The proportion of popular historical fiction based on the premise that there were untold masses of people throughout history that happened to have the exact politics and morals of the modern progressive democrat is insane
@somewheresy
I knew one kid who took some double tabs not knowing they were such in college. Had a small break. When the cops finally got hold of him they said “Son what have you taken” he responded, in a brief moment of psudeo-lucidity; “wildlife ecology courses mostly”
@Empty_America
There’s an argument to be made that America has jumped the shark with GDP and it now increases at the *cost* of quality of life. Not sure where I’d say has found the golden mean though.
People get so incredulous and upset at the slightest implication of Luddism, like nobody will just accept I don’t have a laptop or wifi in my home, but like, I have an iPhone? Why does the screen need to be bigger? Why does it need to be “infrastructure” within the home?
@Empty_America
A unique part of Nothern Maine’s deep north feel is how it is such an expansive forest but almost entirely new growth with dense understory. The whole state was once farmland but almost entirely abandoned after the west opened up. Wonder if upstate NY is on the same trajectory.
@cremieuxrecueil
@memeticsisyphus
In the structure of scientific revolutions Kuhn notes that Newtonian physics were less accurate than developed Copernican models until well after their widespread adoption. Maybe not a direct fit with your question though.
@eurydicelives
A big failure of CICO is the underlying assumption that your body’s efficiency is static when we know that it will cut down calorie expenditure drastically when it sees leading indicators of famine/starvation
@Empty_America
“Conservative” harkens back to a day where there were unselfconscious traditions to be conserved. Largely a thing of the past when most “traditional” lifestyles are consciously chosen as modes of consumption from a litany of options
@mimi10v3
Reads as bragging and invite self consciousness even if that wasn’t the intention. more tactful to blame it on happenstance (busy at work etc). the recipient wouldn’t be in the right to be upset but tact is meeting people where they are to avoid negative feelings in others.
@nosilverv
Can vary wildly with %ile in the sport. Most hobby level joggers are well adjusted normal people looking to stay vaguely healthy with minimal schedule impacts but anecdotally, serious endurance runners are usually traumatized somehow.
@Geoffiam
Not an expert tbh. But the OT laws are much more… particular(?) than Jesus’. No shellfish, no work on Sundays, no coats of multiple fabrics -> love god, spread the word, love your neighbor, love the meek
@zeta_globin
Not sure if it ever coalesced into a movement but there were many complaints that the proliferation of novels after the invention of the printing press was bad for people(s souls) since they were starting to read things that weren’t the Bible.
@lillybilly299
Are prisons obsolete by Angela Davis touches on the anti prison/violent crime issue, TLDR we aren’t catching most of the violent criminals anyway and the modern prison primes them for further crime after release
@Jbn3ex
Fiberglass is a nightmare. Used to decommission old antennae off cell towers, fiberglass bodies left out in all weather for years on end. Even having an article of clothing touch it would pretty much mean you were decommissioning the shirt too
@Empty_America
I taught at a high school one fall in college, the curriculum is still there, the issue is that everyone willing to “sit out” the 4 years without starting too many fights will be handed a diploma at the end with no real test of the education involved, drowns the signal in noise.
@Empty_America
& some are quite nice. I spent a year in Ft. Kent ME one month, “downtown” is walkable to groceries, a small ski mt, a book shop, hundreds of miles of snowmobile trail and some half decent bars. Some homes on the market there for <50k
@runliftrunlift
Will say it’s easier to make the transition in one direction than the other. Built myself up to 40mi/wk doing nothing but slow and steady and I couldn’t believe the results once I started mixing in some threshold work
@ptrschmdtnlsn
when someone owns and wants to get rid of a true money pit the MO is typically demolishing the structure at a greater cost than what they later get for the raw land. This is effectively a negative price for the seller though nominally positive.
@Empty_America
I think it is because ginger ale is the only soda used as a “Medicine” respectable moms will give it to their respectable kids when they have a stomach ache just short of requiring actual treatment.
@ellegist
God: A Biography posits job is an adaption of a story dated to about 3000BC also that the “lord of hosts”, god as the creator and god as the bringer of the flood and god as the personal god of Abraham were all separate gods in an earlier polytheistic religion
@Empty_America
I read some essay once tracking the loss of right to roam after the civil war as originally a Jim Crow thing in the south, later expanded in an effort to reduce the legal viability of “living off the land” and force more people into wage labor in the Industrial Revolution
@hyprturing
Beyond the obvious stuff like cutting drinking and ciggies our medical longevity interventions have proven much more effective at extending the period of people’s life where they are lonely state dependents than the parts of life that are enjoyable and productive thus far.
@RandomSprint
@3ameam
Adverse possession is, in practice, mostly used in situations where either titles were lost, or not followed way back when. E.g. a utility loses documentation for a power line built in the 1940s or you inherit a house and realize grandpa built the driveway in the neighbors lot
@wanyeburkett
Angela Davis has a book on prison abolition and the background she provides on the origins of the prison movement lines up pretty much exactly with what you just described IIRC
Very interesting cycle of realizing you made a mistake in completely overhauling your life to fit a hollow ideal and then attempting to remediate this by overhauling your life for a new idea that surely isn’t hollow
@zeta_globin
This was the first post/reply I ever made that got more than 10 likes and it’s a strong indicator that the internet is much more receptive to my trauma than my humanities coded commentary on the power delivery industry. Much to consider.
@nosilverv
Gospel of Thomas was mostly burnt by the Catholic Church early on but there are a few translations floating around and they present Jesus as much more wisdom/enlightenment oriented with very little in the way of the eschatology and Abrahamic stuff seen in the other gospels.
@Empty_America
It’s the accepted cost of being able to say the phrase “if you want you can be president or an astronaut” with a striaght face. At 17 you are doing the same thing as the future astronaut, it just doesn’t make sense for either of you.
@wanyeburkett
The thing that bugs me about this argument the most is that nobody actually holds it in good faith. We know this because nobody takes it to its next logical step, the liberal compromise of liscenced/controlled large dog ownership.
@nosilverv
Most entry level rock climbers are just ppl looking for a “not drinking” activity to do with friends but serious mountaineers and alpinists are usually very broken people putting it all on the line for aesthetics. With team sports it seems to be the opposite trend.
@ClaireWayner
Induction/corrosion can be a problem but generally not a show stopper. Happens often on road right of way projects for lower end transmission (though this is also usually with residential scale gas). Getting utilities to shake hands on rights of way can be harder.
@yoltartar
@RichDecibels
@awarenesss
I often have dreams where I’m communicating w ppl through the iMessage interface although it’s more like my entire field of view cuts to the interface, not like I am holding/using my phone in the dream per se
Looking upstream and seeing the source of the leaf against a sea of green, I realized this leaf was not a relic, decay had begun and winter would soon come. clouds blocked the sun and the moment passed. We parted ways.
@wombat_ee
The problem is misstated such that the speed of the wheels and conveyor belt increase unbounded as the plane leaves rest until either the wheels explode or the plane gets yeeted backwards.
@Empty_America
Hmmm may not work on all groups you’re aiming at unfortunately as most entry level white collar is being paid for extra hours by either a performance bonus or straight time though an hourly exempt structure
@ZyMazza
Texas is big and I’ve never been so hard to say but here is a completely unverified map of mosquito density I found on Reddit. Comparing being in Kentucky last week and Maine this week, you get like 10x the bites per hour shirtless in maine.
Work 12 hours among friends and then spend 3 hours at the gym with more friends. Drink a beer over chicken wings after. Bring more people to speak to. More people to relate to and take in the sunset when it appears before you. Your immortal soul will thank you.
@Empty_America
@KTmBoyle
FWIW, I’m gen z and by the time I graduated college I had been a dishwasher, a warehouse worker, a summer camp counselor, a research assistant, and a long term high school substitute.
@awarenesss
@yoltartar
@RichDecibels
Kinda, more like being taken out of whatever environment the dream is occurring in to briefly be “in iMessage” and then jumping back into the dream environment with whatever info was conveyed via text.
@Empty_America
@SAcerton
“Civilization” has been eaten whole by economic abundance. This notion dates back at least to Pynchon’s first novel in the 1960s where a mythical adorned woman is gradually transformed into cyborg.
@JustTaxRent
@wombat_ee
Ok and solar is probably not going to be the “generic” of power supply forever but to OPs point, your example, the extremely obsolete wood burning stove, is still widely installed and used across the first and third worlds
@abettertake
@___frye
Always so funny when you have a neurosis you developed from first principles/vibes and then try and let go of it and loosen up only to realize you were shooting bullseyes from the hip w/r/t neuroticism and immediately get bit in the ass.
@SeanMombo
@mitchontheshore
But FWIW no system is perfect, a local gym from when I was younger had to shut down after a man broke his back when the climber and belayer accidentally attached to different ropes…
- The crying of lot 49
- bad feminist
- stoner
- Augustus
- the New Testament
- are prisons obsolete
- the unsettling of America
- infinite jest
- the plague
- the stranger
- the little prince
- Kafka on the shore
- simulations and simulacra
- Tolstoy’s short stories
@Empty_America
Those in each’s camp have made great literature since but both strains fail when used to produce work that is not spiritually driven. Hemmingway’s degrades into pop literature and Faulkner’s into lit akin to bad “modern art” technically exemplary but ultimately hollow.
in my first contact with a Real believer I was reminded. the old joke where the missionary damns the Eskimo. it was in that moment I realized belief was not a consumptive forming/choosing of identity but a shunning of them. hard to decide how you really feel about the missionary
@shagbark_hick
Lewiston has always been perceived as a bad town in maine. Originally due to anti-Catholic sentiment and more recently due to discrimination against the massive influx of immigrants. The people who could manage to left and the people who couldn’t stayed.
@3ameam
@RandomSprint
Yeah, the not noticing thing is a bit of a hurdle for the would be squatter though as the law typically requires that the 10 year occupation be “open (clearly visible, no hiding), exclusive and continuous”
@catehall
I’ve read several critiques of this graph arguing it captures adoption of markets as a dip in poverty even at the same absolute consumption level due to the $/day metric so FWIW it may be literally tracking the adoption of capitalism.
@ZyMazza
It’s cold but not insufferable, you can always add layers but you really can’t “hang” outside. The roads aren’t terrible. In my experience what most southerners aren’t ready for is the bugs in summer. Mosquitos and horseflys measured in density, not quantity.
@PillagePro
@Geoffiam
That’s like saying poems should only be discussed in the meter they were written in. The point was not brevity it was what is retained when limits are placed on the available language. Afterwards you discuss the intention of the limited language used.