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@LibertyFarmNH @MorlockP I'm coming to believe for most people, magic is real.
They only have a tenuous grasp on causality, and mostly do everything by ritual. Even their thinking.
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@wraithburn
Software dev, Bible thumper, boxing. Formerly Signature beard. Married to @ydniclee01
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With a tweet like that I assumed he was Indian
Sports Expert@greenink68
@AriZonanHODL It only works because millennials and zoomers are completely incapable of detecting a faulty transmission on a test drive. You sorry sorts expect a perfect car dropped off to you in between your doordash orders
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It is possibly the most right wing children's movie of the last 25 years. Just this sequence alone is a better celebration of masculine energy and drive than anything Disney has released in recent memory.
Logan Hall@loganclarkhall
>Hero is literal blonde gigachad constrained by endless govt bureaucracy, political correctness, and the Longhouse >Villian is crazed redditor driven purely by envy/resentment who wants to level all hierarchy and make everyone as mediocre as himself What did Pixar mean by this?
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@SlumRNA_Dog I remember hearing the term “we are borrowing this money from future generations!” All the time during the 2000’s. What did they think that meant? Vibes?
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@Clint_Davey1 Paths Of Glory playa this way quite a bit. You tend to try and get as far as possible before bunkering down and opening other fronts
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Imagine you're a WW1 general in 1914 and you know the history of the war but you're still trying to actually win.
You know, with hindsight, that a trench deadlock is going to set in by the end of 1914.
So the defender will have the advantage.
But there is a crucial window of time before the deadlock sets in.
So what should you do?
Attack hard and fast, psuhing for the flanks, grabbing as much territory as you possibly can before the trenches start being dug.
You want to have as much ground as possible and ensure the war is happening on enemy soil, not your own.
You want those lines to be close to the enemy capital, not yours.
You want as much bargaining power as possible if the war ends in a negotiated settlement.
So your incentives are to attack hard - just like the real generals did.
Once the deadlock sets in though, your strategy should change.
Stay on the defensive, invest in new technologies and opening up other fronts to distract the enemy.
A lot of WW1 behaviour makes sense when you think of what the constraints were.
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A company I worked at once had a town hall where the CEO asked everyone to share one word that described how they were feeling. The words came in on a live poll displayed on screen. The most common word was “exhausted.” Second most common was “overwhelmed.” Third was “uncertain.” The CEO looked at the screen, nodded slowly, and said “I hear passion and commitment in those words.” Then moved on to the next slide. I have never forgotten that moment.
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I don't know how to tell you this man but I'm not judging a billion people on their merits. I'm going to take some shortcuts. One shortcut is "every single customer service interaction at every single service-level job."
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pretty wild how i could animate fairly realistic armored combat with homemade action figures and hollywood still can’t figure it out with an infinite budget
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If society is a universal solvent, what would we see that is different than today?
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Responsibility and Perogative are two sides of the same coin.
As society strips away one side the other necessarily leaves too.
When immigrants have no responsibility, prerogative leaves.
When native sons have no prerogative, responsibility leaves.
Richard Lynn IQ Data Groyper@adolfmaxxing
"It's not society's job to get you employment or a wife" But it kind of is? If a man is not allowed to participate in a social enterprise, given no access to the fruits of its economy or its women, then he's not a member of it and does not have any obligations to it
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I'm a mess, which is a bad time to tweet. It's Memorial Day, which means I've spent a lot of today thinking about the past, about the lost, about the people who built the world that we have inherited.
But I've also been thinking about @xwanyex recent commentary about the nature of immigration and who "deserves" a country
Today is Memorial Day. I went to the graves of my brother and my grandfather. I owe them so much. So does everyone. They did a lot of underappreciated work.
Many of the immigration tweets Wanye points to are people saying "I succeeded in your country while you failed. Ha ha ha, I'm awesome and you suck". And, sure, this might be a particularly caustic example of that attitude, but is it really that rare?
If immigrants love this country in particular, do they love the people who made it? Because they don't frequently say so.
And if they love the people who made this country, the country that enabled them to have all the good things that they brag about, do they love the children of those people? Are they thankful to the grandchildren of the people who built the country that enabled their wild success?
Or do they hold those grandchildren in disdain? How would a grandparent who built a world of tremendous opportunity and success respond if they saw someone who benefitted from that world telling their grandchild that they were a piece of garbage because they didn't build a billion dollar company?
I'm thinking about this a lot now, largely because it's being shoved in my face. I'm not feeling particularly forgiving about this topic.
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I used to mentor new grads through an alumni program tied to my alma mater. As a women in Tech, I always told my mentees to be adaptable because tools in tech change quickly & to stay curious. I stopped encouraging women to enter tech after being replaced by H1Bs 2x after being forced to train them to collect severance pay.
I eventually quit mentoring because I didn’t see the point of encouraging young minds in a field I was being defeated by & it did not feel right to lie to them about a bright future in Tech.
Now on my 3x being replaced by an H1B & there are legitimately no jobs hiring an experienced American woman in Tech. It’s horrific.
I’m now just trying to figure out how I will make money & pay bills the next 15-20yrs of my life. This is not the “American dream” we were all promised! Politicians sold us down the river!
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@eigenrobot @wraithburn @suzania He also says (with some evidence) that the main theme of chivalry was always 'commissioned litporn' and that while he does not reject knightly virtues (his examples: Song of Roland, Bushido) it's impossible to rescue the term 'chivalry' from the former and reuse it for the latter
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i missed this at its original publication but i think it's a wonderful essay and i recommend taking 20min to read it.
the essay is a christian critique of crass BAPism and it's highly effective specifically through its deployment and synthesis of ancient, medieval, and modern literature from both pagan and christian traditions.
if i may compliment the author, @suzania has done remarkable work in delivering, as a woman, a thoughtful and imo distinctly feminine criticism on what is essentially a contemporary reassertion of a mode of masculinity.
this is not generally easy to pull off! of course her effectiveness is partly born of her characteristic erudition and care, but to me it seems that her argument benefits from its harmonization with the central thread of our civilization, the syncresis of the pagan and christian traditions. see screencap.
it brings to mind another woman(?) essayist, camille paglia, who saw and distinguished these threads but fixated i think to her detriment on the pagan constituents without ever quite integrating the christian. i adore paglia but i think this partial perspective was a weakness; and perhaps as a result she somehow never quite understood men in completeness.
imo roberts isn't trying to do that, but she gets much closer to the mark anyway. i'm further glad that she specifically did because this sort of critique of masculinity is a kind that when explicit is appropriately delivered from a feminine perspective. can't explain this but it's true.
i'm also glad she touched on chivalry by the end, because chivalric heroism rather than raw bronze age barbarism is _the_ characteristic assertive masculine stance of western civilization.
anyway. fine work here.
Susannah Black Roberts@suzania
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Time is the great filter.
That's why everyone is mad at the older generations. The ones who didn't make it along the way are no longer with us.
We have filtered down to the successes, and so the whole generation is just Success to those younger.
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This campaign is so clever. Democrats are no doubt losing their sh*t over this one. Just so funny.
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@QuetzalPhoenix People want a truth, even if it is not the truth.
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This is why a single Manga can outsell the entire western comics industry.
By being culturally specific, it has BROADER appeal
Shows and stories made "for everyone" are usually trash in comparison.
🌘ʀᴇᴠᴇɴᴀɴᴛ⚡@revenant_MMXX
Anime and manga are usually about Japanese people, which is why I like it. It's a refreshing escape from You People being in absolutely everything Western media has to offer
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@MrBeigeShiba @kangminlee Pretending we don't have a state mandated religion is the most annoying thing about blaspheming it.
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George Floyd died 6 years ago and it caused insane religious cult services like this
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You can tell that things are actually getting truly inexorably worse because in my day it was "artisanal avocado toast, lattes, and a dang eye phone" and for the zoomers its "mcdonalds"
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