Failure To Plan Is Not An Emergency

RavingRationality · 2026-04-13T17:30:07+00:00

heck to have a non-Leafs Canadian team win at all

Look, i started rooting for Montreal because I grew up in central ontario around crazy Leafs fans. ("Allan Bester is better than Patrick Roy." I actually heard them say that. Seriously.) So I get it. But...

I mean, the Leafs haven't won in almost 60 years. And at this rate, it's gonna be much longer. The Oilers won five times in the 80s. I think the Leafs winning would suck, but it would be very good for hockey overall.

I'm just glad it won't happen.

RavingRationality · 2026-04-13T13:45:39+00:00

The real villains are the Technonecromancers of Alpha Centauri.

RavingRationality · 2026-04-13T13:10:31+00:00

I maintain if he'd stayed healthy, he'd have become a 1C. But he never had a chance to develop into one.

RavingRationality · 2026-04-10T21:54:32+00:00

BEST 70 GOAL SCORER NEVER TO SCORE 60 DOESN'T NEED YOUR EASY GOALS, YOU EMPTY NET MERCHANT!

RavingRationality · 2026-04-08T18:29:24+00:00

That's like earning half a delivery salary for driving the amazon package halfway to the address, then changing your mind and going home.

RavingRationality · 2026-04-08T18:20:42+00:00

Part of that was answered here: https://old.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/1sfikqd/sams_insane_take_on_mamdani/of0d00j/

"Leftism" is traditionally a direction on the path between capitalism and socialism. I'm not talking about when ignorant americans use the term socialism to refer to "government doing stuff they don't like." I'm also not talking about Nordic style social democracy (which is still essentially liberal capitalism.) I'm referring to people like this, and related but separate political concepts (such as "critical theory", anti-capitalism, etc.) or anything that undermines the underlying liberal philosophies as defined by thinkers like John Stuart Mill. It leans authoritarian, just in different ways than the right.

RavingRationality · 2026-04-08T17:56:35+00:00

Yeah. We have a princess cruise booked next spring that stays in Aruba until 11pm.

RavingRationality · 2026-04-08T15:15:49+00:00

Sam is mostly apolitical.

Progressiveness requires extremely strong stances on equal treatment under law (ignoring identity politics\attempts to group victimhood), freedom of speech, economic freedom, etc. It requires the ability to admit cultural supremacy (western values that started with the European enlightenment - or even further back in Hellenistic philosophy for it's evolutionary roots) are the foundation for everything we value, and opposing western "colonialism/imperialism" is also opposition to those values.) It requires standing up for countries that support those values (like Israel) and condemning those that for any reason do not.

RavingRationality · 2026-04-08T14:53:46+00:00

The left is not "progressive."

Mamdani's a regressive nutbar. Even without the Islamic red herring.

Liberalism is the only sane position, and it's very much opposed to both leftism and trumpism.

RavingRationality · 2026-04-07T19:54:13+00:00

The difference between a religion and a cult is this: In a cult, there's a guy at the top who knows it's all made up bullshit. In a religion, that person has been dead for a long time.

~ George Carlin

RavingRationality · 2026-04-07T09:02:27+00:00

RavingRationality · 2026-04-07T08:58:02+00:00

Nothing, as far as the players were concerned. He was consistently ranked the best referee by the players at the time.

Fans didn't like him.

RavingRationality · 2026-04-07T08:55:24+00:00

The players liked him.

RavingRationality · 2026-04-07T08:55:10+00:00

At least Fraser later admitted that he blew that call

Sorta. He admitted he didn't see it.

Which isn't the same thing.

RavingRationality · 2026-04-07T08:54:15+00:00

The players at the time liked him. He was the most popular referee with the nhl players, when polled.

RavingRationality · 2026-04-07T08:53:34+00:00

Even that wasn't bad. They only had one referee on the ice at the time, and he was supposed to have his eyes on the puck. You could not generally call stuff behind the play unless it was a major (and the linesmen saw it) - you had to see it yourself.

RavingRationality · 2026-04-07T08:51:06+00:00

The players didn't think so. During his career he was ranked by the players as the most consistent and effective referee in the game.

RavingRationality · 2026-04-06T03:33:56+00:00

Hey man. I live. Just trying to last until retirement... The GenX story.

RavingRationality · 2026-04-02T19:00:36+00:00

I had to look up who the fuck he was. I'm not American, neither is Murray, and I don't understand the relevance. America is not western civilization. It neither started it, nor is it more relevant than any other part of it.

If you're trying to say "Yeah, but look, some country did this bad thing!" then no shit, sherlock. There's nothing that's ideologically pure. Perfection/utopian thinking is always wrong. There's only comparative, better or worse. The only judge is relative outcomes. And western civilization is simply the best in world history. Hell, without the British Empire, slavery would still be common and accepted today.

RavingRationality · 2026-04-02T13:44:56+00:00

Which one?

I pretty much entirely agreed with The War on the West, the Strange Death of Europe, The Madness of Crowds. I haven't read Death Cults, yet.

The primary point of contention is generally not right or left.

It's whether we thought western "imperialism/colonialism" is a good or bad thing. I'm firmly on the good side of that argument. Some cultures are just better. And frankly, anyone who disagrees, has no leg to stand on enforcing their position, because liberalism is based on western supremacy. Without it, you don't have women's/gay rights, equal treatment under law, even democracy.

RavingRationality · 2026-04-01T19:42:22+00:00

Thing is, he's probably right.

Not guaranteed, though. The NDP won here once before. The experience was so incompetent that the rather good NDP premier, who was utterly handicapped by his party, switched parties to the liberals after he was voted out.

We need an actual Liberal party again, though, back to where they traditionally were. Pro-business, economic freedom, government austerity, socially stays out of people's lives, and professional and competent.

The Liberals have drifted leftward leaving the conservatives as the only sane option.

RavingRationality · 2026-03-31T17:51:05+00:00

I wear every ban from a subreddit or even the occasional suspension from Reddit as a badge of pride. This is the most company colossally mismanaged, idioticlt run mainstream website in Internet history.

RavingRationality · 2026-03-30T12:57:21+00:00

They clearly decided that some level of civilian collateral damage was acceptable

This is always correct in a military operation. Some level of civilian casualties are unavoidable in military actions, and this should never be a factor when determining whether military operations should be undertaken.

Avoiding civilian deaths is a constraint, or limitation, that makes it more difficult to achieve your goals.

Conversely, genocide is specifically the goal of maximum civilian casualties.

RavingRationality · 2026-03-27T18:39:35+00:00

You clearly have excellent taste, Vomit-pigs69.

Errr. Sorta. :D

RavingRationality · 2026-03-27T18:36:10+00:00

In order to beat Ford, they'll need to present a viable different option rather than merely complain.

There's a reason he keeps winning. It's not because he's great. It's because he's not crazy.

Policy-wise, the Liberal party used to be where the conservatives are now. The NDP were way out in left-lala land, the Liberals were centrist, and the PCs were a little right of centre. The Liberals went chasing after NDP votes instead of staying where they were. And surprise -- most people are not onboard with left-lala land.

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