boboblaw [he/him, they/them]

Binary Large OBject

It’s not that it’s a bad tool, it’s that

it also removes human bias element from the equation

is an impossible standard.

Yeah, I know there are white Muslims. I’ve seen lots of blue-eyed blond-haired Muslim Bosnians. I’m just wondering if there’s a limit to what Americans would consider white.

Like I know a Palestinian guy with fair hair and blue eyes, but I’ve never asked him if he considers himself white.

Is Hasan white? I thought the name alone would preclude him from whiteness.

Theyre trying to do do an Amerikkka.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(military_symbol)

Opponents of the war have pejoratively called the Z symbol a zwastika.

The 2022 Moscow rally […] was officially called in Russia “For a world without Nazism” (Russian: «Zа мир без нацизма»), with Latin Z replacing Russian З.

In Moldova, unknown vandals painted the symbols “Z” and “V” over crosses at the World War II Heroes’ Cemetery of Chișinău, on graves of soldiers of the Axis-aligned Romania

Forget all the Ukrainian nazi iconography, the Ruzzians are the real Nazis!

Honestly it seems like an arbitrary line, considering that Herbert’s story continues for a few more books after that. The first two books could also be considered a good standalone (duology?), since they cover the span of Paul’s story.

Really, the only wrong answer is the first book alone. I think most people read only the first book and get the wrong idea.

people who are basically “racially trans,” meaning they change from one race/ethnicity to another

Isn’t brave super sus as well?

Yeah it would explain a lot. I wish someone had told me “I think you might have ADHD” when I was younger. I was a grown ass man going around thinking “I am completely neuroptypical”, ignoring all the signs being glaringly obvious, and making fun of “spergs”, who I definitely totally didn’t understand (most of my friends at any given time).

Ironically it was a coworker who had been diagnosed in his 30s and had since experienced his life drastically improving, who approached me. He told me I should get tested, but I was extremely skeptical. He then proceeded to nail me to the fucking wall by listing all the strange behaviors he’d observed, including shit I was shit doing while he was talking to me

In hindsight, it was extremely obvious. But it’s so easy to chalk up to personal quirks and the default assumption is neuroptypical. Especially if you’re over a certain age or part of an underserved group who didn’t have access to mental health services.

PPB

Good idea. I’ve heard that nuking cities is a very effective way of forcing a stubborn enemy nation to surrender.

It’s also preferable to a prolonged invasion and conventional bombing campaign, simply in terms of number of casualties. The number of people killed by the two nuclear bombings it would take to force Ukraine to surrender would be significantly smaller than the number of casualties incurred by a drawn out conventional invasion.

Seems like the only moral course of action for Putin to take.

Ah, the Siamese Room argument.

Never heard of real debris, why is it better?

Edit: looks like it’s a seed box?

Not necessarily subscription, it looks like the $30 osmand+ app supports it. Also, you can just steal it. :D

Don’t forget they also have to say the magic words: “I have been held accountable.”

Why not all of the above, and a dedicated idiot to boot?

Educate yourself or shut the fuck up. Otherwise, don’t act surprised when you’re ridiculed for constantly voicing worthless thoughts.

Lol there’s way more of us than there are of you anti-reading shitheads. And of course when I see such aggressive anti-intellectual bullshit, I feel compelled to mock the moron who’s lauding the virtues of being moronic.

Marketing lessons, lmao. You certainly have the intellectual depth of a puddle, my guy.

No one gives a shit about how much appeal our posting has for you. We’re not trying to sell you anything. We’re not even trying to cajole you into being a little less anti-intellectual and wilfully ignorant.

We’d rather just slap you down with a concise well cited historical source, just to make it abundantly clear to everyone else that you’re an ignorant intellectually lazy non-entity who has no business getting involved. Stick to your monosyllabic social media communications, replying to the latest Facebook memes, and saying all the classic lines from Reddit.

We’re not trying to get you to change, honestly I think you’re much more entertaining this way. Only semi-literate and clearly too big for your boots. Please continue.

No you come to social media to jump into threads about complex topics like history, philosophy, and politics…and then engage only thru simple thought-terminating cliches.

When someone quotes a relevant passage from a history book, you arrogantly dismiss it for being completely inappropriate for a “social media” site. What is appropriate here, of course, is you weighing in on these complex topics with the correct form of communication – an incoherent series of monosyllabic words strung together.

Now that is productive communication.

I wish you luck on your continuing mission to convince yourself that you’re the articulate master of communication here, actually.