. Even those who got big out of love of their art, fame changes them, money changes them. A FiveHourMarathon who women recognized in the street would be a different man than I am.
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7d ago
That's actually a really interesting interpretation of much of the sequel of Don Quixote. Quixote and Sancho find themselves taken in by superfans of the first book, a nobleman and his lady, who proceed to put them through all kinds of goofy adventures. The sadism and cruelty of the superfans is sent up for comedy, but how different are they from the author and his readers, who create Quixote so that he can be tortured?
Presumably the alternative would be, rather than a single 1500 page bill, 15 or so 100 page bills, or 30 or so 50 page bills. So rather than a single vote on everything, you'd get 30 votes on 30 things. While obviously it would still be impossible for anyone to read the whole thing, it would at least be manageable for somebody to have read the entirety of every bill.
The real mechanism of the giant bill isn't bureaucracy or pork barrel spending, those can happen anyway, it's moreso the lack of trust between congress critters. Dems aren't going to vote on R's things in exchange for a later vote for their things, because they know the Rs won't be there when they said they would. They'll make some excuse about constituent pressure.
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