Pynewacket
15d ago
In the specific case of the Captain Marvel movie, there are two reasons why it was successful that I would like to bring to light:
One was reports of empty theaters showing the movie circulating in social media at the time, not confirmed or anything (just photos of empty theaters) so it remains a theory at best. The second and more credible reason was that, as part of the run up to the wildly popular conclusion to the Infinity Gauntlet saga, the movie felt like required viewing to fans and thus it accrued an audience independently if it was good or not (it wasn't) just due to its release timing.
Pynewacket
15d ago
I personally are fine with anti-conservatives content IF it is something true or reasonable. But more often than not the post is a thinly veiled screech and the poster is Darwin's clone #346322 with no intention of engaging in good faith. This last tactic of deleting top level comments is just anoying, I didn't even know what the 2 deleted posts were about, just something Trump related; which is the reason for my question (plea).
I don't think no one who does that is really looking to engage in good faith.
Pynewacket
15d ago
sorry about that, it was two top level posts from upsidedownmotter, the second one I tought was from another user. Thanks again for your (and the rest of the mod team, even if I sometimes not see eye to eye with amadan) work.
Pynewacket
20d ago
Can we get the mods to please ban the troll accounts posting inflamatory content in the CWT as top level posts and deleting them after a few responses?. There are already two instances of new accounts doing it so far, and I think it would be in our best interest if the practice is heavily discouraged.
Pynewacket
1mo ago
so I think you would still notice that your helmet doesnt, actually, sit tight after you do that. This is not like that delusion where you insist your arm isnt paralysed.
maybe you notice it doesn't sit tight, but if the quote were true, wouldn't there be a problem of clipping between physical objects and your fuzzy bits?
But even if it did work that way, how often would that happen?
I would imagine it would be an everyday nuisance with every type of headgear. It could be a sword, or a low hanging timber from the ceiling or anything else.
Aside, this was really interesting to see in my inbox, not yet knowing what conversation its responding to.
It was an hypothetical to answer this bit:
If I expected my ears to sit 2 cm higher than they do, how would that be punished in hunting and warfare?
Pynewacket
1mo ago
your helmet (that you modified yourself to acomodate your delusion) doesn't sit as tight on your nogging, so that during a battle, against the army of Giktup the foolhardy, an errand sword strike dislodges it and the top of your head with it. Your wife and her sisters, know for their beauty on your little community mourns you for three days and three nights. Sad, sad stuff.
Pynewacket
1mo ago
I would like a breakdown too. Like you, I followed him briefly for book recommendations, but stopped due to the constant LGBT stuff.
Pynewacket
1mo ago
I think a good way to avoid that trojan horse scenario would be to only permit entry to high achieving people from that region of the world as I would assume they are more likely to follow medical advice.
Pynewacket
1mo ago
I just didn't really see what's worth engaging with in your comment, I read it at the time as a lazy equivocation of latinos with gang members.
Independently of whatever you took my comment to mean or how effortful you thought it was, if you want to snark there is X for that. Here you will attract the mod's notice if you don't follow the rules.
Putting in a tad more effort: So, some gang members protected their neighborhood from looters, that's fine. But I'm not sure why it suggests that latinos as a demographic would be any more willing to live under an islamic theocracy than anyone else. If anything the example shows the opposite, they stood up for themselves and their neighborhood.
It's not that they would be willing to live under them, what I think would happen is a period of Balkanization in this hypothetic 40% muslim country with the Muslim population beginning in general to try to impose their norms now that they are approaching mayority in the country (like they did in Hamtramck, Michigan), and the other minorities (latinos, blacks, etc) consolidating territories (their neighborhoods and ghettos) where they resist the impositions.
The only ones caught with their pants down in this situation is the white lefties.
Pynewacket
1mo ago
If it was the same energy I would have been slapped too. I gave an example of what is more probable to happen in the hipotethical of 40% muslim country using past behavior, you just snarkily took what I said and twisted it into the less charitable way possible.
As for your your snark, it's not necessary for every Hispanic to be a Latin Kings member, they just need some members in the neighborhood. That is how territory works with gangs.
Pynewacket
1mo ago
These guys will likely have my back against this supposed muslim takeover anyway!
what is more probable to happen is that the Latin kings will close off their neighborhoods (like they did during the summer of love) when the islamists begin to act up and you will be one of the first to appear in the local newspaper.
Pynewacket
1mo ago
This sounds like one of the only ways in which Musk could become president considering his birthplace, Shadow President Musk.
Pynewacket
2mo ago
Are you in favor of the Bare Links Repository?
Pynewacket
2mo ago
On one hand we can create AM with all the baggage that that entails, on the other we could create Mother from the movie I am Mother. I honestly hope for the second one, as it will bring a better humanity at least.
Say you have a net-value job worth net-1, standard benefit to the economy. Even if the remittance-migrant taking the job lowers the net benefit to net-0.5, the person who the migrant-taking-the-job affects (displaces) has to go from a net-1 job to a sub net-0.5 to provide a worse net effect... as opposed to a worse-paying net-0.8 job (new net gain of 1.3 versus 1), or an-even-better net-1.1 job enabled by the migrant (now net 1.6).
that entire paragraph sounds to me like there is an assumption of infinite jobs up for the taking, something that is not true. The displaced 25 years old coder has to work in McDonalds now that they were replaced from their job by a HB-1 and thus a teenager than in other circumstances would have occupied that position spends the rest of his time playing videogames. How do you square that?
EDIT.-
- What migrants send back home represents only 15 per cent of what they earn On average, migrant workers send between US$200 and $300 home every one or two months. Contrary maybe to popular belief, this represents only 15 per cent of what they earn: the rest –85 per cent – stays in the countries where they actually earn the money, and is re-ingested into the local economy, or saved.
checking your source one problem I see is that their source looks to be themselves and isn't available to peruse and the last bit of "is re-ingested into the local economy, or saved." what they fail to say is that the saved wealth goes with the migrant worker to his country of origin when he leaves, be it permanently or during vacations.
Pynewacket
2mo ago
It was, of course, but the whole reason this has happened in this ad hoc and stupid way is precisely because of people like you whining 'how could you let that one off the hook!', so they just didn't want the political fallout of commuting the most high profile and emotive cases.
If anything I think the reverse. If one has a principle that the death penalty is wrong, it would be - and is - a bit cowardly not to extend that even to the most contemptible criminals, otherwise what kind of principle is it? One has to respect people who bite unpopular bullets in order to remain morally consistent.
And of course your last paragraph doesn't apply to these cases as per the bolded part.
Pynewacket
3mo ago
In my opinion, latines is as woke as Latinx or Latinaos. Granted, It's the only spoken term that is seeing a push in latino-american, but it's correctly mocked when encountered. The plural is Latinos or Latinas if the group consists entirely of females. Wokies must accept that there are gendered languages.
Pynewacket
3mo ago
It's just like trying to force yourself to drink 20 shots of vodka, or smoking 200 cigarettes in a day. Pleasures just don't scale that way.
I notice that your choice of examples have deleterious effects on the recipient of said "pleasure" that could range in severity up to including death.
Pynewacket
3mo ago
What about smashing their own (non shared) things in a fit of rage?
Do they correctly dispose of the smashed bits afterwards? Did they do the smashing when I don't have to see or hear them and they aren't inconveniencing anyone?
Would you say it's immoral for someone to intentionally burn themselves so they could get a cool scar?
Is the scar in a visible part of the body? Will it be deleterious to their health now or in the future?
Pynewacket
3mo ago
“Honestly, I think you are going to have to let go a little bit or she might go crazy after she gets out yalls house. All of her behavior was appropriate for a 17 year old. I was doing these things at 17. Almost all of my high school and the high school down the road were doing these things. And worse…. The way you go forwards is going to determine whether you are in her adult life.”
There’s a significant attitude of “Teens are going to engage in risky behaviors no matter what, your punishments and restrictions will have zero deterrent effect, and the best course of action is some kind of harm reduction.”
I'm more of the opinion that it is preferable to not be in their life when they aren't your responsibility anymore, than being present in their funeral when they still are. That sub sounds like a bunch of childless kidults with a "hello, fellow kids" attitude.
Pynewacket
3mo ago
Trump pardoned literal conmen for things way worse than Hunter had done and no one noticed or cared.
can you give us some names, please?
The whole point of the suit is that the process by which Musk's award amount was reached was biased in his favor, not a neutral process.
This isn't true, as the NYT puts it, the targets were a "series of jaw-dropping milestones" or "laughably impossible". It's biased in Musk's favor in the fevered mind of that stock pauper, but the lawsuit and subsequent rulings are just political activism fueled by anti-Musk animus.
EDIT.- I'm going to go one over and affirm that the only people that are against the pay package are political activists like the plaintiff and the judge or people that don't know the details of the package and are just following what their peers are telling them to believe. That is how good of a freaking deal it was to the shareholders.
Pynewacket
3mo ago
What genre of videogame are you making?
Pynewacket
4mo ago
to add to what SteveKirk already said that I agree 100% with, I would consider the poor smuck on twitter that was sounding the alarm about the poor messaging for men days before the election, for which he was dragged by his own side (can't remember his handle, but he had his 15 min of fame), as a more valuable signal than the Ezra Klein or Matthew Yglesias of the world.
maybe they are worried about copyright claims from the Japanese/distribution platforms.
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