HorthyMiklosKatonaja
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HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1d ago
I recommend checking out "The Million Pound Deposit" by E. Phillips Oppenheim, a long-forgotten but prolific author. A fun tale of corporate espionage and stock manipulation.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
4d ago
Is something wrong with archive.is right now? None of the links are loading, nor does archive.ph work.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
9d ago
... I have a thought.
I'm not on X and refuse to join (because I believe social media is a major net negative for the culture). So I don't know what I'm supposed to be looking at.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
12d ago
So Trump can't deploy the National Guard because ... he hasn't declared that he couldn't enforce the immigration laws using the National Guard?? Seems to me that's contradictory.
Unless Kavanaugh means the regular Army which is expressly forbidden to be deployed within the US barring major insurrection.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
26d ago
The X link is dead, and the Wayback Machine doesn't have it.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
Chinese restaurants were pretty widespread in the fifties, even in smaller cities (where else could Jews eat out on Christmas Day?). Of course it was thoroughly Americanized Chinese food.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
I don't know, I have fond memories of the foot-long hot dogs at Bob's Big Boy in 1974-75.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
I fervently refuse to use DoorDash, UberEats, Hungry Panda or any other kind of food courier service
Count me in too. Why should I pay $30 for a Big Mac that will be cold when it arrives, which might not be for an hour?
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
As far as I can recall, McDonalds was takeout only in 1959, they didn't have tables inside the restaurant. And they didn't have pickles or onions for your burger.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
I'd much rather live in a time (past or future) where there's no shortage of safe, affordable, walkable all-White urban neighborhoods.
Nowadays it's "pick two".
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
And if you burn poison ivy, that's a mistake you won't forget.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
World War 1+2 in a single package, a grinding forever war that ran for decades and killed over a billion people?
That reminded me a lot of the civilization-altering (and sometimes civilization-ending) mega-wars in Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men and Darkness and Light.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
It was a thing in the fifties too. The Organization Man, the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.
For about 15-20 years after the war there was this feeling in the US zeitgeist that the individual was being, I don't know, deprecated? Pushed out? and replaced with the conformist "mass-man."
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlem_Royal_Hospital#Public_visiting
It was a big thing during the early- and mid-eighteenth century.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
I recall a line from a Jonathan Edwards sermon to the effect that one of the greatest pleasures saved souls enjoy in Heaven is watching the sufferings of the damned in Hell.
This was the same era when a popular middle-class pastime was going to the insane asylum to laugh at the antics of the lunatics.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
And would it be okay to name a starship the USS Corpus Christi?
Heh.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
All the fuss lately about "Oath Keepers" served to remind me that the Promise Keepers used to be in the news a lot but I hadn't seen bugger-all about them in years.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
Yes, I see "Epstein files" and my eyes immediately glaze over.
Who nowadays remembers the great scandal of 1977, "Koreagate"?? Took over all the front pages for weeks.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo ago
I've never used dating apps. It would be pointless; since I'm in the DC area, white women who aren't the type to put those "HATE HAS NO HOME HERE / NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL" signs in their yards are damned few and far between unless you go way beyond the reach of public transit (I have no car).
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo ago
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3mo ago
It's a shame how all the really interesting SSCs are from more than a decade ago.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3mo ago
... and trolls like to sneak a P in there.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3mo ago
I have had to stop reading the Washington DC and Chicago subreddits, since they've been taken over by threads spewing unending withering contempt at ICE, at anyone who works for it or is even contemplating such, and at the very concept of actually enforcing immigration law.
Part of me wishes that those people actually get to see what happens when one billion impoverished Third Worlders descend on every urban area in the US, so those redditors can eat their words. Although I really hope I'll die before that happens (if it does).
No country with a Bentley dealership can be socialist.
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