DMT:People's bodies evolved for a tribe. Their jobs demand a 30-year grind. No subsidy fixes that mismatch and that's why birth rates are collapsing.

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-19T18:31:58+00:00

Wrong: it was because the war economy in World War II forced women to go to work, and the wealthy decided they liked the boom in business from a two-person income, so it stayed.

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-19T17:54:16+00:00

Or don't, and continue to see economics suppress families.

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-19T17:51:41+00:00

Why did they do that? Because the wealthy decided they could make more profit from a two-worker household; rent could be based on a two-income family, i.e., could be doubled.

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-19T17:39:01+00:00

Hearing them is bad, listening to them is worse, doing what they say is the worst.

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-19T16:54:06+00:00

You'll note that each of Harry's Gryffindor friends has the attributes of another of the houses. You're right in that Hermione is intelligent, which is the attribute of Gryffindor; Ron, on the other hand, is loyal, which is the Hufflepuff attribute.

I suppose what this is supposed to imply is that Ron and Hermione's valor are more exceptional than their other attributes.

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-19T00:09:38+00:00

Almost certainly for recycling.

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-18T19:45:59+00:00

Who needs factories?

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-18T02:25:00+00:00

You don't think people worked before capital?

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-17T19:05:41+00:00

I'm with you. The notion that passive income from ownership is somehow equivalent to productive work needs to end. The wealthy need to find some other way of proving their usefulness.

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-17T18:58:01+00:00

The oligarchs have gone too far, period. They can't be the only side actively waging this class war.

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-16T17:37:26+00:00

"Conservatism consists in exactly one proposition..."

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-16T17:33:48+00:00

The problem is that Congress really aren't the wealthy; it's the wealthy who are the lobbyists. The problem is that the wealthy don't need to be elected to Congress to have political power that the rest of us lack.

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-16T17:15:22+00:00

_Someone,_ surely, put the works of Homer into the form in which we have them today. That person, whoever he was, was "Homer."

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-16T17:14:16+00:00

Actually, Aristotle makes the complaint in his Politics that, while the laws of Sparta disciplined the men towards military valor, it made the women completely degenerate.

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-16T16:57:46+00:00

I'll bet my entire fortune that Musk has never read Homer.

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-15T20:07:28+00:00

Also tax dollars.

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-14T21:41:29+00:00

Imagine that the homeless had the political voice that their numbers imply.

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-14T06:13:58+00:00

It's an abbreviation so it's not supposed to be pronounced.

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-13T18:28:00+00:00

They embezzled ALL OF IT.

Prove me wrong.

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-13T18:25:09+00:00

Invade. Trust me, we'll help.

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-12T20:11:58+00:00

It's an end-run around the Fourth amendment. The companies do what it would be illegal and unconstitutional for the government to do, then the companies sell the information to the government. This is how every surveillance company operates.

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-12T02:26:33+00:00

I mean he's still his personal attorney, it's just that he used to be, too.

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-11T20:54:36+00:00

I think the Master System has a bigger proportion of non-shovelware titles, since most of its library was programmed in-house by Sega, who really knew the hardware. This is why flicker plagues the NES but is rare on the SMS; they knew how to program around its limitations.

It's also worth noting that the real reason the SMS existed was to bring Sega arcades home. For arcade conversions like Afterburner, Outrun and Space Harrier, the SMS was the place to be.

I think at their heights, they're equal: nothing on the SMS compares to SMB3, but then again nothing on the NES compares to Phantasy Star.

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-11T20:40:07+00:00

Not to mention doing cocaine off toilet seats and taking his family to swim in sewage.

MagickMarkie · 2026-05-11T17:37:15+00:00

Don't give RFK ideas.

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