While it's true that, to paraphrase Heinlein, violence is the supreme authority from which all other authorities derive, and we may be on a path heading towards widespread political violence, even as as accelerationist, war is hell and civil wars are even worse.
The prospect of fighting inside America should not relished but feared.
There's also no guarantee that fighting goes your way.
I didn't even think it was supposed to make him look foolish or to mock him--it was making EVERYONE who was playing the race or cultural appropriation game look petty and selfish. Bobby was the only one who seemed reasonable!
I thought it was a pretty good take, all in all.
I bet the episodes with Hank's Japanese brother are pretty funny in Japanese..
The episode with the black guy WAS mocking the situation. Bobby runs a fusion German-Japanese restaurant. The German heritage society is mad and the Asians are mad. When the Laotian Asians try to intercede, the Japanese get mad at the Laotians for Asians appropriating other Asians. Then there's the black dude adopted by Japanese, who threatens to claim racial discrimination against blacks. It's a shitshow. I thought it was funny.
Bobby is a player. He he hooked up with two different women before Connie. Connie was all into "ethical non-monogamy" but then when shit hit the fan, it was all just bullshit.
And yes, rewatching the original, it was racier than I remembered and sometimes more liberal than I remembered. Still funny.
Suzanne is pretty dope.
Whatever the fuck I just watched with Jeff Goldblum is NOT.
There's a youtube video of Nick going on a catboy date on youtube. It's been floating around for years and is actually where I first heard of Nick.
What's out of context? I haven't watched the whole thing but it seems pretty gay.
Ok, so I'm familiar with Fuentes, but I probably haven't seen more than 15 minutes of his content.
I'm 30 minutes into the Tucker interview. He sounds great.
How does on reconcile the whole incel, going on a date with a catboy, and so forth, part of Fuentes with the rest of him? I'm very confused by this.
Look, government shutdown are retarded, because (up to now, at least) every single time all the employees get back pay. Trump is hardcore enough that he may not go in for that.
Update: Apparently the 2019 "Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019" mandates backpay for government employees after a shutdown.
This is pure theater.
It's a re(several times over)read for me, but Tigana, by Guy Gavriel Kay. Set in a fantasy Italian peninsula with magic, it's a great read. One of my all time favorite books.
The last new thing I read was "My Name is Red" by the Turkish author Orhan Pamuk. A bit more "literary" than what I normally read, but it was a lot of fun. I would highly recommend it.
It’s a risk in any Lithium ion battery, but particularly in low quality and poorly manufactured ones.
By now most or many people have dozens of Lithium-ion batteries in their homes. Nintendo Switch? Smart watch? Cell phone? Laptop? Rechargeable Li-ion AA/AAA batteries? Yard tools (mower, leafblower, string timmer, saw, etc.)? Car? Other crap small electronics?
It’s probably a miracle we don’t see MORE structure fires caused by batteries.
Is it just me or does the thumbail for that image look rather vaginal?
Actually, that pretty much fits for the people inside too.
I read Dragonlance when I was in 5th grade. There was an older girl on the bus who was obsessed and let me borrow them. I read the Drizzt books in highschool.
I remember enjoying them all.
I went back and tried to reread Dragonlance and I couldn't make it more than ~10 pages in.
On the one hand, fuck China, on the other hand, not a good sign for policy going forward setting precedent for government takeovers of businesses.
This one is easier for me. China does not allow for the same types of foreign ownership that are common in the United States and Europe.
If they want to protect their own companies and industries and markets, that's fine, but they shouldn't be surprised when others do they same.
Adam Driver was a marine, he's 6'2, and he makes six figures.
You do the math on that one.
This is the only way shit changes
Bullshit. You think the mayor will change her mind?
Here she is, just a struggling single mom (well worth the watch):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9FCA0Lnpno
(Screaming "Get out of my fucking shot" at staffer)
Let's see. For high school she attended the elite and exclusive boarding school, Phillips Academy, in Massachusetts (today it costs ~$80,000 per year).
Then she attended Yale for undergrad (today's cost ~$90k per year) and Harvard for law school ($100k+).
Ladies and gentlemen, how dare you criticize your better for not being able to string two coherent thoughts together or appear the least bit likable? Being asked questions--and followup questions--by a journalist? Inexcusable. Put yourself in her shoes. How galling it must be to be asked to address the 40% of Californians who are Trump voters. To be asked to if she needs their vote to win? Laughable and disgusting.
Look, she deserves to be the candidate. Mom and dad sunk well north of a million bucks (today's dollars) into her education, so just shut up and vote for her already.
Dating myself, I feel that Jeff K and Somethingawful late 90s was peak Internet.
Florida (wo?)man? Florida MA’AM?
The AI underground is too busy gooning to do anything else.
Looks like she has Sephardic Jewish ancestry.
/u/AntonioOfVenice So this is supposed to be jeet baiting, jew baiting, or just all around bait baiting?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnnqCjNzlFc
Red Letter Media and Jeopardy sum up Strange New World's relevance.
Public schools are notorious for letting kids do just that using their disability as an excuse. It seems the only reason this kid is being held accountable is because it's a charter school that's exempt from a lot of the nonsense that public schools have to put up with.
Yes and no. In all states that I know of, public charter schools have to follow the same rules regarding disabilities and punishments that traditional public schools do.
I think the biggest difference is that many public school districts give up--they figure it's not worth fighting these cases, cause the kids are just going to come back year after year. So you just pass them, graduate them, and they're no longer a problem.
I know plenty of public school (and charter school) teachers and administrators who would love to be able to do more, but the legal system has completely fucked them over. Just about any punishment can and will be challenged on the basis of "disability" and--often at the same time--racism.
It's a nightmare, and the root of the cause is the legal system.
Have you considered starting a business? I recommend this to anyone who is willing to put in the work. Being a small business owner gives you a level of freedom (but also obligation and stress) that most people can't imagine.
It can be both. It can be necessary, unavoidable, and ultimately a good thing. But, in any civil conflict the United States, many millions would die. Many millions on all sides would die, combatants and non-combatants alike. It is a scary thing. I'm old enough now that I fear for my children's future more than my own.
Libertarian philosopher (yeah yeah) Lysander Spooner wrote about the "remnant." The remnant of liberty that remains and the tiny number of people who actually believe in liberty. He hope that tiny fragment was enough for freedom and liberty to survive.
I truly believe Europe and white civilization is dead and destroyed. Mostly destroyed by suicide. I hope, like Spooner, that a fragment of a remnant survives into the future. I am trying to position my family to be self-sufficient and economically independent enough to survive whatever comes.
I still fear war.