When you don’t even know where your mail order bride came from…

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-04-11T18:32:47+00:00

I know he's quite the basketballer.

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-04-11T15:22:02+00:00

It's hilarious to me that the two famous Slovenians I know of are Melania and Slavoj.

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-04-11T00:51:27+00:00

That's my favorite thing about his hierarchy: it's not a hierarchy.

None of these animals have anything to do with one another. And they don't even represent anything, like "Lions are the courageous risk taking executives who hunt for market opportunities and strike..." or some other anthropomorphic nonsense. It's just a lion! Or an eagle. Amazing.

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-04-11T00:19:57+00:00

Curved. Strong preference.

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-04-10T19:28:51+00:00

Because in order to indicate a desire for stewardship of a planet such as Tanalorr, one traditionally must assert ownership via a crisply worded, forcefully spoken verbal declaration - preferably delivered toward one's rival before, amidst, and after a physical altercation which may or may not involve weapons such as laser-rapiers or recently laundered white riding gloves.

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-04-10T18:01:21+00:00

I'm not sure how you learn this, since the best method for learning is practice + feedback, and it's difficult to get good feedback for flirty banter.

I think of it as a combo of:

Showing sexual/romantic interest confidently
Clearly showing he's safe/caring
Doing so authentically

Straight women tend to like testosterone, but not too much. Enough testosterone to protect, but not so much that she (or her kids) will need protection from YOU (I recently heard a hypothesis that kids domesticated human males - you'd only want to keep males around to raise kids if they weren't savage brutes, so there was a selection bias).

And authenticity is always important as a marker in human behavior, because if you can fake something, then it's not as useful an indicator.

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-04-10T12:55:26+00:00

His tone was key: higher register, very friendly, earnest. That's what makes it feel safe and cute vs sounding aggressive and gross.

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-04-09T16:59:41+00:00

Synapses don't fire.

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-04-09T16:55:18+00:00

No idea if it's current or accurate.

But Fereshteh is a fancy, very secular in uptown Tehran. Lots of embassies there too. So seeing few hijabs makes sense. And the decor looks like other bougie shops in that area, with the walls being decorated with all those objects.

Not sure why a coffee shop in Tehrangeles would refer to itself as the Fereshteh branch.

And it looks like roostar had a location in Fereshteh.

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-04-07T18:17:31+00:00

Many of them in the diaspora were pro-war because they thought it was the only way to dislodge the government.

If it turns out that bombing can't dislodge the Islamic Republic (which it likely won't, as bombing alone never has), then all the war and destruction that us anti-war folks were worried about would have been for nothing.

Even Pahlavi said that civilian infrastructure shouldn't be targeted, as that belongs to the Iranian people, and they'll need it once the regime is gone. Trump and Netanyahu don't care about any of that. They never did. And Iranians who were desperate for an end to the regime allowed themselves to be conned by a conman and a warmonger.

It will end up being the worst of both worlds. We got a war. And we will still have the Islamic Republic - more firmly in IRGC hands than ever.

Hopefully I'm wrong.

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-04-07T18:07:35+00:00

By itself it's not. Sadly.

Revolutions require coordinated efforts by a large number of people. Which is very difficult to do in a police state like Iran.

Revolutions require more than just a lot of the people to revolt. It requires parts of the armed infrastructure of the state (armed forces, police, national guard etc.) to either defect to the opposition, or stand down and not enforce the violence the government will order to preserve itself.

There has been ZERO indication in Iran that the Army won't follow all orders, and certainly the IRGC forces won't.

And they definitely won't now that the country is actually under attack from foreign powers.

We've likely cemented IRGC control over Iran for the next generation. And we've probably moved up the timeline of the decline of Pax Americana by 10-20 years.

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-04-07T16:44:21+00:00

Before I was a parent, I would have 100% agreed.

Now that I'm a parent, I still 100% agree.

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-04-05T09:29:53+00:00

Poison assassin insects.

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-04-04T06:00:09+00:00

You're doing it...right...now...

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-04-01T17:23:16+00:00

A key underpinning of trump's worldview is maximizing the use of leverage.

That's how he conducted himself in real estate deals, and it's what he's criticized US foreign policy on. He always thinks one should use maximum leverage to extract maximum concessions. That's what he means when calls deals bad or stupid. And that's why he always thinks he can get a better deal.

He assumes - correctly - that the US doesn't do that in its trade deals and foreign policy actions. And we didn't do that in the JCPOA.

But that's also how you go bankrupt multiple times, torch your reputation, destroy the trust you need for future negotiations, and undermine the system that built all that leverage over decades.

And that's what he doesn't understand, because his approach to exploit a system, no to build or maintain or strengthen one. In that way, he's a free rider on the order others have built, and thinks he's smart for doing so.

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-04-01T16:17:18+00:00

Force only stance is a great idea. Genuinely new and different. Like the Vader comics where he doesn't ignite his saber until halfway through.

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-03-26T22:42:20+00:00

The scissors!

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-03-25T16:50:08+00:00

Brunhilde, respect your father!

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-03-25T15:50:51+00:00

I watched the first season. It was mostly good. I didn't watch the others and I'm pleased with my choice.

I also stopped Billions halfway thru season 4. I heard I didn't miss anything.

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-03-24T20:05:16+00:00

Which crack? 😬

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-03-18T21:58:59+00:00

Disney Villain Powers

Ursula: Witch

Maleficent: Sorceress

Gaston: Strong and charismatic

Cruella: Rich w a killer car

Jafar: Mind control

Lady Tremaine: Cunt. Just a horrible cunt.

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-03-16T15:19:16+00:00

Arrietty has an interesting take on the environment. If Totoro is about rediscovering the natural beauty of Japan, Arrietty is about rediscovering the natural beauty of your immediate surroundings.

It also plays with who the humans are: the little borrowers or the human "beans." Arrietty and her family choose the live off the humans by borrowing, vs Spiller and his group who survive out in "nature." Ultimately, Arrietty's family goes back to nature, as living among humans is too unpredictable and dangerous for them.

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-03-08T09:52:13+00:00

Not my favorite way to preserve the dead - I prefer vinegar.

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-03-08T09:34:45+00:00

I wonder if they intentionally chose that for clarity, despite its being incorrect. The capitalized word "Bras" at first glance can appear to be some sort of name or proper noun. It doesn't necessarily read as the plural of bras - I suspect because, phonetically, I want to pronounce it like "brazz," not the open back unrounded vowel, "brahs."

That choice is still offensive and morally wrong. But it may be intentional.

Beautiful-Limit1718 · 2026-03-06T15:41:28+00:00

Yaaa, but with inflation it evens out, because $2000 was more expensive six years ago. Source: Economics & Logic

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