HorthyMiklosKatonaja
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HorthyMiklosKatonaja
4d ago
Apparently, 19th-century Americans could tell mulattos, quadroons and octoroons apart by sight.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
7d ago
I recently saw a travelogue video by Noel Phillips in which he was picked up by a Waymo at PHX.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
12d ago
Tir Tairngire, the Elf Supremacist dictatorship, is my personal favorite Shadowrun nation.
(I don't actually game, I just like to read the sourcebooks for the world-building.)
Heh.
In GURPS Cyberworld, published in 1993, following a pandemic in 1997 the US is ruled by a dictator, who rules through executive orders, under a Provisional Government established in 2024 (there are still elections but it's a "managed democracy"), and has incorporated Mexico as six new states, with the lower-class Mexicans not free to travel to the old US.
And there are VR Cyberdecks (of course) but Steve Jackson Games failed to foresee social media.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
14d ago
Labor camps will probably suffice. Put them to useful work like filling in potholes, cleaning up trash from sidewalks and vacant lots, and removing graffiti 14 hours a day, under strict supervision, and they'll be too exhausted to get up to didoes.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
16d ago
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- and by the time you do, your own homeland is more prosperous with a higher standard of living than the US.
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(Some of the later Japanese emigrants to Brazil must have been kicking themselves a few years onward).
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
18d ago
And how many Bloody Sundays have there been?
Right off the top of my head there's 1/30/1972 in Derry, and 1/9/1905 in St. Petersburg.
Wikipedia gives me 21 more of them!!
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
20d ago
Additionally, if most people could walk to their local pub, drunk driving injuries/deaths would be almost nonexistent.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
20d ago
It's not that way in Scandinavia, or wasn't when I visited. It's just too bad the US doesn't have the demographics of Denmark.
(deleted and reposted because I posted one level too deep)
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
20d ago
I, who have never had a driver's license, find stroads a real pain in the ass. I don't want to think about how many hours of my life have been wasted just walking through 20-acre parking lots. God forbid anyone actually put the parking lot in the back, with the store right on the sidewalk like in a real city, and have the main entrance on the sidewalk, and a separate entrance in the rear (supermarkets used to be built like this in the thirties and forties).
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
23d ago
Setting aside Benjamin's socialism
I'm a bit curious - does any right-winger/believer in free markets ever use the term "proletarian"? I've only seen it from Marxists.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
23d ago
Nobody personally remembers the eighteenth century. But plenty of people remember 1960, with its comparatively low crime, affordable housing and prosperous industries, when cities had WASPs, Irish, Italians, Poles and Jews and that was all the "diversity" anyone needed or wanted.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
26d ago
Hard to imagine never being able to leave your window open at night.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
26d ago
or Paddies and Orangemen.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
26d ago
A fact I find fascinating is that until (IIRC) 2021, every member of a Zimbabwean Olympic swim team was white.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
France, at least, should have learned that lesson in Vietnam and Algeria.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
PE classes are also divided by gender
Not always. I went to private school up until 8th grade, then public high school, both in Fairfax County, VA. All my P.E. classes were co-ed.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
What did FDR do against religion?
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
And books get junked from public libraries a lot quicker nowadays too.
I doubt if anybody under 40 has ever read Arthur Herzog's Heat or IQ 83, or Robert Silverberg's The Calibrated Alligator.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
I kind of like the kitty that follows your cursor.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo ago
How about that old standby, Madagascar?
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo ago
Yeah, I saw speculation on Cracked that Michael Jordan's brief stint in baseball was a secret suspension caused by his gambling problem, which was so severe that it led to his father getting murdered.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo ago
There's still the oasis that is Political Compass Memes, and LibsOfReddit (though that one is just as obnoxiously partisan on the right as the rest of Reddit is on the left).
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo ago
(it's hard to be sure when the news steadfastly refuses to notice "Emma's" Adam's apple)
Yesterday I collected my very first Reddit Warning for promoting "hate": noting on /r/slatestarcodex that said individual didn't look like an "Emma". I had hoped that Reddit's "transocracy" didn't extend as far as SSC. Guess I was wrong.
Isn't there also a version where it takes the prince literally raping her to wake her up? Or am I confusing it with Sleeping Beauty?
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