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It's amazing how I've been a simmering ball of rage and disappointment for the last three-odd years. And it still keeps getting worse.

@HazelAppleyard You could also buy large quantities of precious metals or other rare goods. Just buying gold, silver, and platinum at market rates would keep you going for a good while, though you'd have to figure out a way to get it back in circulation or you'd be noticed eventually

@HazelAppleyard So ten hours would be a hundred million, a hundred hours to a billion. A billion every four days. Around 8 billion a month, ~91 billion a year. Easiest way without cheating the premise would be recurring stock transactions, selling at a loss intentionally

How would you manage it?

@NotTriggerAtAll @AJA_Cortes Why in God's name would Marxists give a rat's ass about the origin story of some Indian Christian community?

@AJA_Cortes This is complete fabrication… there is no credible record of so called Thomas ever landing in Malabar outside of Marxist historians fevered dreams.

One of the oldest Christian communities in the world is in India The St. Thomas Christians of Kerala trace their founding to 52 AD, when the Apostle Thomas is said to have landed on the Malabar Coast When the Portuguese showed up in 1498, they found a Church already 1,400 years old, worshipping in Aramaic

@dr_duchesne @EndWokeness The words of someone who has literally never studied history, for even a single moment.

@EndWokeness The history of nonwhites is boring and their achievements minimal, so let’s be fair and allow them to steal white history.

"Why does an actor's race matter?!" Ok… now imagine it was this:

@jason_pontin The ancient Greeks were separated from Mycenaean civilization by hundreds of years. They had enough time to lose and reinvent literacy. If *anything* from Homer dates back to the actual Trojan war, it would be nothing short of miraculous

I find the culture-war arguments around the "historical accuracy" of Nolan's Odyssey almost unbearable. The Iliad and Odyssey were written down in the late 8th century BC in a new Greek alphabet (by a single organizing intelligence we call Homer? by many poets? by a sort of committee? No one knows) in a weird, archaic language that recalls several different Greek dialects, canonizing an oral epic tradition derived from common Greek stories and myths from a dimly recalled Bronze Age past, dating from hundreds of years earlier. There’s no consistent, “historical” period for Nolan to violate. The Ancients themselves, for the millennium that Homeric epics functioned as a kind of Bible, interpreted the poems variously—as literature, myth, and exhortation.

@FormerlyFormer A solid chunk of conservative "thought" is pointing at aberrant social constructs created during the chaos of industrialization and claiming that they are timeless traditions

Hate to break it to some trad types, but “The man alone provides for and supports the family” is a MODERNISM and did not exist prior to about 100 years ago. Prior to that, the household was one economic unit. With different tasks, yes, but with both responsible for literal provision of food on the table, clothes, etc. That women also find great satisfaction in materially providing is not a feminist aberration- it is ancient.

@ShamashAran The Beatles lie in what I like to call the Napoleon zone; they seem absurdly overrated, but *actually were* that good and influential.

The beatles feel overrated because they single-handedly popularized every single trope that made Rock music what it is for the last 60 years.

@AuronMacintyre Amazing how many takes are just fear porn for white people

Amazing how much of Hollywood is just porn for people who hate white Christians

@11975MHz We generally don't want to incentivise murder. Especially without evidence of active wrongdoing.

@11975MHz They sentenced him because he straight-up murdered someone in cold blood. It's not like he found evidence of the guy doing anything. He just saw him looking at kids (not a crime, just creepy), found out he was a sex offender, and then murdered him in his own home.

The reason they sentenced him for what he did is obvious: it's retaliation for killing one of their own.

@ApoStructura Because property owners don't want cheaper housing. That's all it is. They don't want their own property to be worth less. So they will always fight policies that might reduce property values, no matter what other benefits the policy might yield.

Average voter: housing here became too expensive, we can’t afford it anymore Economists: your city needs to build more housing to increase supply Average voter: I don’t want more housing, I want housing to be more affordable That’s basically the state of the discourse

@TheOnlyDSC If you're rich, have popular support, and have given indication that you won't show up for your trial, you'll get a higher bail. If you're broke and unpopular, you'll get lower.

@TheOnlyDSC That's not what bail means. If you pay bail, you still need to show up for your trial and serve your sentence. Bail is set based on how likely you are to not show up to your trial, and how much of a pain it will be to hunt you down again.

They’re making it legal to murder White people.

@tetsuya_00x Mamdani has no more relation to Bin Laden than the president has to Fred Phelps. Probably significantly less, to be honest. Tarring entire groups due to the actions of individual members is practically the definition of bigotry

@tetsuya_00x Because American citizens are Americans, no matter their creed or color. Full stop. And assuming him to be an alien because of his religion, and that he would prioritize immigrants over his constituents, is both absurd and deeply anti-American.

私は日本人だから、米国人、特にNewYorkers の心理がよく分かりません。 そこで米国人にお尋ねしたい。 このポストに書かれているように、イスラム過激派による9.11の悲劇を経験したNYがなぜムスリムの市長を選んだのですか？ その判断基準は何だったのですか？ その市長が米国人よりも移民に優しい政策を採ることは事前に十分に想定きたはずですが...

@historyinmemes A quintessential Kubrick film, because what happened onscreen was just about as insane as the man in the director's chair.

A Clockwork Orange was pulled from cinemas in the United Kingdom by Stanley Kubrick after he and his family received threats tied to the controversy surrounding the film.

@DJSnM Oh, and then there was the Darksaber from the EU, which was the DS stripped down to just the gun. And the Galaxy Gun, which shot plasma bullets instead of lasers but through hyperspace. And the Sun Crusher, which could crush Suns and park in a mid-sized garage

@DJSnM Where as the second Death Star was what happens after they land the funding, and all the engineers panic and put their heads together to actually build the thing they just sold. But this time with actual resources and planning

My head canon is the Death Star weapon system was still in ‘Silicon Valley minimum viable product’ state - they could make it work for the investor demo but they literally had engineers hand tweaking things from the consoles in the depths of the machine to make it work.

@Devon_Eriksen_ Entertainment that's meant to be consumed and discarded, that means nothing to either the author or the audience, shouldn't be equated with work that's actively trying to convey meaning

@Devon_Eriksen_ We really need to widen our vocabulary a bit. We shouldn't be calling pretty pictures art, we shouldn't be calling airplane books literature. There's a meaningful distinction that's being papered over by using such general terms

Most appreciation of "great art" is a performance. People are very, very susceptible to "if you didn't appreciate it, it went over your head". Whether that something is a $100K bottle of wine that tastes like Two-Buck Chuck, improvisational jazz that sounds like someone turned on an orchestra and walked away, or the... unique... style of David Foster Wallace doesn't make much of a difference. These sorts of "refined" tastes are actually just unusual tastes. They are in the same category as really, really liking model trains, or birdwatching. Except people who like birdwatching don't run elaborate psyops to convince everyone that birdwatchers are intellectually superior and more sophisticated. They just buy expensive binoculars and get on with doing what they like to do. But some people with niche tastes in art seem to need to proselytize them to others. And a lot of weak-willed people go along with it. They wouldn't want to look dumb, now would they? Well, I don't go for that. I think that the greatest obstacle to learning is the fear of looking stupid. And I'm particularly not impressed by things that have a reputation as "great literature", but are dull and opaque to the average reader. Writing is my thing, see, and that means I have an easy time remembering that the purpose of writing is to communicate. Not everything is going to appeal to 100% of everyone, but if your writing is opaque or boring to all but a few, you cannot, by definition, be a great writer, because you just failed the basics of craftsmanship. Great woodworkers don't make sturdy furniture that's rough on the surface and full of splinters. They make chairs that are not only durable, but comfortable AND beautiful. Because if they are great, they can do all these things at once. If a book is boring, I set it down, instead of pretending that I had a hands-free orgasm because I am so super-duper-uber sophisticated that I can read the hidden messages in gibberish. Maybe there are hidden messages. Maybe I'm smart enough to see them if I bothered to look. But I don't. Because I don't care about any hidden message from a man too unskilled to wrap his message in an interesting story, or too contemptuous of his audience to try. So, no, I don't dislike Monet, I might even hang a print of something he did on my wall. But it's not a big deal to me, and not only can I probably not tell the difference between Monet and a good enough AI imitation, I don't even care enough to try. Which is an approach I highly recommend to others, unless they need to tape a banana to a wall for tax purposes.