Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
16hr ago
I'm reminded of the ending to Heinlein's speech to Naval Acadamey graduates:
In my home town sixty years ago when I was a child, my mother and father used to take me and my brothers and sisters out to Swope Park on Sunday afternoons. It was a wonderful place for kids, with picnic grounds and lakes and a zoo. But a railroad line cut straight through it.
One Sunday afternoon a young married couple were crossing these tracks. She apparently did not watch her step, for she managed to catch her foot in the frog of a switch to a siding and could not pull it free. Her husband stopped to help her.
But try as they might they could not get her foot loose. While they were working at it, a tramp showed up, walking the ties. He joined the husband in trying to pull the young woman's foot loose. No luck --
Out of sight around the curve a train whistled. Perhaps there would have been time to run and flag it down, perhaps not. In any case both men went right ahead trying to pull her free... and the train hit them.
The wife was killed, the husband was mortally injured and died later, the tramp was killed -- and testimony showed that neither man made the slightest effort to save himself.
The husband's behavior was heroic... but what we expect of a husband toward his wife: his right, and his proud privilege, to die for his woman. But what of this nameless stranger? Up to the very last second he could have jumped clear. He did not. He was still trying to save this woman he had never seen before in his life, right up to the very instant the train killed him. And that's all we'll ever know about him.
THIS is how a man dies.
This is how a MAN... lives!
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
... I think you and I have very different definitions of "common knowledge".
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
some sexualities are more productive than others' has had serious issues lately
I feel like I've missed something here.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
It'd be fair use regardless of the status of the original meme, as it's for academic purposes, though, right?
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
They'll just slip their opinion pieces into their news stories, partially just via editorializing, partially via which interviewees/quotes they choose to include (with or without pushback/context, as desired).
So basically, what's being done now, but without the pressure relief valve of being able to have op-eds.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
Even while feminists also say that men are - correctly - the dominant major suppliers of violence.
Ah, but that's easy enough to blame on society and culture.
You can't deny that men are stronger (well, mostly not; the trans stuff has been sidling up to that position and suffering predictable consequences) or some people are better at sprinting
I've seen it claimed -- in complete seriousness -- that men are only stronger/better at sports due to training and nutrition from an early age.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
I suppose it depends on your definition of "superstar" and "white".
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
Awful writing of the MOU, then, to use "permanent termination" in a 60-day MOU. But I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
Case in point: all of Israel's former allies now loathe them.
Was there any way that Israel could have realistically fought Hamas without their former allies loathing them? They could have done better, but it would have still been enough that they'd be loathed, IMO.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
Beautiful, and actually somewhat tempting.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
Any recommendations on Legionnaire hats for yard work? I've got a Tilley hat that I love love love, but wouldn't mind rotating to another hat on occasion. I'm willing to accept a certain amount of looking dumb, but not a ballcap.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
They're moving large populations out of their homes in mass genocide.
Is this meant to be satire, on people claiming everything is genocide?
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
So would that mean that, under the terms of this MOU, Hezbollah and all Iran's proxies will be permanently prohibited from attacking Israel? Peace in our time, indeed!
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
There's also the minor issue of Hezbollah. Israel's not just bombing Lebanon for kicks and giggles, despite what a lot of people seem to think, and Iran has more than a minor bit of influence over that side of the conflict... I don't recall anything in the MOU that says Hezbollah will start abiding by the terms of the UN resolution, for instance, or that it will cease all hostile activities against Israel.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
They think they're a military superpower, yet they can't seem to handle Lebanon. The Lebanese army isn't even fighting them, just Hezbollah. They fought Hamas for a couple of years and didn't manage to destroy a small force, totally encircled, without air power or any heavy weapons.
I don't think there's a single nation or ever was that could handle entrenched urban enemies while also caring about PR, in an enviroment where their opponent is encouraged (by the international response) to have as many of their own civilians be casualties as possible.
It's like how the US was easily able to destroy almost the entire Iranian conventional Navy and Air Force, but struggled to destroy the more hidden IGRC weapons. Doesn't mean the US isn't a superpower, no matter what doomers want to say. Remember when Trump threatened the power plants, and the Iranians had civilians ringing them? Choosing not to bomb them doesn't mean you can't.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
Credit scores seem very unpredictable to me, but that is even worse than I expected. 57 is a bundle, even if you're not planning on needing a credit check any time soon.
What would TransUnion do were you to make a purchase with that card? Surely when it shows up on a statement, they'll be forced to acknowledge you have it?
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
I suppose Israel emptying the silos to kill or mutilate the wealthiest and smartest fifth of Iran and turning off the power for the survivors might not "destroy the regime" but I do think it would count as a military defeat for Iran.
Depends on the propaganda and PR, doesn't it? There's plenty of people out there who think the US has had more significant materiel losses in terms of planes/ships than Iran has.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
Mechwarrior 3 was my cybercafe jam in my youth. Pity the game's not around for puchase anymore even digitally.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
Ya'll I DQed so many kids. At least 20 if I had to guess. Almost entirely on breastroke and butterfly events.
I got DQ'd on breastroke so many times in my youth... it's very easy to get sloppy when you're not dedicated, especially when there's competition to keep the speed pressure on.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
Some were in bikinis, and there were plenty of panty shots, but the actual clothing was stuff that you could see in church, more or less. Schoolgirl outfits with knee-length skirts. Long-sleeve sweater combos. It seems like a very old concept of "skimpy".
I mean, those are all sexualized, is the thing. It's something for every taste.
"Women walk the streets, their curves accentuated by their dresses," Superintendent of Police Harvey J. Scott said. "But our real problem is with bobby soxers. They are the sweater girls—just kids showing off their curves and apparently liking it. What kind of mothers and wives are they going to be?"
I'm not hip to what the modern version would be.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
That's the whole basis of a protection racket, right? Sure, you're paying for "protection" from the mafia, but it's bad for their business if someone paying for said protection does get harmed by a different gang.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
As I understand it, the IAEA has never actually seen any evidence of this Fatwa, merely been told that "it totally exists, trust us."
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
Ah, didn’t see the downblending. Yeah, that's pretty big.
If that’s the argument it doesn’t even matter if the deal is good or bad
I mean, it does if there's a hard stop: "we agree that Iran shall not have more than X entichment facilities" or "shall source all enriched Uranium from Y country and have no domestic enrichment capability" . Something that focuses on directly-measurable limits that can't be (easily) hidden or weaseled out of or "well, the inspectors suspect, but have no proof, so..."
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
Iran's nuclear material will be destroyed
Where do you get that from the quoted passage? They'll just pretend they're enriching for "totally true trust us guys it makes sense" civilian power and medical isotopes.
Personally, I will never morally be against a player betting on his own team to win outright. That's why they're on the field, after all. But as soon as the spread/prop bets come into play, yeah, hell no.
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