Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
4mo ago
a competent, clean cut white guy who can win over a swing state and doesn’t have any woke baggage would really flip the tables on the GOP imo.
So... Manchin?
Mantergeistmann
4mo ago
I appreciate any mention in the wild of Yokohama Shopping Log, but alas that I cannot recommend anything like it.
Mantergeistmann
4mo ago
I honestly feel like theres something to be said for the old "did you see that ludicrous display last night?" strategy. I've also heard of, but never been able to find, old Victorian books that gave a surface level knowledge of many things - just enough to be involved in a conversation, but not a deep knowledge of anything (kind of like reading the first paragraph of a ton of wikipedia articles).
Mantergeistmann
4mo ago
Or, as Napoleon famously put it,
The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.
Mantergeistmann
4mo ago
If you think the entire Republican party is just as bad as Trump, and that "generic Republican" is likely to have a better shot (pun not intended), then it makes sense to not off him.
Mantergeistmann
4mo ago
a right winger shooting at Trump would have to be pretty schizo indeed
I have a hunch that most media will take any scrap of info they can to try to paint the shooter as a right-winger, regardless of the truth or reasonableness of that assertion.
Mantergeistmann
4mo ago
Weekend at Bernie Sanders's?
Mantergeistmann
4mo ago
I wonder how different the executive order writing (assuming it would indeed be happening as presented) is from the standard lobbyist contribution to legislation? Obviously, the latter at least has some sort of check in the form of other legislators having to vote on it.
Mantergeistmann
5mo ago
This actually brings up a question I've had for a little bit: does autocorrect seem like it's somehow been getting worse for everyone else?
Mantergeistmann
5mo ago
The new nuclear Renaissance! Anyone know of any good writeups comparing and contrasting the various new reactors/companies in development, i.e. Terrapower vs. NuScale vs. eVinci?
Mantergeistmann
6mo ago
I don't think a game where you play as Da Vinci would have generated quite as much excitement.
I mean, a game where you play as mad scientist Leonardo would, in fact, be pretty awesome.
Mantergeistmann
6mo ago
I have yet to see anyone argue that the US and Canadians inflicted disproportionate casualties on the German army and French civilians during Operation Overlord.
Mantergeistmann
6mo ago
The present ruling population of Israel mostly moved to that territory in the late '40s, and from the start has continued violently expelling the ancestors of present Palestinians from their homes to acquire their land for themselves.
My understanding is that prior to the '40s, said present ruling population (or their ancestors) had themselves been violently expelled from their homes, in some cases by the present Palestinians/their ancestors, or other related groups. It feels odd to me to acknowledge the Arab/Muslim claims on the territory and ancestral lands while pretending all Jews are interlopers. Kind of like if we recognized England as "Ancestral Norman land".
Mantergeistmann
6mo ago
I challenge anybody reading to name an occasion on which they met a bear they weren't actively going out of their way to meet.
My grandmother had a local bear who liked to sit in her peach tree and eat the fruit. Occasionally would wander up onto her porch. She was more concerned with the deer, since they ate more of her vegetables (up until the bear broke half the peach tree by being too large for the branches. She wasnt pleased by that).
Mantergeistmann
6mo ago
I believe the reasons are "Moldova is dealing with a Russia-supported separatist region, which makes it a prime target for action."
Mantergeistmann
6mo ago
You're thinking that it might be a case of, "if we're going to he accused of genocide for asking civilians to leave a combat area, we might as well commit some anyway to make it worthwhile?" Or more of a "just be less careful" sort of thing?
Mantergeistmann
6mo ago
If the signs are like those at other student protests, A.N.S.W.E.R. has something to do with it.
Mantergeistmann
7mo ago
Having been involved in the sausage-making for DEI-mandated changes to video game art in the past
I would love to see an effortpost on that sometime, if you're up for it.
Mantergeistmann
7mo ago
The admin building wouldnt be the same as your username, would it?
Mantergeistmann
7mo ago
I am tremendously salty about the lack of PC port.
Mantergeistmann
7mo ago
It's not quite pigeon, but correspondence chess by naval courier was a plot point in one of the Honor Harrington books, if I recall.
Mantergeistmann
7mo ago
The problem is that we can not build them in the USA. Out of the last 4 units we tried, two of them ran up construction costs approaching $30 billion before they threw in the towel and got canceled. The other two at least got built, but again, with a cost of some $30 billion. It’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 3-5x as expensive as wind or solar.
We can’t talk about nuclear without acknowledging that the USA, as a country, can’t build nuclear anymore. Anyone who who even tries goes bankrupt. I don’t mean there is a lack of political will, though there is that. I mean we don’t have the manufacturers, contractors, designers, or financial sponsors that know how to do it. It’s really sad.
If I recall, the MIT study on the matter even straight up said that it's not the cost of the nuclear portion that drives up the price, it's the general construction and horrible project management of the rest of the site.
Mantergeistmann
7mo ago
Joe could have not banned religious themes from Easter egg contests for military families at the same time.
The Egg Board says this had nothing to do with Biden, though?
"The American Egg Board has been a supporter of the White House Easter Egg Roll for over 45 years and the guideline language referenced in recent news reports has consistently applied to the board since its founding, across administrations."
Mantergeistmann
7mo ago
some of the people I see holding firmly to the view that a six year old can know their gender and be rock-solid on they're a girl not a boy
I mean, I would imagine there'd be no problem with a six year old girl assigned female at birth who's adamant that she's a girl and not a boy (and that it'd be horrible parenting to insist that no, she really is a boy, she just needs to wait until she grows up and she'll understand that she's been a boy all along), and same for a boy assigned male who's sure that he's a boy, for instance.
I'm pretty sure by this point, any debunking doesn't matter. Anyone who wasn't already doubtful will either not hear about it, or just say that there's so many other things he said that haven't been debunked, and then eventually to "well, he's still a disgusting, hateful person anyway".
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