DradisPing
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DradisPing
2d ago
Interested in mid-late 20s Anglophones of East Asian descent, of similar class and educational background
You've got to hunt where the ducks are. Clubs are a bad bet, it's just the wrong crew. Most of the women there won't match your profile and the few that do will be in a defensive mode.
You should probably start attending charity galas. I'm not sure what the right ones are, but there should be a lot to choose from in NYC. There should be some charity events particularly popular with wealthy East Asians but I have no idea what those would be. Don't be too on the prowl at these events, it's more about integrating yourself into the upperclass community.
Given that it's winter try taking up skiing. Buy boots, rent the skis and poles at the hill. Spend some weekends at the ski resort.
DradisPing
4d ago
what is it with libertarians being such normal boring business savvy centrists recently?
Liking smaller government and being concerned about massive domestic surveillance operations should be considered normie Republican positions. Yet somehow that's not how the DC Republican establishment view them.
DradisPing
4d ago
Their default is to not tell anyone anything and they aren't getting enough political pressure from the Biden admin to be more open.
DradisPing
6d ago
Originally I disliked him because his debate style involved tossing random assertions out with absolute certainty. Any time I imagined myself discussing anything with him I could only picture getting drawn into numerous side arguments.
He's gotten more unhinged lately. I think he's been abusing adderall for a while now and it's catching up with him.
DradisPing
6d ago
Given how unconcerned the US government is, I think it's clear that that belong to some branch of the US government.
DradisPing
6d ago
What translation are you reading for Nietzsche?
DradisPing
6d ago
Compared to the moon, Mars is farther away and has a deeper gravity well.
This means that the craft has to be more substantial since the astronauts will be in there for quite a while. Also the lander needs to be more substantial since it has to escape more gravity.
The lightweight ship and small lander might not cut it.
SpaceX hasn't really explained the mars plan. They might be planning to assemble something in orbit and use a Starship as the lander.
DradisPing
8d ago
One issue is that the US is unusually strict about recording babies who took one breath as live births. Other countries are much less strict and record babies that died a few ours after birth as stillborn. Or even a few days.
Making a game that takes months for a child to complete when you only have 128kiB of rom space to work with necessitates some very annoying game design. This ended up working to Nintendo's favour because kids on the playground would discuss the game and trade secrets.
I remember A Link to the Past being pretty straightforward. But I haven't played it since I was a kid.
The big problem with early N64 games is that they expect you to be so wowed by the 3d graphics that you'd try things a modern gamer would never think of trying. Ocarina of Time gives you fire arrows when you try shooting your bow at the sun. Mario 64 has a level that you enter by turning to see where a light effect is coming from.
Oh and Zelda 2 the Adventure of Link is just completely unfair.
DradisPing
13d ago
I think they have a lot of faith in democracy solving problems, and the new state more accurately reflects the makeup of the people.
DradisPing
13d ago
Geopolitical strategy. The US has Israel and Saudi Arabia as it's dominant regional allies.
Supporting the Sunni rebels is popular with Saudi Arabia, both it's government and it's people.
Syria was USSR aligned during the cold war and kept up Russian connections after.
The Ba'ath parties that ruled Syria and Iraq started out as the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, which wanted to set up a Soviet aligned mega state in the Middle East. That didn't pan out.
Basically Syria has always ended up on the other side of US alliances in the Middle East.
DradisPing
15d ago
Before modern sanitation cities were dens of disease and filth. They generally continuously took in population from the countryside.
The central and northern Italian countryside have strong genetic links to iron age Romans. They're basically the same people. We don't have records of the old patrician lines to modern times but I doubt they are actually extinct.
DradisPing
16d ago
how a legal system would allow
The idea is that the highest elected office should be able to rein in abuses by prosecutors.
DradisPing
17d ago
I guess it was too funny to be true.
DradisPing
17d ago
If the threat of jail time is not enough,
There's no real risk of jail time. SDNY filed an indictment against two RT employees in Russia. They notably didn't even charge RT, which is an important tell. The corporation could have sent lawyers to fight the charges without sending anyone who could actually be arrested. So the DOJ is carefully avoiding being put in a position to prove the charges in court.
To put Southern in jail they'd have to go to a Canadian court first with all of the documentation proving the full money trail as well as an explanation of how Southern specifically broke both US and Canadian law to extradite her.
Even Chen is at little risk, as the trial would be in Middle District of Tennessee and those courts aren't as rubber stampy as SDNY is.
DradisPing
19d ago
Scaring away women isn't seen as a big loss. Being the centre of attention for a large number of young men is a huge plus, even if they are lower class.
A straight Fuentes would have focussed his energy and charisma into making money in sales or something like that. Once you factor in the major effort needed, being a far-right figure doesn't get you money or women.
DradisPing
19d ago
Over the weekend a tape of Nick Fuentes having sex with Destiny leaked online. I haven't actually watched it.
Destiny made a short video statement about a friends account being broken into, which makes it less likely to be some sort of deep fake.
It's possible that this is all some sort of prank that I didn't pick up on. But "a male streamer leaks sex tape with Fuentes because Groypers keep attacking him online" lines up with my priors for Nick Fuentes.
DradisPing
19d ago
Niggardly isn't that common and there are plenty of alternatives.
Chief is in the top 3000 most common words, so trying to get rid of it is much more difficult.
The upsetting one is "tar baby" because it's actually a useful concept without a good alternative.
DradisPing
19d ago
It's probably too low brow for this site, but does anyone have a good thread of jokes about the Fuentes / Destiny sex tape?
DradisPing
19d ago
It's an old word. England had a Chief Justiciar back in 1106. Native American tribal chiefs got the name because of their similarity to Scottish clan chiefs.
DradisPing
19d ago
It's common for people to assume animals can fly that can't.
Take the legendary version of the tiger, the manticore.
You're out in the woods. A tiger, drops from a tree, grabs Steve, jumps back into a tree and runs off.
From your point of view the stripes on the tail could be segments like a scorpion. It came down then went up. Obviously it flew.
If you talk to hunters many of them will joke about deer flying. They get spooked, run at you, jump over your head, then when you look around they are gone. You just saw them go up and vanish.
So that's probably the source of Pegasus and flying reindeer.
So the historic dragon might not have even flown. It could just be a good pouncer who can get away quickly.
Of course that's less fun.
DradisPing
23d ago
A BA was originally about helping wealthy and intelligent people to lead a more enriched life.
The problem is that schools took over credentialization without adjusting their programs.
Right now no one has an interest in explaining to students which subjects are rich kid majors.
I think the real solution is to involve actuaries in the federal student loans program. Analyse data and warn kids that their program is unlikely to ever pay off their student loans.
DradisPing
23d ago
I think that there is a big problem with post-grad programs at low ranked schools. The school is basically scamming students who think an MA/PhD from that school will open up academic career possibilities.
DradisPing
23d ago
It's hard to know all his motivations. I think part of it was that hiring a bunch of leftists to run funds kept Elizabeth Warren and her ilk off of his back.
My favourite part of the expansion was how war crimes against the aliens suffered no diplomatic penalties.
So you could play as a respected democratic society that upheld human rights, and still load up your units with chemical weapons and gas alien cities.
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