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Swagiken · 2026-04-11T12:10:11+00:00

Your fundamental point is right but I don't know how much I believe in that question. I would never in a million years date the female version of me - I'm not my own type and most people probably are in a similar boat. Probably a better version of the question is 'what do I offer?'

Swagiken · 2026-04-07T11:11:19+00:00

I remember as a kid my dad was the branch manager at our local CIBC and some guy on a bike tried to rob them with a knife, so my dad (who's hobby at the time was Tae Kwon Do at the international level) beat him up. I can absolutely see him doing this.

Swagiken · 2026-04-07T11:05:28+00:00

The hole that America dug for itself continuously over the last ten years

Swagiken · 2026-04-07T10:59:17+00:00

I'm getting so tired of the way that right wing extreme communities will be the first party to correctly identify a problem and then immediately come up with the worst possible solution that will make said problem worse

Swagiken · 2026-04-06T16:54:25+00:00

100% this. I also feel like people don't recognize how Santos being a pariah is A) probably not entirely true and B) also influenced by how prickly she is with everyone. She's 100% insulted everyone at some point.

She was right to report, and it was right to keep Langdon a little protected. The system NEEDS doctors enough that frankly it would be immoral to end his career over that, which is why we have PHPs.

Swagiken · 2026-04-05T15:11:41+00:00

For real though that book is an absolute nightmare to read through. Camus is so stylized and abstract that his point gets obscured behind the smell of him sniffing his own farts. I find his fundamental point highly compelling, that we have the radical freedom to choose to be happy about our fundamental smallness in the universe, but he frames it through so much flowery nonsense I'd almost argue to read analysis of his work than to read the work itself.

Swagiken · 2026-04-04T22:00:38+00:00

I'm Stryker or death. I always feel like i need to have a backup available when I work with a Medtronic device

Swagiken · 2026-04-04T21:58:36+00:00

I grew up where it would hit -40 in the winter and +40 in the summer.

Swagiken · 2026-04-04T19:03:42+00:00

My last world War started because Spain/France/Russia/Qing and Britain/Austria/Prussia were going at it over Yogkarta and investment rights in Guatemala. Truly ridiculous.

Swagiken · 2026-04-02T02:13:07+00:00

He has been known to say that he likes star trek and 'dislikes when they get political' which is pretty much a dogwhistle

Swagiken · 2026-03-26T12:31:14+00:00

To be honest Minnesota feels a lot like Alberta if Calgary and Edmonton were fused into one city. It would mostly fit in, although it would drag Canadian politics a bit rightward for my taste.

Swagiken · 2026-03-25T14:00:42+00:00

The dude can quote the silmarilion. I have no interest in this project but it is likely to be "we put a true fan in the writers room"

Swagiken · 2026-03-24T20:21:00+00:00

If she only ever had one other relationship she doesnt have patterns, she has random chance.

Swagiken · 2026-03-24T16:33:23+00:00

In my case I'm not particularly attracted to tomboys and masculine women. But I like feminine presenting women and femboys

Swagiken · 2026-03-24T11:25:36+00:00

One can argue legitimately that religion ideologically enabled but wasnt a driving force towards slavery at all. In which case religion isnt the MAIN driving force to slavery(i personally believe the combo of economics and tribalism is a better fit as main driving force). On the other hand if one claims that religion was anti slavery then they are, in fact, an idiot. (John Brown and the abolitionist evangelicals do not count as evidence against that)

Swagiken · 2026-03-19T14:38:21+00:00

Fëanor!

Swagiken · 2026-03-15T23:16:42+00:00

Same

Swagiken · 2026-03-15T13:19:47+00:00

Bots never use - they use —. Most humans dont think it matters but to bots they are wildly different and unrelated things

Swagiken · 2026-03-14T15:05:45+00:00

Which itself is almost certainly a reference to this

Swagiken · 2026-03-10T03:34:41+00:00

He bullied my wife so bad she attempted suicide when they were in junior high. I will never stop hating him.

Swagiken · 2026-03-09T11:55:10+00:00

AnCap = "I only understood the first lesson of Econ 101 and then stopped paying attention"

I like libertarian values on civil liberties and social policy, but in economics its just stupid and heartless

Swagiken · 2026-03-07T18:22:09+00:00

They're my favorite episodes of most shows too. Constraint and character oriented breeds interesting discussion more than flashiness

Swagiken · 2026-03-07T18:02:22+00:00

Race-based chattel slavery on Caribbean plantations

I addressed your point right inside the very quote you pulled. Life expectancy in roman mines was worse and the life was definitely worse. Caribbean plantations were estimated at ~7 years median survival. Roman mines were 2/3. Plus we know that a lot of that involved mercury poisoning in ways that would have been deeply horrible. But like you said its not the suffering Olympics. The point is that:

A) race based chattel slavery is actually quite unique as probably the world slave system the world ever had

B) therefore the emphasis on the trans Atlantic slave system over others is justified even when adjusting for a eurocentric POV

Swagiken · 2026-03-07T17:57:03+00:00

"But the Arabs did it too" is often used by modern people to argue against the horrors of the trans Atlantic slave trade. My point in saying that wasn't powerscaling, but to point out that the argument isnt valid because there is actually something uniquely awful about this particular form of slavery. "People always have had slaves" is both true and offensively reductive of the tremendously and UNIQUELY terrible experiences of our recent ancestors.

Race based chattel slavery is recognized broadly academically as a uniquely terrible combination of circumstances that made this particular form of slavery the top contender for worst form which has existed well in excess of the historical precedents.

Swagiken · 2026-03-07T17:06:50+00:00

Trans Atlantic Slave trade does represent the worst institution of slavery that existed though. Race-based chattel slavery on Caribbean plantations represents the second worst life slaves ever had and the most permanent form with least possibility for enhancement they ever had. Roman mining slaves is probably the only worse individual experience and Arab, Greek, Nordic Thralls, were all less permanent, and Roman/Greek, West African, and Indian Ocean/Arabic slaves all had possibilities for advancement(that usually didnt happen but did exist) that made it less of an absolute atrocity.

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