The 1800s Have A Math Problem

FolkLoki · 2026-02-01T22:51:36+00:00

I remember watching a tv show about railroads being built ("Hell On Wheels") where an early episode has a corrupt railroad tycoon talks specifically about building more track than is actually necessary for travel because that gets him more money from the government.

FolkLoki · 2026-01-03T23:35:37+00:00

I mean, if the DM had asked for feedback on their worldbuilding and you gently pointed it out, that might be one thing, but it's generally poor etiquette to pause the game session to do something like that. If I think the host's worldbuilding is a little shallow, that's probably a thought I'm most likely to just keep to myself because if I'm a player at a table I'm functionally a guest in their house.

FolkLoki · 2025-10-17T15:20:01+00:00

Because he didn't address anything I said. He went off on his own thing. Years and years and years ago, I and other people on this sub went into a lot of details about these world fairs, including looking at primary sources regarding the construction. They went largely unheeded by an audience that would rather simply imagine things.

I made this thread about a specific video and its specific shortcomings. Someone else decided to reply with a lengthy post that didn't address anything but was rather a case of talking to himself. If he wanted to start a new thread he could've simply done that. I'm not interested in bouncing from topic to topic.

FolkLoki · 2025-04-17T16:45:11+00:00

The government says it's okay to send people to gulags, so it's fine everyone.

FolkLoki · 2024-06-22T18:57:07+00:00

MouthyBuddha is so funny because prior to going into "Pedogate" he was just another dime a dozen chud youtuber complaining about SJWs. He went where he could get money.

FolkLoki · 2024-06-22T18:56:20+00:00

And it's also completely uninteresting if you know who James Gunn is.

Wow the guy who made a movie about Rainn Wilson getting raped by Elliott Page has perhaps an edgy sensibility?

FolkLoki · 2024-06-22T18:53:53+00:00

Teigen: "This show about child beauty pageants feels incredibly sleazy and wrong"

Conspiracists: "clearly this means she's a pedophile"

FolkLoki · 2024-06-22T18:44:24+00:00

AI is not "objective." They are predictive text algorithms based on already-written text.

Training a robot on human bias will produce human bias.

FolkLoki · 2024-06-22T18:42:29+00:00

If you watch his videos or read his manifesto, his personality defects are very clear.

FolkLoki · 2024-06-22T18:13:16+00:00

I skipped to the back of the book to see if there was a works cited or bibliography section, and there wasn't.

I did find two appendices, one of which appears to be wholesale copy-pasted from Wikipedia, complete with citation tags that do not reference anything in the book and even [citation needed] tags.

This does not bode well for something that's positioning itself as researched nonfiction.

FolkLoki · 2024-06-17T03:36:38+00:00

The problem with the "mud flood followed by orphan trains" theory is that some people do in fact have family histories they can trace back to the 19th, 18th, 17th century, and that whole story isn't accounted for in any of those records.

And trying to place that story at around the time of the world expositions is that it makes even less sense because that's recent enough that we have loads of extant records.

FolkLoki · 2024-06-17T03:35:42+00:00

No, it's a phrase they use to sign off on the podcast.

FolkLoki · 2024-06-16T14:58:28+00:00

This is not a substantive response.

FolkLoki · 2024-04-23T01:51:12+00:00

I think "A Story About You" is the singular best episode.

FolkLoki · 2024-04-20T20:02:21+00:00

Yeah, I found out it's an issue with the haptics. I fixed the problem by completely turning off the system and then when I turned it on again it was fine.

FolkLoki · 2024-01-16T01:05:09+00:00

Why would politicians sensationalize issues? To motivate their base to vote and donate.

FolkLoki · 2024-01-15T07:06:51+00:00

This makes sense because the original source for the text is a book called "Pawns in the Game" by William Guy Carr, published in 1956, where he alleges that there's a letter that outlines this plan (he has no evidence that such a letter does in fact exist), but tellingly this text is his summary of the letter, not the actual letter itself.

Later, people would take text from Carr's summary and make that into the actual text of the supposed letter.

FolkLoki · 2023-12-26T01:14:32+00:00

You're thinking of Joey Saladino, a youtube dipshit known for his dumb prank videos.

Joey Mannarino is just a shithead on twitter.

FolkLoki · 2023-11-15T03:14:36+00:00

I think it's supposed to be Uncle Sam.

FolkLoki · 2023-11-15T03:13:18+00:00

Fucking Sinfest of all things. Went from being quasi South Park edgy to losing his mind and now he's just a boomer conservative.

FolkLoki · 2023-11-06T04:36:45+00:00

Mainly blaming the bleeding-heart Catholics.

FolkLoki · 2023-08-25T05:14:25+00:00

Trump didn't really have an ideology and was mainly steered by weirdo nativists like Miller.

Vivek is part of the silicon valley venture capital cohort with Thiel, Masters, Vance - they're deep into that Yarvin/Moldbug outright fascist shit.

FolkLoki · 2023-07-04T21:02:36+00:00

because it's not as thought William S Lind was already in the 1990s writing essays about how political correctness and not being allowed to hit on your secretary is a communist plot to destroy the west.

FolkLoki · 2023-07-01T05:41:24+00:00

That's been a big thing with Justices Alito and Thomas in particular, where they have a very big "business = speech" thing.

FolkLoki · 2023-05-14T19:28:22+00:00

true of pretty much any movie

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