Peter F Hamilton
I need to finish the Commonwealth Saga. I was pretty tickled by the idea of an interstellar civilization that utilized trains as the primary means of transport, even if the track ran through wormholes.
Dornick coming from a primitive culture and going on to be one of the most qualified mathematicians in the galaxy after discovering a sack of textbooks as an adult really outs the writers as people who cannot distinguish calculus from magic.
I always like the Culture series, but have always felt like the odd man out because I view the Culture as a pretty horrific entity. Rooting for the baddies, as it were.
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr..
Edit also the Vorkosigan Saga.
As someone who loathes American conservatism (ie Neocons), I bought into the anti-Tucker sentiment. Post Fox Tucker is not some sort of game changer, but his long form interview are worth watching.
Praise Musk for twitter
Have you seen Matt Taibbi's mention of the Twitter Files on Tucker?
Cool, I touched the poop earlier on one of Yoisi's threads, so I don't want be be fighty. But this video on YouTube shows Andrew talking about Jessica Venti targeting his family and wife over the death of one of her kids. Its a pretty stark example of tradthot attacking actual traditionalists. Is it YT drama? Probably, but I buy Andrew Wilson's take over Venti's.
I've had a lot of fun wargaming what I would do in the shoes of the DNC or Biden campaign, but I think that's over: Biden will be dumped. On to wargaming the Trump campaign. If they swap Biden, everyone to the right of Bernie needs to hammer the new candidate for not 25thing Biden: "if he can't run and can't remember names, why is he still president and why aren't you calling for his resignation?"
She was, both have talked about it. Whilst anyone can abuse the Christian ideas of redemption (and many do), that doesn't make redemption a false idea.
But she's also one of those born again christian types iirc
Not sure what you intended to infer by this, but I could not think of a more wrong way to describe an Orthodox Christian (which the Wilsons are). I've got plenty of gripes with tradthots, but "born again" is deep in the wheelhouse of American Protestantism.
For context, after mixing up Zelensky and Putin, POTUS confuses Kamala and Donald.
Edit: changed wrong link
Well, 10% is probably a similar number to what we're looking at. This would require deputizing the States to enforce deportations and literally operating a Federal airline operating 24/7 for years to handle transport.
As someone living in a smallish Southern city, its the same everywhere. When illegals decide to start with the gang violence from their home countries, shit is going to get fucky everywhere real fast.
Much like the black communities in America, it only takes is an sufficiently high ethnic concentration and a few shitty relatives and their friends to turn a working class neighborhood into gangland. If we try to deport them we will get armed resistance. Not an invasion, my ass.
This has what to do with the late Mrs. Peterson's conversion and the typical Jewish opinions on conversos? Yoisi needs a chillpill; he's starting to act like a Stormfront parody.
As to your point, Peterson is wrong: Islam and Judaism are both shite religions
You really going to make me side with Tony? Even if she was Jewish, she wound up a Converso. That literally one of the biggest FUs one can make towards the Tribe.
although both apparently claim to 'not reaaaaalllly worship Satan.'
I've said this here before: If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and calls abortion a sacrament like a duck. . .
This tweet was clearly written by a woman with "And rightly bloody so" added to make it sound like Peterson.
For what its worth, I still like Peterson in certain contexts. He does represent a popular figure who analyses the world in a manner outside of mainstream (Progressive and neocon) methods. Hell, he's to the right of American conservatives just being willing to discuss IQ as a predictive metric. I do think he's absolutely unwilling to get behind any practical solutions to the social ills he points out because the solutions to any given problem all have an unpleasant side. At the end of the day he's an old fashioned liberal who will default to "niceness" when all the chips are on the table. In short he is both often right and also the exact kind of person that created today's declining western society
Peterson's rebuttal to the numerical argument speaks loudly. Despite his dismissive attitude to the whole issue he felt the need to respond. Of his cohort of 140+ IQ individuals, only a portion actually have to engage in in-group preferences for it to have a huge nepotistic affect. Something that Jews and JQers have in common is the belief that Jews have a very unique culture-religion: a people set apart as it were. Based on the religious and cultural mores of the Jewish people, I find it very plausible that at least 1 in 10 (and probably higher) successful high IQ Jews engage in ethnic nepotism. This minority has an outsized influence based on their intelligence and influence that could have a massive downstream effect.
Looking at this now. Any opinion on this vs OSRIC?
I have a psychological theory for this. We all know Californians have been moving to the rest of the country. For those who don't know, much of the California coast is pretty much paradise on earth as far as climate is concerned. These people move to the South (or even the midwest) and experience highs in the mid-90s or low 100s combined with 90% humidity, and they think the planet is on fire. We call it summer and its always been this way. They buy the propaganda because they think every day should have lows in the 60s, highs in the 70s, and low humidity with a constant pacific breeze.
They may as well just come out and say “comporting oneself in a civilized manner is white supremacy”
The Smithsonian is way ahead of you. The National Museum of African American History and Culture put this infographic out a few years ago. Honestly this is one of the best entries in the game of "Klansman or Progressive?".
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected." -G. K. Chesterton
Lets be honest, the best part of the genre is the cool Bladerunner* aesthetics, so the only way to do cyberpunk is to make it retro. It would essentially have to be some sort of sci-fi fantasy with clunky tech. A “modern twist” does not bode well. If I see another damned flat sinny holo-display aesthetic, I'll puke, I'm afraid to say. I don't think folks who use iPads on the daily could ever really write or produce the visuals for cyberpunk.
*Gibson apparently quit working (for a time) on his novel after seeing Bladerunner because he felt he had been beat to the punch in terms of what he wanted to create.
Here's the new campaign photo