HalloweenSnarry
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HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
If we're on this topic, then let me link the relevant SSC post.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
AIUI, the Civil War comics came out years before the current zeitgeist was born. Bizarre that they chose to adapt the story for the MCU, given that I was always under the impression that Civil War was one of the weakest storylines to come out of 21st-century Marvel.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
I have to wonder how much of this is confusion between the hard leftists who wanted Bernie and the center-left who much preferred to have Biden leading the fight.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
An uncharitable assumption, but I think the easiest way of cutting this Gordian Knot is to presume that certain women, straight, lesbian, or otherwise, are fine with performing/acting sexually at/with other women. So long as no men are involved in the production of the act or the consumption thereof, there will be no contradiction.
Or, alternatively, women do like the idea as a high concept, just not so much the actual implementation thereof.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Closest thing I can think of is Ricardo Milos of meme fame, who very much tried to distance himself from that moment in his life once people found him.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Yeah, I've seen people in this general sphere argue that early helicopter parenting and Stranger-Danger paranoia killed a lot of outdoors socialization, combined with the isolation of suburbia and the decline of latchkey kids. The Internet and video games, as much as people might malign them when the topic of the modern Battle-of-the-Sexes comes up, at least provide some sort of alternative to "literally nothing."
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
What happens once the immigrants can't fuck either?
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
What is your evidence for Jones being some sort of master money-manipulator, one even better than the likes of the rich people you mention who almost got away with it?
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Why does the "myth of America" matter anyways, though? I can understand the contours of the post-WWII "creation myth" of the US perfectly fine, but I can also sense that that narrative is probably going to be outmoded soon enough, if it wasn't already. The newer generations don't buy into the "America the righteous" story, and if anything, are ripe for a new narrative to be moulded.
I'm with Amadan and ResoluteRaven on this, that this all seems like pointless tilting at windmills. We're only in a culture war because there are no "real" wars to fight at the moment. The moment China or Russia move directly against us, though, I expect even the most radical of progressive American Jews to start frothing at the mouth and wrapping themselves in the Stars and Stripes, baying for blood.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
It might be mostly the second, thinking about it for a few seconds. Just what kind of personality type does it take to seriously want to use a nuke in terrorism (is it some sort of extreme misanthrope, someone whose political convictions are second at best to the nihilistic urge of "kill 'em all"?), and how many of that kind of person does it take to pull off a terror-nuke plot?
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Yeah, this does make me curious, can someone take Google to court over YouTube over this?
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
No dual purpose vessel can actually load troops onto a fastcraft or RHIB so there is no means to repurpose civ vessels to vomit troops onto Taiwanese shores.
Is this in contradiction of reports/rumors of China bulking up a civilian fleet that can be repurposed for amphibious landings? Was that actually a "backyard furnace"-level boondoggle all along?
HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
There is no reason to mine in space while everything we need is much cheaper to obtain on earth.
This seems to presume that this state will persist into some unspecified eternity. Politics alone can make space mining plenty competitive. It's the same reason why "peak oil" predictions kept getting bodied.
HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
My first exposure to the term was with free-2-play, non-mobile games.
HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
As I understand it, a lot of prison labor is in agriculture and food production.
HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
That Antwerp Port House looks like it wants to be a spaceship or something. I think the Japanese are onto something with all their fictional city-ships (e.g. Macross, Xylem), and that this is a sign of how weird modern architecture can be redeemed.
HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
It's the illusion of mastery over human nature when you're really just cultivating the worst parts of it.
I'm reminded of someone in this sphere once describing Francisco Franco versus typical fascist leaders in this (paraphrased) way: "Fascist leaders often saw themselves as the architect of the soul. Franco was just a cop."
I think all authoritarianism and elitism pretty much comes down to this core, that one can, with sufficient will-to-power and unquestionable primacy, have power over what is in a man's heart itself. By contrast, liberalism and progressivism fundamentally surrender that what others do or are is out of one's control, and the differences come down to how to handle that.
HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
It's a shame that boxy cars went out of fashion by 2013, there's a joke about moving bricks to be made here.
HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
Given Burdensome's comment, I suspect this means "don't invest in the companies actually prospecting and mining for gold, gold production is near-flat and is practically a money sink."
Which, given the apparent propensity for gold to value upwards, would suggest that the amount of new gold being mined from Earth is at a trickle.
HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
Oh, Beretta abandoned the ARX? I know they have the NARP now (surprise, it's an AR!), I didn't realize they had given up on the ARX.
HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
To be fair, art and voice AI was literally trained on existing examples of the respective media. I don't think the criticism comes from a place of "the AI makes me feel worthless," it comes more from "the AI is basically carbon-copying my style."
HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
As far as AR alternatives out on the market, I think most only have any success in their country of manufacture (examples: VHS-2, Howa Type 20, MSBS), and any country without enough of a home industry to draw on (e.g. France) will probably just buy AR-15s, HK 416s, or maybe CZ Bren 2s.
HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
On that note, if you've ever owned The Crew, check out the Stop Killing Games campaign! Ubisoft may try to twist the past, but you can change the future!
HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
If the Inquisition was started to prevent witch hunts, then why is it that we now conflate Inquisitors with witch-hunters and torturers?
I dunno, Obama got pretty close with his hair. Still not bald, of course, but...
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