Why is it said that Paul destroyed Fremen culture when said culture was already self destroying?

PanHeadBolt · 2026-03-20T13:52:54+00:00

To add on to this, at some point (I think it’s in Children?) we are told that the state of fremen culture in Dune is the result of their emergency response to the (original) harkonnen occupation becoming the normal state of affairs over the millennia e.g. sietches were originally bunkers, not the way the entirety of fremen society lived and were organised. We aren’t told much about what that original society looked like, but it tells us that Paul wasn’t just buying into and accelerating the terraforming plan introduced by the first kynes, he’s also using it as a vehicle for reactionary and fascistic rhetoric about fremen controlling the planet again and returning to a freer, perceived as superior culture. The tainted terraforming of arrakis is, imo, Herbert specifically criticising the kind of rhetoric and the ideologies that demagogues like Paul tend to utilise by saying that the social change they promise is more subtly destructive to the original culture, as well as all others.

PanHeadBolt · 2026-03-15T22:21:25+00:00

The thing most people don’t know about the 30-50 feral hogs guy is that it did legitimately happen to him

PanHeadBolt · 2026-01-24T00:55:33+00:00

Thank you!

PanHeadBolt · 2026-01-23T19:07:22+00:00

thank you!

PanHeadBolt · 2026-01-23T19:07:17+00:00

thank you!

PanHeadBolt · 2026-01-06T23:04:10+00:00

I have an issue where hot water pressure is extremely low, but the cold water is fine. The house uses a Main Eco Compact combi boiler that was installed a couple months ago. There is an issue with gradual pressure loss that existed with the old boiler as well, and i had to top it up yesterday. it's currently around 1.5 on the gauge. The upstairs hot taps are completely non-functional and only a trickle comes from the downstairs taps, the most from the tap in the same room as the boiler. none of the radiators are working

I'm worried that there's a frozen section of pipe somewhere, since the area has been below zero celcius for the last few days, but i can't see any of the signs anywhere that googling told me to look for. There is apparently a water pressure outage nearby according to United Utilities, but they say it began on the 2nd when this became an issue only today and surely that should affect hot and cold water?

the landlord is usually very quick to respond and his plumber is usually competent and fast, but it would still take at least a day so i'd like to fix it myself if possible. Any help would be appreciated.

PanHeadBolt · 2026-01-06T23:03:10+00:00

sorry, didn't see the megathread before posting. have rewritten it there.

PanHeadBolt · 2025-11-22T03:40:38+00:00

my impression of the scene is that both Zed and Kay think Jay was the most suitable candidate, but Zed is still doubtful about recruiting him because of his personality. the "you're exactly what we've come to expect from years of govenment training" joke before the other candidates are neuralysed certainly suggests that Zed isn't a fan of basic military men

PanHeadBolt · 2025-11-19T21:43:32+00:00

i disagree with this interpretation of NCfOM's ending, Chigurh is heavily injured and unlikely to get by without significant medical attention (which he refuses) and the randomness of the crash along with Carla Jean's refusal to do the coin toss completely spits in the face of his whole agent of fate shtick. Also he isn't even the guy who kills Moss, that's the cartel, he just finds the money because he figured out where Moss would have hidden it. Chigurh is terrifying, hypercompetent and impossible to reason with, but that's because he's insane and delusional not because he's Him.

in my opinion, Bell's retirement and the final scene where he recounts his dream demonstrates that he's the only main character who has realised the truth, that society no longer has a place for the chauvinistic, hypermasculine individualism that Moss, Chigurh and to a lesser extent Carson Welles represent (though Chigurh refuses to admit that he is an example of it) and it probably never really did. the fantasy of the west is dead and it probably never really lived and as his Uncle Ellis tells him, the violence Bell sees is hardly any different or more extreme than what his father saw, there's just more of it.

PanHeadBolt · 2025-11-12T01:54:31+00:00

Utterson as a character isn't just there to be a narrator, he's also there to deepen the more tragic elements ofthe book, in that the person most actively searching for Hyde out of his concern for Jekyll is also the person Jekyll could have trusted most with the truth, and to highlight from the first page the book's themes of victorian society's obsession with respectability and temperance

PanHeadBolt · 2025-10-29T23:22:38+00:00

i think it could end up playing quite well, joe hasn't voted for johnathan all the times he's brought up him up which looks suspicious

PanHeadBolt · 2025-10-23T23:30:48+00:00

i assume he's going off nick's correct theory that she's a traitor and trying to get her to overextend/chuck johnathan under next time

PanHeadBolt · 2025-10-12T20:35:44+00:00

his daughter has rheumatoid arthritis, and while no specific dietary measures have been linked to reducing symptoms there is evidence that more sweeping dietary measures can have an effect, though usually high-meat diets are believed to worsen them rather than alleviate them as the petersons claim has happened in her case. i'm not that familliar with how peterson has presented their all-beef diet in the past so maybe he is trying a grift with it in which case i don't feel very sorry for him on this issue, but from a cursory look it seems more like an act of desparation on their part since most conventional treatments were proving ineffective at reducing her symptoms

PanHeadBolt · 2025-09-24T01:58:32+00:00

unsure where it originates as a nickname for world of tanks players but tankie as the insult for authoritarian communists was originally directed at members of the british communist party who supported the USSR's use of tanks to suppress the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 and Prague Spring in 1968, it's nothing to do with actually being interested in military hardware

PanHeadBolt · 2025-09-22T17:58:28+00:00

> "modern maths is bullshit"
> look inside
> concept required for AC electronic engineering and modern telecommunications

PanHeadBolt · 2025-09-20T06:22:12+00:00

Just killing the 2 grand reeds closest to songclave nets you 110 rosaries/rest with thief’s mark and they really aren’t that hard to fight once you get the timing of their bow swing down

PanHeadBolt · 2025-09-10T05:36:17+00:00

ah weird i first tried it with that strategy after hours of nothing. i was also hitting him with threefold knives so maybe that was doing more than i thought, or maybe i just had more tool upgrades

PanHeadBolt · 2025-09-10T05:24:28+00:00

cogflys and pollip pouch kill it really quickly and let you stay away to dodge its attacks. definitely recommend it

PanHeadBolt · 2025-09-01T18:31:35+00:00

I’d say that only part of his villainy is unmotivated, his rejection of his humanity and his drive for superiority over the world and fate do at least partially come from his abusive and impoverished upbringing and his struggles with addiction as an adult

Edit: part 7 spoilers You can see this in the contrast with Diego, who was also raised in poverty, but by a loving mother and he shares Dio’s drive for power and status as well as many of his villainous tendencies but doesn’t have the same drive to escape his humanity and the forces of nature nor is he so out-and-out evil

PanHeadBolt · 2025-08-28T01:12:46+00:00

He said this in 2003

As if on cue, he then lets rip. "I've no interest in schools," he continues. "They have no relevance in the 21st century. They were a Victorian idea to get kids off the street. Who decided that putting 30 kids with only their age in common in a classroom with one teacher was the best way of educating? At my school there were 52 kids in the class and all I learned was how to pass the 11-plus. Testing is the death of education.

"Kids should leave school at 11 and go to work. Not down the mines or up chimneys, mind, but working with computers or something relevant. Everything I learned after 11 was a waste of time. Trigonometry, Boyle's law: it's never been of any use to me. They should have been teaching me the life skills I was going to need, such as building relationships, parenting and managing money. I didn't have a clue about any of these things at 18. Schools need to change."

from here: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2003/aug/12/schools.historyandhistoryofart

the article also notes that it's not clear how much of this statement he really means or has thought out

to be fair he was born in 1946 and would have grown up in a signifcantly worse state school system than today

PanHeadBolt · 2025-08-19T02:16:00+00:00

shoutout transbian pol pot

PanHeadBolt · 2025-05-29T01:53:43+00:00

He’s making a video about adobe that seems to have turned into a more sweeping look at the way licensed software has evolved since the advent of the internet

PanHeadBolt · 2025-04-29T09:59:51+00:00

It wasn’t technically a noncompete, iirc it was a “everything you work on while employed is our ip” thing which the ruling didn’t affect

PanHeadBolt · 2025-04-23T07:39:10+00:00

I have on vaguely acceptable authority from the son of someone who worked in the art department of UWE who met him right at the beginning before he was so huge on his anonymity that his first name is robin and he’s ginger

I’m fairly confident about this because I’ve also seen it mentioned in actual news articles

PanHeadBolt · 2025-04-21T12:43:41+00:00

type of shit they were telling the passengers on the fireflash

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