FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
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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FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
13hr ago
Ok do you have any counter examples of arguments? "One time there really was a wolf" just seems like a fully generalizable argument to panic over everything.
If anything the failure of the Sydney Sweeney thing to catch fire strikes me as evidence that we're past peak woke.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
14hr ago
No.
It's not really a very good example. Everyone's bubble varies, but I don't know of anyone who really cares about it.
The people who are trying to gin up controversy around it feel like culture war dead-enders who are trying to produce content. The media outlets reporting it are dying clickbait legacy outlets like Rolling Stone or GQ, not even dying but-still-important legacy outlets like the NYT or New Yorker.
All the natural reactions to it I've seen, even online, have been some variety of eye-rolling at the whole thing, or making fun of Sweeney for the movie flopping because she made a feminist movie, it's all meta-commentary that assumes someone else cares about it all. The film itself looks to be Sweeney's Hard to Watch, an overly serious film from a hitherto unserious actor.
So I see where you're coming from, but it ultimately just doesn't have the juice to get anywhere. People don't care. American Eagle isn't a big enough brand, Sydney Sweeney isn't a big enough actor, the whole controversy feels like going through the motions.
Now if the movie were to become a hit, then we'd get something out of it.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
Writing twelve year old characters for adult readers is a different thing
I don't really think this is true. Natasha in War and Peace is 13.
(particularly if you're using those characters as didactic puppets to get your message across).
Bingo
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
Trump can still be a starmaker for three years, he can still endorse and attack, he can still appoint to sinecures and fundraise for. Any Republican would-be titan can be easily placed in a position of power by Trump, and that won't entirely evaporate upon his death, Sauron like.
Plus, somebody is going to get his dying endorsement, and that will count for something. I don't think enough that it can win anyone the presidency, but probably enough that it can keep any other Republican from winning it.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
If you want to read about MIT freshmen, then read about MIT freshmen.
What's weird and often disgusting to me is the practice of writing a story about middle schoolers and making them think/talk/act like college freshmen at MIT. You're writing fiction, you can choose what age you want the characters to be!
If you want to write a story with mature, rational, scheming characters who talk frankly about sex; then you ought to place them at an age where it makes sense for them to be mature, rational, scheming, and have frank conversations about sex. If you want them to be eleven, write them as eleven year olds. Game of Thrones is an unfortunate example of this, of course, though I think GRRM is bright enough to have recognized the problems and that's one of many things keeping The Winds of Winter from ever being publishable.
There's no rule saying you go to Wizard school at 11! Wicked has seen plenty of success making magic-school a college level endeavor, with Elphaba beginning school at 17 in the book and 20ish in the play (and played by comically old actors in the unfortunate film)! HPMoR could easily have started by having McGonnagall say "We start wizarding school at 16 here. Starting at 11 would be quite irrational!"
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
It seems very unlikely to me that everything works in a sufficiently mechanistic or rules based way that 1) photos exist of Donnie snuggling a teenage girl, 2) they are in the possession of the federal government, run by Donnie for some time now and by his sworn enemies for years before that, 3) We've never seen them before, meaning that his sworn enemies were too principled to leak them, 4) they haven't been destroyed, meaning that Trump is either too principled to have them destroyed or in some kind of power struggle with someone within the federal government.
This all just seems to be way too much "playing by the rules" on all sides to be credible for me. The theoretical FBI agent who is too principled to leak it under Biden, and too principled to destroy it under Trump, while also being too powerful to be fired by either, doesn't strike me as a realistic character in our drama.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
Good luck!
Almost everyone I knew in law school had at least one exam that they thought they failed that they actually did really well on. Your feelings coming out rarely have much to do with how you did.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
There's an epidemic of people who want to write within the YA/Coming of Age paradigm, but don't actually want to write a story with child characters doing child things and thinking child thoughts.
Say what you like about JK Rowling's writing*, her eleven year old Harry Potter reads like an eleven year old. Hermione is smart, but she reads like a smart eleven year old who reads a lot. The trio are brave, but stupid. They're scared of minor things, irrationally. They lack incredible leadership or organizational skills. Draco is a bully, but he's a middle school bully.
Yudkowsky's Harry Potter reads like an MIT freshman, or maybe a dorky high school senior. He does not think or act like a child. Draco talks frankly about rape in his introduction.
This makes sense in that Yud was 30 writing his Harry Potter fanfiction, and I doubt that Yud spent a lot of time with kids.
A similar problem infects a lot of media made about kids. Big Mouth suffered from this increasingly as the show went on. The characters were supposed to be just hitting puberty, but talked and acted like college kids.
It tends to destroy my willing suspension of disbelief, and also lead to off-putting situations where a story really starts to become about kids having sex.
*Introducing a new macguffin because you realize that the party is going to get the old set of macguffins out of the way too quickly is, like, a classic rookie dungeon master error.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
Wow. I don't even remember writing this comment. I don't even remember thinking about it. Don't drink and post.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
It was an amazing experience. Everyone in Wisconsin was incredibly nice. People stopped in the street to ask me about Philly. They treated us like uncontacted Amazon savages. Drank together, talked trash, had a great time.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
3d ago
It's fucking remarkable how nice people are in green bay. I was the penis at this game singing fly Eagles fly even though both teams sucked donkey dick this game. Regions continue to exist despite the best efforts of the media.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
8d ago
I'm pretty sure he doesn't make a penny from this.
I didn't think so, but I haven't been reading lifting blogs for a while, so I didn't want to make an assumption.
I think he likes achieving his goals, but he doesn't like the process at all. I don't see why that should be impossible.
That's pretty much what I'm getting at when I talk about being "stoked" on something. Being interested in it and finding meaning in it.
I don't really think it's possible to "enjoy" doing a program like deep water, even if you enjoy achieving your goals.
I would guess that the majority of people who have done deep water enjoyed lifting at some level, because almost none of them got anything useful out of it.
Maybe they were all cumming day and night
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
8d ago
I had to look this up to make sure I was reading this correctly...100x100, so 10,000m? 10k? So like three hours of swimming at that pace? That's genuinely insane to me. I've done a mile, but that? That's crazy.
Start updating us if you go for it.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
8d ago
Fun is one thing, being stoked is another. See also type 1 2 and 3 fun.
I don't want to get into an argument with an absent third party about what he enjoys. But...he's obviously lying if he says he doesn't enjoy lifting weights. He might have found some way to influencer his way to some money out of lifting now, but he did a whole lot of lifting before ever reaching a point where he could make a dime, and even now it is probably just a hobby. If he didn't enjoy doing it at some level, he wouldn't do it. If he wasn't stoked about it, about reaching his lifting goals, he wouldn't do it. I've read his posts before, he often works out multiple times a day, and he's not a real competitor in any serious lifting series. He's doing this because he loves it, because he is stoked about it. He just likes bitching about how much he hates squats because he finds that kind of negativity to be more serious or whatever.
I'm stoked about jiu jitsu. That doesn't mean I'm constantly smiling doing jiu jitsu, or that it is always fun. There's a lot of times I'm not having fun. Six months ago it was even less fun. But I'm interested in reaching my goals, so that even when I'm cooked and my muscles are exhausted and I'm pinned under some gorilla who is trying to smother me, I'm still stoked to keep showing up, every day that I can, so that I can get better. The stoke is what gets me through the unpleasantness. If I just did unpleasant things for no reason, I'd be a literal masochist.
So like, yeah, I can picture a hypothetical person who just fucks around doing the "fun parts" without ever doing the unpleasant training parts. That's good advice for people like that.
But I know a lot of people who just don't work out at all. Those who keep starting a program they don't like working toward a goal they don't really care about, and give up after a few weeks every time. Those people need to try other advice than "do what sucks."
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
8d ago
I would call smoking a method of suicide rather than a life event within my model. You might as well say "putting a gun to your head and pulling the trigger" is a life event that leads to suicide. Certainly, if we're accepting drug addiction, heroin would be the better example.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
8d ago
Is it? I recall it being $20 with a minor tip for a couple pounds. Which I guess isn't nothing.
Idk maybe this is my how much could a banana be.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
8d ago
Sorry. I was trying to give an example of something low key. Guess I need to aim lower.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
8d ago
Except that the defamation here relies not on something like a viral video, or a government name, or even obvious identifying information like a tattoo, but on more subtle stuff like knowing where he lived ten years ago and who he was dating and where she worked. Without that information, no new person he met after the story came up could ever connect the dots...unless an article by his ex gf outing him was published on Slate. Then that might make it a bit more public.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
8d ago
So then the next best-case scenario's that everyone just thought it hyperbole, or joke. But then you look at everybody that thought it funny when Kirk was murdered...
Alternatively, my thesis: it's extraordinarily bad politics to tell people they aren't allowed to vote for someone or something. Trump, Mamdani, Brexit, Jaye, even something like Roy Moore in the Republican primary. When voters perceive an outside authority tut-tutting them that they aren't "allowed" to vote for someone, the natural reaction is "Fuck me? No, fuck you."
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
8d ago
I would find the "Waifu Importation Bill" hilarious, but how exactly would they ensure "attractive and fertile"?
Presumably by market forces, if you're making it easier to bring in your fiancee. A guy isn't going to bring in a woman he doesn't want to sleep with. Fertile is kind of a black box, but there's no reason to think it wouldn't lead to more children, especially if you tie citizenship to children. Maybe a structure where green cards are easy to get for your gf, and your gf gets citizenship once you have kids?
I do think a very easy button to press is the au pair program. Make it mega easy and cheap to import girls between the age of 17 and 30 who want to do childcare. Besides the help they'd give current parents, it's a pretty good bet that twenty-somethings who like kids enough to nanny wouldn't mind having a few.
These programs would be obviously good, would increase immigration (which Democrats are bad at saying is ever bad), and are easy to bias on sex (au pair's are female, make citizenship for mother's of children but not fathers). Trump is at his best when he gets to the left of the Dems, they tie themselves in knots and look like fools.
Of course it would also be hilarious to see this backfire when a flood of Muslim women arrives completely on board with the "get married and have at least two children" plan.
Who's afraid of big bad burqa? A flood of pretty Persian or Lebanese girls with engineering degrees who want to marry a soulful white boy and raise kids here doesn't offend me one bit. I may be biased...
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
8d ago
I'm in favor of both birthday themed workouts, adjusted to whatever level or style you like, with an arbitrary number related to your age.
This year, I was working late, and for various personal crisis reasons I didn't really want to do anything major, so I told my wife I wanted to get a little high and get a big takeout order of boneless wings and watch an old horror movie. While this was hardly the world's most decadent thing, it was a clear indulgence, and it was exactly what I wanted.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
8d ago
Or if you want a really simple one: "Men, I'm going to close off all non-skilled immigration except for attractive, fertile young women, and due to the looming crisis of declining birthrates we will issue emergency visas and expedited citizenship paths to any such women who get married and bear at least 2 kids."
This is one I'm surprised I haven't seen mooted. Making it easier for passport bros to import wives seems like an easy stink bomb for the Trump admin to throw into the Democratic coalition, it would almost certainly cause them to chase their tails for months.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
8d ago
What is or was fisetin?
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
8d ago
Yes, but his friends will be proportionately more impressed by the tough old bird, and high rep back squats are all about suffering anyway.
There's an interesting dynamic to this kind of thing in fantasy universes.
The original Star Trek was revolutionarily progressive in having a multiracial crew. There was a presumption of American leadership (Kirk), but it also featured a Japanese crewman twenty years after Hiroshima (Sulu), a Russian during the height of the Cold War (Chekov), and a black woman during the civil rights era. Trek unites all of humanity by creating an alternative "other," the Klingons. The displacement of the kinds of stereotypes that we used for the Other and the Enemy, the Russians/Japanese/Blacks, onto the Klingons inevitably leads those who feel othered to identify with the Klingons. So then we have to reform our views of the Klingons in TNG, and so we need the Borg to be the new absolute villain.
Same thing happened in WoW, the Orcs go from bad guys to misunderstood victims.
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