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6d ago
I've spent the past two years holding regular social gatherings at my house, which is cheap, low-pressure, and I can control the environment to 'guarantee' a pleasant experience.
For about four years now, my thing has been trivia night. It helps that I enjoy it, so I’m almost always there. It’s super low-pressure, and I don’t have to overthink it. Meet a couple at a coffee shop who seem cool? No need to try setting something up, “I’m at the same place the same time every week. If you want to hang out, that’s where I’ll be.” You work through the chaff and start finding a core group of consistent people. Really this is what church was but that's just too much for most people to bite off.
Another key, though, is that if you want to develop a social circle, oneself has to show up when others put on events.
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6d ago
With my local church the problem is similar. Plenty large mass attendence, but people my age aren't interested in the other ministries that the church offers: working with soup kitchen, church garden, and food pantry to help feed the homeless, book clubs, or even social events, many of which take place right after mass.
I'd speculate it might be prevalence of stay at home moms. Stay at home moms give a lot more bandwidth for that sort of thing.
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7d ago
An amusing thing is Elon has directly responded to this kind of call out in the past.
I'm looking for examples of... not sure what they would be called... horrific misunderstandings of scale. My favorite example is MSNBC reporting that Bloomberg could have given every American over 1 million dollars with the money he spent on his campain.
This isn't as clear and I know there are other argument (pressure) but it seems to me this guy thinks 3 million gallons waters is a lot, when one of the closest reservoirs had a 117 million gallon capacity and was empty.
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10d ago
Everyone is talking out of their ass including me. I live in a wildfire area, know lots of wildland firefighters, private crew owner, I've been hanging out at the cabin as black needles fall out of the sky, yada yada never played one on TV.
The scale just seems way off. I was seeing takes along the lines of "they had 3 million gallons on standby, with 4x demand blew through it in 15 hours. What more could you ask for?" Like what? The reservoirs around me have hundreds of billions of gallons of capacity. We can run a continual stream of planes none stop. We've got Dozens of tanker trucks that can be sent out to fight fires. Granted we're not southern California we've got a lot more water, but 3 million gallons is nothing.
I looked up and a a fire boat can move 50,000 gallons a minute. So an an hour worth for one fire boat.
Turns out the closest reservoir with a capacity of 117 million gallons has been empty for months because they've been working on the cover. So this thing is going to cost 50 billion dollars? I bet you can move and store a lot of water for 10% of that.
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10d ago
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11d ago
What are you on about? You falsely said this was a border dispute. I was informing you if you were ignorant or calling out a lie.
Russia tried for much more, it's only a boarder war because Russia's military sucks.
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21d ago
I'm usually don't disagree. Mostly just trying to expand the subject. An example of a "disagreement" would be going into Hanania's theories from The Origin's of Work. Something like "Simply passing laws banning DEI isn't going to work, you have to gut disparate impact jurisprudence." I know better than to try to go as redpill as defenestrating parts of the civil rights act, they would not know how to handle that.
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22d ago
Neither, I haven't read any version of the Odyssey, I do follow Tyler Cowen quite closely so on his recommendation it was at the top of my list initially and now after the twitter blow up I'm leaning toward Fagles. Have you seen this side-by-side comparison?
For some reason it took me for bloody ever but I just finished Cloud Cuckoo Land last night. I didn't dislike it but it didn't draw me in like it seems to a lot of other people. I'm guessing because I'm not worried about climate change. It was kind of fun in that I'm very familiar with the parts of Idaho the story takes place in, I know where his photo on goodreads was taken on sight. Lakeport is very obvious McCall, Idaho, my parents like to point out the cabin on the lake they almost bought in the 70's.
I think I'll take my 4th foray into 40k with Eisenhorn - Xenos as a fast read.
Is this completely independent of the twitter blow up around Emily Wilson?
Suggestions for not causing fast ends to political conversations with boomer MEGA MAGA conservatives (subscribe to the Epoch Times types).
I've got a few in my personal life and have time to hang out for long periods over the holidays. Between themselves, they can go back and forth for long periods of time. I'm not even trying to debate, even when I'm trying to strengthen their positions (I guess that might be in the eye of the beholder), they're changing the subject in less than five minutes.
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24d ago
Of course you can leave a dog unattended. I've never known an adult dog that couldn't go at least 8 hours unattended.
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1mo ago
I feel like there's something else going one... or he did go crazy and just got lucky that the first half (the assassination) came off as competent. I'm seeing he still had the gun on him, fake ID, and manifesto hundreds of miles away. That's not just lacking a plan to vanish, that's something else.
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1mo ago
Archive: https://archive.is/2xKNx
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1mo ago
The killer left behind bullet casings, which was at first viewed as “oh, this was an amateur – what kind of professional doesn’t police their brass?”
The focus on collecting brass has always seemed odd to me, especially for a professional (not saying this was) hit. Who cares if you leave brass? In a "professional" hit I would think the gun would be untraceable from the start and then the gun is going to be disappeared. It's trivially easy to get untraceable ammunition.
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1mo ago
It's very easy with the partially made kits you can get for cash. They sell a overpriced guide so you can't mess up with a hand drill if you don't feel confident enough to free hand it or have a drill press. Buy a few and practice; most of the baffles are interchangeable.
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1mo ago
You can go on a road trip and get them with cash:
If it's made from untraceable parts I would consider that to be at about the same level as disposing of the clothes. Edit: Clothes might even be more important since they would more likely have DNA.
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1mo ago
He also either stole the suppressor (unlikely) or passed a very rigorous background check by the ATF to acquire it.
Building a suppressor is not difficult.
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1mo ago
I'm seeing it reported that the guy was wearing a black hoodie, black pants, black sneakers with a white trim and a gray backpack used suppressed pistol and rode off on a bike.
That's like exactly what I've come up with for assassinating someone. The hard part is finding a good place to ditch the bike and change your look so they can't rewind the images from the loitering drones and follow you home.
Is it organic or are they messing with the algorithm. Almost every post on the front of /r/all is about this: https://archive.is/HKkuk
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