Some people look down on WWE, I see it as a window on American culture. Even the lazy refrain: you know it's not real right? Well read the allegations against McMahon with special attention to how he ran his enterprise, and say that again. It's as obtuse as saying "you know movies aren't real, right"? Wrasslin' is like what would happen if an improv troupe went global. Just think of the talent that's come out of it: legendary athletes, blockbuster actors, .....POTUS.
Instead of getting up early for Meet the Press, I stay up late for Monday night Raw.
These people who get so incredulous about "soft" social sciences, (think critical theory) yet talk about IQ testing like it's Newton's 4th law do not value, or do not understand the science. Even the serious people who defend IQ in good faith, speak of it with qualifications.
What is so attractive about a system to categorize and rank humanity? And what do the people who are attracted to it have in common?
Native German speakers: Are Hitler's speeches particularly compelling?
I've always been told that Hitler was a masterful public speaker; that his support can largely be explained by his compelling, if not mesmerizing hold on crowds. This narrative is not common, it's universal.
Sometimes I think this is emphasized over how much the crowds approved of the content of his speech.
How do native German speakers feel when they view footage of Hitler? Do you think the reputation is earned?
There are entire libraries filled with histories and psychology studies that all seek to make excuses for "regular German" Nazis. And the whole point of these endeavors, we were told, was to prevent it from happening again.
Well, now that it's happening again, I'm pissed off because all of it was a lie. Nazis are bad people. And you don't get to whitewash it because your loved ones, friends, and relatives turned out to be fucking Nazi assholes.
Libertarianism as a right wing political ideology is incoherent. Incoherence taken to the extreme is madness.
Didn't grow up with one, but consider it standard now. There should be an organic stream to waste disposal. Much more green to send your plate scrapings to the treatment plant than to wrap them up in plastic and bury it in a landfill.
Easy to replace? sure. A couple hours if your handy.
But installing one for the first time will require electrical in addition to the and plumbing work. It's a pretty big job for a DIYer.
Frankenstein's monster is an early incel. It's so ugly that society violently rejects it despite herculean efforts of the monster to find belonging. It's solution is to terrorize the Doctor into creating a "female" monster for companionship.
So the monster is miserable, hates society, and has a plan to punish and destroy leading up to a climactic suicide. And it's only hope is for a waifu created by science.
I think about this sometimes.
Zimbardo is part of a generation of psychology that struggled with why modern European people did a Shoah. Or rather a generation that sought to confirm through experiment that the Germans were alright and it was really all Hitler's fault. Or at least a small number of evil Germans who caused the whole mess.
It's auspicious to bring this up now because just watching the news these days makes a fool of Zimbardo.
The absolute fragility of the right. I mean people on the left have been feeling pretty low this week, but I haven't seen a single lefty so openly seeking validation from the right. You can't "both sides" some random cruel rhetoric with specific stated cruel policy goals.
You are a bad person for voting Trump. And you're fretting about being labeled a bad person because you know it.
The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is whith a good gyne with a gun. Brilliant.
That nearly half of Americans found themselves attracted to the likes of Trump should have prompted a moment of deep reflection among U.S. liberals a decade ago. It has not. Even in the course of this tragic presidential election, the Clintons and Obamas refuse to ask themselves what policies, techniques and political forces spawned such discontent and such will to destruction.
This is good example of the left's myopic thinking. The great near-enemy war between the left and liberals erases agency from Conservatives. They're not responsible for the rise of fascism, just because they were the ones who support it. No, it's the liberals of the past who didn't manage the rabble properly who are to blame.
What is the lesson they are supposed to learn? Stop running women candidates?
Harris' loss wasn't some Electoral College bullshit, or 3rd party spoiler. Maybe the Palestinian vote cost her Dearborn, but it can't explain the numbers throughout Michigan, much less Georgia and North Carolina.
I'm skeptical that leftest policy would save the Democrats when the country just roundly rejected liberalism.
I had an anatomy instructor who insisted that neural activity was a purely chemical process and that the electromagnetic stuff was just a byproduct that got all the attention because it was easy to detect. His central argument was that nerve transmission speeds are no faster than 150m/s which is somewhat slower than the speed of light you'd expect if neurons were little wires transmitting signals.
"low-information" voter is anti democratic rhetoric. It's an argument that some votes should count more than others. Or that some voters are better than others. First time I heard the phrase was on Rush Limbaugh like 20 years ago. I've been disturbed how often "progressives" adopt this bullshit mentality.
Do tankies really think that 10+million Americans boycotted an election in solidarity with the Palestinians? This is why they're not taken seriously. k
Even when the plan is "do nothing" Tankies fuck it up.
This is a perfect story, that's why I don't believe it happened.
Harris is missing 10 million votes that Biden got in 2020. It looks like many of those 10 million were suburban men who didn't vote Trump, just sat on the couch. misogyny is a viable explanation for this because otherwise you'll have to explain why Biden set the left on fire, or why Biden was so inspirational to men.
She lost the scrote vote, simple as that.
Eugenics is the single stupidest idea in human history. To advocate for it now is to deny biology and history.
It relies on the same misunderstanding of evolution that underpins 'great replacement theory'.
Nihilism is dead as an academic term. It's been overtaken by common usage like "manic depressive" or "retarded" and just isn't useful anymore. That word belongs to the Joker now. We need something else to talk about Nietzsche.
This is good and natural in language, we just need a new term is all.
Why is sucking better than blowing?
I use a box fan to help dry the dishes in the dishwasher. Recently I mistakenly pointed the fan away from the dishes instead of toward them. This appears to be faster and more effective than my normal method. Why?
Rant: Media literacy =/= correct interpretation
Internet culture loves nothing more than adopting half-understood academic jargon. And more and more I'm seeing the phrase "media literacy" to mean: being smart enough to come to the correct interpretation, or even worse: being able to decipher authorial intent.
I'm a 'death of the author' kind of guy, but we all should agree that any text will have multiple valid interpretations, so long as you can back it up with the text.
I wanna stress that I'm not gatekeeping the phrase, I just want to promote the idea of media education over the smug notion that one person reads books better than another.
YSK: many water bottles come with silicone gaskets that must be removed and washed to prevent mold and mildew buildup.
Dishwashers won't clean these gaskets if they're washed while installed. Oh, and those silicone straws can come out of the dishwasher nasty too.
Fruit Loops!
The Proud Boys have an initiation ritual where new members are beaten by the group until they can recite the names of five different breakfast cereals.
How do pagers work?
In recent events, I learned that some pagers only have receivers. How are discrete messages sent to these devices? How is it authenticated? How do they know the device got the message?
Autolyse and stand mixers.
I have a recipe that calls for a dough to be autolysed (long bulk ferment while stretching and folding the dough). I'm fortunate to have access to a stand mixer. Is their any advantage to doing the autolyse? Should I just kneed it in the mixer to save time?
Is Trump eligible to vote in November?
When Florida changed it's law to allow ex-felons to vote, I remember reading that the legislature put as many roadblocks as they could. Felons must complete all sentences, fines, and restitution before they can vote.
So any sentence or sanction that can't be fulfilled by November should exclude him from Florida's rolls, right?