MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
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MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
9hr ago
One thing I point out about religious people in general is that they’re much less into hyper-individualism and hedonism than modern secular society. They view themselves as part of a much larger whole. A religious Jew sees himself as part of a group a tribe and a nation. A religious Christian sees himself as part of the Body of Christ. A secular progressive especially as you get into the far left end of things is much more an individualistic person concerned mostly about their own interests and lifestyle.
Babies are actually a pretty big lifestyle change. You cannot doa lot of things that single people or DINKs do. No staying out late, no spontaneous trips, no getting drunk every weekend or partying. You have to prioritize the baby and its needs. You have to make sure you have a good enough job to provide. You can’t just quit because you want to because you are responsible for the baby. This isn’t something that would be appealing to a hedonist. It’s not as much fun as partying and traveling and drinking and so on.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1mo ago
It depends. Usually in the Christian form of charity, there was an expectation of the person joining and becoming a Christian, and often The priest would require that the recipient generally improve their behaviors if they are the cause of the problem. If they had no job they were expected to do at least some work. It wasn’t a modern free check where a person could demand gibs despite not being a member of the community or contributing in any way whatsoever.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1mo ago
I think part of the problem is that modern technology and lifestyles have sort of enabled this. When you have entire generations of people who have only minimal contact with reality, they Don’t really believe in the necessity of teaching kids to survive in the world. When the default is “if he fails then there are all of these systems that mean he will do okay.” That could just be the assumption of the time when mom and dad were in school and there were enough “good enough” jobs for college graduates that a kid who flounders for a couple of years will be okay, so there’s no urgency in making sure that your kid is employable and can present himself well. For the lower class it’s much the same. Kids don’t need to worry about learning in school and learning a trade or going to college because welfare will feed them. And without hard edges, without having to worry about whether the children are being raised into sensible adults, they tend to go with the idea of letting kids do whatever they want.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1mo ago
I mean if you insist on the very narrow definition of chechov’s gun. On the other hand there are lots of TV shows or movies that would be ruined by forms of the gun. One huge one is the abilities of characters and technology in science fiction and fantasy. Once I establish that Spock can do the mind meld and read a guy’s mind, the audience tends to question why that isn’t happening when this would be the obvious solution to the need to find out something that the characters need to know and the bad guy does know.
I think the rule is better stated as “don’t bring up a potential solution to the problem and then ignore it.” I tend to like Sanderson framing of the issue which is that ideally, your characters should try everything that the audience would think would work and have it fail. The gun would ignore that rule, because you have characters fighting and the gun is right there so the audience is thinking “why not just shoot the guy with the gun that’s sitting right there”
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1mo ago
The languages thing makes a lot of sense as most people if they have more than one language usually have at least one of them as English. Thus if there’s no official translation of UN content in your language, you’d default to English as the language of choice. Arabic and Chinese really don’t spread beyond their initial cultures and Spanish is largely confined to Spain and Latin America. Russian used to be bigger in Eastern Europe, but I don’t think it’s as popular there now.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1mo ago
I think a lot of the divide comes down to how we raise kids. The major difference between now and the past is that most parents are now so divorced from the idea that there should be any authority figures that they not only cannot raise their kids into adulthood properly, but often stand in the way of anyone who would demand a kid do anything they don’t want to. That often means that the child lacks the ability to act professionally or talk professionally. They don’t understand that going to a job interview is not the same as hanging out with the kid down the street.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1mo ago
Maybe it is George Takei.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1mo ago
I mean how common do these incidents need to be before anyone is allowed to point to the pattern? How blatant do the cops need to be before anybody is allowed to say “this isn’t just incompetent?” A man was arrested for being stabbed by a brown Sikh guy while the cops calmly chatted and searched his phone and then his father’s phone for “racism”. A man who, had he received prompt treatment, might well have survived.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1mo ago
I mean that honestly intent actually matters and nobody im aware of in this crowd had a substantial criminal record, nor at the time that they entered the Capitol did they intend to go around beating up cops. There is evidence of this, the most famous and obvious being the rather famous images of these same people respecting the ropes around the rotunda in the Capitol. But also the number of people who showed up in cosplay outfits and so on.
Had the cops simply used normal techniques of crowd control, I don’t think the people who would not cross a rope barrier are suddenly going to beat up cops. They started beating up cops once the cops broke out the mace.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1mo ago
The checkov’s gun thing is still a part of storytelling. The general idea is to avoid telling people about things in a story that seem important but actually are completely irrelevant to the story. So I can’t tell you that “oh, by the way, Batman has a Time Machine,” then never ever mention it again.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1mo ago
I don’t see apex in this, simply because so much of what trans women seem to think the interior life experiences of women are the things that the media tells people that women are like. It would be like me taking men’s media portrayals as what men are like. If I say I’m a man and I act like the media portrayals of male action heroes maybe like John Wick or something, you’d find the effect rather weird because this isn’t what any men are like. I don’t think John Wick in the wild is super high status, but he’s the character people think of when they think about maleness.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1mo ago
I mean yes. The whole thing seems like a man looks at media presentations of “what a woman is like” and wears it as a persona. It’s not based on the way the majority of women spend the majority of their time. It’s honestly somewhat sexist to me as a woman to watch some of these trans women LARP as women and revive a lot of stereotypes about what women are like.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1mo ago
I think most of the prosecutions were over the top. If you have cops threatening you, it’s not unusual for you to fight back. It was a completely chaotic situation where people who had never been in a situation where the cops are trying to stop them and wielding batons. Most of the protestors were older Americans who had up to that point only gotten a couple of speeding tickets. They were not hardened criminals who went in trying to beat up cops for no reason. They went in believing they were protesting the election of 2020 being stolen, they perhaps intended to chant in the halls of congress or something. Trying to treat such people as if they went in intending to beat up cops and harm members of Congress ignores the reasons they had and the character of those people.
I’m not completely on board with a fund, but these were not hardened criminals and talking about this as if the fifty year old small business owner was exactly like a gang member looking to shoot a cop is ridiculous.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1mo ago
I mean near term, the most important thing for anyone to remember is that if he can’t see your hands empty in a situation, he assumes that you have a weapon. If you make a move with your hands into a place where he won’t be able to watch what you are doing with your hands he assumes you are reaching for a weapon.
The most important thing to do when dealing with police is keep your hands where he can see them, Do not have anything in your hands, and do not move your hands to any place that your hands would be hidden from view. So if you’re at a traffic stop, you put your hands either straight up or on the steering wheel, and do not move until the cop is there and can see your hands. Do not reach for your license, your insurance information, your proof of ownership or anything else until the cop can see you and has directly told you to do that. If you need to reach into your glove box, a bad or a purse ask him if it’s okay, or hand over the bag.
The main thing here is that cops are trained from day one with one fact in mind: if you miss the guy going for a weapon, you’re probably going to get seriously injured.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1mo ago
I mean, sometimes the race/gender flipped version never actually happening is a part of the reason people are pissed off. There is not, nor will there ever be, a story in which a white male attacks a bunch of brown people in Germany and the cops defend the white guy while arresting the brown guy who tries to stop the mass stabbing. That is part of the story which is the quiet part out loud: the cops are so concerned about looking racist that they will assume the white guy is guilty before even bothering to realize that the brown guy is actually the perpetrator.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1mo ago
I think it’s usually the reverse. The kids starts it, then they start making money and the parents push the kid to continue even if they don’t want to.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1mo ago
My advice would be to start out doing short stories. They have a couple of advantages.
First, they have a quicker turnaround. You can get a first draft done in a week or less. This means that you have more time on the back end to rework what you have into something that works. A lot of good writing that you see in books is actually rewritten, and often several times. If you have a story that’s ten to fifteen pages, you can easily rewrite the bad prose, or fix the plotting or see where the characters are doing weird things.
Second, the level of detail you need to get started is a bit less. You don’t have the space for a long detailed plot, or fifteen pages worth of world building information. You don’t have the space in the story to worry about what happened to your main character in the fifth grade and all the trauma it caused him. In all of that, you have time to hit the highlights and move on. This removes the temptation to follow Tolkien in the sense of spending large amounts of time building an entire universe and not writing the story.
Third, they’re easy to put out into the world. You can just put it on a blog, or a website. You can submit to short story contests, you can print them at kinkos and hand them out on street corners. Thus the need to worry about gatekeepers is less.
As far as characters, I personally use the type descriptions from personality tests (MBTI or Socionics or Enneagram) simply to get a sense of how the character might think. That helps me because if I don’t make a point of giving each character a different personality, they all end up sounding like me.
I’ll also recommend looking up the Brandon Sanderson lectures on either podcast or YouTube. He’s dealing with a more advanced level of writer, but it’s helpful. You can also find podcasts about the technical skills of writing like characters and descriptions and so on.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1mo ago
I think a lot of the “more/better” thing is that it is often stuff that’s easy to recommend, has few explicit costs, and provides an easy way to avoid blame. TBH it’s a cop out, and really if someone isn’t communicating a concept properly, you can always ask. And second, because the answer is talking about the problem instead of figuring out what went wrong and how to fix it, no accountability happens and thus nothing changes.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1mo ago
Even if you’re cribbing notes off the Internet forums that incels use, you still need to craft a character that is more than just a collection of ripped quotes.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1mo ago
most popular sport would end sometime within the next fifty years, and nobody would notice or care.
I think most of our sports will eventually go that way. Football has the disadvantage of being expensive to play, expensive to attend, and thus really only works as a TV show. Add in that there are more commercials than playing time and that really nothing much matters between the 35-40 yard lines of the respective teams, and you have a problem.
Baseball will probably go first, as much as I like the sport. The games are too long for TV and Internet, especially when you have innings of play where nobody does anything. When you need to put a guy on base to shorten the game in extra innings, you have a problem, namely that your game is long enough and boring enough that overtime is a problem for you.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1mo ago
I agree. Up until the modern era this was how stories worked. The characters and plots belonged to the people in the culture. Robin Hood or King Arthur, fairy tales, and so on were stories with lots of different versions and regional variations depending on where the stories were being retold.
And I wish this was how things worked now. I’d absolutely love to see what Mickey would be like if you had stories written by contemporary artists.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1mo ago
The thing that sealed it for me was that Caroll never really provided any concrete information until Kavanagh provided it first. The date — down to the year, the location of the house, the people at the party, etc. she knew nothing until she was fed the information. And there was never to my recollection any contemporary evidence that the two had met. No mention of this party to other people, no journals, no police reports, no anything until he’s up for the Supreme Court. She never said anything at any other point of his career.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1mo ago
This would be my guess. I’m very concerned that the Petrodollar is going away, and hyperinflation will result as we can no longer maintain our standard of living and certainly not our generous welfare and social programs. This probably means that civil unrest will happen. The people who suddenly don’t get their welfare benefits for months are not going to give up peacefully, especially if prices are also inflating by double digits.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1mo ago
I’m not sure what they’ll be if they achieve sapience. I’m hoping for Spock, personally.
Im not talking about politics, but culture, the way you think about the actual humans living near you — your family, your friends, your neighbors, etc. communists generally take a sort of dim view of communalism in the sense of people actually showing up in their life to help people who need it. A Christian community will give to charity quite often, they’ll run ministries to help people, they’ll show up to clean up after storms, and so on. In their personal lives, Christians tend to prioritize or at least consider how things that they want to do or want to avoid doing affects other people. A Christian woman will often choose to stay home with the kids. Not necessarily because her hedonistic desires really lean in the direction of “I an intelligent woman who can outwork a lot of men somehow pine after the life of changing diapers and cooking and keeping house”, I don’t think that’s true. They do so out of the sense that being a housewife is good, and good for the rest of the family and especially the kids.
Communists and the far left tend to believe that people need to be forced to do good things. I suspect they lack personal experience with communities that are more communal.
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