@monsterhunter45 The story lends itself so well to a screen adaptation, too. Lots of opportunities for small side "monster of the week" episodes in the structure in addition to building to the larger payoff.
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Mike
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I may have been toying with your emotions yesterday, but I was not lying. 😀
Stay tuned.
Larry Correia@monsterhunter45
I've been hinting to you guys that I've got something big in the works. And today I'm happy to announce that I have optioned the rights to Monster Hunter International. The plan is to do an MHI ANIME SERIES. This is going to be awesome. :D Stay tuned for details.
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neurotypicals are weird!
"[M]ost people can recall only four or five memories which occurred prior to the age of seven."
Early Memory and Autism psychologytoday.com/us/blog/asperg…
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@BradRTorgersen I feel like many people today unwisely don't separate the moral value of service and the commitment to defend others from the use that commitment is put to by our leaders. I respect my friends who served in the war on terror greatly, even if I think the war overall was a waste.
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@BradRTorgersen I occasionally feel bad I didn't serve. But I didn't believe in what we were fighting for in the war on terror. Not that Al Qaeda or Saddam weren't bad guys, but that our invasion would make things better. I sometimes wonder if I would have felt the same about earlier wars.
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The American Civil War defined the lives of all who experienced it. And up until the First World War it was *the* American crossroads. Which wouldn't be true again until probably WW2 and the Cold War which quickly followed. Wherein millions upon millions of American men were given something unintentional: a shared disciplinary experience with singular, overarching purpose to which all of their lives would be joined even after conclusion of service.
Was this massively beneficial for the Greatest Generation, and also many Boomers? Yes.
Could such be repeated in the 21st century? Should it be repeated?
I suspect Mike's probably right: we wouldn't have the means to effect it, and even if we did, what would those draftees be used for? For what would they train? Men who enlisted or were drafted for WW2 had two specific goals: beat Japan, and beat Germany. Men drafted or enlisted during the Cold War were explicitly guarding against Communism.
The GWOT did not have the same cultural and societal impact. Most men of age, didn't enlist. Did not serve. Even the President in the aftermath of 9/11 did not call for a million volunteers, even though I am sure he'd have gotten them if he did.
And now? Now, being anti-war and anti-military seems as chic on the New Right as it always was on the Woke Left. Men aged 18-38 would probably have less incentive than ever, given the fact there isn't a bulwark of veterans in their living family line to tacitly impose a masculine expectation: I went in my time, now you go in yours.
Again, would it be good for society if millions of men in that age range had a central touchstone of suffering, striving, and service, to which they were bound? Yes.
Would we be able to pull it off without some kind of precipitating calamity far worse than 9/11? I am not sure. And even if we did have that calamity, I am still not sure. An army of Dave Smith clones would rise to explain why America actually deserved it, and nobody should serve, otherwise you're just a cuck for the establishment, etc.
The cause would be insta-invalidated before the President could even address the nation.
The New Right manosphere has validated anti-service via outlets like Joe Rogan and the like.
Mike Kupari 🚀💥@RocketPulpHack
This gets suggested from time to time, and it never becomes any better of an idea. The current total manpower of the United States uniformed services, including the National Guard, the Reserves, and even the commissioned officers of the Public Health Corps, is about 2.1 million. Somewhere between three and four million Americans turn 18 every year. Even if you left out the females and the physically unfit, you’re still looking at millions of new recruits being conscripted into the military every year. We don’t have the funding, the infrastructure, or the need to swell the services with two million unwilling conscripts every year. Logistically this is infeasible, even if it was a good idea, which it is not. Universal compulsory service has never been implemented in American history. We are not some tiny European nation. Also, and perhaps more importantly, implementing this won’t fix whatever gripes you have about society. It’s more likely to change the culture of the military in ways you won’t like.
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@DavidJohnButler Just want to be clear - anyone wearing a mask in their car is doing it because they didn't consider it uncomfortable enough to immediately take it off the moment they can, not because they think it protects them alone in the car.
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I pulled into the Big O this morning as another customer pulled out.
She was alone in her car and wearing a mask.
I had thought that EVERYONE was done with that now.
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@ZitoSalena Honestly makes me a little sad that something as big and as cool as the canal system became obsolete so quickly.
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I tried to explain the canal system to someone the other day when looking outside the window of an office building in Pittsburgh--part of the PA canal wall is still standing--Norfolk Southern railroad now runs on its former tow path. The canal system was short-lived, but changed the world. It linked the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean & established New York as a trade hub. And I think it's importance hasn't been taught enough to recent generations.
Aaron Astor@AstorAaron
1856 map of routes between Pennsylvania's anthracite coal fields and the cities of Philadelphia and New York. These canals and railroads helped warm the cities of Philly and NYC in winter. The canals also made the Lehigh Valley and North Jersey into industrial powerhouses.
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@Aella_Girl @morallawwithin I had a nurse tell me to stop training BJJ because of the risk of carotid dissection & stroke. It's something you hear about occasionally, but not super common.
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@morallawwithin I find it weird though to be so against choking but totally fine with people doing bjj
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People are rightly being focusing on the other takes here but it’s worth emphasizing that strangulation (incorrectly called ‘choking’) is bad and no one should do it.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11…
Kinza♀️🕊️ زن زندگی آزادی@radwitchhh
choking can k!ll women, anal sex is abusive, most blowjobs are coerced, few women have good sex
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@bigio_m @Microinteracti1 The writing/character can be juvenile, but the story is still really good.
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@Microinteracti1 I'll likely want to watch the movie when it's available for streaming. But based on the TV trailers, every scene & line of dialog was so clichéd, juvenile, & implausible, I doubt the rest of the script is much better. It's certainly no 2001: A Space Odyssey. Is it really good?
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Project Hail Mary opened last week. Great film. But nobody is talking about the credits. They should be.
A guy with a telescope spent hundreds of hours collecting light from objects so distant that the photons hitting his sensor left their source before Rome was founded. His name is Rod Prazeres. His images ended up on 70-foot IMAX screens worldwide.
Look at what he captured. The Rosette Nebula is a cloud of gas 5,000 light-years away that has arranged itself into the shape of a human eye, ringed by fire. The Vela filaments are a stellar explosion still spreading outward through space – blue threads so fine they look like frost on glass. The dust pillar in the Pelican Nebula is manufacturing new suns right now. While you read this.
None of it was rendered. All of it is real.
Weir spent years getting the science right. The filmmakers felt the same way about the sky. When they needed something beautiful enough to close the film, they went looking for something that actually exists.
They found it. 5,000 light-years out.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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@Blueelectron4 Tried to convince my wife of this when we started having kids... it did not go over well.
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My controversial opinion is a main cause of declining birth rates is the social norm that parents must suffer like prisoners with an 18 year hard labor sentence or else be viewed by society as guilty of neglect and child abuse.
Your grandparents didn't live like this.
Laura Hudson 🇨🇦@latterdaylaura
My super strong parenting opinion is that while the kids are awake, you come last. No spending all of Saturday golfing. That’s family time. 6 am tee time only, maybe. Wanna go to the gym? Go after the kids go to bed, or wake up at 5. In a few short years, they’ll be out of the house and you’ll have all the time in the world for your own stuff. It’s okay to come last for a while.
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@Scholars_Stage Around 5th grade, my daughter's writing sounded like AI. She'd never used it, but she followed the teachers instructions for "good writing" robotically and ended up there.
I gave her a bunch of essays to read to try to break out of "this is what writing is supposed to be"
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A professor tells me that over the last few years student writing—even in blue book exams which she has long administered—increasingly sounds like AI. She says this is especially true for ESL students.
Increasingly *humans* are trained on AI writing, not the other way around.
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@monsterhunter45 The Machinist is either the scariest movie ever or "just another Tuesday" for anyone who ever did blue collar work.
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Especially when you've been awake and working for the last 48 hours straight and you get careless for half a sec-BLLLLLLRRRRR-CRUNCH-SPLAAAAAAT
And people wonder why I went into accounting. :D
travis4nh@travis4nh
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@MindMechanical @Aella_Girl @NathanpmYoung They like smart women, but they don't want to feel like the dumb one in the relationship. The ideal partner is one who challenges them but never *wins*.
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@Aella_Girl @NathanpmYoung How does it interact with the "men want/don't want intellect" claim? They feel the sting of not being intelligent? Of not getting an intelligent woman? That a more intelligent man takes their woman? Nothing tracks. I don't see a connection at all.
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.@aella_girl talks about how men want to think they are intellectual, but really they just want to have sex with her. So she does some intellectual stuff in order to maintain that pretense.
But how different is this from actually wanting intellect?
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@Clint_Davey1 I'm tempted every time I see the art for this game. It's *so* good.
Then I found out it's a euro and I'm just sad.
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Scythe is one of the very few board games where the art came first and the game was inspired by it.
Jakub Rozalski made a whole series of paintings set in an alternate history dieselpunk 1920's Eastern Europe.
Jamey Stegmaier saw the art and made a game for it.
It's a good game. Basically engine building euro 4X.
But the art would lead you to think it's a Twilight Imperium style mountains of plastic dudes on a map wargame. It's not.
Missed opportunity there.
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Literal footage of me pretending to be Darth Maul
positive side of X 🌞@positivityofx
I just want everyone to look at this Capybara
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@SandyofCthulhu Agree completely, but somehow Tom is my daughter's favorite character and she hates that he is left out.
He reminds me of something out of CS Lewis. Of something strange and wonderful, rather than making sense in the epic plot. Like St Nicholas visiting the Pevensies.
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Tom Bombadil stops the story cold. We are in an exciting cross-country trip as the hobbits pick their way through a creepy haunted forest to avoid the sinister Black Riders. A terrifying black huorn ensnares them. Poof! Here comes Tom deus-ex-machina Bombadil to save the hobbits from a threat which Tolkien seems to have created to give him an excuse to insert Bombadil.
Then, just as the story starts to move again, Tom shows up a SECOND time as a deus-ex-machina to rescue the hobbits from the barrow wight. Ugh. Again stopping the story cold.
What is Bombadil's function? He doesn't represent the Old Good Ways which the fellowship must save. Bombadil isn't threatened - he's a cheesy distraction.
I'm not saying it's impossible to convince me that Bombadil is a Good Thing, but such a convincing would be an uphill battle, and I view Tom as one of Tolkien's missteps. I am happy Jackson left him out of the film, because it would have stopped the movie's flow too.
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@BradRTorgersen @Sargon_of_Akkad The Ayatollah's absolutely deserved being bombed. That doesn't mean their bombing will be a net positive for the region or for our interests there.
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This is going to sting some ears to hear the truth, but: the Ayatollahs were (and still are) bad. For the region. For America. For Islam. More Muslim deaths can be blamed on the Islamic Republic's theocratic rule than every other demographic combined. Especially the deaths of innocent Iranians who were massacred in the thousands in very recent history.
Trump bombing the Ayatollahs was overdue.
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One of the most tragic downfalls in history.
Chief Nerd@TheChiefNerd
TRUMP: “Those that speak ill of Mark [Levin] will quickly fall by the wayside, as do the people whose ideas, policies, and footings are not sound. THEY ARE NOT MAGA, I AM.”
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@BradRTorgersen @GrampsToolshed I mean, the grip is a 2x4, they're essentially a single action gun in terms of trigger safety, you have to ND to clean it.
They're crazy reliable and effective, though, and every properly modern gun is a worse functioning clone with better ergonomics.
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@GrampsToolshed Glocks get some strange hate in the 2A space, considering they are essentially the baseline standard for steel/plastic sidearms.
I think it's the looks. The glock is the most characterless sidearm anyone can imagine. But somehow this has become iconic.
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Left: Glock 19. Standard American sidearm for decades now.
As iconic as the Colt Peacemaker.
Right: the new Staccato 2011 duty model. Lots of amazing features but roughly 4-5x more expensive.
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@radicaleb @waltermasterson Caleb, I loved your gun blog. You were my introduction to revolvers and practical shooting, and I really appreciate that.
I feel like all you do on twitter now is yell at people? I hope you are ok?
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@waltermasterson It’s crazy how you were nearly the victim of radical Islamic terrorism and all you can do is hate some random American dude.
I can’t imagine being as cucked as you
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Hey everyone, I can admit when I was wrong. Being reckless when a bomb is thrown over your head is not a good look and that weighs heavily on me and my family.
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@KelseyTuoc It's not just respect, though. It's teaching high schoolers instead of adults, having your peers be the guy who got hired to coach football, dealing with parents, and way less academic freedom.
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I think a society serious about improving education would think hard about this. high school teaching pays way more than adjuncthood already, it's just low-status and means giving up on dreams of academia. you could do high school positions that allow research half-time.
Walker Percy Gryce@percy_gryce
We need to normalize PhDs teaching high school. That solves at least two problems: absorbs some of the elite overproduction and put subject-matter experts (rather than ed school grads) in hs classrooms. (I know there are other problems.)
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