HorthyMiklosKatonaja
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HorthyMiklosKatonaja
4mo ago
Semi-hijack: disappointed that Hoyt didn't give any examples of magazines that died by this method. Because I can't think of any.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
4mo ago
There are regular posters on some fora with writing styles (or the equivalent of verbal tics) that just grate on me and I got tired of seeing them.
For example, on the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang comment section, there's one guy (who, thankfully, doesn't post every day) who begins every single damn post with a hideous guffaw, "BARHARHARHARHAR!!!"
Unfortunately the Post doesn't have a block feature that I can find, so I have to just wince whenever I see that excrescence at the top of his posts.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
5mo ago
Maybe gallons were smaller back then.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
5mo ago
Pete Brown claims, in Man Walks Into a Pub, that at Burton Abbey c. AD 1000, that the daily allowance for each monk was one gallon of strong ale and one gallon of weak ale.
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I wonder what the life expectancy there was.
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How did they avoid passing out and sleeping through Matins?
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
5mo ago
"You broke my toy!" "I'M HOMELANDER, BITCH!!" zzzzt haha.
(What grade was this assignment for? This kid is too young to watch that show.)
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
5mo ago
The first season anyway; IMHO it took a big step down when Jennifer Coolidge joined the show, though a lot of that may be that I find Coolidge so unattractive I don't want to see her on my screen.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
5mo ago
... or maybe they'll take the edgelord route. Homelander goes off the deep end and wipes every Arab nation (plus Iran) off the map. Fade to black, silent credit-crawl.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
5mo ago
Part of the new puritanism fueled by feminist disgust at "sexualization" and "male gaze".
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
5mo ago
probably because you didn't denounce Trump, or Republicans in general, in vitriolic enough language.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
5mo ago
Yeah. The mainstream media has been warning of imminent fascism since 2016. Time for him to shit or get off the pot.
Retrospectively, it's worth a chuckle or two to look over year after year of newspaper headlines to the effect that it's really all up for Trump this time, he's going to have to resign any minute now, his career is over, etc., rinse, repeat.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
5mo ago
Forcible transfer of populations is considered a crime against humanity, so expect any nation that does it to have all kinds of sanctions leveled against it.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
6mo ago
Wasn't something like that the canonical origin of Night City, of Cyberpunk fame?
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
6mo ago
Personally, I'm not interested in philosophical musings, anything about AI, or ratsphere inside-baseball (isuch as anything about Aella), all of which make up a substantial number of each week's postings. I'd love to see more focus on current events to balance the Washington Post and Reddit shoving the woke perspective down people's throats.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
6mo ago
And Americanization programs in public school systems.
...because anyone who doesn't publically "support diversity" is shamed, made a pariah and possibly fired.
Observe the posts in subreddits for individual cities, inquiring about neighborhoods to live in. Every one is looking for a "diverse" area.
Try posting that you want to live in a white neighborhood, and see how quickly you get banned for "bigotry" or "hate speech", with a mod note referring to you as "scum" or some similar endearment.
But simply having too many cultures, too many languages, religions, ethnicities in a country (to the point they, put together, outnumber the former dominant group) is bound to make it weaker, IMO, because there will no longer be a consensus on values. There will no longer be anything to hold the country together and it will essentially cease to be a nation in any real sense at all. Every group will have its own shibboleths and taboos which it will lobby its political representatives to codify in law - which will probably get shot down except in all-Muslim (or whatever) towns, but the time and energy wasted on this stuff is time and energy which cannot be used to work on the nation's real problems.
I, for one, would rather euthanize myself than live in such a corpse of a country.
(This situation, multiplied by a million, is also why I firmly believe that no world government can ever work.)
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
6mo ago
There was a period of several years where you never saw "Iran" in the news without it being followed by "-Contra."
There's one local example that sticks in my mind, even after all these years. Back in 1982, there was a rabies epidemic. For months, almost every day on the front page of the Fairfax Journal, there were stories about rabid animals (it was almost always raccoons for some reason) being found and euthanized.
Then a while later I realized I wasn't seeing those anymore.
But there was never any announcement of an end to the epidemic. For all I know, it might still be going on!
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
6mo ago
Recreational use and sale of marijuana was legalized before Youngkin took office, but he refused categorically to take any steps to establish any mechanism for legal sale.
I, for one, am kind of salty about that; I had visited Denver in previous years, enjoyed my share of legally purchased edibles and was really looking forward to being able to get them at a local mall.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
6mo ago
Or clone DNA from extinct animals. I'm kind of curious on whether Hallucigenia tastes like shrimp.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
6mo ago
It was for quite a range of occupations IIRC.
I know they did bring in some Cubans and even Vietnamese, but that may have been for propaganda value and "proletarian internationalism" points. Don't think they ever had Poles or Romanians.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
6mo ago
East Germany had something like this. Because of its unique situation with continued flight to the West, many factories and other businesses were constantly begging for employees.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
7mo ago
I think it's this one:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy-in-an-enormous-planet-sized-nutshell/
Also the origin of the "fifty Stalins" line!
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
7mo ago
Hell, I've got ants in my kitchen and I've seen a few silverfish in the bathtub. No biggie.
Has there ever been a movie about inflation that isn't a documentary?
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