TitaniumButterfly
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TitaniumButterfly
3mo ago
Why, why, why is anyone still talking like 'drugs' is a useful, let alone coherent, category? You don't mean zero tolerance for drugs. You mean zero tolerance for a much smaller, much more specifically-defined subset. Why not just amend that subset?
Walking sticks would be pretty conspicuous but the umbrella is an interesting idea. Having no authority to speak on such matters, I'd guess that fighting with such a pointy umbrella would be more like using a slow, heavy fencing foil than anything else, which already seems to require a fair amount of training to do effectively. The reach is nice (though not the same as a spear) but if the opponent gets past it the weapon would rapidly become a liability. With a knife, no matter what, one is able to present a viable threat at immediate range.
But the actual answer is probably just that these people do what others do, and weaponized umbrellas would have to catch on somewhere before we see widespread adoption.
Thinking of getting into the scene and going full Battle of Epping Forest? Be the change you want to see in the world.
TitaniumButterfly
3mo ago
appetites have never been more easily satisfied
What different worlds we live in. Not that I live in one where what you said isn't true; but I do live in one where this is not a good thing.
There are problems which, solved, make us better. There are also problems which, solved, make us worse.
TitaniumButterfly
3mo ago
Sounds like it's time to make an alt Olympics.
TitaniumButterfly
3mo ago
Usually avoidable, but yeah, plowing through something only to run up against 'no next chapter' sucks.
TitaniumButterfly
3mo ago
No one else seems to have mentioned that you possibly just had some low-grade or older sashimi. You're working from a single data point.
Good sashimi has lots of flavor. There must be two dozen sushi restaurants in my area, but I only go to one. If I somehow have leftovers, the next day they taste like the 'fresh' sushi anywhere else.
Also, different types of fish taste very different. From your post it's not clear how much variety was in the bowl. Some are certainly much more subtle than others.
TitaniumButterfly
3mo ago
I thought she was going to be saying 'on the record' or something but no, that's not right at all. This is wild. And the whole way she's talking also makes it seem like a hoax.
TitaniumButterfly
4mo ago
Not in cases of sexual immorality. The double standard exists for a lot of reasons but it does exist.
TitaniumButterfly
4mo ago
Discord is great for many things but the problem you bring up is real. I've joined groups (programming stuff, D&D stuff, etc.) for the 'archives on their discord' only to find that there are no archives, just a soup of years of history with no real way to find a given item unless you happened to be around when it was posted and also remember how it was phrased.
TitaniumButterfly
4mo ago
Because she's a woman.
TitaniumButterfly
4mo ago
An election’s outcome can potentially be flipped by bad ballot design – not just the misalignment of rows, but also choices as seemingly minor as the order of candidates’ names, which disproportionately favors those at the top of the ballot.
This sounds less like a ballot problem and more like an electorate problem.
TitaniumButterfly
4mo ago
I don't think so. That would be 'virulent'. 'Toxic' is immediately poisonous at point of contact. It damages others directly. Probably it's closer to 'dysfunctional' with overtones of 'makes it difficult for others to function well'.
But mostly, like 'fascist', it's just 'things the left doesn't like', so yeah, doubleplusbad.
TitaniumButterfly
4mo ago
Even though I'm sure that we've ended up importing more gang members than I feel comfortable with, overall violence and law-abidingness among immigrants is still way at least a good chunk lower than for born-Americans.
There is no way at all this is true if you control for race. Certain segments of our population commit a ton of violent crime. Most do not.
TitaniumButterfly
4mo ago
Wake me up when we're dealing with an unregulated market or a fairness-based reality.
TitaniumButterfly
4mo ago
What is wrong with people taking adderall for better grades if they see it as a good tradeoff vs side effects?
The part where the rest of us are paying for it, as well as the part where many aspects of education are competitive.
TitaniumButterfly
4mo ago
My thing is the coordination problem with lights turning green. Granted the issue is generally people on their phones, but even before that, I was really irritated by how long it takes a line of cars to start moving once the light changes. When it changes we could all start accelerating slightly and be on our way very quickly. Instead it's not uncommon for the last car in line to not even start moving before the light has turned red again, because each person waits for the person in front of them to get moving before they get around to it themselves.
Also reaction times in general.
And obliviousness to other traffic. Though that's at least as much of a problem in Costco. Why wouldn't you park your cart there? It's not like anyone else is in the store.
TitaniumButterfly
5mo ago
Why not both?
TitaniumButterfly
5mo ago
I'm not in a position to provide examples but agree with OP that the described attitude is rampant.
Motte alum KulakRevolt had an interesting piece on this recently. https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/were-all-hitlerists-now
TitaniumButterfly
5mo ago
Right — is imagining a girl naked victimizing her?
TitaniumButterfly
5mo ago
Putting aside their moral failure to understand if the thing they say is true, and I think it probably is mostly true, it is damnable and must be fixed.
Why? I cannot imagine where you are coming from with this.
I wonder how they square their purview with the most successful, the most attractive, and the most effective people being so uniformly leftist.
Luxury beliefs. Status signaling. Peacocking. This is a well understood phenomenon.
TitaniumButterfly
5mo ago
Say more?
TitaniumButterfly
5mo ago
Defection against the common weal. One's fellow Americans.
TitaniumButterfly
5mo ago
My thoughts exactly. Defection may be about to get a lot more popular. I think it did after 2020, too.
TitaniumButterfly
5mo ago
Officially "Big Falcon Rocket" but this is commonly known to be a euphemism for the actual meaning, "Big Fucking Rocket". Circa 2019 IIRC it got renamed to "Starship" so the term is deprecated at any rate.
Even within that, I don't think I've ever met anyone who wants coffee, tea, coca cola, aspirin, or cough syrup banned. And that's before we get to prescription drugs.
Actually, most people seem to be fine with most drugs being legal. Like you I've come to the conclusion that the problem is opiates and meth, and maybe to a smaller degree a couple others, but... really, it's opiates and meth that are the problems. And if there's a third member of that set it's alcohol, which I don't want banned either.
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