"just the facts" is how I want my military run tbh.
Fancy words are for the diplomats, fancy Ideas for the artists and philosophers. How do we kill the enemy?
Fancy words are for the diplomats, fancy Ideas for the artists and philosophers. How do we kill the enemy?
So there was a line that finally told me Solo Leveling's anime takes place in Korea.
I know it sounds stupid, but some people were swearing up and down it takes place in Japan (which makes no sense since jeju island is in korea and the original manhwa was in Korea), but this week there was a line "we will be participating with our close neighbor." "You mean Japan?" "Yes, they will be at risk as well if this continues"
There was probably something in the beginning that said it was definitely in Korea, but now I've got a line that shows Japan is elsewhere.
I know it sounds stupid, but some people were swearing up and down it takes place in Japan (which makes no sense since jeju island is in korea and the original manhwa was in Korea), but this week there was a line "we will be participating with our close neighbor." "You mean Japan?" "Yes, they will be at risk as well if this continues"
There was probably something in the beginning that said it was definitely in Korea, but now I've got a line that shows Japan is elsewhere.
And the best part is that the output of AI is not copyrightable, so not only did they massively break copyright law to create it (and you know they did), they massively break copyright law in a different way when they use it (by producing things that can't be copyrighted)
I was going to flip out and go after you for saying canada was "boringly well run", but rhen I saw the time period you set and I agree with you totally.
Hard to imagine in 2007 the federal debt was only about 450B and we had seen years and years of not just balanced budgets but budget surpluses.
One piece of context a lot of people don't have for why Trudeau was able to get in the first time is that the liberals in the early 2000s we're just fine, they were the ones who balanced the budget (grounded with the base of cuts and tax increases under Mulroney) and people generally didn't have a huge problem. Even the thing that finally brought down that government was relatively quaint, unreasonable spending during the referendum to keep Quebec in canada. So with that piece of context, I'm sure a lot of people were thinking that they would be going back to the fairly boring mostly center sort of administration they saw back then. I have never voted for trudeau, but back in 2015 I would have for that exact reason. It never occurred to most people that the liberal party might be something completely different than it was just the next government over.
Hard to imagine in 2007 the federal debt was only about 450B and we had seen years and years of not just balanced budgets but budget surpluses.
One piece of context a lot of people don't have for why Trudeau was able to get in the first time is that the liberals in the early 2000s we're just fine, they were the ones who balanced the budget (grounded with the base of cuts and tax increases under Mulroney) and people generally didn't have a huge problem. Even the thing that finally brought down that government was relatively quaint, unreasonable spending during the referendum to keep Quebec in canada. So with that piece of context, I'm sure a lot of people were thinking that they would be going back to the fairly boring mostly center sort of administration they saw back then. I have never voted for trudeau, but back in 2015 I would have for that exact reason. It never occurred to most people that the liberal party might be something completely different than it was just the next government over.
I made some other joke last time I saw this story, but really this is the only reaction worth posting.
What choice do you have? When your entire War machine depends on a country on the other side of the planet, if they say jump you say how high.
You have to think about the fact that our postmodern/modern society has erased most forms of meaning in general. People aren't falling in love, having sex, getting married, having kids, raising their kids, having friends, engaging in the community, going to church, praying, going for walks, engaging with nature, engaging in meaningful careers, and so on and so forth. People aren't participating in the things that represent meaning in our lives, but that doesn't mean it isn't the meaning of our lives, it just means that we've refused the call.
So rather than deadbeat dads being evidence that raising your kids isn't the meaning of life, it's instead evidence of a civilization in deep decline, that is rejecting sources of meaning and facing imminent total collapse -- and we're seeing that in the demographic collapse virtually everywhere that's adopted our culture.
Most people sit around playing video games, or doomscrolling on social media, or drinking, or doing drugs, and there's nothing wrong with that in moderation -- but you need to find your core reasons to live elsewhere, because what is fun or what gets you through the day isn't meaningful in a deeper sense, and it's that deeper meaning that gets people through hard times.
So rather than deadbeat dads being evidence that raising your kids isn't the meaning of life, it's instead evidence of a civilization in deep decline, that is rejecting sources of meaning and facing imminent total collapse -- and we're seeing that in the demographic collapse virtually everywhere that's adopted our culture.
Most people sit around playing video games, or doomscrolling on social media, or drinking, or doing drugs, and there's nothing wrong with that in moderation -- but you need to find your core reasons to live elsewhere, because what is fun or what gets you through the day isn't meaningful in a deeper sense, and it's that deeper meaning that gets people through hard times.
Tim bits or robins eggs up here, depending on if you get them from Tim Hortons or robins doughnuts.
It's definitionally fascism, but nobody cares as long as they have smiley face stickers on it. :(
I find it really funny that all the people who will spend all day saying "War crime! War crime! War crime!" For a bunch of people and things that aren't War crimes are suddenly inexplicably silent over the October 7th attacks and aftermath which are definitionally multiple actual war crimes.
The same people who think that using tear gas in a riot is a war crime (it's not, war crimes only apply to wars) don't seem to have any problem with a bunch of soldiers not wearing uniforms and deliberately targeting civilians and only civilians in an attack between two separate national political entities.
The same people who think that using tear gas in a riot is a war crime (it's not, war crimes only apply to wars) don't seem to have any problem with a bunch of soldiers not wearing uniforms and deliberately targeting civilians and only civilians in an attack between two separate national political entities.
Once you're a dad, it really becomes the meaning of your life.
Still gotta pay the bills, but you also gotta make time for the most important job of your life, building the future of mankind.
Still gotta pay the bills, but you also gotta make time for the most important job of your life, building the future of mankind.
Pim Tool tool a day off yesterday because his kid was born. Hope the chills the fuck out and makes sure to do his duty as a present father.
You can't just do YouTube 16 hours a day anymore once that happens. (I mean you can if you want your daughter to end up on only fans and your son to end up also on only fans but in a different way)
You can't just do YouTube 16 hours a day anymore once that happens. (I mean you can if you want your daughter to end up on only fans and your son to end up also on only fans but in a different way)
@amerika I love your article about scientific consensus being a load of crap, I just read it.
One thing I'd like clarification on for the remedial kids in the class like me, what exactly do you mean by "individualism"? It seems to me that your conclusion is saying something that makes intuitive sense, but logically it doesn't quite jive, but I'm thinking it might be because of a subtly different definition of individualism than I'm going by, maybe something more expansive, that helps us get from individualism to collectivism.
One thing I'd like clarification on for the remedial kids in the class like me, what exactly do you mean by "individualism"? It seems to me that your conclusion is saying something that makes intuitive sense, but logically it doesn't quite jive, but I'm thinking it might be because of a subtly different definition of individualism than I'm going by, maybe something more expansive, that helps us get from individualism to collectivism.
Most people outside of Germany don't know this, but the national anthem today is the same one from 1943, just minus the most nationalist verses.
Thing is, it was a song whose music was written in the late 1700s, with lyrics from the mid 1800s, made the national anthem by the Weimar republic in the early 1900s, and stripped of a couple verses in the mid-1900s until today.
It's always important to remember that the postmodern conception of history as beginning in 1938 and ending in 1946, is not accurate and so some things don't make sense unless you broaden your horizon.
The history of the song is kind of incredible -- it was born during the final years of the Holy Roman Empire just a few years after the end of the Jacobin reign of terror in France, given words during the German confederation, and after the end of the German Empire during the brief Weimar Republic period was made the national anthem. Then it was picked up by uncle Adolf, and bifurcated but kept in place under West Germany (another political structure that no longer exists)
The fall of the Jacobins represented the end of the French Revolution, and many historians consider the French Revolution to be the beginning of the modern period. It's a period of grand narratives such as liberalism, Marxism, National Socialism, Fascism, and nationalism. The lyric "Deucheland, Deuscheland uber alles" was a call for all the isolated little bits of what was once the Holy Roman Empire and at the time was a loose confederation under a new national identity of Germany, because the little fiefdoms that existed under feudalism, a system which was rapidly disappearing in the new philosophical, ideological, economic, and geographical order, wasn't a sustainable way to arrange a society. A few years later, the French would try to invade the confederation, leading to unification under the Prussians in what was a very strong military order. This unification was a direct cause of World War 1, unfortunately.
Thing is, it was a song whose music was written in the late 1700s, with lyrics from the mid 1800s, made the national anthem by the Weimar republic in the early 1900s, and stripped of a couple verses in the mid-1900s until today.
It's always important to remember that the postmodern conception of history as beginning in 1938 and ending in 1946, is not accurate and so some things don't make sense unless you broaden your horizon.
The history of the song is kind of incredible -- it was born during the final years of the Holy Roman Empire just a few years after the end of the Jacobin reign of terror in France, given words during the German confederation, and after the end of the German Empire during the brief Weimar Republic period was made the national anthem. Then it was picked up by uncle Adolf, and bifurcated but kept in place under West Germany (another political structure that no longer exists)
The fall of the Jacobins represented the end of the French Revolution, and many historians consider the French Revolution to be the beginning of the modern period. It's a period of grand narratives such as liberalism, Marxism, National Socialism, Fascism, and nationalism. The lyric "Deucheland, Deuscheland uber alles" was a call for all the isolated little bits of what was once the Holy Roman Empire and at the time was a loose confederation under a new national identity of Germany, because the little fiefdoms that existed under feudalism, a system which was rapidly disappearing in the new philosophical, ideological, economic, and geographical order, wasn't a sustainable way to arrange a society. A few years later, the French would try to invade the confederation, leading to unification under the Prussians in what was a very strong military order. This unification was a direct cause of World War 1, unfortunately.
There's a reason for it, but the real point of the sentence is making fun of writers whose teenagers don't sound like teenagers.
It's from an editing session for my next book, and in the book, recycling is recycling.
It's from an editing session for my next book, and in the book, recycling is recycling.
"Indeed, as a teenager I can infer quite readily that the process of utilizing and recycling plastics are in fact one in the same, a circuitous path whereby anything we use or send to the refuse can be reused again! I am quite glad that I, a nineth grader, have been able to fully and competently infer these truths from the incomplete information provided to me by my beloved foster mother!"