SubstantialFrivolity
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SubstantialFrivolity
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3mo ago
Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Like you, I don't like mushrooms (I hate them really) - it's a texture thing for me. There's this way they squish when you eat them that's just so off-putting. If you cut them super fine, do they still have that unpleasant texture?
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3mo ago
It seems to me like that is a self-imposed problem though. I don't go looking up Civ strategies and I have a great time with it.
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3mo ago
I know that this is a trite comparison, but even so... I think that viewing wokeness though the lens of religion helps to illuminate why this happens. Imagine you're in 17th century Europe and someone comes to you wanting to print a book that alleges that Jesus was a rapist or something equally blasphemous. Even if you thought you could make a ton of money off that book, you would probably turn the author down due to the immense social blowback you would receive.
Publishers (and video game companies, etc) today are in a similar situation. Even if an individual is sympathetic to your pitch, even if they could make hella money, they are going to be reluctant to publish something which is blasphemous to the religion they have to work with.
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3mo ago
Yeah, I had pretty much the same experience. The footnotes are boring, and Johnny Truant doesn't really have much of a story to him. The meat of the book is in the story of the house.
I also agree with @5434a that the book is kind of overindulgent. The author really wanted to play around with the structure of a book, but I didn't really find it added anything (with some rare exceptions). It's the sort of thing that appeals to college students who are like "this is so deep, maaaaan"*, but outside of that audience I think it falls kind of flat.
*I read the book in college so I'm not just being mean here, lol. I had some peers who were so enchanted by the book's gimmick that they thought we should be reading it for classes rather than classics of literature. It's pretty funny to me in hindsight.
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3mo ago
Fair enough, I took it the other way because it's such a common error. But it can be correct to use the plural in this case.
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3mo ago
Touche. This is some excellent next level pedantry, I salute it.
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3mo ago
It's a garment that women can wear underneath their shirts that will support their fleshy bosoms.
As long as we're being crotchety about stuff, I have to point out that bosom refers to the entire chest area, not a single breast. Woman or man, everyone has one single bosom.
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3mo ago
Is not wearing a tie lazy?
I have no opinion on whether women should wear bras, but I will say that not wearing a tie (on occasions that call for one) is very lazy. Like if I'm at a wedding, and some dude can't even be arsed to put on a shirt and tie? That's lazy as hell and doesn't speak well to that guy's character.
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3mo ago
and we were 2-3 years away from useful AI for 3 decades. And then chat gpt happened.
Right, so we still don't have useful AI.
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3mo ago
I mean... and also the little thing about how it's based on sci-fi rather than human history. Gives a very different feel.
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3mo ago
It just is? I absolutely have fielded large armies, painted the map, and had a blast doing so.
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3mo ago
A load of horseshit that is, and you're right that anywhere remotely important such as NYC would have a sea-wall put around it posthaste.
I mean... to be fair that is exactly what happens in Civ 6. Global warming submerging your tiles is never a real threat unless you're quite far behind in tech. And in that case, you have bigger problems than submerged tiles.
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3mo ago
Have you inquired into a radical sanation?
No, I was actually unaware that existed. I probably won't go for it yet, but in time maybe. For right now I think that I agree with what the priest at my parish has told me: trust the Lord, if he wants us to have our marriage blessed by the Catholic church he'll lead my wife in the right direction in due time.
That kind of rules-lawyering makes me furious. This shows the downside about having a lot of explicit rules, people think that the explicit rules in canon law or the catechism matter more than basic moral law of keeping sacred vows.
Yeah, I know. I think it's silly too, but that's humans for you I guess.
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3mo ago
I disagree. One unit per tile was such an improvement that when Civ 5 came out, I could never go back to 4. Combat actually became fun in 5, rather than a chore to be avoided like in 4.
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3mo ago
My brother in Christ, Civ 5 was awesome. And while I didn't play 1 or 3, I think it's safe to say 1 was good (otherwise nobody would've bought it and we wouldn't have had the series).
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3mo ago
Was looking forward to it after the announcement that they're going to not have the 2k launcher... but then yesterday someone spotted on Steam that it's going to require a 2k account to play. So I'm back to not really caring. Wish companies would stop with hostile crap like that and just make games.
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3mo ago
I don't consider myself to be living in sin. But unfortunately, the church does. My parents were Catholic, baptized my siblings and me, etc. But they chose to leave the Catholic church when I was in 5th or 6th grade, and I spent the rest of my childhood growing up Protestant. As an adult (years after I was married), I decided to go back to the Catholic church, and have been told I need to get my marriage convalidated by the church.
My understanding is that the Catholic church does consider Protestant marriages valid for converts. But because I was baptized (and got first communion), they consider me to have been Catholic the whole time and not a convert. Even though I myself would have said I wasn't Catholic (and I didn't choose to leave the church, my parents did), it means that I have to go through the same steps as someone who was a part of the Church and chose to get married outside it. It's a bit frustrating to be honest, but not much I can do. Anyways, because (according to the Church) I'm living in sin, that means no sacraments until that gets resolved (or unless I commit to living with my wife without any sex).
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3mo ago
Does Chesterton's Fence apply here? We know why the minimum wage and welfare are there (provide a floor on labor prices and give assistance to help the needy). Eliminating them might have consequences we don't foresee, but that isn't exactly what Chesterton's Fence is about. It's about not eliminating something unless you know why it was put there.
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3mo ago
I think the book is better primarily because it doesn't overstay its welcome. Season 1 of the show is the story that's in the book, everything else is just made up by the show. So I think the narrative is stronger in the book because it is tighter in scope.
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3mo ago
why it is such a strong symbol for western misogynistic dystopia?
Because right around the time Trump got elected, they came out with a show and it caught on with blue tribe women. That's really it. I think if the show didn't exist you wouldn't hear so many of those comparisons.
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3mo ago
This works great in a Catholic marriage where divorce is explicitly off the table...
Christian marriage in general, although a lot of people in other denominations seem to either ignore this or just never learned it. My wife and I haven't had our marriage convalidated because she has a problem signing a thing saying marriage is for life. And she's a Christian! I have tried pointing out to her that the prohibition on divorce was directly said by Jesus, and that this isn't a Catholic thing. But she just doesn't seem to want to accept it, IDK why.
It's kind of sad because it means I can't get any of the sacraments, but what can you do. At the end of the day, I still took a vow before God (we had a Christian ceremony, just not Catholic) and I intend to uphold it. A lot of people online will say stuff like "you don't have a valid marriage so leave", but that isn't on the table. Even if it means I can never get absolution at confession or participate in communion again, I'm still going to stand by her forever. I just hope she comes around someday.
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3mo ago
Also, I'm American and I have no idea (or didn't until this post I guess) what Baltimore is like. Assuming every American knows about any given city is a bad assumption to make.
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3mo ago
I'm married (for almost 7 years now) and very happy. My wife and I have a good balance - we enjoy hanging out, but are happy to give each other space too. We have very similar values, and we also have enough respect for each other to not make it a big deal when we do disagree on politics or whatever. We have great sex, although our respective sex drives aren't always in sync. Honestly I feel like our relationship is exactly what marriage should look like, and I'm very happy in it.
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3mo ago
I wonder why the UK even bothers with a bicameral legislature if one of the halves is expected to just rubber stamp everything the other does. Seems silly to me, but I guess it's not my country so it doesn't much matter what I think.
I definitely think it's more the latter. She has no intention of just giving up on our marriage lightly, but she also doesn't want to sign a pledge saying she isn't going to divorce me because of extreme cases like what you mentioned. Infidelity, abuse, etc.
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