I wish he still did more of it, instead of treating it as secondary to being a wierd furry/yaoi vtuber.
Hmm.. Could’ve got without knowing that. He has a Farms thread and everything..
Renting also can make sense for people who are not going to stay in place for long.
I've seen different analyses, and it of courses hinges on whether property values are going up, down, or staying the same, but the usual numbers I've seen are that ownership makes sense if you will be there for 3+ years.
Renting often makes sense for professional athletes. They can be traded any time. Their career can end any time. They spend much of their time in other cities. Many don’t spend more than a year at a time in one place.
Living above your means, or burning that much money in rent, period, is moronic.
I bet he's good at the Cardassian neck trick.
Very good point about leftists 100 years ago.
It’s pretty ironic. For much of my early life I was a hardcore libertarian. While my family has been religious, I’ve never been religious, and deism is not an important part—not any part—of my life.
Today, I firmly believe that we need something like a Catholic church to help maintain order and cultural stability.
Human-centric leftism decays into nihilism and self-destruction.
It's been a long time since I've watched The Orville and I don't think I ever saw the third season. My memory of the Bortus/Klyden thing is that their government basically mandated male-male relationships (reproduction was never explained that I recall).
One of them, Klyden, was born a biological female, but as a child was forced to undergo sex mutilation to appear male.
You can read it as a pro-trans "identity" plotline, but the more blunt and direct interpretation is a detrans, forced child sex changes are bad plot.
RIP Norm Macdonald.
I've thought about this as well.
The UCC was formed in 1957 with the merger of the Congregationalist churches (Puritans, largely Calvinists) and the Evangelical and Reformed churches (German and Swiss Calvinists).
The best way I know to think of it, given my understanding, is that the UCC is the logical end of late-stage protestantism.
In China, Mao talked about the "continuous revolution." Similarly, in some strands of protestantism there has been an almost continual revolution, or evolution, towards human-centric doctrine, and therefore, away from God and traditional Christianity.
In American, the early puritans were strict and devout, and they were fiercely independent. They were opposed to the Anglican church, the Catholic church, all these top-heavy churches that strictly controlled their orders. The congregationalist churches were more loosely linked and more independent. During the revolution, the congregationalists were strongly anti-monarch. A big theme was pushing back against authority, studying the Bible on your own, following Christ in your own actions. Typical protestant stuff really, but...
If you take this level of independence, along with shifting moral values, the values of the Enlightenment, and (my personal favorite) a rather Hegelian thesis-antithesis comparison to other churches, you end up with unitarianism. When the more conservative Awakenings were happening, the descent into nothingness accelerated as a way of differentiating themselves from conservatives (the ignorant loathsome people). You end up with church members who push back on authority, no matter the source. You end up with churches that become the polar opposite of what they were.
In many ways, the evolution of puritan to UCC, particularly in the northeastern United States, is a precursor to the woke age we are in today. When a strong moral base is gone, social contagion and human depravity rushes in.
Add in Timothee Chalamet and Rachel Zeigler and you’d have Hollywood’s dream cast.
Blegh.
It was a brilliant casting job. To roughly paraphrase Red Letter Media, it was an amazing collection of hot-as-shit 20-somethings with soulless, dead eyes.
It works!
If you were a male of a certain again in the 1990s, just saying “Wild Things” was enough. Denise Richards. I bet she’s dumb as a rock, but man was she hot.
Not even close to Apple and Siri’s most egregious action. Years ago, if you said “Hey Siri, Tar…” it would say “Heels!”
Some UNC basketball fan slipped that one in there.
"WERE YOU RUSHING OR WERE YOU DRAGGING"
Oh, wrong movie with Miles Teller.
Still reading, but dude spells Erin GJONI as "Gonji" the entire time.
It's as if France tried to rename the Channel the Sea of France. It's a bit sad.
The French ALREADY don't called it the "English Channel" or anything with Britain or English in it. They call it La Manche.
Some of these people really make me think that Atheists got into the church.
Always has been. Perhaps the first generation of church fathers were pure in their beliefs and teaching, but where there is authority, power, and influence, you will find corruption and those in it purely for the secular perks.
My grandfather (and his father!) were Methodist pastors. One of them was a bishop even.
Today, my local Methodist church has a “Queerly Beloved” flag and sign out all year long, along with BLM flags, and whatever the local secular leftist cause of the day is.
So that’s why I’m not a Methodist any more.
I read the heck out of out of Xanth in middle school.
I read the first one again recently and it was bad. Like, really bad. Way pervier than I remembered too. I started the second one to see if it got better and I couldn’t finish it. I tink they must particularly appeal to teenage boys!
Plus Piers Anthony has total TDS.
I think you're right. This is one of the reasons why the midwit meme is my favorite. It is just so true and so applicable.
I had a great English teacher in high who was a stickler for the rules of grammar when we were writing essays. He whipped us into shape. And then, he had us read Faulkner. James Joyce (not a fan). Cold Mountain. All these authors and books that are very important to the modern literary tradition and yet, the authors broke the rules of grammar like crazy!
Understanding exceptions and rules and when it's proper to BREAK the rules is very important!
School is shit meme:
https://en.meming.world/images/en/thumb/c/c4/Midwit_meme_1.jpg/480px-Midwit_meme_1.jpg
Investing meme:
etc
Bring back the corn lands and the grain dole! MIGA Make the Imperium Great Again!
Yeah! It’s controversial, but I like it too.
Yeah, I’ve never understood that. They put themselves through watching Discovery and Section 31 and all, they ought to do DS9!
I think this meme sums it up:
https://uploads.dailydot.com/2025/01/deepseek-memes.jpg?q=65&auto=format&w=1600&ar=2:1&fit=crop
I quit Discovery after S1 and hated it.
I watched I think 2 episode of SNW (and then the musical episode a year later) and I didn't like it.
Don't care about Prodigy.
Quit Picard after Season 1.
Lower Decks I have watched all of and I enjoyed the vast majority of it. I have no idea if you'll like it. I guess to me, somehow, even with modern wokeisms (and there are modern wokeisms) and all the cartoon zaniness, it SOMEHOW manages to feel more "Trek" than anything else in nutrek. There are many deep cuts and references that go back as far as ToS, and they're done in a way that makes me feel like the writers of Lower Decks actually like Star Trek.
The rest of Nutrek makes me feel like the writers hate Star Trek and would rather be writing something, anything, else, but this is the only job they got, so they're going to shoehorn their dumb shit and daddy issues into it and oh yeah, there is a klingon, but now klingons are lame and gay.
The Thaw?
Batshit crazy hyperbole doesn't help you make your point.
Are there segments of the Israeli government and citizenry that would like to annex some additional lands in Egypt (Sinai), Jordan, Syria (Mt Hermon / Druze areas), and maybe even Lebanon? Yes.
Beyond the Sinai? Beyond the Golan? Beyond the immediate trans-Jordan? No.
Even the most rabid and insane Jewish nationalist knows that occupying vast swathes of territory where Jews would be outnumbered 1000:1 is a fools errand.
Israeli public opinion polling has shown, for years, that somewhere around 40-50%+ of the population supports pulling out of the West Bank even.
Israeli already gave up the Sinai once and it worked--they've had peace with Egypt for more than 40 years.