Yes, the successful grassroots peasant revolt is a historical meme.
The French Revoltion; perfect example. Portrayed as a lower-class uprising but in reality was run by lawyers, merchants & minor nobles.
Most solutions to the Fermi Paradox posit that civilizations with sufficiently advanced tech nuke themselves. We now see another possibility: Advanced civs get guilt tripped into abandoning their tech.
@FischerKing64
A brilliant, accomplished friend of mine with a master's got laid off from a university tech job a couple months back. He's applied for hundreds of jobs. Got several interviews. The hiring mgrs love him. Straight, white Christian guy. HR always vetoes.
Homeschooling has a higher chance to isolate a child. When you isolate children, they get awkward and weird. They miss out on social cues and societal stress and norms.
You don't do them any favors by homeschooling.
Also, do you have any idea how expensive text books are?
The same tragedy befell anime in the late 90s. 1 guy mixed all the paints for almost every studio. Then he had a massive heart attack & retired.
That's how we went from
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This reminds me of when my 4th year professor explained how there was a very particular type of glue used in electronics that was better than every other kind, and it was being produced solely by a single man in his basement who was going to retire within the next 10 years
This post explains why Lisa Simpson now lives in the Uncanny Valley. She's a cultural anachronism: a 90s "Girls & boys are equal, but girls are better" trope frozen as a 40-year-old child. She's a Gen Y changeling.
Happy Easter!
Let us talk about a very strange subject: Generation Y and The Kid Who Reads! Who exactly is this cohort and what exactly do we do with them?
The grandpa is carrying on a custom handed down from time immemorial: Eldest sons inherit.
That is a time-honored tradition that worked for millennia, but it is lost on atomized consumerists like the mom.
"Gamergate is back!"
Yeah nah, fuck that shit. 10 years ago the industry made it super duper clear who they cared about and it sure as fuck wasn't the people buying and playing their games.
I'm not simping for an industry that hates me. Fuck off, go bankrupt, all of you.
This is why arguing with atheists is a waste of time. Their whole ideology is founded on pretending its premises weren't all refuted 800 years ago. So they have no trouble pretending you didn't just refute them.
This guy got endorsed by Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson & Trump but lost. Meanwhile, all 6 candidates AF endorsed hardest won.
Whose stance is counterproductive?
The idea that if you reduce the prevalence of belief in God/religion in a society, then its people will become more rational, logical, and scientifically grounded, has proven itself to be completely wrong.
Reminder that it's Christians who are being raided by the secret police, impoverished by lawfare & having their churches attacked.
Meanwhile, BAPists remain platformed.
Tell me again who's a threat to the regime
@Extralongdokkan
We know the exact answer to this one. Almost all anime studios sourced their paint from the same supplier throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s. In 1998, the guy who mixed the paints for that company had a massive heart attack & retired. That gave those pushing for digipaint an excuse
@Grummz
Pick a super niche topic like antique lamp restoration or bottlecap collecting & make your whole account about nothing else for a month. It'll send them into fits wondering what you're up to.
@Grummz
This is the model all the big tech firms are embracing. Instead of making and selling products their customers like, they're making a cash grab for the fast buck by selling their customers' property.
Pretend you're an engineer who's come up with a power source that's 100x more efficient than fossil fuels, is 100% safe, emits pure water as its only byproduct & can fit in the corner of any home. You show the head of Greenpeace your invention. Her problem is how to kill you.
@FischerKing64
There's a reason why many breakthroughs in mathematics, chemistry, and engineering came out of China, yet the scientific revolution was DOA there. Had to wait to make it to Europe.
This is what's mystifying about straight white men who join the Death Cult: Why submit to dogma declaring that only you have Original Sin but no hope of redemption?
Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft researched hundreds of hauntings & came up with 4 general categories:
1. Human souls that barely made it into Purgatory asking for prayers
2. Human souls in Heaven offering consolations
3. Angels offering consolations
4. Demons
cont'd ...
@VDAREJamesK
Been a lifelong night owl. Maybe the worst part of the lockdowns for me was every 24 hour place closing around 9 PM except Taco Bell, McDonald's & 1 Walgreens.
The Walgreens now closes @ midnight since they've had too many liquor robberies.
1997 review of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night from the Official Play Station Magazine (UK)
"a dreadful throwback to the games we used to play on the Mega Drive and SNES and thought were long gone and good riddance"
Games journos' anti-2D bias was real.
This is nonsense. Only 1/3 of Americans supported rebelling against England. History shows that critical mass for a successful revolt is ~10%. Majority opinion does not matter and never has.
A revolution cannot win without the support of the people and many soldiers. Only the lower class can provide that. As long as they are the class that makes up the supporters of the revolution that revolution belongs to them.
Denver Archbishop Samuel Aquila will lead a Eucharistic procession outside a Planned Parenthood clinic on March 21 for an end to abortion.
Info: Denver Catholic
The schools and the media have drummed into 3 generations of young men's heads that they're neither needed nor wanted.
That was suicidal on a culture-wide scale, & we're just starting to reap the consequences of alienating the people who make civilization work.
@GrumpyCatterman
There are women's gyms, colleges & even production companies. And that's fine. The rational arrangement is to recognize men's reciprocal right to our own institutions.
If you think being taught by you for 3 hours a day would make them weirder than being taught by state bureaucrats for 7 hours a day, the issue's not with homeschooling.
Lots of replies saying "These are fantasy creatures that are just called demons."
OK, but notice how nobody says "My world has elephants, but they're aquatic reptiles."
The conceit that demons can be whatever we want rests on the assumption that they don't exist.
That's risky.
Thomas Anderson, Al Bundy & Philip Fry were all portrayed as losers to varying degrees by 90s standards. Even Fry, the biggest goofball among them, could hold down a job & pay rent - something that was taken for granted then but can't be now.
thinking about how Neo's dull everyman life from 1999 that he was pulled out of to save humanity was out of reach for so many of my cohorts by the late 00s
Here is a perfect example of fake news spread by the lying press about the Church. Francis allowed no such thing. In fact, he restated that gay unions can't be blessed.
These people lie so much, if they say 2+2=4, you should break out your calculator.
"No one forced these people to pay scammers. In many instances, they're wealthy enough to afford it. And they didn't just get useless services for their money, they got nothing.
"The problem isn't fraud. It's that fraudsters steal too much, and their marks are stupid enough to
@BrianNiemeier
@AsherBrunnert
Yeah, um, no.
No one forced these people to take out loans. And, in many I stances, the people who took out loans came from families that were wealthy, and could afford to pay the tuition. They just didn't.
And many of them got useless degrees from expensive, exclusive schools
The Daily Show was how the establishment delivered firmware updates to NPCs back in the aughts. If you want to understand Gen Y politics, review old Colbert & Stewart clips.
The Daily Show is pulling Jon Stewart out of mothballs. Will the original late-night hypnojourno clown's return sway the election? No, but it may backfire on the regime in horrifying ways.
I look forward to the time when "right-wing influencer" stop claiming the regime operates by cold logic, rather than by the dictates of an alien religion.
One man mixed the paints for almost all anime productions in the 80s & 90s. In 1998 he had a massive heart attack & had to retire. Major factor in the end of cell animation.
@BrianNiemeier
@wastelandJD
@DavidVStewart
The 1990s will always be the Zenith of Japanese animation.
Faces no longer had the scrunched-in munchkin faces of the 80's
Last decade of traditional hand drawn animation and cel shading
Digital removes "warmth" from 2D animation. Decades after 90's are soulless in comparison
A while back I did the math & found out that in the 80s Al Bundy could indeed have afforded what is now a $400K house in the Chicago suburbs on a shoe salesman's wage.
Back in the day when I waited tables for side money, I knew some older guys, 30s, 40s, 50s, who did it professionally and made a lot of money at it. Had decent houses, supported families. They were just good at it. They knew how to add value to the dining experience.
Every author has 2 main jobs:
1) Making sure the reader is never bored
2) Making sure the reader is never confused.
Mind both, & you'll beat out 80% of the field.
@BrianNiemeier
And while being original can help with being interesting, being interesting is far more important than being original. People have been complaining about nothing new under the sun for millennia, so don't worry as much about that as being boring.
Nostalgia brings an odd sort of amnesia. Blockbuster was the Google of its day, a monopolistic giant devouring everything in its way.
It's the mom & pop video stores that deserve our warm sentiments.
He's correct, but not for the reason he thinks. If you can be banned, fired, debanked & barred from air travel & still be considered free, it just proves that freedom detached from any concept of the good is worthless.
This remains a better understanding of the actual meaning of free speech than basically any of the dominant positions today and all of the "thick free speech" vs "thin free speech"/"free speech culture" vs "cancel culture" muddiness has confused your thinking.
We'll see. Everyone - me included - has been predicting woke media's demise for years now. Yet it staggers on.
If it does suffer 2008 style collapse, expect 2008 style bailouts.
Like most reddit-grade zombie memes, "Inquisition bad!" was cynical propaganda spread by the British to undercut their Catholic rivals, only to wind up being used by atheists against all Christians.
Something I considered bringing up in my Inquisition video is how the lack of an inquisition in China might have led to the Taiping Rebellion, the most devastating civil war in Chinese history.
The rebellion was led by Hong Xiuquan, a Christian heretic who declared himself the
You've spent years documenting America's cultural decline. It's no coincidence sci-fi died before 1980, around the time the Space Age stalled.
A culture that's too dumb to write about space exploration is too dumb to explore space.
It is incumbent upon Gen Y to hand down knowledge of pre-Ground Zero culture, for our sins.
In that spirit, today I show you poor benighted Millennials & Zoomers what real anime looks like.