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- Mon May 20, 2024 8:33 am
- Forum: Tea Time
- Topic: Political Levitas
- Replies: 2381
- Views: 419067
Re: Levitas
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GN4T_uTWgAAHx2h?format=jpg&name=small Is the Toyota Hilux utility vehicle available for purchase in the US? My understanding is that it isn't. There is a 25% import tax on light trucks and I'm sure environmental regulations which keep the Toyota Truck (as I've heard ...
- Sun May 19, 2024 9:04 am
- Forum: Philosophy
- Topic: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
- Replies: 296
- Views: 32539
Re: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
So much of "protect the children from capital" is "protect capital from the responsibility of children" and a nice way for the middle class to wash its hands of the responsibility. Or maybe its better to make it, to clear their own bad conscientious. excellent point. yes their a...
- Sun May 19, 2024 8:45 am
- Forum: Philosophy
- Topic: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
- Replies: 296
- Views: 32539
Re: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
This is taken from the middle of a ponderous substack essay found here . The essay is what it is but this bit sticks with me, especially in regards to a need for control. The bolded bits are my doing. But I don't include the imaged article under discussion, as found on the substack- so if you are in...
- Sun May 19, 2024 7:48 am
- Forum: Philosophy
- Topic: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
- Replies: 296
- Views: 32539
Re: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
When it comes to kids, God only knows. It's a bellyflop. Kids and devices and then turning into adolescences who know how to weaponize them is frightening. Turning grey just at the thought.
- Sun May 19, 2024 7:27 am
- Forum: Philosophy
- Topic: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
- Replies: 296
- Views: 32539
Re: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
The middle class is the conspiracy :) More seriously, I haven't a doubt there is plenty of support with solid reasoning. So much of it is a slow motion car crash in progress: take this technology and those people and this economy and that tendency. There is a sense of inevitability to some of it tha...
- Sun May 19, 2024 4:46 am
- Forum: Philosophy
- Topic: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
- Replies: 296
- Views: 32539
Re: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
I am very aware that complaining about who controls a popular tab can come off as petty and yada yada yada. There are plenty of people who are more aligned with me who would become tyrants with that power too. Frankly, I am GLAD any popular post button slows down or doesn't work. These are nightmare...
- Sun May 19, 2024 4:07 am
- Forum: Philosophy
- Topic: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
- Replies: 296
- Views: 32539
Re: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
I do think twitter has degraded quite a bit tho. every day my non posting account acquires a couple of porn bot followers the main problem is that the feed having popular and new is now, almost, useless. popular hangs around for days, the same posts, the same people. new is mostly random bots and c...
- Sat May 18, 2024 11:58 pm
- Forum: Philosophy
- Topic: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
- Replies: 296
- Views: 32539
Re: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
Which reminds me I forgot to add the hubris of medical doctors to the maelstrom.
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- Sat May 18, 2024 7:33 am
- Forum: Philosophy
- Topic: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
- Replies: 296
- Views: 32539
Re: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
and this separates him from the rest of the tech weirdos how?
We are talking about a guy who plans to own human slaves at some point. And by all indications, that's bog standard for the silicon industry.
It's like we took the mania of engineers and injected'em with the malevolence of writers.
We are talking about a guy who plans to own human slaves at some point. And by all indications, that's bog standard for the silicon industry.
It's like we took the mania of engineers and injected'em with the malevolence of writers.
- Sat May 18, 2024 12:43 am
- Forum: Art + Architecture
- Topic: Computer Games
- Replies: 759
- Views: 831824
Re: Computer Games
From A PC game to a bunch of bastards in the void: How does Void Bastards Work? A game that changes how you play it. ------------- Void Bastards is fun for a few hours with a solid concept but its not enough content to make any of it work for more than the initial few playthroughs. Maybe that's beca...
- Sat May 18, 2024 12:31 am
- Forum: Tea Time
- Topic: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
- Replies: 3037
- Views: 1311706
Re: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
got anythin' recorded?
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I've been on a hip-hop kick lately.
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I've been on a hip-hop kick lately.
- Sat May 18, 2024 12:10 am
- Forum: Philosophy
- Topic: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
- Replies: 296
- Views: 32539
Re: On conservative and libertarian stupidity
Brass tacks is that Musk is not better than what came before, outside the shortest of scales. A different kind of bad.
It's a question of would you prefer Mussolini or the 24/7 star chamber.
It's a question of would you prefer Mussolini or the 24/7 star chamber.
- Fri May 17, 2024 11:56 pm
- Forum: Tea Time
- Topic: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
- Replies: 3037
- Views: 1311706
- Wed May 15, 2024 6:00 am
- Forum: Art + Architecture
- Topic: Computer Games
- Replies: 759
- Views: 831824
- Wed May 15, 2024 5:57 am
- Forum: North America | Canada; USA; Mexico
- Topic: Local government and politics | NYC et al, RIP?
- Replies: 188
- Views: 27698
Re: Local government and politics | NYC et al, RIP?
https://twitter.com/magdajtaylor/status/1790406063474274466 This angle is obvious but there was other impropriety the minute the so-called portal started. I'm incredulous that they thought it was to garner any other sort of attention. Half sentimentalists tryin' their hardest to earnestly communica...
- Wed May 15, 2024 1:50 am
- Forum: North America | Canada; USA; Mexico
- Topic: Local government and politics | NYC et al, RIP?
- Replies: 188
- Views: 27698
Re: Local government and politics | NYC et al, RIP?
https://twitter.com/magdajtaylor/status/1790406063474274466 This angle is obvious but there was other impropriety the minute the so-called portal started. I'm incredulous that they thought it was to garner any other sort of attention. Half sentimentalists tryin' their hardest to earnestly communica...
- Mon May 13, 2024 6:21 am
- Forum: Art + Architecture
- Topic: Poetry
- Replies: 138
- Views: 33656
- Sat May 11, 2024 11:21 pm
- Forum: Art + Architecture
- Topic: Cool Maps
- Replies: 208
- Views: 37224
- Sat May 11, 2024 11:17 pm
- Forum: Art + Architecture
- Topic: Cool Maps
- Replies: 208
- Views: 37224