retrieved her .22 caliber rifle, equipped with a telescopic sight
She was trained by someone, guessing her father. And trained well it seems. Lord knows what made her do what she did.
Spez: It's funny how this isn't attributed to easy firearm sales, or "ghost guns", or any of the normal nonsense. She just had a rifle.
This is a pretty on point description of him. He goes to great lengths to describe things and hash out ideas. In an autistic sort of way it's interesting but certainly not for everyone. It makes a lot of sense when you consider he was a PNW early internet tech dude. Quoting from wikipedia:
"Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, John Carmack, and Peter Thiel are all fans of his work."
As for the outrageously competent female characters, yeah, they are there but written in a different cultural climate than today. It wasn't done out of wokeness. A fair amount of sci-fi and fantasy writers around his age love to make characters like that. My guess is they all grew up reading Robert Heinlein, who had many "strong woman characters." That, and Heavy Metal magazine.
In the same story involving underwater orgies (The Diamond Age), he writes
"while people were not genetically different, they were culturally as different as they could possibly be, and that some cultures were simply better than others. This was not a subjective value judgment, merely an observation that some cultures thrived and expanded while others failed. It was a view implicitly shared by nearly everyone but, in those days, never voiced.
And that idea is a central theme of the book. Something you "can't" really say today.
In Cryptonomicon, published in 1999, one of the main characters has a professional academic girlfriend who writes a paper about "bearded white men" being horrible people and the root of all evil. Just seeing the term "white men" in the title tells the character that it's mostly bullshit.
I have no idea what he's up to today, and he could be some woke jackass now, but many of thoughts from then weren't woke at the time. They were what passed for progressive.
Did his, and other digital libertarians' like himself, thoughts pave the road to the shit going on today? Probably.
Must be a rich-person school.
#poormidwesternthings
there was exactly one black kid at my high school and he got arrested for arson in senior year.
This happened in Kissimmee, which is in Florida, which has very different demographics than places with 'snowmobile accidents' and your dad (?)
also it happened in the open, at a track meet.
..Oh god damn it, It's bait. Well done. Enjoy your bounty.
The biggest difference is that this happened at a track meet in full view of everyone, in the middle of a race. This wasn't recess, between classes, or even in class. This was pretty much a public event. And the kid was brazen (or stupid) enough to ignore that and immediately go to "he disrespected me"
At the very least the kid's coach would have been on the field and should have reigned him in before it happened.
I hope he doesn't run for president in 2024. We still need him in Florida and I think he can actually do more as governor. Showing that a state will not tolerate this shit sets a good example for other states. Even if other "based" current governors are too cowardly to do anything now it shows voters that it's possible to elect someone who will actually do something.
I don't get where this comes from but, like you said, it is the uniform.
My best guess is they saw an effeminate Justin Bieber in similar get-up and thought "that's what a man should look like"
It's similar to men who pretend to women but end up just being a caricature of women.
Since you didn't specify which video, you fantastically retarded motherfucker, here is 52:30 from the youtube link https://i.imgur.com/5lZPgCN.png
From that video, at the time you specified, it's just the US saying "no u"
One response from a D&D "contributor", what ever that is:
he shines a spotlight on (by publishing) BIPOC authors writing epic fantasy steeped in their own cultures, right?
Because that happens a lot, right? Colored authors writing original stories, pulling ideas and themes from "they cultcha."
Guild Wars 2 has been around a for a while and had a recent expansion.
Considering the mess that is the story, their openly proud tranny developers, and Jessica Price, it is interesting they are still relevant.