George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
The things you lean on / are things that don't last
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George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
17hr ago
I think whether I agree or not is irrelevant. I often generalize about the ethos of Der Motte in general and suspect by and large I'm not off by far. But maybe I am. Maybe we're all capable of surprising one another. Maybe there's no Motte hivemind, and we're not so very predictable. I'd like to think so. And the best modding I've seen keeps this hope alive.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
17hr ago
True. But this is after the initial confrontation, where Sidious has murdered at least two jedi and shown clearly his darkside self. Yes from a public/filtered perspective it's dubious.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
21hr ago
Moderator, mod thyself.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
21hr ago
Point of clarity: When Windu and the Dying Squad of Jedi arrived, they went to arrest the chancellor, not assassinate him. Thus the "I AM the senate" line, and Windu's "Not yet" (bzzzzzzzzwang ignition of lightsaber).
It was Yoda who went in with the intention of actually offing Sidious, who by then had been proven a sith lord.
Unless you're typing out the news as reported by the legacy Coruscant media, in which case yes, the masses can be tricked.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1d ago
Considerably higher up on the thigh.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1d ago
There's currently a look in Japan where 20 something girls/young women wear white sneakers and regular baggy gray sweatpants, but skintight white short sleeve shirts. And baseball caps, currently NY Yankees caps are trending. There's also a baggy pants thing but the pant legs have horizontal slits in each thigh, like a cellophane window in food packaging that reveals the contents.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
5d ago
Some of his comments wouldn't be out of line here at the Motte.
I regularly wonder whether people I read about are actually posters on the Motte. Odds are against it, but you never know.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
5d ago
Was just going to recommend weightlifting gloves but suspected this type of reaction at gyms. In Japan there's not a lot of (open) mockery and you see people using gloves all the time. I myself do not but then I probably don't lift nearly enough to get serious callouses.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6d ago
Very interesting comment. I wonder what new political being the advent of choose-your-own-experience AI-type media will summon.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
8d ago
I enjoyed the Berlin book as very readable, maybe because it's largely (maybe wholly) transcription of talks he gave. You can find some of the actual talks online.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
9d ago
?? Apartheid ending was a relatively long process lasting into the early 90s. The Berlin Wall came down in '89.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
9d ago
わisn't feminine in Kansai, though tone and various other things will affect this (as they will with ね.)
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
9d ago
The eternal question. I think there's a lot going on here, and a bit of simplification of a grand clockwork that isn't simple. Unfortunately I am in transit with no time to bless everyone with my important thoughts.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
9d ago
"Never take life advice from someone who smokes."
That's not really a quote; I made it up. But you deserve some kind of response.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
10d ago
I quite enjoy the stated reason for theRealImpassionata's ban on the permabanned page.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
10d ago
You made the right choice.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
10d ago
Indeed, I should have specified "however one parses the abbreviation HBD." I only changed it because it was once mentioned, though your spelling out of the abbreviation is probably the more accurate and common.
Cops at least are on the radar and aware of the hypervigilance of anything resembling overtly ___-ist behavior and the repercussions that face them should they violate the Rules. Teachers on the other hand have essentially free rein to sanction, downgrade, or otherwise penalize students exhibiting (via essay or otherwise) views that they find personally repulsive (almost always this means anything right-coded.) Anything blatantly suggesting racism (imagine a well-written essay on Human Biological Determinism, without any use of epithets or slavery) could feasibly get a student reported to admin. There's a level of acceptability (I dislike using currently popular terms like Overton window) where things of this sort are treated the same as if a student were to write about the strategies in rape, or how to build some device that goes boom. I suppose a classroom is a relatively low impact environment, until of course it isn't and generations of like-minded groupthinked kids start waving flags and blocking traffic. Or worse.
Edit: I've strayed from the point.
edit 2: Sorry to sully the fun thread.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
11d ago
Particularly on mobile, yes.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
15d ago
I suppose it's going to appear differently on different feeds, true enough.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
15d ago
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
15d ago
I found it odd (perhaps naïvely so) to see headlines, notably the BBC, focused not on the release Israeli hostages, but on the Palestinians: "Palestinians celebrate return of detainees freed by Israel"
Look at that! A Mottezin (Mottezen? Mottizen?)in the wild! Could be my first time seeing the actual visage of anyone here.
The guy Paul Scharre's constant rapport-seeking rise in intonation was distracting so I ended up reading the transcript, but thanks for the vid!
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
19d ago
This is starting to read like a Python skit.
Probably it's unfair of me to attach different expectations of posting to mods, but I do, and it's always discouraging to read mods generalizing about a Motte Ethos. You'd know the rules better than I.
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