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Post by miscmisc on Oct 29, 2021 18:31:39 GMT 1
Drop dead.
"get ahead"
What a fucking piece of shit.
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Post by miscmisc on Oct 29, 2021 18:35:24 GMT 1
Meta!
"Hey, are you coming?"
LOL
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Post by K1power on Oct 29, 2021 19:18:46 GMT 1
It would've been nice if there were three parts ala the LotR actually. My issue with the movie wouldn't be exactly solved that way as I have a serious problem with Villeneuve's style itself, but that's just me, and I do feel the story would've flown better with three parts. Well, Denis Villeneuve Wants To Make A Dune Trilogy. Not that that means it'll actually happen, but it might. |
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Post by miscmisc on Oct 29, 2021 21:14:28 GMT 1
It would've been nice if there were three parts ala the LotR actually. My issue with the movie wouldn't be exactly solved that way as I have a serious problem with Villeneuve's style itself, but that's just me, and I do feel the story would've flown better with three parts. Well, Denis Villeneuve Wants To Make A Dune Trilogy. Not that that means it'll actually happen, but it might. Ah, but that's different. He's talking about the first novel + Messiah. I would've liked the first novel to be sliced into three parts, though admittedly that would've been kind of unorthodox. And personally, I wouldn't touch Messiah. It would be a complete mess, Villeneuve or not. |
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Post by miscmisc on Oct 29, 2021 21:18:31 GMT 1
This whole thing started a while back initially as a dig at the oversensitive liberal/"left" types, mocking them for their tendency for censorship by emulating them.
But it's obvious that it has been wholly internalized by these right-wingers nowadays. And when they are fixated on something, they always go all the way to the crazy town. Always.
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Post by miscmisc on Oct 30, 2021 20:07:33 GMT 1
What's up with so many Aussies rocking the mullet these days?
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Post by miscmisc on Oct 31, 2021 9:06:18 GMT 1
25% of those who were infected and tested PCR positive for Covid developed hardly any IgG antibodies. That's a LOT of people who didn't even get a lousy T-shirt. Looking back on it, you wonder how the hell those natural immunity advocates absolutely took it for granted that all asymptomatic cases would build antibodies just fine. Anti-spike antibody response to natural SARS-CoV-2 infection in the general populationwww.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26479-2 |
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Post by miscmisc on Oct 31, 2021 12:44:03 GMT 1
This. This. This has been my thesis for years now.
The entire US political structure is fundamentally flawed. The combination of the three undemocratic institutions - namely the Senate, Supreme Court and Electoral College - makes the system deviate to a very, very large extent from the norm that you'd expect from a democracy.
It's an absurd system with no semblance of equality. It basically _encourages_ minority rule.
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Post by Fox on Nov 2, 2021 6:31:18 GMT 1
^The fact that its unequal and unrepresentative of the public might not be what one expects from a democracy on paper, but in reality it turns out that way pretty often. Whats more significant to me is how the lack of representation has not been channeled into administrative efficiency as it is with authoritarian regimes. What are the chances they will not step on each others toes in times of crises? Its a failing experiment, but a fairly interesting one.
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 2, 2021 8:43:58 GMT 1
^The fact that its unequal and unrepresentative of the public might not be what one expects from a democracy on paper, but in reality it turns out that way pretty often. Whats more significant to me is how the lack of representation has not been channeled into administrative efficiency as it is with authoritarian regimes. What are the chances they will not step on each others toes in times of crises? Its a failing experiment, but a fairly interesting one. Yes, because the systems, even the ones that were forcibly/violently created according to certain fixed principles, cannot be free of historical accidents, which some might call "legacies". And when multiple different interests and historical factors collide, the outcome is rarely any sort of equilibrium. People love discussing the question of democracy or dictatorship, which is more efficient or even benign, but there's a whole lot of stuff outside that dualism too. |
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 2, 2021 8:51:10 GMT 1
Just look at the sad demographics of this typical QAnon crowd. These people grew old without learning any good insight on the real wonders of the world.
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 2, 2021 10:11:39 GMT 1
The fools who come up with crap like this think they are smart and clever. Every time I go back to the US, I encounter dozens of them. I'm tired of them.  |
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Post by Fox on Nov 2, 2021 12:57:36 GMT 1
In my country business owners are not at liberty to make that decision without breaking the law, though I wish they could.
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 2, 2021 12:59:11 GMT 1
There is one gigantic scandal that most people are totally unaware of, and that is the fact that so many of the influential social science studies that have been cited a huge number of times have failed to replicate. It's a staggeringly high percentage of the studies, and if those samples do represent the general trend, we will have to seriously talk about the collapse of credibility AND legitimacy with regard to those academic fields.
I think I mentioned it before in this thread, but I don't think people truly understand what that means to the society at large.
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 2, 2021 13:05:17 GMT 1
In my country business owners are not at liberty to make that decision without breaking the law, though I wish they could. The right to be a stupid fuck is a right, I guess. These anti-vaccine fools think they are cute. You encounter this incessant display of snowflake-ism and stupidity at every corner, and you'll start pining for a feudal society. |
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