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User ID: 189

If you read Homer somewhat more attentively

I want to stick a fork in the outlet here: famous writings such as Odysseus are probably best understood to depict not how things were, but how things were modeled, saying more about an ancient collective aspirational conception of self than as how we'd parse their society if we were alongside them.

c===3 is manlier.

The main theme is about how slavery obliterates everything it comes into contact with, and specifically, the identity of the enslaved.

C. V. Gheorghiu's The 25th Hour, a whirlwind tour of European labor camps and concentration camps during World War II, also does a lot with this theme. It's fairly didactic though. His other book La Seconde Chance is a work of genius, and much better written; unfortunately it has not been translated to English.

@HlynkaCG serves an important social function as resident boomer, if he is forced out then surely this place will crumble to dust.

It also makes such posts cattier, which is a disincentive in and of itself.

I’d say what distinguished the forum originally was more a commitment to free speech than to civility, though it had both of course.

In my mod days we experimented with keeping to a particular Overton window, above and beyond what was required to continue existing on reddit, in order to keep posters broadly comfortable. Drawing the line was frustrating and arbitrary and I hated doing it. Stuff like, don't insist on conspicuously misgendering trans posters, and don't lay 100% of the blame for any given issue on Mexicans/Jews/whatever. In any given specific situation we could have reasonably ruled in either direction, but if we'd radically committed to either free speech or civility the moderation would have become exploitable and the forum would have blown up.

I need the same speech but spoken by a hotter guy so I can send it to my girlfriend.

(On second thought I'm going to speak these words to her myself instead of outsourcing my masculinity)

I want to understand more about what you're working with/where you're coming from.

Just installed Before, it's super neat! Working on configuring it.

Read The World Beyond Your Head. Might get you out of your rut, might, not, either way it's interesting thought on the topic of discipline, motivation and flourishing.

About to go on a one-month "digital declutter" in the style of Cal Newport's Digital Minimalism. 6/10 book, worth reading if you're suffering from screen addiction. Dovetails well with Matthew Crawford's The World Beyond Your Head.

Source?

gotta tax the rich to give more to the poor so the poor don't revolt

Powerful hyperstition. If there were ever a step decrease in welfare, would that be taken as the signal to break shit?

Quebec would fit in nicely as yet another ethnic/language minority in the US

Historically the rent and lifestyle would have been good enough that we'd have been immediately flooded with Americans, destroying the local culture.

As it is, Rest-of-Canadians have been doing this all by themselves.

As an independentist, what you're saying is true but irrelevant. People are fully economically illiterate, there is nothing close to a popular consciousness that we'd hurt from missing those transfers. We expect short-term economic injury from the turmoil, but that's pretty much it.

I, a frog, would wish to team up with you on a peaceable separation campaign.

Federalists on either side are wretched people.

I don't think technocracy is once-in-a-generation hard, I just think our democracies are optimizing for something entirely incompatible

Back when I entertained the idea of staying in the US for good, I bootstrapped myself to a passable credit score using a Chase secured credit card. Took a few months but everything else fell out of there.

Generational disadvantages in credit scores are downstream from generational disadvantages in executive function and time preference.

What aspects turned you off? I liked the political plays, the tension, the insurgency, the Mafia-style social deduction games. If you completely ignore the subplots having to do with spirituality and mysticism, it's a good show!

Funny, I very much experienced the "spiritual" aspects as cheap filler. They definitely set an intriguing mood, but they didn't populate it with a message.

It's vanishingly rare that we see spirituality or mysticism well done in sci-fi. The Starcraft II single-player campaign was another otherwise-decent story that was held back by poorly engaging with this. I just don't think most sci-fi writers have a connection with the divine. And godly men don't write sci-fi, mostly they write about the world they belong to.

I've been thinking that BSG with the "spiritual" bits expunged would be a much greater show. Though I'm sure something else would jump out as begging to be cut.

The devs quit way too early on that one. The learning curve is all over the place, and the horror effect lasts maybe one hour. Shame, it's such a cool game.

@FCfromSSC origin story is iconic. I relate to the terror and depression of cancellation, but I could never put it down like you did. I'd say "go on The Bailey" but that'd be missing the point.

Our mods are wise and generous \o/ Thank you for the round-up Nara!

The effect is so strong that at some point pictures of single young white urban men in advertising have become gay-coded. Usually if I see such an ad on my commute it's trying to sell me PrEP.

Started the Bible (TOB translation). Integral Notes version.

It's a very busy text. I slightly regret not going with the Essential Notes version.

I tried starting Thomas Cook's 1728 translation of Hesiod's Theogony, picked at random. I'm having the opposite problem here; I'm failing to contextualize anything.