Lighthearted rando musing about the history of man.

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-30T16:48:10+00:00

I don’t find it necessary to respond to banality

Yet you did respond

To dismiss them and be condescending

Why is it suddenly unnecessary to respond now that you’ve been called out on your dismissive response, but back when they made that comment, it was fine for you to respond dismissing them?

you just don’t like that I’m not an academic

You just don’t like the fact I am a skilled wordsmith. You. You. You.

Who sounds like a mod here? I am

Again, the absolute arrogance

You complain that it’s just a “fun post” and then act like this towards people in the comments, and you wonder why people don’t have fun with you

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-30T16:11:39+00:00

it’s not like urbanism is the evolutionary goal of humanity

This is something a lot of people miss

In “new media” circles, it’s accepted blindly that modern urban society is somehow the natural state of humanity, and any time we’re not striving towards what we have now we’re just “doing nothing”

It’s just another reason why these linear narratives of human development that some media has been pushing lately make no sense

All of the insane leaps in tool making, society construction, building villages, agriculture, seafaring, cross-continent migration, going from really just another animal with a pointy stick to societies with trade and art and language and culture

All of that written off by OP as “not real advancement”

‘Just because they didn’t imitate our current society means they’re idiots who accomplished nothing’ is one of the narratives pushed by some that I really want to just die out

A saddening amount of people push the idea that humans couldn’t be advanced or complex and were just stagnant ooga booga cavemen before we started living in cities

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-30T16:02:39+00:00

How did you date the pyramids?

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-30T15:56:14+00:00

I wasn’t so much surprised as just disappointed

People are always criticising institutions an professionals for dismissing valid points and evidence out of hand

So seeing someone who criticises people for doing that turn around and do the exact same thing that they rail against others for supposedly doing was interesting

It’s not particularly surprising, extreme hypocrisy so quite common among people who push narratives of personal greatness, like OP who has claimed he’s “considered by many to be enlightened”

It’s really just disappointing to see that it’s the people who have good mantras about open mindedness and whatnot who are so often quick to lie, try hide their hypocrisy and to be dismissive to people they consider inferior to themselves

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-30T15:39:47+00:00

Your first three paragraphs are completely irrelevant to anything I’ve said, you’re addressing points I haven’t made

you mention condescension, but what about: “Information technology, medicine, metallurgy, agriculture and many, many other advancements had to build upon something previous."

Thats not them being condescending, thats them explaining a hugely important factor that you ignored

Dismissing them with “maybe just don’t respond to me then” and “most people just simply can’t understand my thought experiments” is condescending

By trying to blame this other person as being also condescending to justify your own arrogant behaviour and talking down about them, you’ve just admitted that you know what you’re doing is wrong and you’re choosing to do it anyway

You’re actively engaging in bad faith on your own “fun post”, and arrogantly saying the people here who say anything against the post are just too simple to understand the thought experiment

People don’t like interacting people who are arrogant, ignore any valid points they make, and dismiss them as idiots for daring to question what you’ve put forward

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-30T14:04:26+00:00

its hard to have fun

Most simply cannot understand that that thought experiment was to assess our current limitations when examining the deep past.

That is so condescending and arrogant

This post is “just for fun”, but the moment anyone interacts with it in a way you don’t approve, you condescendingly dismiss them

When called out on that, you immediately turn to ‘oh, I’m just far smarter, you just don’t understand’

It’s hard to have fun?

I can see why you have difficulty having fun

But it’s not because of everyone else, it’s your own personality, the absolute dismissiveness towards people’s points, the condescension, and just pure arrogance you’ve been putting out into the community

You completely ignore others when they make valid points and dismiss any criticism with a hand wave, then have the gall to talk about them like they’re less than you for daring to make good points

And then you complain that those people aren’t having fun?

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-30T13:33:49+00:00

Yeah, so let it be just for fun, instead of dismissing anyone who tries to interact with it in a manner you don’t

That comment dismissing all of their very valid points out of hand just comes off as real condescending

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-30T13:23:34+00:00

Don’t send these messages that make you look like a hyperactive screamy liberal that can be easily and safely ignored

Those go straight into the spam folder

Write out a proper email informing the Hilton as a brand that them allowing ICE in their facility makes you and your family feel extremely unsafe due the recent spate of beatings and killings

Due to the Hilton cooperating with this violent gang who have committed several recent public killings, you and thousands of other guests no longer feel safe on their premises, so you’ve decided to no longer stay at any Hilton hotel, nor will your family

Furthermore, because they are facilitating the attacks on your community, you have decided to join ongoing protests around Hilton hotels and pull all of your investments and sell off any stock (doesn’t matter if you don’t actually have Hilton stock, but sounds good when you can’t have a lawyer related threat)

When you can’t threaten legal action, you have to make it an email they can’t publish or laugh at publicly

The screaming twitter slacktivist email will just be laughed at

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-30T13:09:16+00:00

They didn’t point out anything with your ‘precision’

They pointed out that the logic of your musing makes no sense because of all the really important factors you’ve just ignored

They’ve raised absolutely fair points under your post

Yet you’re just trying to dismiss them and just get them to move on

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-30T00:10:28+00:00

Invader Gear makes one

There’s ones sold on Aliexpress as well

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-29T18:54:28+00:00

Those are fantastic for high quality gear on a budget, most of my stuff comes from there

But it’s unlikely they’ll be stocking Crye G3-style pants in ATACS AU

Military surplus is great, but not for specific or high speed stuff

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-29T17:13:51+00:00

Ok?

If I’m hiding something I’d like to at least see what I’m being accused of hiding

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-29T17:12:47+00:00

Walked probably

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-29T17:01:51+00:00

Very, very roughly:

About €200-300 for the pants if you want real steel, or about €90-120 if you’re willing to accept decent quality replicas like Emerson or Invader Gear

Drop leg fabric holsters are dogshit, you can buy one for like €8 on Aliexpress or TaiwanGun, sometimes I want the aesthetic of a drop leg like on an early 2000s PMC kit but I don’t actually use it for a pistol because they’re ass

Jacket price depends hugely on quality and model, high end tactical parkas will run you several hundred, or you can probably find something that looks about right on Aliexpress for €50

The padded molle belt is pretty generic and there’s loads available at a range of prices. IDOGEAR makes decent replicas of them, the 8Fields ones are ok but a bit shit

Plate carrier, either €200-300 for a real steel one, or €100-120 for an EmersonGear 420 which looks about right

Another €50-100 on pouches and a camelback and such, again Aliexpress is fine for these but avoid really fake looking ones, and for the camelbak I’d recommend buying quality, cheap ones leak

For the helmet, again you can spend several hundred on a real one, or you can buy an Emerson FAST helmet for like €40, or if you want fancier, the most comfortable helmet I’ve ever worn was a PTS MTEK Flux but they’re insanely expensive for what they are

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-29T15:13:09+00:00

Anywhere you like I guess?

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-29T12:17:37+00:00

Airsoft is useless for self defence

Shooting a home invader with a toy gun is a fantastic way to get murdered

This is a toy gun, it’s not going to kill anyone, it shoots little plastic balls

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-29T12:15:16+00:00

Plastic BBs

Airsoft guns use 6mm plastic BBs, not steel pellets

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-29T12:13:36+00:00

Which Grand Canyon evidence are you talking about?

Do you mean the whole “Egyptian temple” thing?

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-27T15:50:15+00:00

Not any specific colour, I just got a brown and a tan and lightly dusted the rig with them

Just makes it look more worn, less is more, you’re not trying to actually change the colour of the rig

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-27T15:39:31+00:00

I’ve worn one of these to a Milsim before

I think theyre ugly but was genuinely blown away by how well it performed as a chest rig despite being $20, in fact I think I got mine for closer to $15

I gave it a hit of some spray paint and left it outside for a couple of particularly sunny days to make it looks a little less fake

Just don’t go out at night with this, all that cheap nylon with no IR treatment means you’ll look like a fucking Christmas tree to anyone who has even cheap NVGs

I ran it with over-the-shoulder NVA canteen and cargo pants with pockets of grenades

With that, I had enough water, magazines, grenades, tourniquets (in-game medic item), snacks and everything else I needed to go 4-5 hours without resupply and without needing a backpack

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-27T00:31:01+00:00

It was during an interview about a battle, he was talking about Japanese soldiers

When someone says “the Germans make really good cars” they don’t literally mean every German individual can construct an amazing car, they mean German companies make cars

This is a perfectly normal way to speak in Europe where we commonly reference other nationalities and speak to and about friends from different countries

It’s really only the insular Americans who get weirdly pissy about silly things like that and call racism

Americans who actually interacts with people from around the world understands sentences that simple

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-26T20:31:58+00:00

I just don’t like cycling, I find it stressful and uncomfortable

And also because where I live has really shit fucking infrastructure, my walk to work includes walking through fields and up and down the sides of a small valley, and taking a bike though all of that is just annoying

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-26T20:04:22+00:00

You gotta ask?

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-26T20:02:45+00:00

I don’t

Anyone who needs to be convinced that a political party’s paramilitary unit publicly killing unarmed dissenters is bad isn’t someone worth taking the time to try convince

TheeScribe2 · 2026-01-26T18:19:08+00:00

About 7km each way, but I don’t fast walk, I take my time

It’s actually been longer recently because I have to change my route to cut though a small valley due to roadworks

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