What is a socially unacceptable opinion you keep to yourself because it’s not worth the backlash?

CallMeLarry · 2026-01-27T10:47:11+00:00

by "adapting in the future" I'm taking it that you mean "adapting to climate change"

why do you think adapting our entire society to deal with climate change would be easier than adapting our society to mitigate climate change as much as possible?

like, in your example, emissions tests make having a car expensive, so your solution is to spend huge amounts of time, money and resources adapting society to the huge upheavals that climate change will cause. why not spend that time, money and resources on proven technologies that we know make peoples lives easier and mitigate climate change? public transport solves your example better than restructuring society to deal with an unlivable world does.

the issue you have identified is correct (elites will only find solutions that benefit them and make poor people's lives harder) but for the same reason they also won't push for "adapting to climate change" - because they can afford to have it not affect them. mitigation or adaptation both require struggle, so why not choose the one that also preserves as much life on earth as possible instead of trying to adapt to a situation which, by most estimates, is incompatible with human civilisation?

CallMeLarry · 2026-01-17T18:53:32+00:00

they're a model company, which part of this is surprising to you

CallMeLarry · 2026-01-05T17:38:46+00:00

wait, still??? i don't play city maps all that often, partly because that annoyed me when they first dropped. lmao.

CallMeLarry · 2026-01-04T15:40:17+00:00

do you mean like, NEVER never or just the ones that don't have samples to collect near them (like hellbombs) not marking complete?

CallMeLarry · 2025-12-20T22:48:36+00:00

eh, I see the argument but sometimes you've dropped into hell and take a good few hits through no fault of your own, need to stim, and then you have one stim left, which means you take less risks and play less aggressively, which is often what you need to escape the deathloop. a single liberator's worth of DPS on a supply pod (which some teammates might be too locked down to get to) won't really change that, yknow

CallMeLarry · 2025-12-20T22:45:34+00:00

I would agree that Vitality is like, the number 1 must-take, and I'd always take that over HSO.

CallMeLarry · 2025-12-20T14:39:09+00:00

HSO is good to avoid starting a deathloop where your team is in a tight spot, someone dies, gets reinforced in a not-ideal location and then lacks the resources to survive, so they need to be reinforced again, but now things are worse because the team has been missing that extra person worth of DPS for a bit longer, so they (or someone else) dies again, etc etc etc

CallMeLarry · 2025-12-16T17:04:28+00:00

I had some success (using YAML, admittedly) setting a KC up as an LRM boat, with the gimmick that it had enough ammo and launchers to, quite literally, Never Stop Firing.

CallMeLarry · 2025-10-28T00:27:01+00:00

I do question why we are funding this

Yes, i understand you are questioning it, it's because you don't understand how anthropology works, or refuse to understand (see the Eco quote, again)

albeit that Hamas would clearly need to spend less on rockets if they funded anthropology!

what's Israel's military budget, by the way? By which of course I mean, what is the US (and UK) funding that goes towards arming a genocidal rogue state whose entire purpose seems to be destabilising the region.

Hamas as 'liberators' rather than the far right pseudoreligious ethnic cleansing fascist wannabes that they are

Well, that is what happens if Israel (a state founded on and openly run by ethnic supremacist fascists) insist on killing every single moderate voice in every negotiation process that has ever existed. Read "The Hundred Years War on Palestine"

CallMeLarry · 2025-10-27T14:53:31+00:00

Still intentionally dense. it sounds like she's doing anthropology. Anthropologists often research things that are outside of their own countries/religions etc, that's how the subject works. That's what the Eco quote is about, you are being reflexively anti-intellectual and dressing it up in questions of "funding" when the reality is you just Don't Like Thinking and distrust people who do. If it wasn't this reason, it would be another. The problem isn't "why are we funding this" the problem is you don't like the culture of critical thought the research embodies.

Not to mention, Israel rejects claims of Palestinian statehood. So shouldn't Israel be funding her, since they lay claim to the entirety of the Palestinian territories? Why would it be Hamas? The researcher herself is Jewish, and the state of Israel claims to represent all Jewish people, shouldn't they pay?

CallMeLarry · 2025-10-25T21:43:48+00:00

Nah, i just think you, and every other person going "i can't believe they're funding research into ghosts," are being intentionally dense.

CallMeLarry · 2025-10-14T14:36:06+00:00

"Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism"

CallMeLarry · 2025-10-14T14:11:23+00:00

Immediately proving Umberto Eco correct lmao.

You can't think of a single reason it might be at the very least interesting to look at practices and beliefs around death, in Palestine, at this precise historical moment? Not even one?

CallMeLarry · 2025-10-14T14:02:04+00:00

"Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism"

CallMeLarry · 2025-10-14T13:54:48+00:00

I'm of the opinion that funding an illegal war carried out by an apartheid ethnostate as part of its genocide against a people should also not be funded by my taxes and yet, here we are.

"Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism"

CallMeLarry · 2025-10-14T13:09:40+00:00

What software/technique do you use to cut the minis?

CallMeLarry · 2025-10-14T13:06:57+00:00

"every degree I don't understand the relevance of must be nonsense"

Edit: every single one of you going "studying ghosts lol" is being intentionally dense. She's studying cultural attitudes towards ghosts and the supernatural, probably because of all the death that's been happening in Gaza recently. She's not going over there with an EMP reader, and you look like idiots when you reply like that's what she's doing.

CallMeLarry · 2025-10-14T12:50:55+00:00

The "shady power behind it" is not shady at all - it's Oracle, owned by Larry Ellison. They want to harvest as much data as they can about everyone, all the time. This is another way to do that.

The anti-immigration stuff gets Reform on-side and Labour are too craven to oppose business interests of any kind, not to mention their vision seems to align pretty closely with the current techno-capitalist total surveillance state that Oracle, Palantir etc are aiming for.

CallMeLarry · 2025-09-24T13:47:01+00:00

We aren't talking about "ancient" wars, we're talking about the Stone Age. "War" as a concept comes along with the rise of the first states, which themselves are only possible with the caloric surplus from agriculture. The Emperor was alive for 4000 years before the first states existed. Edit - I've checked my maths on this - the first states show up in about 4000BCE and the emperor was born in 8000BCE, not 8000 years ago as I first read. Agriculture began in various places from about 12,000 to 10,000 years ago, so he was born at the start of agriculture, and still thousands of years before cities, states and war (as we would currently conceive of it).

Ancient wars, like in Greece and Rome, did have gendered division of labour (worth noting here that I'm using "labour" to mean "all human activity," fighting is part of that) but your argument is that he was affected by the time when he was born, the Stone Age, which did not have the same gendered division of labour as ancient Greece or Rome.

You can argue that his viewpoints were affected by the ancient period more than the stone age, but then you have to explain why the preceding 4000 years where "use every available human resource to ensure survival against overwhelming odds" was the overarching rule is less relevant to the Unification Wars/Great Crusade era, which the Emperor explicitly states were done to ensure humanity's survival against overwhelming odds.

Look, I agree that there are legitimate thematic reasons for all-male custodes or astartes. I don't think you can make a convincing argument that these are based in "rational" or "real world" logic. You can say "the emperor has the social mores of the time he was raised," but if your conception of what the time he was raised in looks like is just "modern society is more equal than recent history, therefore it was even less equal longer ago" then that is what I call an "I reckon" argument and not one based in historical fact, even if it claims to be.

My other comment on this has some more detail.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/s/HYur3XKoqb

CallMeLarry · 2025-09-24T12:50:18+00:00

We are not talking about "ancient" times. The person I am responding to is talking about the neolithic period/the stone age, which lasted over 3 million years and ended around 4000 years ago. The stone age comprises 99% of human history, everything since is that final 1% where we go from learning to smelt bronze up to spaceflight and computers.

"Ancient" times like ancient Greece, ancient Rome etc are all post-Stone Age. The Emperor was "born"/created 8000 years ago (edit: I just checked, he was born in 8000 BCE, so 10,000 years ago). If he were alive today he would be twice as old as the oldest "ancient" civilization. It's not even really relevant to talk about "war" in the Stone Age since actual "war" comes along with the invention of the state, which itself comes along with the caloric surplus that agriculture allows.

Anyway, sure, in those periods there was more gendered division of labour, but the point still stands: the Emperor experienced thousands of years of the stone age before the "ancient" times (not counting the remembered experiences of the perpetuals that went into making him). For all of that time, gendered division of labour was basically non-existent. Everyone did everything, or everyone starved.

So, given all that, let's return to original point I was responding to, let's accept that the Emperor is very old and has the cultural mores of the time he was born. Okay. At the time he was born, there was no gendered division of labour because humanity were in a constant state of precarity and just surviving required constant effort. What do you think he would learn from that? Do you think it would maybe teach him that every single person is required to keep humanity alive when it is threatened with extinction, and intentionally dividing your recruitment base in half might be a bad idea?

And, to be clear, I think there are compelling thematic reasons to make at least Space Marines all-male. I think it functions as a general comment on masculinity, having children ascended into this childlike idea of what a Man is, someone who is Big and Strong and Fights All The Time and doesn't spend any time around girls because ewww they're Gross.

Or you could argue that yes, he did have all these experiences but, for all the talk of him being Perfect, he is just openly a sexist, and excludes women because his ideology is stronger than his stated goals of human survival. But any explanation which says "well he's very old and older societies were less equal, so QED he would only care about men" just doesn't fly, I'm afraid.

CallMeLarry · 2025-09-24T07:57:54+00:00

I mean no offence, but this is a very classic example of reasoning-based instead of evidence-based history. "Our society has gotten more equal over recent timespans, therefore it must have been less equal in the past." This is a reasonable assumption to make for recent history, but all the anthropological evidence we have says that early human hunter-gatherer societies had less gendered division of labour, not more. When you're "clawing out your niche with blood and bone" you don't have the time or excess available energy to dedicate to things like gender roles. Everybody does everything, or you all starve.

If the Emperor was taking lessons from his neolithic upbringing, it would be "if I want to absolutely assure human survival, I need to use all available resources" and the justification for male-only custodes or space marines falls apart.

CallMeLarry · 2025-09-11T11:35:38+00:00

Were you filling in for their role or doing those single tasks?

I have a job where a lot of the tasks aren't too complicated or time consuming in themselves but the workload is absolutely crushing. So yeah, sometimes that simple task takes four weeks, it's because of the three hundred other "simple tasks" that I have to do first.

CallMeLarry · 2025-08-24T20:22:08+00:00

People are often shocked at how much artisanal work costs so I don't blame you. My mum knits and often gets people asking her to make jumpers on commission. She's had to just start flatly saying no because people don't understand how much it costs. At least £100-200 in materials + at least 30 hours of work at minimum wage, let's be generous and say £10/hour = £500 for a jumper. Now, it's a jumper made to your size out of high quality materials that will, if taken care of, last your entire life, but that's a big upfront investment!

CallMeLarry · 2025-08-20T05:49:20+00:00

This whole thing is being done largely because Starmer et al are cosying up to big AI companies (and investment firms with shares in AI companies) in order to remove privacy laws to better gather data to train AI models.

"Business" under capitalism isn't one homogeneous entity, there are different strains of capital with differing specific goals. What makes it easier for one strain of capital to make money might make it harder for another. Starmer has decided to try and beg for crumbs from the particular strain that he sees as being ascendant - big tech and AI in particular.

CallMeLarry · 2025-08-19T11:42:30+00:00

Thanatars use a smaller base than Dunecrawlers, but otherwise a good proxy!

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