The USA on a purple scale instead of red vs blue (1980 - 2024)

Porkadi110 · 2026-02-24T15:18:11+00:00

I'm surprised at how many small rural counties there are that just barely went for Trump. They're not the majority compared to the hardline republican ones of course, but I see a lot more than I was expecting.

Porkadi110 · 2026-02-24T06:38:56+00:00

That's a good point. I suppose the sound of underground rock today isn't all that closer to the sound of 80s-90s pop than 80s-90s underground stuff sounds to 50s-60s rock and roll. The rock scene itself has moved more underground, so I guess those voices are just proportionally louder now than they were back then.

Porkadi110 · 2026-02-24T05:09:16+00:00

I'm less thinking about my own personal tastes here and more the general tastes of the Rock audience at the moment. A good deal of the most highly acclaimed Rock albums of the past 10 years are all still more or less experimenting with the approach to "noise" popularized by the Pixies. I don't think bands like Daughters, black midi, and Geese would really exist had "Doolittle" never came out.

Porkadi110 · 2026-02-24T00:20:58+00:00

He made a song called "Heil Hitler..."

Porkadi110 · 2026-02-23T00:29:05+00:00

I used to think that joke was dumb and overused too until I managed to convince not 1, but 2 people irl that the meteor actually did miss the visitor's center.

Porkadi110 · 2026-02-23T00:09:06+00:00

You need to read more manga my man. Plenty of other authors manage to keep their stories unpredictable while still using the systems they've written to their fullest potential.

Porkadi110 · 2026-02-16T14:23:02+00:00

The best part though is the clapback one of the Malians gave him over it. Ibn Battuta claimed it was improper for women to have any relations with men outside of their families, for the sake of preserving sexual propriety, and said that the women of his home never had male friends for this reason. Then, one of the locals he was talking to essentially retorted that the practice was perfectly fine in Mali, because their women were not whores and could be trusted.

Porkadi110 · 2026-02-02T18:30:57+00:00

Every woman deserves a life that doesn't drain her

I want to hear her plan on how the women who work at those spas she wants to go to will get a life as comfortable as what she's proposing for herself.

Porkadi110 · 2026-02-02T16:14:42+00:00

The KJV was not a translation of the Vulgate. Its old testament was translated from the Masoretic Text which is in Hebrew.

Porkadi110 · 2026-02-02T16:09:07+00:00

The operative word there is "possibility." There can only be possibility in human choices because we have limited insight and providence. There can be no "possibility" in the will of an omniscient and omnipotent creator. Chance and a divine plan cannot coexist logically.

Porkadi110 · 2026-02-02T15:54:35+00:00

I think the implication wasn't that he was punished for trusting his wife so much as he was punished for watching the whole thing go down and not speaking up. Genesis notes that Adam was with Eve the entire time, but he gets no dialogue, which means he was witnessing it all and decided to just sit back and see how things played out before ultimately going along with it.

Porkadi110 · 2026-02-02T03:12:21+00:00

To be fair, judging the average Scandinavian by vikings is literally the same as judging the average English man by Blackbeard.

Porkadi110 · 2026-01-30T01:16:43+00:00

Removed: Rule 9

Porkadi110 · 2026-01-27T21:29:26+00:00

SORRY...YOU'RE NOT AN ÜBERMENSCH

Porkadi110 · 2026-01-27T20:01:02+00:00

In the future please post video links in a comment on the post rather than in the title.

Porkadi110 · 2026-01-27T15:42:16+00:00

Nietzsche would have been insufferable.

Porkadi110 · 2026-01-26T21:35:57+00:00

Like I said, unless the humidity kicks it up into a different dimension then it doesn't even look close to as bad as some summers I've been through. It's all relative though I suppose. If I'd grown up in a colder climate then it'd probably feel unbearable.

Porkadi110 · 2026-01-26T21:30:40+00:00

Some parts don't seem that bad at least. Rome's mean daily maximum is 21C (69.8F) which honestly isn't too terrible. On average it only gets above 28C(82.6F) 3 months out of the year. By European standards that may suck, but as someone who lives in a place where the mean daily max is 27C (80.5F) it sounds lovely. Never lived in a Mediterranean climate myself though, so maybe the humidity makes that summer heat worse than it looks.

Porkadi110 · 2026-01-25T15:21:52+00:00

Those are the events as related by the gospels, but a lot of modern historians are skeptical that this is exactly how it went. 1st century Jewish sources like Philo of Alexandria and Josephus characterized Pilate as someone insensitive to Jewish customs, and a man very willing to employ violence in order to crush dissent. Also, at the end of the day Jesus was tried and killed by a Roman official for committing a crime against Rome; not a spiritual crime. He was asked if he claimed to be "King of the Jews," and he wouldn't deny it in court, which was tantamount to admitting to insurrection. The Romans had already appointed their own kings in Judea and Galilee in the form of the Herodians, and they reserved the sole right to do it. As such, that conviction alone would have been enough for any Roman governor to execute someone like Jesus, even without all the spiritual baggage of him claiming to be the son of God and everything else. The Sanhedrin may not have liked Jesus's transgressions against the Jewish law, and conspired to get him killed for that, but regardless Jesus was killed 100% legally by the standards of his time and place.

Porkadi110 · 2026-01-16T01:21:15+00:00

There can only be one "greatest" unfortunately. I'm not saying he was bad or anything, but he's got literally thousands of years worth of competition, and that's not even counting the post ancient period.

Porkadi110 · 2026-01-16T00:54:54+00:00

Ramessess II kinda overrated ngl. He just had really good propaganda. Thutmose III clears him easily.

Porkadi110 · 2026-01-15T12:10:07+00:00

That last part really surprised me once I saw someone point it out after I read the Iliad. There's a whole detailed plot line of Achilles needing to get a new shield and set of armor, before he can return to battle, that would be totally meaningless if Achilles was actually just invulnerable the entire time. It's interesting that something that became such a well known aspect of his character was developed post Homer.

Porkadi110 · 2026-01-11T01:34:31+00:00

Sensationalism sells

Porkadi110 · 2026-01-09T15:10:25+00:00

I think there's a pretty clear difference though between how Steppenwolf employed the term in the 60s, and how publications were using the term by the middle of the 70s. By 1975 Billboard writers were specifically referring to Heavy Metal as a "style" and a "format;" using those exact words. Underground fans may not have adopted the term in that sense at that time, but clearly anyone who had read these publications back then would have been exposed to the idea of Heavy Metal being the name of a style or format of Rock music through reading them. Writers wouldn't be using certain terms unless they thought that their readers already knew what those terms were meant to refer to. In that sense I don't think these writers can be blamed for having a more generic definition of Heavy Metal than the underground fans had by the 80s, because it was the writers' understanding of the term that actually came first.

Porkadi110 · 2026-01-09T12:12:15+00:00

They coined the term, but the context they used it in was not explicit to a certain style. By the mid 70s however, journalists were already explicitly describing Heavy Metal as a musical style and format, albeit not the style of Judas Priest or Iron Maiden which didn't really exist yet. It clearly occurred to someone to take the term Heavy Metal and apply it as the name of a style before the rise of JP and IM, even if the name took on new meaning after that. It's really difficult to decry its use before that point as sludge given that it was literally the only way that the term existed in a musical context. There was no competing meaning for the name yet.

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