George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
The things you lean on / are things that don't last
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George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1d ago
Funnily I responded to that thread! In my mind you were still training up but my mind was wrong. Good stuff.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
2d ago
Remind me, did you ever complete the Murph? I could probably search your post history but I feel asking is the old fashioned way.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
3d ago
Probably it's unfair of me to attach different expectations of posting to mods, but I do, and it's always discouraging to read mods generalizing about a Motte Ethos. You'd know the rules better than I.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
3d ago
I think whether I agree or not is irrelevant. I often generalize about the ethos of Der Motte in general and suspect by and large I'm not off by far. But maybe I am. Maybe we're all capable of surprising one another. Maybe there's no Motte hivemind, and we're not so very predictable. I'd like to think so. And the best modding I've seen keeps this hope alive.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
3d ago
True. But this is after the initial confrontation, where Sidious has murdered at least two jedi and shown clearly his darkside self. Yes from a public/filtered perspective it's dubious.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
3d ago
Moderator, mod thyself.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
3d ago
Point of clarity: When Windu and the Dying Squad of Jedi arrived, they went to arrest the chancellor, not assassinate him. Thus the "I AM the senate" line, and Windu's "Not yet" (bzzzzzzzzwang ignition of lightsaber).
It was Yoda who went in with the intention of actually offing Sidious, who by then had been proven a sith lord.
Unless you're typing out the news as reported by the legacy Coruscant media, in which case yes, the masses can be tricked.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4d ago
Considerably higher up on the thigh.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4d ago
There's currently a look in Japan where 20 something girls/young women wear white sneakers and regular baggy gray sweatpants, but skintight white short sleeve shirts. And baseball caps, currently NY Yankees caps are trending. There's also a baggy pants thing but the pant legs have horizontal slits in each thigh, like a cellophane window in food packaging that reveals the contents.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
8d ago
Some of his comments wouldn't be out of line here at the Motte.
I regularly wonder whether people I read about are actually posters on the Motte. Odds are against it, but you never know.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
8d ago
Was just going to recommend weightlifting gloves but suspected this type of reaction at gyms. In Japan there's not a lot of (open) mockery and you see people using gloves all the time. I myself do not but then I probably don't lift nearly enough to get serious callouses.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
9d ago
Very interesting comment. I wonder what new political being the advent of choose-your-own-experience AI-type media will summon.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
11d ago
I enjoyed the Berlin book as very readable, maybe because it's largely (maybe wholly) transcription of talks he gave. You can find some of the actual talks online.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
11d ago
?? Apartheid ending was a relatively long process lasting into the early 90s. The Berlin Wall came down in '89.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
11d ago
わisn't feminine in Kansai, though tone and various other things will affect this (as they will with ね.)
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
11d ago
The eternal question. I think there's a lot going on here, and a bit of simplification of a grand clockwork that isn't simple. Unfortunately I am in transit with no time to bless everyone with my important thoughts.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
12d ago
"Never take life advice from someone who smokes."
That's not really a quote; I made it up. But you deserve some kind of response.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
13d ago
I quite enjoy the stated reason for theRealImpassionata's ban on the permabanned page.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
13d ago
You made the right choice.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
13d ago
Indeed, I should have specified "however one parses the abbreviation HBD." I only changed it because it was once mentioned, though your spelling out of the abbreviation is probably the more accurate and common.
Cops at least are on the radar and aware of the hypervigilance of anything resembling overtly ___-ist behavior and the repercussions that face them should they violate the Rules. Teachers on the other hand have essentially free rein to sanction, downgrade, or otherwise penalize students exhibiting (via essay or otherwise) views that they find personally repulsive (almost always this means anything right-coded.) Anything blatantly suggesting racism (imagine a well-written essay on Human Biological Determinism, without any use of epithets or slavery) could feasibly get a student reported to admin. There's a level of acceptability (I dislike using currently popular terms like Overton window) where things of this sort are treated the same as if a student were to write about the strategies in rape, or how to build some device that goes boom. I suppose a classroom is a relatively low impact environment, until of course it isn't and generations of like-minded groupthinked kids start waving flags and blocking traffic. Or worse.
Edit: I've strayed from the point.
edit 2: Sorry to sully the fun thread.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
13d ago
Particularly on mobile, yes.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
17d ago
I suppose it's going to appear differently on different feeds, true enough.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
17d ago
The urge to suggest that this is solely a female type behavior is strong, but misguided. Probably this kind of swooning (over a caddish rake in this case) is more common in females but again I'm not even sure of that. Plenty of dudes leave committed wives after years because they met a hottie who pushes the right buttons. Trade the wife in for a younger model, as my wise aunt used to say. Women are perhaps pulled in the same foolish direction for different reasons--i.e. not mostly sexual. Women often have more lovey emotional reasons. This doesn't make it stupid. True, it's wrong and probably to some degree self-destructive. But I've seen a woman in a terrible bizarre relationship that at the time seemed so volatile that her life was arguably on the edge of ruin--only to, years later, now married to a different (stable) guy, state without irony that the bizarre relationship in question (now long over) was one of her fondest, most cherished memories of that particular time period. And yes this is a strikingly beautiful woman.
I personally think that the "gay best friend" role (as you put it) is an important role for every man to experience at least once, and it speaks well of you that any woman is willing to trust you with her inner emotional life. Although if you have designs on her yes, it will be a singularly awful experience for you. Once is probably quite enough though.
My view is that you should keep your eyes open, learn as much as possible about yourself and her during this period, and file the information away as one of life's oddities. Women and men can both turn emotionally on a dime, especially (though not only) when young. Not everyone, of course. Some of us are made of more solid stuff.
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