TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
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TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
3hr ago
My cousin got the vax. Two weeks later? BAM. Falling space junk.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
18hr ago
Was thinking of doing the same -- antibiotics, not cat. But not sure what or where to buy.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
19hr ago
Attack or lab leak?
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
2d ago
Congrats!
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Rivers in the wasteland
3d ago
This is my hazy recollection but as I understood it there was a sort of ethos to the effect that nobody is actually our enemy; that it's all just misunderstandings among the brotherhood of man and we're all in it together. Real Kumbaya hours. The idea was that muslims aren't actually a problem, they're just fellow deluded humans, and we shouldn't view them as a threat. This was deeply tied into the general punk movement and later became coopted, as I suppose, by the usual marxism.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
4d ago
Yes, correct. Though the relationship between the two isn't so arbitrary. The land and the people coevolve.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
4d ago
No; as a kin group.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
4d ago
A nation certainly can win a war and reap benefits, but the US never quite was one, I think.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
6d ago
I'm not as into it as I used to be but basically just driving personally-owned sports cars at Laguna Seca etc. At the moment I don't own anything interesting and am busy with other pursuits.
I agree that most people would be vastly better off using FSD, and I'd be better off if they did that too. However, personally, I find it to be a worse driver than me and can't stand the sensation of letting it handle things. For example, it always starts moving into a turn just a bit later than I would, takes a bad line, and every single time I have that moment of wondering whether it's going to turn at all. It always does! But not as soon as I would.
I do use it sometimes on long drives on fairly straight freeways, like I5 up and down California.
For reference, I'm an excellent driver in that I drive a ton, have a perfect safety record, and perhaps more importantly have professional training on and off the racetrack. Also the usual high IQ reaction times and 'common' sense. Very conservative, etc. So definitely nothing like the modal murder-chimps surrounding me on the road all day.
And man have I seen it all. Women curling their hair. A man flying by at 80 MPH in a 65 zone, with bad visibility, eating a cob of corn with both hands. Too many examples to even remember any more.
By all means get everyone else on FSD ASAP. Just please don't make it mandatory.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
6d ago
frats taking advantage of drunk girls who wake up with no memory of the night before is incredibly white christian coded
I don't know what you mean by this and can't think of any sense in which it might possibly be the case.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
8d ago
Malcolm in the Middle revival
First I've heard of this, and it sounds like I wasn't missing out. What a pity.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
8d ago
Thanks
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
9d ago
What the hell is a car tab?
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Rivers in the wasteland
11d ago
As always, I think the language about 'skin color' is intentionally-evil rhetoric. The question is about ancestry, genetics, and shared culture; of which skin color is an exceedingly minor and unreliable indicator.
A huge number of leftists sincerely believe that racism is about skin color and frankly I think the only responsible thing to do is push back on that whenever it comes up.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
11d ago
Not benign to whom? I think it's extremely benign for western civilization.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
11d ago
Oh man I didn't realize that was Cleese. Just scrolled past what I thought was another twitter anon rehashing a well-tread point.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
11d ago
(what's the word that means the opposite of anarchotyranny)
Justice? Not sure if that's granular enough.
Re: democracy in general, I don't think any of the American Founding Fathers would disagree. In fact they'd be greatly disturbed that we're even talking in terms of democracy rather than republic, and were well-aware that universal suffrage would be a fatal mistake.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
11d ago
I'm asking myself whether, if elected President, Kamala would have admitted she finds anything silly about this if asked. Can't know, of course, but I suspect not.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
11d ago
Enrolling in clown school is the least questionable decision I see in this story.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
13d ago
The Verve: "Bitter Sweet Symphony" was everywhere
They got sued for it, too!
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
13d ago
Will we ever get the truth about the origins of Covid?
I've taken the time to review the below thread and am pretty sure the answer is "no".
It’s amazing how far many of us have gone since only 20 years ago and believing we could Democratize the world to now I would not consider myself a believer of Democracy in Germany because of the simply fact that ethnic Germans in half a generation lost the ability to control their own politics.
My thoughts as well. Sweden is also in this situation and several others are rushing headlong into it.
I've been trying for a while to think of any mistakes nations have made of the same magnitude, throughout history. Vortigern hiring the Saxons might be an instructive one.
It's so weird to me, though fitting in retrospect, that sanctimonious grundyism is what's finally killing Europe. Old ladies tutting reproachfully at anyone who makes non-socially-approved arguments turns out to be an existential threat. Or perhaps it's just that the men have forgotten God and their own right place in the world.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
14d ago
I just made a dedicated keybind on my moonlander keyboard. I have a bunch of neat special purpose keys. :)
Education would be another one. I'm generally not prone to trying to correct the misconceptions of normies in the course of my daily life, but one thing I do bring up from time to time is that additional funding for education generally has little to no effect on outcomes. I encourage them to google that. Because it's something they can immediately grasp (and be shocked by), some even do so!
Doesn't precipitate any major political changes but once I was lucky enough to observe, afterward, that when the subject ("We just need more money for schools!") came up again in a group setting the freshly-pilled normie sat quietly with a distressed look on his face.
From such beginnings, perhaps...
This has me thinking about taxonomy. In this context, let me suggest:
Normie: One who derives political/policy opinions from ambient social consensus
Midwit: One who does the above, but is smart enough to search for supporting (never conflicting) data
Contrarian: One who, driven by reflexive disgust at normie consensus-assumption, searches for conflicting data
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