GloomyBoots

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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
I kind of feel the same as your friend. Whataboutism is thrown about like a pejorative, but if I’m playing cards with a table of cheaters, I’m going to start cheating, or I’m going to get cleaned out. If someone tries to call me out, it’s f
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
1. Marijuana isn't legal in most of Europe. It's been decriminalized in a number of countries. On the other hand, it is legal in around half of the US, and decriminalized in much more. So let's focus on real, hard drugs.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
I’m not in the “he was right” camp but I don’t see how you can call it incomprehensible. It’s certainly not well-written, but it lacks the opaque prose that leftists especially are so fond of, and is easy enough to follow.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
I should add that this is only focusing on hard power. Where the “left” really shines is in using its networks to exert a lot of soft power. The state plays its part, as do corporations, NGOs, media outlets, academic institutions, doxxing
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
Banning things isn’t illiberal; liberalism doesn’t mean unlimited tolerance for everything, and all liberals have and enforce their own taboos. It’s baffling that people seem to think that liberalism means “the only rule is that there are n
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
The US has no left in the same sense that it has no right. It’s just different tribes of liberals arguing over which is more fascist.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
> In and of itself, a racial supremacist's beliefs might be something close to "My people are inherently superior and should rule over others." Supremacism in this context means wanting your group to have control in a mult
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
A few years ago I was idly thumbing through old books at a used store. Looking over a remedial arithmetic book, I was surprised to find that they referred to zero as “the cipher”. Exponentiation and the process of finding a square root were
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
The average age of first sexual intercourse in the US is ~17 for both boys and girls, and rising. The hypersexuality of adolescents is overstated in popular media, though probably varies by region. I grew up in a pretty promiscuous environm
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
Stepping over the general LHP/RHP question that you’re driving at, I’ll expand on this: > Someone asked why Crowley is perennially popular on HN. It's because his approach appeals to people who have experienced enough religion
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
I remember stumbling across the angelfire site for a defunct occult order (the master, “Sir Faustus” or something like that, had apparently mysteriously disappeared). I understood maybe 1% of what I was looking at, but it felt very momentou
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Aleister Crowley and William Butler Yeats get into an occult battle (2016)(openculture.com)
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
I don’t know. My reading of ancient anti-Christian polemic seems to show that Greeks and Romans familiarized themselves with Jewish sources enough to use them to bolster their arguments. One example being the story of Jesus having been fath
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
This is an interesting idea for a browser extension. Maybe needs a change in name from URL/URI. Could be a DURI, Discrete Universal Record Interaction. Just spitballing. You could share one-liners similar to how one might share curl co
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
I recently discovered just ( https://just.systems ), a make alternative that’s much more ergonomic IMO, and have been using it in my personal projects. It’s task-oriented, not goal-oriented, so not a perfect replacement, but works