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- Yesterday, 20:49
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: OFFS: The Forsakening
- Replies: 7433
- Views: 438906
Re: OFFS: The Forsakening
Also, I largely sympathize with the goal. I like Meghan Daum's observation on how undifferentiated most kids' clothing was in the 1970's and how much less neurotic Gen X was/is about gender compared with millennials. I would love to see a future where more kids wore simpler, less adorned clothes fo...
- 16 Feb 2021, 23:23
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Video Games!
- Replies: 2848
- Views: 272970
Re: Video Games!
I'm not a Gamer. I don't have a console and I don't like shooter games or world building games. But I do like nonviolent single-person games that are intellectually challenging and/or entertaining. I think the Portal games are great. I think The Stanley Paradox is hilarious fun. The Beginner's Guid...
- 16 Feb 2021, 20:36
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Star Trek Wankery
- Replies: 1401
- Views: 159277
Re: Star Trek Wankery
hahahahhaalkdjfalksjraklsjfdlkasjr;lkawjf;lkajg;laj https://www.vox.com/culture/22273263/star-trek-deep-space-nine-past-tense-prediction-2024 Oh Wormhole Aliens :roll: That is exactly what sucks about DS9. I guess not every Trek series can match " commentaries about race ripped from the pages of Dr...
- 16 Feb 2021, 15:09
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Star Trek Wankery
- Replies: 1401
- Views: 159277
Re: Star Trek Wankery
hahahahhaalkdjfalksjraklsjfdlkasjr;lkawjf;lkajg;laj https://www.vox.com/culture/22273263/star-trek-deep-space-nine-past-tense-prediction-2024 Oh Wormhole Aliens :roll: That is exactly what sucks about DS9. I guess not every Trek series can match " commentaries about race ripped from the pages of Dr...
- 16 Feb 2021, 11:35
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Star Trek Wankery
- Replies: 1401
- Views: 159277
Re: Star Trek Wankery
hahahahhaalkdjfalksjraklsjfdlkasjr;lkawjf;lkajg;laj https://www.vox.com/culture/22273263/star-trek-deep-space-nine-past-tense-prediction-2024 Oh Wormhole Aliens :roll: That is exactly what sucks about DS9. I guess not every Trek series can match " commentaries about race ripped from the pages of Dr...
- 14 Feb 2021, 15:17
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Observations of the Random sort
- Replies: 9333
- Views: 529426
Re: Observations of the Random sort
One interesting thing about their system is that even when a party gets a lot of seats in Parliament they might have to still wait an election cycle or two to increase their share of Federal Council seats. They have to play nice and wait and prove that they are big kids with lasting support. How is...
- 14 Feb 2021, 12:24
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Observations of the Random sort
- Replies: 9333
- Views: 529426
Re: Observations of the Random sort
Considering how often we talk about parliaments as a cure-all for American democracy, this interests me more at the moment: https://mobile.twitter.com/AndrewRCraig/status/1360704657149079555 Mind, the Cold War idea that we must have one man ready to blow up the world take decisive action at a momen...
- 12 Feb 2021, 17:27
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Post Urbanism?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 396
Re: Post Urbanism?
My second is that the whole premise of location based municipal taxation is kind of upended. I don't understand what you mean by this. Do you have municipal income tax? Yes. 2.5% in the city in question. NYC it's like 3.5 or something I think. Maybe it's just that I live in a state with no income t...
- 12 Feb 2021, 15:37
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Post Urbanism?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 396
- 10 Feb 2021, 16:55
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Whither the GOP? (post-Trump edition)
- Replies: 557
- Views: 69425
Re: Whither the GOP? (post-Trump edition)
But, he cautioned, it could also be the vocal “never Trump” reality simply coming into focus as Republicans finally took the step of changing their registration, even though they hadn’t supported the president and his party since 2016. Why are so many people convinced this is Never-Trumpers leaving...
- 08 Feb 2021, 03:19
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: The capitol insurrection and its aftermath
- Replies: 182
- Views: 4949
Re: The capitol insurrection and its aftermath
Making it all about PTSD misses the biggest problem. Most of the newly out vet issues don't occur because of PTSD, they happen because guys spend their entire adult lives in a totalizing institution, then they get out and suddenly there's no expansive rule system to tell them exactly how to advance...
- 07 Feb 2021, 15:33
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: The capitol insurrection and its aftermath
- Replies: 182
- Views: 4949
Re: The capitol insurrection and its aftermath
Making it all about PTSD misses the biggest problem. Most of the newly out vet issues don't occur because of PTSD, they happen because guys spend their entire adult lives in a totalizing institution, then they get out and suddenly there's no expansive rule system to tell them exactly how to advance ...
- 05 Feb 2021, 12:55
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: msinaisuhtlaM
- Replies: 219
- Views: 26282
Re: msinaisuhtlaM
This seems as good a thread for this as any: an argument on whether technological stagnation is real (also at https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gMszBSAX23uqYhytR/technological-stagnation-why-i-came-around) Honestly, I think a lot of the pro-stagnation arguments boil down to "I expected this thing to ...
- 04 Feb 2021, 14:52
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Whither the GOP? (post-Trump edition)
- Replies: 557
- Views: 69425
Re: Whither the GOP? (post-Trump edition)
I am so confused about how other people can get worked up about conspiracy theory stuff when almost everyone believes in god and the afterlife and shit. Like who cares, I’m already operating under the assumption that most people are insane and/or idiots. I mean, can you not get how a group that got...
- 04 Feb 2021, 09:39
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Universal Corona Income
- Replies: 68
- Views: 8403
Re: Universal Corona Income
Hugh, well done. Also Warren, that did make me laugh. On a more serious note, there's an organizational issue I've observed locally with both the stimulus checks and other relief measures. There's an unfortunate disconnect between monies made available to states and locales and getting it into the ...
- 04 Feb 2021, 00:54
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Universal Corona Income
- Replies: 68
- Views: 8403
Re: Universal Corona Income
Hugh, well done. Also Warren, that did make me laugh. On a more serious note, there's an organizational issue I've observed locally with both the stimulus checks and other relief measures. There's an unfortunate disconnect between monies made available to states and locales and getting it into the ...
- 02 Feb 2021, 11:57
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: RUDY!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 346
- 27 Jan 2021, 18:54
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Universal Corona Income
- Replies: 68
- Views: 8403
Re: Universal Corona Income
Read something today that argued that while sending people money probably isn't the best option, if we're going to do it, it should be on a federally backed credit card that'll expire after a few months. That way, everyone who gets one has to spend it, or else lose the money.
- 27 Jan 2021, 13:02
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Whither the GOP? (post-Trump edition)
- Replies: 557
- Views: 69425
Re: Whither the GOP? (post-Trump edition)
So let's say the Republican Party for whatever reason abandons or is abandoned by Trump in 2024. What does the gryll-mind think are the chances he'd take the path of least resistance and get the Libertarian Party nomination? Almost zero. If somehow he did, the resulting party world do a major rebra...
- 26 Jan 2021, 02:23
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: The Sheer WTFery of Epstein
- Replies: 188
- Views: 29704
Re: The Sheer WTFery of Epstein
You'd think a billionaire could afford a better haircut.
- 25 Jan 2021, 17:56
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: No Sandwich is Safe: The Joe Biden Presidency
- Replies: 138
- Views: 3794
Re: No Sandwich is Safe: The Joe Biden Presidency
Well, we won't have to worry about Uncle Joe getting his radical left agenda thru Congress because Cocaine Mitch somehow remains effectively in charge of the Senate. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/us/senate-filibuster.html The article starts with fights over the filibuster, which, whatever. I d...
- 23 Jan 2021, 19:24
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: The capitol insurrection and its aftermath
- Replies: 182
- Views: 4949
Re: The capitol insurrection and its aftermath
Or a staffer who just got his job two days before. My money is on it being some Qultist Rep's intern.
- 23 Jan 2021, 16:04
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: The capitol insurrection and its aftermath
- Replies: 182
- Views: 4949
Re: The capitol insurrection and its aftermath
You have that exactly backwards.
It'll wind up being a low-level staffer. Whether it was actually them, or whether they were working under the orders of someone higher... That will be hard to determine.
- 22 Jan 2021, 17:36
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: No Sandwich is Safe: The Joe Biden Presidency
- Replies: 138
- Views: 3794
Re: No Sandwich is Safe: The Joe Biden Presidency
Time was when career military officers were effectively prohibited from taking civil service jobs after retirement. In the course of my career with the DoD -- in fact, just around the time when it could affect my personal promotion chances -- the rule was abandoned. Sure enough, thousands of jobs t...
- 22 Jan 2021, 16:48
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: No Sandwich is Safe: The Joe Biden Presidency
- Replies: 138
- Views: 3794
Re: No Sandwich is Safe: The Joe Biden Presidency
Isn't that exactly why people worry about breaking precedent?