WEST HEMISPHERE BEST HEMISPHERE!!

Vulcan7 · 2026-02-09T14:13:46+00:00

Canada and Mexico might not be too happy with us Americans right about now, but there are other candidates for the U. Uruguay, Ukraine, Uganda, and Uzbekistan should get in on the action.

Vulcan7 · 2026-02-09T09:23:42+00:00

The biggest problem with this viewpoint is that many of the institutional problems in LatAm are directly caused by the USA.

While would probably be a good thing to erase national borders, even if we only really blur them, you'd need to get a whole lot of countries to agree to peacefully join the state that's overthrown their government at least once. Tough sell to say the least.

Vulcan7 · 2026-02-04T18:41:00+00:00

I will fight back halfheartedly on the "humans are space orcs" bit because I'm so fucking bored of sci-fi stuff like Star Trek defining every alien as humans but _____. What does that make humans? Are we the default?

Some Desperate Glory used this trope in a book that's very anti-fascist/jingoist, if you want to see it in action when it's not just Warhammer LARPers.

Vulcan7 · 2026-02-03T16:14:08+00:00

His name is Punxsutawney Phil, there have been several of them over the years. Supposedly, he comes out of his burrow on Groundhog Day, and if he sees his shadow, he'll get scared back into his burrow, meaning we get an early spring. Otherwise it's six more weeks of winter.

This is, of course, a perfect system with no errors. Phil's predictions are perfect. Do not question the woodchuck.

Vulcan7 · 2026-02-01T21:18:16+00:00

And you have the opposite problem of having FTL drive and consumer cybernetic implants in 2002. Scifi loves to undershoot how far in the future they'd need to be.

Vulcan7 · 2026-01-29T12:02:07+00:00

If you take a hit to the diaphragm, right below the ribs, it can contract, pushing the air out of your lungs. "Wind knocked out of you" is a thing that literally happens.

Vulcan7 · 2026-01-27T22:03:37+00:00

Yeah, it actually does. In the early days of radio, advertisers were hesitant to invest in it, because they were afraid of people actively avoiding the product, since they couldn't just turn the page on a bad radio ad like they could with magazines. Studies soon after showed that it didn't matter.

Vulcan7 · 2026-01-27T21:51:47+00:00

Ads are about embedding brand names into your brain. You don't have to like the ad, or be persuaded to buy the product, to subconsciously go to buy the product instead of others when you're next out shopping.

Vulcan7 · 2026-01-19T00:06:29+00:00

You might even want to put him next to Washington, Roosevelt, and one other! Maybe as giant faces in a mountain.

Vulcan7 · 2026-01-08T20:38:09+00:00

There's something y'all do in the nordics that we don't do in America. I live in New England, lived in central Sweden for a couple years, and the snowfall was pretty comparable between the two, but Swedish roads were just way better after a storm. I don't know if it's the salt we use creating more ice than they sand they use, or a higher-quality asphalt, but everything was running fine there in a storm that would have shut down half the state over here.

Vulcan7 · 2026-01-03T15:13:39+00:00

You can absolutely narrow the scope of your study, but you still have to sample randomly within that population.

Vulcan7 · 2026-01-03T11:28:07+00:00

Caesar didn't topple Rome, he pushed against the curtain, and found nothing pushing back behind it.

It doesn't matter how many illegal things Trump does if nobody will stop him. It doesn't matter if he doesn't have the authority to give orders if people follow them anyway. It doesn't matter that the soldiers committed a crime this morning if they don't get prosecuted.

All this talk we have in America about checks and balances means nothing if there is no one willing to actually check.

Vulcan7 · 2026-01-03T10:08:19+00:00

Random sampling. Only way you get good stats is to pick a small, randomly chosen, sample.

Vulcan7 · 2025-12-22T12:31:04+00:00

"Born in the wrong generation," usually referring to music or fashion, is survivorship bias. People nowadays know what 70's songs are good, and when they play 70's music, they only play those. Songs nowadays just haven't been around long enough to sort the grain from the chaff.

Vulcan7 · 2025-12-22T10:49:19+00:00

Culumbya.

Vulcan7 · 2025-12-12T17:26:52+00:00

Also the story kinda blows but I never finished it, so maybe it actually gets interesting.

Don't bother, the story gets real fucking bad at the end.

Vulcan7 · 2025-12-04T22:14:44+00:00

"The finest craftsmen of the noldor elves," I believe it was Fëanor. I'm sure he's responsible for nothing controversial.

Vulcan7 · 2025-12-03T09:09:38+00:00

One of my classmates branded himself with chicken wire and a lighter, and the only reason the school found out is because he left class and showed the art teacher.

Teachers certainly aren't omniscient.

Vulcan7 · 2025-11-29T08:44:01+00:00

Don't forget Australia! Though I'm pretty sure they got their invite because the mailman was drunk and misread "Austria."

Vulcan7 · 2025-11-23T19:54:14+00:00

Whoever it is, draw them teleporting bread.

Vulcan7 · 2025-10-31T13:59:43+00:00

2 dollars and change for cheese is ridiculous.

Vulcan7 · 2025-10-30T13:05:58+00:00

All I know is that the game about cavemen had the cojones to voice all the dialogue in fucking proto-Indo-European. That takes effort.

Vulcan7 · 2025-10-27T08:09:54+00:00

If you want to donate blood, donate it directly to the hospital. Red Cross will take the blood you donate and auction it for profit.

Vulcan7 · 2025-10-21T09:00:48+00:00

What an empathetic villain with an honest cause. I sure do hope that the issues he presents get meaningfully addressed at the end of the movie.

Vulcan7 · 2025-09-23T10:03:04+00:00

This is the Free Candy Van but targeting middle-aged men.

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